Abbott crosses the flaw defending Barnaby
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So here’s a question that emerges after Senator Joyce’s first working week as a serious politician: can flawed authenticity succeed at the top level of Australian politics? This morning, after ducking the issue yesterday, his leader Tony Abbott presented the case for the defence on the Seven Network:
The case for the prosecution, meanwhile, has been unfolding in technicolour all week:
If Abbott is right, Australian voters are prepared to reward political leaders who display unvarnished naturalness ahead of those who stick to highly disciplined behaviour. If he’s wrong — and the judgement will apply to Abbott and Joyce — there’s no place for loose cannons at the top of major political parties. As for Crikey’s coverage of the man Wayne Swan dubbed Barnaby Rubble yesterday, we’ll try to stick to the substance — with one exception. Today we’re launching a regular item called Barnabyisms. Here’s the first one. Right about the same time Abbott was defending Barnaby’s “authenticity”, Barnaby was saying this:
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17 Comments
Are Barney and Steve Fielding related?
“So here’s a question that emerges after Senator Joyce’s first working week as a serious politician”
Can’t you warn us before springing these humorous sentences on us? I’ve got coca cola in my sinuses now.
Of course Tony Abbott is Right again - look how we embraced Mark “Latchman”(?) or whatever it was …… faced off against Howard way back in ‘04 …. you know him - just as forthright as Barnaby! Member for Werriwa? We love ‘em like that!
You can just imagine hundreds of passengers evacuating a taxying ‘Liberal Airlines’ aircraft via inflated slides and emergency exits should cabin crew deliver an Abbott-style pre take-off speal:
“Today Captain Barnaby Joyce is on a learning curve but he is an authentic. We think people are sick of pilots who fly jumbo’s conventionally. Sometimes Captain Joyce will have to be corrected because he’ll get it wrong. The man you now see emerging from the cockpit is Captain Joyce who appears to have wandered into aviation whacko-land again. And no, there isn’t a single colleague in Liberal Airlines who has any faith in Captain Joyce - everyone is just going tick, tick, tick, tick”.
A quarter of a century ago Keating predicted we’d end up a banana republic. Who’d have thought the Coalition would deliver such a prophecy.
I’m thinking his week will do serious harmaby to their poll numbers
Try spiel Chris!
Barnaby now not only acts like a refugee from some lunatic fringe group of the Coalition, he looks like a nut case. That wanker Minchin brought all this on the country, now he sits back and watches the Libs disolve into a circus. Abbott obviously doesn’t have the spine to stand up to him. I cannot believe it was the monks decision to include Joyce on the front bench, but then the monk is mad after all.
@Tomboy
Yes Joyce and Fielding are twins that were separated at birth, it’s supossed to be a secret, but the truth always wins out. Their sister, Pauline, has been wanting to tell the world for ages.
The most disturbing thing is that these people have been elected to power!
Crikey’s Barnabyisms would appear to be a copy of Slate’s “BidenHeadslappers’ except that Bananaby couldn’t survive even the slightest blow to what passes for his cranium.
I imagine Barnaby Joyce got the job as a reward for his hate-filled anti-abortion stance. Or is it his anti-euthanasia stance? It is all part of the Catholic conspiracy. Better to have an illiterate buffoon who is one of ‘us’, than an educated sophisticate of any other religion.
Kevin Andrews will be the next to move up a rung or seven.
The rancid aftermath of John Howard will be remembered long after his name has been forgotten.
RAYMONDCHURCH: How can an existing three ring circus dissolve into another circus?
VeniseA - the Rodent was forgotten before he was bundled offstage, just like his conga leader Shrub. Good riddance is too kind.
Abbott and Joyce have a “very open relationship” - ie Tony allows Barney to screw everything and Tony gets to watch.
However, he doesn’t enjoy watching as much as he thought. The fantasy doesn’t match the reality.
In 2008, comedian David Wong wrote, “In 2000, George W. Bush was the affable, goofy common man we’d all like to have at our barbecue. Al Gore was a robot, smart and unfeeling as HAL 9000 and just as likely to lock us all out of the bay doors because of some unfathomable calculation made in his computer brain. We went for Bush, and in fact we’ve been voting for the George W. Bush in that matchup for a couple of centuries, due to an odd misfire in the American brain that associates low intelligence with honesty.”
Looks like Abbott is placing his bet on that same misfire occurring in the Australian brain. I don’t think it will.
For all our ego-driven fibs about being egalitarian and anti-authority, Australians revert to our class-system instincts when we vote, and always go for someone we think of as a “better”. Joyce will find out at the election that that isn’t him.
Venise
John who ?
Barnably Rubble, perhaps, but time might show him to be somewhat of a Barnaby Rudge.
from a plot synopsis:
Barnaby Rudge, a local idiot, wanders in and out of the story with his pet raven, Grip.
APPOPISO: