Tuned into the 7.30 Report as usual tonight, hoping for a bit of political analysis that didn’t involve Kevin .07’s strip club jaunt. I mean, as funny as it is there are more important things to talk about like John Howard’s latest “Australia Rising” speech or Warren Snowden’s dress sense.

(And as an aside, doesn’t the name of Howard’s speech series make you feel vomit rising?)

After Michael Brissendon’s wrap-up of the day’s political news Kerry O’Brien launched into an interview with Kevin (no surname required). It was no surprise that the first question was related to naked chicks so, tired of the non-story completely, McBec and I switched over to At The Movies on ABC2, flicking back to 7.30 now and again to see if Kerry O’Brien had moved onto a more important line of questioning yet.

We sat through a review of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (one star each from David and Margaret) then switched back. Kevin was still talking about how much of a “goose” he’d been. We watched a review of This Is England (four stars from Margaret, four-and-a-half from David) and flicked back. Kevin was still defending his “lapse in judgement.”

In unison McBec and I vented our frustration at the lack of serious political coverage and our amazement that Kerry O’Brien would dignify such insignificant political “news” with nearly ten minutes of interview time. We decided to wait until the end of Kevin’s current answer to see if Kerry would move the interview on.

The interview ended without a single non-strip club question.

Yesterday Terry Lane wrote his final column in The Sunday Age, citing the trivialisation of political discourse in Australia as the reason he doesn’t want to be involved in it any more. When Kerry O’Brien serves up the kind of lowest-common-denominator, wet fish interrogation of senior politicians like that we saw tonight maybe Lane has a point.