Another Latham grotesquerie
February 4th 2011 05:53
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VYOOS EDITORIAL
Former Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister wannabe Mark Latham says incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard is incapable of empathy because she has no children.
Writing in a magazine column, Latham said Gillard comes across as wooden talking to the public because she chose a life without kids.
This is not an honest opinion. It is the sort of tabloid headline-grabbing, sensationalist sewage which people like Latham rely on to make a buck.
Having famously failed at a real job, they get a peroxided agent and a botoxed publicist and proceed to play the tabloid celebrity game. What you do is bad-mouth people and take extravagantly opinionated stands on any issue which suits your purpose, and watch the offers come in to appear on mindless TV reality, talkback and tabloid affairs shows.
Having your thoughts ghost-written for the redneck press and your (paid-for) picture appear in the front cover of supermarket shock sheets are the next step up the slimy slope.
It's a living. If you're outrageous enough, you can create your own cult. Think Sarah Palin.
Common sense and carefully considered opinion have no place in this game. Snipe, gripe and shoot from the lip. Hit hard, and as far below the belt as you can reach, before running to the next make-up call, via the bank.
It's like the bad loser on a football field, the guy whose side's getting beaten so he gets defensively angry. Nothing is his fault.
Gillard is a winner in the political game at which Latham proved a blundering no-hoper. Look at the scoreboard, Mark.
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Comment by Andy Tope
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And I love Sarah Palin! She keeps me amused for hours! (well, minutes actually).
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Interestingly, soon after this post was published, a Vyoos follower cancelled their subscription. It makes me wonder if Latham was a suscriber. Or perhaps it was Palin?
Whomever I have offended, I can't find it in me to say sorry. Call me old-fashioned, but I only say things I actually mean.