Kevin “bloody” Rudd
September 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pm by David FarrarGenerally profane language from Prime Ministers can land them in trouble. But when they use it against their own colleagues, I suspect the public is far more approving. The details are:
The factional leaders had gone to see the Prime Minister in his Parliament House office to object to government plans to slash MPs’ printing allowances from $100,000 to $75,000 a year. The decision was in response to a report into parliamentary perks by the Auditor-General.
According to sources present, Mr Rudd said: “I don’t care what you f—ers think!”
Even better, he swore at MPs protesting against his reducing their perks. Definitely a poll bump on the way.
He then went on, singling out Senator David Feeney declaring, “You can get f—ed”, before asking, “Don’t you f—ing understand?”
I suspect the Senator now does.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Ruddy bad form all round. Can’t stand w(h)uckers who swear. Still he is a bloody socialist as well as a w(h)ucking Aussie so what else can you expect.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 4:19 pm
keating was also famous for being able to strip paint..with his invective..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
you said ‘bloody’ johnboy..
that is a swear-word..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Locker room language, as it was referred to in the watergate scandel, will erode the perception of the office even in Australia as the contex,t however acceptable at the time, will fade and the language will remain. It certainly diminished Nixon in the eyes of some of his core support when his language employed on the tapes even deleted out, portrayed a very different man than the carefully cultivated image the public had known.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Yes yes, but can he swaer in Mandarin?
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Please don’t tell me Rudd is trying yet again to sound more like a common Aussie and less like an arogant aristocratic wanker? Last time with his ‘shit storm’ comment, and lets not forget his ‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’ crap which made all of Australia collectively groan – he always comes across sounding far too scripted. Last time he came off sounding fake and the critics panned him for it. No wonder this time its just “leaked” so there is no film footage of him looking like a fake twat again.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
“you said ‘bloody’ johnboy..that is a swear-word..”
No phil. “Socialist” is a swear word.
If it offends you though I shall spell it b(h)loody from now on.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Aussie pollie Beasley, father of another Oz pollie Kim Beasley, was once heard (about 1990) to say that when he joined the Oz Labour party it consisted of the creme of the working classes, now it consists of the dregs of the middle classes.
This story appears to confirm this, not just for Rudd’s comments but the fact that someone saw the need to publicise them.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Was this the same Kevin Rudd who piously trotted off to church with his wife during the election campaign, to be dutifully shown all over the major networks’ six o’clock news? He’ll be struck down with a bolt of fucking lightning.
The man is as big a lying fraud as the first ever Ayrab/American Kenyan born president.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
He swore at Labour MPs I do not regard that as a hanging offence.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Well said Mr Rudd!
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Hey Adolf, have you read any of Barack Obama’s books by any chance?
The reason I ask is the whole “ayrab” thing.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I don’t take any of his swearing seriously – always a suggestion of staged for the public
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Perhaps our Prime Minister can follow this splendid example and tell the parasites in NZ the same thing, in so many words. It would be a refreshing change.
Vote:September 21st, 2009 at 8:08 pm
i like who he was swearing at..and what about..
it was a cross-party delegation whinging about having their troughing curtailed/trimmed..
..and rudd told them to fuck off..(heh..!..)
rudd has already done what key has yet to do..
(if he has any hope at all of shutting down our own troughing scandal/unrest..)
..and that is he has cut politicians entitlements..
hence the whingers..and their expletive-laden short shrift from rudd..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:September 22nd, 2009 at 7:54 am
This anxiety about the use of words which are considered “rude” is fascinating.
Vote:In many parts of the US, words which we may regard as merely vulgar or impolite are regarded as “cursing”, and if used to a law enforcement officer would result in handcuffs and perhaps a whack with a baton to straighten you out.
Here in NZ (and I think, Australia), it tends to be no more than an indicator as to how conservatively you were raised. It is meaningless, and for a bunch of potty-mouthed journalists to attempt to manufacture a shock-horror story out of it is absurdly hypocritical. I was brought up on the straight and narrow in this regard, and still struggle with “swearing” in mixed company, but in the end, it is no more than a tribal custom.