Rupert Murdoch's The Daily Telegraph couldn't wait even a week into the election campaign before they depicted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a Nazi, online and in print.
And front page of the newspaper, of course.
Does aanyone under 40 even know what TV show the Daily Telegraph's editor Paul Whittaker is referencing there?
You have to feel sorry for the good journalists still left at the Daily Telegraph who have nothing to do with the front page. How is this in any way a good thing for a newspaper industry on its knees? What more reason do you need to give for people to give up on the morning paper habit than garbage like this?
One of the best political candidate interviews you'll see this election. Very revealing, and entertaining, for all sorts of reasons.
1) It's uncut, raw, footage of a political candidate unable to answer the most basic questions without sounding like a fucking robot.
2) Watch the young woman trying to maintain a poker face as the interview completely falls apart on the Six Point Plan, at 3:15
3) The old bloke who rocks up at 4:10
4) The journalist, pissed at being interrupted as he tries to get anything useful from the candidate, after five long minutes, at 5:44
5) The Big Finish, candidate left repeating "we support families" mantra when asked slightly difficult question about his a key financial policy, at 6:10.
Let's see more raw footage like this from the election campaign. It exposes the gulf between a candidate being able to mouth soundbites from a cheat sheet just the right length for the evening news, and the real abilities, intelligence and competency of the candidate.
