Timmeh Blair, an avid reader of GrodsCorp, has read our story about Andrew and Kate’s Poundster Kevin07 challenge and duly misrepresented it on his blog-of-shame.

Labor fan Kate Pounder announces the Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge:

There are seven wonders of the world - can we get a show of support for Kevin07 in front of each one before election day? Let’s call it the Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge.

You already did, Kate, possibly without knowing exactly which seven wonders you’re talking about.

Doesn’t matter that Andrew points out in the comments of the post that he and Kate are referring to the new seven wonders of the modern world, recently selected in a global poll:

Here are the Seven Wonders in no particular order:

1. Taj Mahal, Agra, India
2. Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro
3. The Colosseum in Rome
4. The Great Wall of China
5. Jordan’s ancient city of Petra
6. The Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru
7. The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico.

But Timmeh’s attack dog whistle had been blown and his redneck commenters went to work:

Infidel Tiger: “Kate’s nickname is Richard.”
That’s the standard of joke I’d expect to hear in a grade five classroom at my school.

Pickles: “Kate Pounder. Last Drinks ! “
See above.

egg_: “Does Kate Pound AC/DC All Night Long?”
See above.

Habib: “Can’t she pull that shirt up over her head? She’s frightening all the vultures away.”
Niiiice.

Habib: “I hope they’re getting around by foor or tandem bicycle as well- it’d be so hypocritical to be flying on a carbon-producing tool of globalisation and capitalism.”
That’s the beautiful thing about redneck RWDBs — they never miss a chance to swing any conversation around so they can accuse somebody of environmental hypocrisy no matter how unrelated that conversation might be.

Art Vandelay: “I hope all that travel is carbon neutral..”
See above.

mareeS: “…why does she look like every other Joan Baez wannabe? Long stringy hair, glasses…Maybe it’s to do with her politics. So 60s.”
Clearly playing the (wo)man and not the ball in that comment.

Never mind. Timmeh will post something else tomorrow (more than likely lifted from Andrew Bolt’s blog) and his moronic commenters will put down their dole diaries long enough to make the kind of insightful and intelligent comments we’ve seen above about somebody else.

CONTINUING UPDATES:

Hanyu: “I notice that it’s okay to fly if you’re a Labor voter, but for anyone else it’s off with their heads. Kate Pounder is an idiot: she backs Rudd’s policies on climate change but says elsewhere on her site that she took at least three flights in Iran… And just for Habib… note Kate’s headwear at that link. At least she’s on the right track.”
This Hanyu is good! He/she/it managed to combine a climate change dig with an ugly dig. Clever.

egg_: “Some could prolly go a Pounder sans T-shirt“
egg_ is back for more after he/she/it has spent the last hour going through the Poundster flickr account.

Andrew and Kate over at Poundster have issued an international Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge.

Kate campaigning for Labor in the electorate of India

Here, at the Taj Mahal, we slammed the Howard Government for wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on government advertising, called on the Prime Minister to end the phony election campaign and name the date to let the Australian people decide and we backed Kevin Rudd’s plans for an education revolution, action on climate change and restoring fairness in the workplace.

Let’s go a step further and issue a challenge to all Australian travellers out there who want Kevin Rudd to be PM. There are seven wonders of the world - can we get a show of support for Kevin07 in front of each one before election day? Let’s call it the Kevin07 Seven Wonders Challenge.

Schapelle Corby’s mother Rosleigh has been in the media again because she claims that Kevin Rudd is ignoring her. Thankfully, most of the media couldn’t care less, which is why I have only heard about this now, two weeks later.

From the Adelaide Advertiser:

SCHAPELLE Corby’s mother Rosleigh Rose has attacked Labor Leader Kevin Rudd for not acknowledging the plight of her daughter, now serving 20 years in an Indonesian jail for drug trafficking.
Ms Rose told The Bulletin magazine she and Schapelle’s aunt, who lives in Mr Rudd’s Brisbane electorate of Griffith, had “written to him heaps”.
“She’s been to the office. She’s rung. And not a single reply,” Ms Rose said.
“She’s had nothing, not even a single phone call to her or anything.
“I just think it’s wrong.”
Ms Rose said Mr Rudd would not get her vote after snubbing her family’s situation.
“We’ve not had one acknowledgement, not even saying, ’sorry, my hands are tied, or I can’t do anything’,” she said.
“All I can think is he’s not here to help Australians.”

I don’t know what she expects Kevin Rudd to do. He is far too busy standing in front of the mirror practising his John Howard mannerisms and friending hipsters on MySpace to bother with her. More shocking is the news that she won’t vote for him, even though she probably wouldn’t have voted for him anyway (”John ‘Oward’s doin’ a good job wif de economy and all that, but”). Simply put, he is a busy man who doesn’t have time for the parents of convicted criminals. If she really wants him to pay attention, I think Schapelle should dress in one of those spiffy Kevin07 shirts and have pictures taken. What better way to bring more momentum to his campaign?

The way Kevin07 is going, he could bring back Medicare Gold AND punch out a taxi-driver AND write a book called The Rudd Diaries: Fuck Australia and still win the election. Add in a duet with Shannon Noll and a suprise appearance on the catwalk at Australian Fashion Week and I’m sure even John Howard and Andrew Bolt would vote for him.

We’re all used to newspaper journalists blowing their load every time a politician posts a video on YouTube or somebody edits Wikipedia (thus proving beyond doubt its untrustworthiness). And we’re also used to dead-tree “journalists” shamelessly republishing blog content as original news, in the process demonstrating their stubborn ignorance about how blogs work.

So Peter Garrett writes a silly little blog on Kevin07 about singing songs in the shower in order to time them. Quaint. The Age dutifully runs an entire article on Garrett’s blog post, complete with quotes from his commenters calling them “bloggers”.

Blogger Matt Burke suggested Josh Pyke’s Middle of the Road at 2 minutes 24 seconds, because “Kevin Rudd has repeatedly said that ‘there’s this huge mountain to climb to win this election’.”

But fellow blogger Nico had a better idea for a water-saving music tip: “Load up the stereo with music you can’t stand,” she wrote on the blog.

“Put the stereo beyond arm’s reach in the bathroom and hit play at full volume. Hop in the shower. You’ll be making that shower as short as you can, so you can get out and turn off the damn music!”

GrodsCorp has been continually scathing over time about The Age’s rush to the bottom of the sensationalist and lazy journaliasm pit, but if you are left in any doubt you simply must read Adam 1.0’s review of yesterday’s The Age website frontpage.

Whatever will I wear when I go out this weekend?

Lachlan Connor has posted a personal broadcast on his blog that responds to the launch of the Kevin07 internet campaign. Lachlan seems to think it’s a cynical effort to connect to the internet generation.

Kevin Rudd had better win this election because Kevin Ten just doesn’t have the same ring to it as Kevin Oh Seven. And does anybody else feel like Kevin’s new campaign website is the online equivalent of a sad, boring 50 year old man whose wardrobe contains only suits, chinos and polo shirts parading around in baggy pants, a basketball shirt, shiny bling and a backwards baseball cap?

Yo!