The Fall Of Howard - Costellemo Strikes Back
When I first decided to do a series of blogs called 'The Fall Of Howard', I didn't think it would be so freakin' easy.
Three senior Canberra gallery journalists, including the ABC's Michael Brissenden, say they met with Mr Costello over dinner in early 2005.
They say the Treasurer told them Mr Howard could not win the election and he would "destroy" his leadership if he [Mr Howard] was still Prime Minister by 2006.
Brissenden says Mr Costello's office called the journalists one day after the conversation and asked for the comments to be placed 'off the record'. He says the journalists reluctantly agreed.
- ABC News
Hilarious. I've said it before, but Peter Costello is the biggest pussy in Australian politics. Ok, I totally don't think I've ever said that, but come on. Remember when he teared up at the press conference around Howard's 163rd birthday a few years back, when John announced he was staying on? Or when that 'leadership agreement note' came out? If Costello wanted to be PM, he could be PM. Whether it's by a challenge or two, or by baiting Howard into the path of an incoming bus with the promise of arthritis medicine, it wouldn't take much.
"Get that fucking iPod out of my face," Costello remarked to reporters.
But the funniest thing to come out of this isn't picturing John Howard saying 'Fuckin cunt' when he read his newspaper this morning, it's this quote:
"I think the public are sick of this sort of stuff... you think the public would believe journalists over Peter Costello?" Mr Downer said.
Comedy Gold, Mr. Downer.
8 comments:
I don't think even Downer could think that quote is credible.
I've never understood why politicians have dinner with the media. That would have to be the single most career-retarding thing to do, and yet they do it all the time. It's like a prostitute getting her father as a client.
Or maybe it's more like Professor X and Magneto playing chess together.
eric, what have you done?
i'm sorry charles, i couldn't help it
what have you told stryker?
EVERYTHING
*Gets his ass handed to him by Deathstrike*
*touches himself*
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