1. he makes the MSM spin on the announcement about the fact he’s gone back to youtube after last times grilling, rather than about piecemeal funding for health, porkbarrelling and the erosion of federalism.

2. By doing this he owns the message more. People are a lot more likely to say “I’ll go to youtube and watch the whole announcement” than to goto pm.gov.au and read the whole announcement.

3. He was able to redefine what the critique of the message will be about. In his first line he defines that the objection to his proposal will be federalism, rather than pork barrelling or piecemealism*. And think about it, no one gives a sh-t about federalism anymore.

He was using the forum to do something quite different, and in the next few days we’ll see if he pulled it off.

*I’ll make up words if I want :-p

Katz, that list would make for dynamite counter publicity if it were compiled from now till the election and updated regularly, on line, and through ads.

Hope someone takes the time and money to do something like that rather than produce crap like this…
http://www.greenswatch.com/
… that Mr Lefty has posted on.

I notice that the Young Liberals colonising comments at Rupert dot com have taken to calling him John.

I think John is doing a really good job.
John is the best PM we’ve ever had.

John is just the dreamiest. Even more dreamier than Donovan.

Surely any youngster worth their salt would understand that if he’s so forking dreamy he’d be The John by now? And that, by extension, we’d all be In The John? Or On The John? Or, heaven forbid, Moistening The John?