Surely there comes a point, both in terms of the dignity of the office he holds and in not giving these stories more oxygen, where the Prime Minister should refrain from accepting invitations to comment on every minor media issue that briefly occupies the front page of the Daily Telegraph?
Gordon Ramsay, The Chaser’s war on sick kids, Bill Henson last year — are all topics that Kevin Rudd thought warranted his commentary. Rudd’s conservative social views are well-known, but they also happen to align quite nicely with those of most voters, which is the real reason the Prime Minister seems to be so eager to offer them.
If the Prime Minister wants to lower the tone of his Prime Ministership to tabloid level, here are some questions that he should answer at his next press conference:
What does he think of young, impressionable Australian school girls seeing Britney Spears live?
Should Jordan and Peter Andre stay together for the kids?
Should Ryan Stokes dump Jodi Gordon?
How about that Home and Away s-x tape anyway?
Should our cricketers get a pay rise when they’re such DUDS?
Miranda Kerr — how about those marriage rumours?
You’re supposed to be national leader, not Talkback Host-In-Chief, Kevin.
Well said.
I have just had a very good bad idea. Maybe crikey could set up a ‘What to ask Kevin’ page where readers could suggest questions of levels on inaneness which we could ask the Canberra Press gallery to ask Kevin at his doorstops.
Glen Milne: Prime Minister do you take sugar in your tea?
PM: (after 300 words on the history of tea and it’s impact on the GFC) … so the answer is a complex one Glenn, white with one.
prime wowser sticky nose
Kevin got his recent spin-tested descent into the vernacular quite wrong. He mis-spoke thus: “Fair shake of the sauce bottle”. However, as every good ocker knows he should have spake thus: “Fair suck of the sav mate”.
Those swots always get it wrong when they try to play to the crowd.
Bugger “What does he think of young, impressionable Australian school girls seeing Britney Spears live?”
What about the thousands if not millions of unsuspecting and innocent internet users who were subjected to upskirt pics of her “private” bits?
What are Kevin’s thoughts on that?