I’d have expected somebody who thought the topic irrelevant would have either ignored it, or said so and exited. Instead you dwell in it haranguing posters that have options different from your own.

You remind me of a fellow in Germany about 70 years back who didn’t like people who didn’t share his opinion.

however, anything to turf Rann the d**k from his West Terrace office, I’ll do.

But perhaps you prefer the second hand.

The problem is, and he should go if it is true, that he allegedly conducted his business on his office desk and between meetings, not sure if he would be so dumb, arrogant yes, but dumb? If George Costanza can get fired for having relations with the office cleaner on his desk, so can Media Mike.

Media Mike invited a number of journalists to his wedding so it will be interesting to see how the press covers this story. Media Mike is a powder puff that has put his own profile ahead of the good of the state.

We were once a very proud state. The number of people I meet on my travels that have travelled extensively through Australia but never to Adelaide, is quite sad. We have so much going for our state. The wine capital of Australia, great beaches, great restaurants, national parks, pubs, architecture etc etc.

Grrrrrr yes, I am frustrated!

SA will be better off without Rann now anyway. After being Don Dunstans golden child he started off quite well but is now just a powder puff, a poor mans Kevin Rudd.

Notwithstanding this lay who has obviously been motivated by money, why not I say, what if the claims she has made are true? having a bonk on the desk, between meetings etc etc

SA needs a leader with some grunt so we are not simply a backwater.

Elan can stick to his doggy ways if he chooses but he shouldn’t be surprised if he is sneered at by “the upper echelons”.

Raymondchurch if the ‘new tabloid Crikey’ is so on the nose,…well sod off! I mean I know us little gossipchompers are dragging it downwards an’ all, but..well, fair’s fair. You’ve had a good innings-give us great unwashed a wee go won’t youse?

David Sanderson: another condescending twot! As I sit here with my Chico roll and flagonagrog, watching the toenails floating gently around the life givin’ fluid, I am trying so hard to earn my Crikeycred.

Alas! I fail.

Once you of the elite upper echelons decide what is Crikiable and what is not, then we is well in the ol’ troubling watters!!

I DO want a modicum of decency from my Prem (I addressed him thus once-,he bristled.., another wretentious pranker!!). I DO want to know if he mucks up my life, and those of others. I DON’T see that lying is OK (though Mr Sanderson, you have a friend in wotsaface who wrote his wee booky that lying is the OS of the polytishun).

This wheesty little matter is of interest to many who of course can never achieve the masterly heights of the intellectual ether,-BUT who are perfectly content to have the matter aired on Crikey, who quite frankly would be subject to even greater criticism, if they had thought themselves so morally superior as to ignore it!

Now;- don’t you fret yerselves. Just congregate in the areas of Crikey that meet with your superior thought processes, and leave us plebs languishing down ‘ere in the baser regions of the Crikey Family.

Now I can’t say fairer than that can I?

Rann is entitled to fend off such appalling gossip-mongers and if lies are necessary to fend them off then that is an entirely permissible tactic.

Whether the media would let you get away with that is another matter.

Can you honestly say that you would not lie to protect your privacy from rancorous outsiders?
If the answer is “yes” then you are a hypocrite. If the answer is “no” the you are either a liar or a fool.