Doctor doctors transcript

Posted by The Editor on Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:47 pm
Categories: Politics  Tags: Tags: , , , , ,

Quite frankly, given Brendan Nelson’s atrocious performance in doorstop and radio interviews it surprises me that the Liberal party even put transcripts on their website. But if they’re going to put them up they should put them up intact. Here’s a snippet from Nelson’s doorstop in Gippsland today according to the Libs.

QUESTION: Are you confident you’ll be leading the Liberals at the next election?

DR NELSON: Yes, very confident.

But here’s the same snippet according to The Age.

Asked if he was confident he would be leading the opposition to the next election, he said: “As confident as I can… yes, very confident.”

See how they’ve cunningly left out the bit that makes the good doctor look like (more of a) dick?

If you need any more proof here’s some ABC footage (at 2min 06sec) of the doctored statement in question.

Oh, and here’s another interesting chunk of the transcript.

QUESTION: [inaudible]

DR NELSON: Instant a lot of the time.

What’s the bet that the question was “what kind of coffee do you drink?” in response to this statement of Nelson’s earlier in the doorstop?

The Labor Party has a track record of being captivated and high-jacked by left leaning, latte sippers in large suburban cities.

And what’s the bet that the question wasn’t actually inaudible?

Blog themes by Google

Posted by The Editor on Monday 25 February 2008, 4:26 pm
Categories: Blogosphere, Politics  Tags: Tags: , , , , , ,

Those crazy kids over at the incestuous A Western Heart/ Crusader Rabbit/ MK’s Views interweb of shame love denigrating “leftists” by accusing them of singing Kumbaya instead of taking real action (like shooting bad guys and resisting equality for women.) In fact, MK dropped the insult just this morning. So I did a quick Google and found that “Kumbaya” appears 61 times on AWH, 378 times on Crusader Rabbit, and 75 times on MK’s Views — a whopping 514 times in total. This strikes me as odd since I’m a bit of a lefty and I’ve never once sung Kumbaya since leaving the Scouts.

Inspired, I searched around and found a few other interesting facts that I’d like to share with you.

* “Gaia” appears on Andrew Bolt’s blog 561 times.
* “Pernicious” appears on a nameless bog of shame 157 times.
* “Latte” appears on Australia’s leading blue-and-orange-blog-that-starts-with-’G’ 157 times.

Have you found any interesting Google themes? Leave a link in comments.



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