Before joining the Crikey team, Tom Red plied his trade across the union movement. Having failed entirely to curb the military-industrial complex, he now rights wrongs by photoshopping politicians’ heads onto celebrities’ bodies.
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Been Around
2 years ago
The story is not who thinks The Liar From the Shire is a fraud and a psycho. The story that who ever it is is, is dead right.
Watch SKY, read Murdochs slander sheet and you will find a few who think Morrison is a god . Most of those psycophants would not have a living brain cell between them.
My story is, thanks Tom, that is lovely. And genuinely Australian, in a way that the Complete Psycho could not begin to imagine, because he is not really One Of Us. Unlike my dear old dad, who was an SP bookie in the 1950s.
Argentina2021
2 years ago
I don’t think, I know!
Bombacloth
2 years ago
We all do.
klewso
2 years ago
I do hope it’s not Peter “(PC) Plod” Dutton – beyond irony….
Remember when (back in 2016) the wrong fat-fingered SEND from his phone, sent a “mad f**king witch” free character assessment of Samantha Maiden, meant for Jaime Briggs, to Samantha Maiden’s phone …. which sent him into subsequent groveling melt-down mode……
Tonight on 7:30, in typical Dutton Psycho mode he went there again, when discussing those text messages about Morrison, and text messages in general, and how he wonders how Tingle sees him and refers to him, among colleagues …. but that he “isn’t really interested anyway”? .
Speaking of which, that 7:30 appearance/audition to show why he is soooooo unsuited to become PM (let alone hold his present job) :- on the subject of why the French were treated the way they were, and how his own department secretary (Greg Moriarty?) seems to have been completely in the dark about the (“Dutton”?) reality of the state of delivery of those subs? Going on Moriarty’s e-mails to others about how swimmingly everything was going.
And why Dutton is so uncomfortable in the presence of someone not of the clown media from Murdoch to 2GB…..asking questions expecting answers that may be uncomfortable…
Took me back to that Lateline cameo years back :-
Alberici in the chair. He and Emerson on for a discussion (Friday night?) …. Emerson’s got him on the ropes (over party liaisons), so he (PC Plod) lashes out, bringing up Emerson’s relationship with Gillard. Even embarrassed Alberici…. He hasn’t evolved an inch………. “Step 1 : lash out at the messenger”
But it can’t be Dutton? …. “I’m not from New South Wales”?
….. Has it been established that this “cabinet minister” was a “NSW state/federal cabinet minister” – is that a “media interpretation”? Or just a non-state-specific (federal?) “cabinet minister” to Shredder?
Good to see that there is such long term (sic!) memory here – I was beginning to doubt my delusions…
Hereward the Woke
2 years ago
True to form, I understand Scott the Baptist has noted that with relief that his ambusher van Onselen “is facing his own questions”. His instinctive reaction, followed by his fully thought-out reaction, is to brief against the source of the annoyance. Fair enough. He follows footy rather than football, and the former differentiates itself on encouraging players to hit the man before the ball,
The story is not who thinks The Liar From the Shire is a fraud and a psycho. The story that who ever it is is, is dead right.
Probably be much easier to find someone who doesn’t think he is a fraud and a psycho.
Watch SKY, read Murdochs slander sheet and you will find a few who think Morrison is a god . Most of those psycophants would not have a living brain cell between them.
My story is, thanks Tom, that is lovely. And genuinely Australian, in a way that the Complete Psycho could not begin to imagine, because he is not really One Of Us. Unlike my dear old dad, who was an SP bookie in the 1950s.
I don’t think, I know!
We all do.
I do hope it’s not Peter “(PC) Plod” Dutton – beyond irony….
Remember when (back in 2016) the wrong fat-fingered SEND from his phone, sent a “mad f**king witch” free character assessment of Samantha Maiden, meant for Jaime Briggs, to Samantha Maiden’s phone …. which sent him into subsequent groveling melt-down mode……
Tonight on 7:30, in typical Dutton Psycho mode he went there again, when discussing those text messages about Morrison, and text messages in general, and how he wonders how Tingle sees him and refers to him, among colleagues …. but that he “isn’t really interested anyway”? .
Speaking of which, that 7:30 appearance/audition to show why he is soooooo unsuited to become PM (let alone hold his present job) :- on the subject of why the French were treated the way they were, and how his own department secretary (Greg Moriarty?) seems to have been completely in the dark about the (“Dutton”?) reality of the state of delivery of those subs? Going on Moriarty’s e-mails to others about how swimmingly everything was going.
And why Dutton is so uncomfortable in the presence of someone not of the clown media from Murdoch to 2GB…..asking questions expecting answers that may be uncomfortable…
Took me back to that Lateline cameo years back :-
Alberici in the chair. He and Emerson on for a discussion (Friday night?) …. Emerson’s got him on the ropes (over party liaisons), so he (PC Plod) lashes out, bringing up Emerson’s relationship with Gillard. Even embarrassed Alberici…. He hasn’t evolved an inch………. “Step 1 : lash out at the messenger”
But it can’t be Dutton? …. “I’m not from New South Wales”?
….. Has it been established that this “cabinet minister” was a “NSW state/federal cabinet minister” – is that a “media interpretation”? Or just a non-state-specific (federal?) “cabinet minister” to Shredder?
Good to see that there is such long term (sic!) memory here – I was beginning to doubt my delusions…
True to form, I understand Scott the Baptist has noted that with relief that his ambusher van Onselen “is facing his own questions”. His instinctive reaction, followed by his fully thought-out reaction, is to brief against the source of the annoyance. Fair enough. He follows footy rather than football, and the former differentiates itself on encouraging players to hit the man before the ball,