I was wondering why anyone would possibly want to read a story about Tim Howard’s new girlfriend. But perhaps the Sunday Telegraph knows something I don’t. Sarah Mackintosh once posed as a “bikini babe” for the French edition of FHM.
However, if Andrew Bolt has his way, apparently the PM’s son’s new girlfriend is a secret electoral weapon for daddy’s campaign.
Just the news to revamp the image of John Howard when he’s under such assault from a younger, fresher rival
Wtf? How does this make any sense at all?
Andrew Bolt: Always Right About Everything, All The Time.
Pure logic all the time, that’s the Bolta.
Well, it’s swinged the “his son can pull a hot chick” vote, which I’m sure is one of the larger demographics out there. It’s quite brilliant of Howard really, to convince his son to shack up with a hot bikini model… Is there nothing that this man can’t do?
‘ Does it matter what color the cat is? I mean so long as it catchs mice.’
Deng Leader John Howard recently.
Other examples of ongoing Marxist-Leninist nepotistic and dynastic succession include the DPRK and Cuba. If you want bossy bougeois micro-managerialism combined with corrupt crony capitalism that you can then hand down to the kids then don’t overlook successful Marxist-Leninism in praxis.
I’m sure Keith Windshuttle would agree.
Pity she picked a bad year to catch the Rodent’s son, any other time in the past decade she could have married the son of a Prime Minister instead of the son of the unpreferred Prime Minister-She’s still got just enough time,if she’s quick to marry before the prospective Father in law reverts to Citizen John.
andrew bolt has finally becoming almost as entertaining as andrew g.
almost.
Bolta has finally succumbed to the Fuhrerbunker syndrome.
Just like a deluded Hitler spent the last weeks of his life ordering non-existent forces across terrain already lost, so Bolta imagines that miracles and a triumph of the will would save Howard’s regime.
“Release the fembot!” “Release the fembot!”
Awesome Katz. This exclusive footage from deep in the bowels of Kirribilli House just in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN1z_Z-zzMk&mode=related&search=
Think its called cluching at straws
Think you may be right.
Also, on a more base level, the ’son can pull a model, so the dad must be OK’ vote might be non-existent – as opposed to the FHM-reading ‘that son-of-a-bitch just took that hot chick, let’s punish him’ bogan vote. Given that it’s pretty much a demographic hit hard by Work(No)Choices, it could well blow up in Howard’s face: first you take their lucre, now you take their lolly.
Try explaining that to the masses, Bolt…
Bolt is pure comedy. The man has no overriding philosophy or ideology – he calls himself a conservative agnostic, yet he at times claims to have libertarian leanings (towards free speech for example) and then other times he rails to get things censored and banned. He’s a Liberal party cheerleader, and one who is going to be decidedly less influential when Howard is thrown out of office come the end of this year. The golden age of the neocons is soon to be over – the religious right has collapsed politically, the war in Iraq has been revealed as a mess, Bush will go down in history as one of the worst Presidents ever and Howard’s wedge politics are finally starting to wear thin. Brace yourselves. Bolt, Ackerman and the rest of the Cheer Squad will not go down quietly.
“Wtf? How does this make any sense at all?”
It makes as much sense as Andy’s plan to build more dams- to add to the already near empty ones- to catch the rain, we are not getting. Pure genius.
For those who want to get a glimpse of the young spunk, Tim, I have however provided a link to a piccie…. sadly he is not in his speedos.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/26/1093518006795.html
Apparently he is making his own way in small business and advertising. It is in some kind of essential service area that is making his dad really proud. But pissing everybody else off.
If the magazines and paparazzi run with it, it could influence up to 0.1% of the voting population.
The latest Morgan poll has Labour 55%, Liberals 45%.
So, going by my calculations Howard needs to find another 100 sons and get them all hooked up to supermodels. Pronto!
I think he is still in there with a chance, but there is no time to spare.
My calculations also suggest if Billy McMahon had 36 wifes dressed up like Lady Sonia, Whitlam would never have gotten in.
Someone in the comments section names her as this elections Mark Latham. Apparently she is going to cause him to win.
Huh??
Unless News Ltd decides they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Nah, nah, they’ll just change tack, like Arianna Huffington, and live another day. Chris Hitchens did it – in the other direction. So there is absolutely no problemo. Hey, after all, they are professionals. The only oen that will be left in the cold is… HENDO!
PS i.e. flip-flop.
Ah, but while these nimrods are quite dangerous with their tabloid columns, what is an even greater danger is the legion of nutjobs that they attract on their News Ltd blogs – legions who seem more than prepared not just to takes their heroes’ thoughts literally and act upon them, but shift to their independent blogs once Rupert sniffs the wind and sees it expedient to cut them adrift. The
bigotryasshattery will continue, just not in the MSM.That said, it would be great for Bolt et al to be relegated to the same status as other nutters like the CEC. I await his appearance at a street stall on a Saturday morning sometime soon…
Katz is right I think with the image of Bolt as the advisor to an embunkered fuhrer clutching at straws to prove that a second “Miracle of the House of Brandenburg” might occur.
Another example that comes to mind is Kerensky in the days before the October Revolution declaring again and again that “all we need is one loyal regiment”. In the end, of course, Kerensky was buried in Queensland – a fate that, if the Courier Mail’s latest poll is right, awaits Howard.
Let us pray, for the same reason, that Fairfax doens’t shut down its own blogs. Or the asshattery will include fashion tips, Britney’s bald head, and plots to usher in world peace by having Howard and Bush replace everybody’s incandescent light-bulbs with the energy saving variety.
Nice analogy, Robert.
I’ve met people who knew Kerensky in Queensland.
Apparently Kerensky applied for a job at Sydney Uni in the 1930s but was knocked back because he was considered too much of a dangerous lefty.
There the analogy with Howard definetly breaks down.
I suppose the Labor party should hit back at the knockers….
Melbourne University bankrolled Kerensky’s memoirs. He took the money and ran to Columbia University in New York.
Kerensky left several of his off-siders, including his aide-de-camp in Victoria. The latter became a real estate agent in a holiday village near Geelong.
Kerensky’s wife is buried in Australia. Kerensky, in fact, is buried in London, mostly because New York’s orthodox priests would have nothing to do with him as the man who lost Russia to the Bolsheviks. After his death in New York, Kerensky’s body was flown to Putney, where he was buried, and still remains.
Katz, it’s rude to ruin someone’s analogy with facts.:) I could have sworn that he was buried in Queensland, my source for that particular snippet of trivia being the impeccable “vaguely remember reading it somewhere’.
Heh.
I beleive it was P.J. O’Rourke who first identified the modern political maxim that hot chicks associate with the trendiest politics of the day. Take a look at the anti-Cheney protests – didn’t see any Protest Babes there.
Gotta say the ALP knockers don’t rate much.
Harold Holt tried the tactic in the 60’s by being photographed with his three somewhat hot daughter-in-laws. If only I could find the photo on the web somewhere.
I had been led to believe that Kerensky was in Queensland (& thus Australia) for less than a year, in 1945-46.
The Mrs. Kerensky buried in Queensland was his 2nd wife. His children lived in the UK, having fled to there with their mother, whilst Kerensky had ended up in Paris.
Yes, that’s right, steve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kerensky#Life_in_exile
While the desperation is real, it’s still not all over for the libs. Sure they are down to throwing the kitchen sink and whatever political brick-a-brack at Labor, chance may drop another kids overboard in their laps. The Australian public has shown an amazing ability to be duped when apparently they have only just cottoned on to the previous scam.
Still, it’s fun to watch the circus the Libs have become. Case in point; “New Leader, Same old Labor” at the Liberal party homepage. People shouldn’t get complacent though.
It hasn’t occured to you that the Australian public may well believe that Howard lied, or at least deliberately and systematically avoided the truth, and just don’t care, because Howard was in touch with majority prejudice at the time of the SIEV X/children overboard affair?
Of course, that might mean you need to start thinking about how to change majority opinion, instead of just despising the general public.
Not good grammar to include the words “Bolt” and “sense” in the same paragraph.