Comments on: KevinPM

By: danny

danny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:56:23 +0000

JPZ: That’s a monstrous suggestion, the KevinAM, the morning Kevin … have you had your morning Kevin yet?… It’ll be a hectoring ringtone on your alarm clock telling you “you’re now at a fork in the road, you can either stay in bed or suck it up sunshine, and give it a fair go for the working families?”
On the new digital radio you’ll get a lecture on what you should do with your day while you swill down your cup of cold KevinUp, which you’ll hear all about in the show’s sponsor’s ad-break. That’s what he meant by the broadband and education revolutions : he’s gonna be everywhere, a ubiquitous digital Channel Kevin, giving us his oddly distorted grondhog day version of reality where it’s forever Kevin O’Clock, where even the KevinThirty report is on Kevin at Kevin.

As you say, there will be some variation, there will be 2 new time zones to replace the old Oriental/Occidental hemispheric dichotomy. There’ll be KevinAM and KevinPM, and wherever he is will be the prime meridien. You’ll know when you’re in the KevinPM hemisphere, ie when he’s on the other side of the planet, because it will be dark and as we all know, the sun shines out of…

Now it’s been shown from the G20 blab that he can get away with whatever he likes, that’s he’s untouchable, that those who used to like to think of themselves as teh left won’t criticize him for fear of giving the RWDB’s fuel, there’s nothing to stop him. Laurie Oakes sucking up and getting the Tessa to launch his book was the final sign. He told us it was gonna get ugly.

By: Bemsha Swing

Bemsha Swing — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:26:59 +0000

“he’s on record as dissing his old school as ‘tough, harsh, unforgiving, institutional Catholicism…’”

Well he can’t have been paying very close attention then, as Catholicism is, almost by definition, anything but unforgiving…

“Well I did not think the Church
Could be so cruel;
And I’m never going back
To my old school.”

By: danny

danny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:59:30 +0000

davidRubie: “What public figure would open themselves up to endless invites to your school reunion?”
I don’t think Kev will have to worry about that, he won’t be invited, he’s on record as dissing his old school as “tough, harsh, unforgiving, institutional Catholicism … (a) culture which condoned violence.”
He might be PM, but he’ll never be considered an ‘Old Boy’ talking out of school like that.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:53:02 +0000

What a wanker. Really. Get a job Kevvie. Oh that’s right. You’ve got one. Why don’t you do it then.
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Who’s paying for this?

By: Stephen lloyd

Stephen lloyd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:06:39 +0000

This is the real twitter.

By: FDB

FDB — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:52:37 +0000

There you go again Liam – flouting your special character skillz.

By: Chris (a different one)

Chris (a different one) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:39:33 +0000

FDB @ 9 – I don’t think they’re going to want to credit a staffer with the work that they do for online communication anymore than they credit them for speeches they write or paper correspondence. Except if they stuff up of course

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:32:06 +0000

FDB: Mouth of Sauron.™

By: FDB

FDB — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:19:32 +0000

What pollies should all have in these brave new times is a dedicated online representative, with an actual identity of their own, yet personally close to the polly. KevinPM, for example, could be given a ‘digest’ of issues raised by commenters/friends/detractors at the blog, the opportunity to write posts or respond to comments when time allows etc.

But most of the time, a staffer runs the site, moderates, engages, says “hmmm, I’ll ask Kevin”. Basically a New MediaTM press secretary.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:07:53 +0000

Incidentally, what IS the freakin’ G20?