bye bye Mr Rudd

[Gozu]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Yeah it was a good interview but I thought Red Kerry is just a Labor stooge and the ABC is biased towards Labor?

[mick]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Yeah it was a good interview but I thought Red Kerry is just a Labor stooge and the ABC is biased towards Labor?

I think Kerry's ego supercedes his political bias or maybe Red Kerry favours the redhead? rather than the nerd

[Leaping Lindner]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Yeah it was a good interview but I thought Red Kerry is just a Labor stooge and the ABC is biased towards Labor?

The ABC are always labor bias ........except when they're not

[Psyber]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.
Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too
Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Yeah it was a good interview but I thought Red Kerry is just a Labor stooge and the ABC is biased towards Labor?

Usually true! There's a real turn on when the ABC turn.
Kidding aside, I think Kerry is usually kind to Labor, but he turns occasionally with individuals to whom he takes a dislike.

[Gozu]

"Ruddquake: That's not a meltdown. THIS is a meltdown":

I missed The 7.30 Report last night and was all excited to later learn that there had been some sort of prime ministerial meltdown, a Ruddquake of anger at Kerry O’Brien, so I eagerly clicked over to the ABC website to watch. And watch, and watch, and watch, and apart from the crack about “7.30 Report land” from an obviously annoyed Rudd, I didn’t see anything. As late as this morning the ABC was insisting it was a “fiery exchange”.

O’Brien’s questions remain blissfully free of any verbal hiccups.

Funny that because they’re all normally omitted from the ABC transcript. When Rudd spoke to O’Brien after the COAG health summit, there was nary an “um” or “ah” in sight. When O’Brien interviewed Tony Abbott in April, they were all left out. Abbott’s a very good, authentic-sounding public speaker but terribly prone to half-stutters and ums and ahhs, and if you left all of those in a transcript it’d go for dozens of pages.

The ABC wouldn’t have decided to leave them in just to fit the “Rudd meltdown” theme would they?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/13/the ... -um-wasnt/

[Gozu]

Usually true! There's a real turn on when the ABC turn.
Kidding aside, I think Kerry is usually kind to Labor, but he turns occasionally with individuals to whom he takes a dislike.

No it's not. The ABC have been just as hysterical towards Labor as Ltd News over these last 12 months or so. Not all the time but sometimes watching the rubbish they come up with on the ABC it's like The Australian comes up with their talking points for them and that paper is as biased, agenda laden and factually inaccurate as it gets.

[robranisgod]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Yeah it was a good interview but I thought Red Kerry is just a Labor stooge and the ABC is biased towards Labor?

I think Kerry's ego supercedes his political bias or maybe Red Kerry favours the redhead? rather than the nerd

Red Kerry is the most unbiased questioner on TV. He slips the slipper into everyone. The moniker was given to him by John Howard who could never get the better of O'Brien. In all my time of observing O'Brien, Keating was the only politician who would give as good as he got from Red Kezza.

[fish]

Just to add some fact rather than fancy to this thread - the latest federal election odds:

AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY $1.43
COALITION $2.70

[Ronnie]

Unlike the better Labor Prime Ministers in Keating and Hawke Rudd is no reformer. In fact, no one really seems to know what he stands for or what he believes in.
The alarm bells were ringing when he organised that farce he called the 2020 summit. That facile, self indulgent exercise where supposedly everyone bar 1 person supported the call for a Republic like some North Korean election. of course the whole exercise came to nothing, but in Rudd land outcomes don't matter, just appearances.

[redden whites]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Thanks for the update....... How was last nights epidode I wonder????anything happen??????????
Any stumbling or cracking to report ??????????

[fish]

Dont know if anyone saw the 730pm report tonight (wed) ....Kerry got stuck right into Rudd.

Kerry had Rudd "cracking" a bit too

Rudd was very uncomfortable with the interview.

Thanks for the update....... How was last nights epidode I wonder????anything happen??????????
Any stumbling or cracking to report ??????????

Maybe we should start a bye bye Mr Abbott thread!

[mick]

Just to add some fact rather than fancy to this thread - the latest federal election odds:

AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY $1.43
COALITION $2.70

I never gamble, but I certainly would be tempted to put a $100 on the Coalition. I also never vote Labor except for one lapse in 1983 but the current government seems more incompetant as every day goes by, maybe even worse than the Whitlam government. I think $2.70 are good odds for the first one term government since Scullin in 1931.

[Squawk]

Kerry O'Brien has had three years as a Labor press secretary, first for Labor leader Gough Whitlam in 1977 and then in the post-Whitlam era, with Deputy Labor leader, Lionel Bowen.

[dedja]

Red Kerry is the most unbiased questioner on TV. He slips the slipper into everyone. The moniker was given to him by John Howard who could never get the better of O'Brien. In all my time of observing O'Brien, Keating was the only politician who would give as good as he got from Red Kezza.

Couldn't agree more with that statement ...

Oh, and Kevin07???

Gawn in '10.

[Interceptor]

Novices at the wheel of state

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/novices-at-the-wheel-of-state/story-e6frg6z6-1225879617496

THE upper echelons of the Labor Party are coming to the view that the triumvirate of young bucks with whom Kevin Rudd has surrounded himself are a big factor in his waning popularity, largely because they don't have the experience or the means to steer him in the right direction when under pressure.

When Rudd was riding high in the polls, they were hailed as trailblazers in a new era of political communication, ensuring Rudd had the policies and approach to engage with a new generation of less interested voters.

However, now that Rudd appears out of his depth, caught up in poorly constructed defences of policy positions and backdowns over challenges he had previously described as too important to walk away from (think emissions trading), the trio is being blamed for bad advice that could culminate in Rudd becoming the first Prime Minister in nearly 80 years to lose office after one term.

Will Rudd's inexperienced team fail him in the political "finals"?

[Q.]

Column on Kevin: may contain coarse language

Look at us, clamouring to stick the boot in. We're lining up to take a shot at Kevin Rudd because we feel personally affronted, incensed, that he's done the one thing we requested he not do.

He's ****** it up.

Yet here's the thing: I don't think he's ****** it up. Not completely, not yet.

The press have decided that he has, obviously, and with the increasingly hysterical headlines (variations on a theme: 'Kevin: Has He ****** It Up?' 'Kevin Rudd: A ****' 'How Many Ways Can Kevin **** It Up?' 'David Marr writes particularly eloquently on how Kevin Rudd has ****** it up without once using the word ****') it's now impossible to defend the man without instantly being sneered at as a hopeless case. It only goes to show how far we're willing to allow the media to lead us when two billionaires are photographed protesting a tax ('But we need more money! Don't let Kevin Rudd touch our meagre earnings!') and it garners a sympathy vote. Gina Rinehart, my heart bleeds for you. Perhaps we can arrange a telethon?

K07 isn't the guilty party here, we are. We're guilty for presuming he could be all the things we wanted him to be, loudly celebrating him before he'd even had a chance to open his mouth, then turning against him in droves while he desperately tried to figure out exactly what it was we wanted him to say in the first place.

The poor bastard has tried to be too many things to too many people. He was never the socialist radical the far left wanted him to be, nor the progressive environmentalist, nor the economic knight in shining armour. He's just... Kevin.

[Psyber]

...Red Kerry is the most unbiased questioner on TV. He slips the slipper into everyone. The moniker was given to him by John Howard who could never get the better of O'Brien. In all my time of observing O'Brien, Keating was the only politician who would give as good as he got from Red Kezza.

I thought Kerry always went easy on Keating because he liked him for some strange reason, but if you are right perhaps it was only because he was scared of him...
I must have started watching after Kerry was intimidated, if that was the case, as I never saw him try to challenge Keating about anything.

[Psyber]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/741 ... ng-tax-ads

Earlier this year Mr Rudd dumped a system which proposed advertising campaigns be scrutinised by the auditor-general independently.
He has since passed the role onto a committee of former public servants, including advertising review author Dr Allan Hawke.
The way in which Mr McPhee was swept aside by Dr Hawke's review has guaranteed a new controversy.
Dr Hawke is career bureaucrat and former chief-of-staff to Paul Keating. His review led to Mr McPhee being dumped from the independent role.

Dr Hawke took 18 days and was paid $60,000 to recommend a new panel to oversee government ads, which he now heads.
He works four days a month for $175,000 a year.

[Psyber]

More to come - were we not promised at the last election this wouldn't happen? http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/7 ... inst-rudd/

Labor MPs are reportedly prepared to move against PM Kevin Rudd's leadership as early as next week.

This could have been said of Hawke, and to some extent Keating as well. Howard cuddled up to the Yanks a bit much for me, but did seem to have a policy other than popularity, even if I didn't agree with it entirely..
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/742 ... -for-fame/

Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is driven by a desire for fame and to be on TV, not by any political philosophy or policy prescription.

[hottie]

Rudd might be gone saying on newsbreak that Julia Gillard may challenge,amazing not even finished one term.Tony Abbott maybe a decent chance to lead at next election and he looks hot in those speedos,should wear them to parliament.