grodscorp@grods.comKevin proves that he is, in fact, human
 | Posted by The Editor on Sunday 19 August 2007, 11:02 am Categories: Australia Decides '07, Bogans Tags: JohnHoward, KevinRudd, StripClubs |
Shock! Horror!
The office of federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has issued a statement in response to claims he visited a strip club while representing Australia at the United Nations (UN) four years ago.
The statement confirms The Sunday Telegraph reports that Mr Rudd went to the club in Manhattan when he was a UN observer in September 2003.
(source)
And in one drunken and sweaty fell swoop Kevin has done more to attract the “Howard battler” vote than the sale of a million Kevin 07 t-shirts or the release of a thousand YouTube videos. He’ll lose the preference of a couple thousand Family First voters (who probably visit similar clubs when away from their wives on “business”) but who freakin’ cares?
Scoop: Kevin is human. Watch for a blurry amateur video of Howard visiting Spearmint Rhino to be leaked by the Liberal Party in the next month or so.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Sunday 19 August 2007, 12:12 pm #Mikey
I think you’re right. I see this as a positive. ‘Hey, he’s human.’
As long as he didn’t beat anyone up of course (cough, Latham, cough)
Sunday 19 August 2007, 1:04 pm #brokenleftleg
Ahh maybe one day we will see an actual policy announcement with details from The Dudd.
until then, my preference vote will eventually go to the conservative dickhead you know or the conservative dickhead you dont.
Sunday 19 August 2007, 1:47 pm #Magic Bellybutton
I just love the amazement about this whole thing. While it seems weird that he would visit a strip club, imagine how many pollies have done way worse and not had it splashed around in the media years later.
If nothing else, I do believe it will endear him to sections of the populace. At least now he doesn’t seem like such a prig.
Monday 20 August 2007, 10:16 am #Strider
Well, so our Kevin is a bit of a lad. Good on him.
I notice that Iain Hall has raised the great point on his blog that all the feminist types are being very quiet about this, instead of panning him for his complicity in the exploitation of women.
Observing that you have not raised any of the usual politically correct sanctimony about this incident suggests that you too are keener to see him elected than to see him take his lumps for being such a naughty boy (I bet you’d love to criticise a Liberal MP in the same circumstances). Iain obviously is right.
Monday 20 August 2007, 10:27 am #The Editor
On the contrary, Strider. If John Howard were revealed to have done the same my opinion of him would greatly lift. And I can’t tell you how much I’d love Abbott to be busted in a strip club.
By the way, who exactly are these “feminist types” of which you speak?
Monday 20 August 2007, 3:28 pm #Magic Bellybutton
Strider, it is one thing to be critical of strip clubs and the like, and not particularly want to see people working there or visiting, it is quite another to accept that people do and that politicians are, first and foremost, people with faults like everyone else.
It’s not like it is illegal, for goodness sake.
Personally, I couldn’t give a rats what side of politics a person who went to a strip club is on. It just makes them more human in my eyes.
So perhaps the fact that the “feminist types” aren’t jumping on the bandwagon is because they see that people are flawed, just like them.