Oh dear, our Prime Minister has been caught out again.
Trying to be Mr Ordinary when asked to engage in a game which objectifies women, he said OK.
The game was to judge a woman on a scale of whether you would have sex with her, marry her or ask her for a date.
It’s a silly game, but underlying it is the challenge to objectifyy a woman.
How would we respond to such a challenge?
It seems like a bit of innocent fun really.
But is it?
To demonstrate how seriously sad that game is, surely the challenge needs to be reversed, ask the challenger to front up first, to use that same scenario, to ‘objectify’ some one close to them, perhaps their partner, or their mother, or if they have one, their daughter.
Bring it close to home, reverse the trap.
Our Prime Minister has had to apologise yet again for falling into a trap set by a comedian on social media.
A simple refusal to play, or to turn the trap around, to show the inappropriateness of that game would have been a better ploy, rather than to be suckered in, and the need to offer another shame-faced apology could have been so easily avoided.
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Sad isn’t it, to think government is the face and voice of the people?
I am amazed that Albanese participated in such a low grade conversation with a “journo?” who was continually looking for a gotcha moment. But then this tawdry display simply confirms the potty mouth lexicon that persons in power revert to when they presume they are speaking the language of the proletariat. Just what do the Fijian diplomats think of our PM who having cajoled them into an inter-governmental agreement with smarmy diplomacy now reverts to misogynistic, lewd, disrespectful and childish blather that usually emanates from behind the shelter shed? Why didn’t his handlers pull the plug on this “interview”? Shame on you Albo – you totally lowered the standards expected of your high office and mis-represented the decent Aussie way!
To me the PM answered an impertinent question after much pressing from an illiterate reporter. We are seeing too much of this crap from our media.
Of all the stupid tricks to fall for …
You have the Prime Minister with you, and can ask any question you like about the major issues of our time. You choose to find a “game” that will embarrass your guest no matter how he answers. The shame is on the journalist/comedian and his show, and also on all those who give significance to this silly piece of entertainment
Albanese got caught in a Gotcha moment – he must learn from this encounter.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, the boofhead ex-National Party member and former deputy prime minister, Barnyard Joyce, has demonstrated yet again the depth of his mental acuity by managing to associate the recent SLBM test firing of a JL-3 ballistic missile with the current Telstra outage.
He said, on Sky News, that “I hope it’s just a coincidence about the intercontinental ballistic missile that went into the Pacific. I hope there’s no, you know, I don’t want to be paranoid or conspiracy theorist, but we know there is the capacity for … China to affect that sort of software and that sort of network, and I hope that that’s investigated and cleared as not part of the process.”
“I don’t want to be sort of, you know, conspiracy theorist, startled, startled, startled, but I do think a diligent process is to make sure that there’s nothing malevolent in this.”
There you have it, ladies & gentlemen. The planter-box hugging diviner, at his logical best. Donald Horne, perhaps, is spinning in his grave at witnessing the witlessness of this political person’s pronouncements.
Trump enshitifies the whole world, wars and slaughters go on relentlessly, China sends up fireworks, big footy questions demand conversation and a childish interviewer gives our “leader” a question and gets a pustular awkward answer. What an Australian phenomenon and no Kyle, Karl, Pauline or Murdoch maggot needed…why not follow a canetoad for leadership?
I was actually going to write something on this myself… and I still might. Of course the question with politicians always is: Are they really that stupid?
Often the answer is yes, but sometimes we need to think how things are playing out and which part of it was predictable. Then we need to think about whether it went as most people would have predicted.
Steve Bannon spoke about flooding the zone with shit. To what extent is it better to take the hit over this, apologise and move people on from talking about the Budget and to what extent will this do lasting damage? Are Labor strategists that cynical?
Who knows, but there have certainly been less stories about how Labor have reduced the incentive to become a multibillionaire since we discovered that Albanese would pick Kylie…
And, btw, isn’t it meant to be (just to be non-sexist about this): Isn’t the game meant to be “Shag, marry, date” – Tony Abbott, Donald Trump, Barnaby Joyce and the person says:
I’d shag Barnaby because he’d probably be incapable
I’d marry Donald because he’s rich and old and I’d inherit the money
And I can date Tony as being around the 1950s in terms of attitude.
What do you expect from a PM who attended Kyle Sandilands’wedding? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-29/anthony-albanese-chris-minns-avoid-media-kyle-sandilands-wedding/102282432
Yeah, nah, Abalone keeps proving the rumours that he is a very bad judge.At least, he’s currently entertaining leaders of miniscule specks of dirt in the Pacific, where he’s more comfortable, at least while he’s in the chief bribing position.Is he smarter?Unlikely.
He’s got to deal with the shithead Modi next, and that will be a whole other bag of hypocrisy.
I know he loves the idea of the job as PM, but he should be persuaded to move on , to be with his’family’ and Toto.
It is now embarrassing.
And if he feels obliged to hug Modi, and kiss him, I hope he resiles from the tongue.
Rossleigh,
I’m with you and Michael West, who says “Forget the Albo and Kylie Minogue beat-up. There are much bigger stories out there. #privatisation #auspol #agedcare”.
The Prime Minister’s office has 61 staffers, it would be impossible to believe that there aren’t any staffers vetting with whom Albanese does an interview. Nikki Osbourne, I believe was the host, is far from an unknown quantity. Her comedic schtick is basically bogan with wardrobe does blunt, straight talking; including on sex. Her humour leans heavily on shock value.
It beggars belief that Albanese would be taken by surprise by what Nikki came up with.
The question becomes what was there that Labor would rather we don’t focus our attention on? There is a class action on aged-care rorts, I don’t know what the privatization might refer to unless that is also part of the aged-care rorts problem. There’s the NDIS budget cuts/negotiations as well.
It couldn’t possibly be that Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians continues virtually unabated, despite the supposed ceasefire that Albnanese lauded and did his bit to pretend that it was genuine. Besides Labor couldn’t care less, it is only worried about those who run Labor, those who think their feelings are more important than human lives and who wanted a sham Royal Commission to tell everyone.
Huge segue, will possibly attract zero comments but maybe eyes on will have some impact.
Watching the 2025 American documentary Bugs That Rule the World. Ep. 1 titled Insect Apocalypse. This is not a new or recent topic. A bit like global warming, scientists have been banging the drum for quite a few years.
The narrators in the first episode are unequivocal. Insect loss on a planet-wide basis is massive, and will ultimately have a massive impact on human populations as pollinators disappear, other families that recycle, regenerate, provide food sources for mammals, birds, reptile, aquatic species… all on the extinction train with no respite.
The takeaway message… once the insects are gone, it’s all over red rover for humanity.
Whatever – the intention to distract our attention from existential problems reveals the depths to which Labor staffers will go to to manage the headlines.
The outcome, intentional or otherwise, questions whether Albanese is a suitable person to be our Prime Minister – “conduct unbecoming” comes to mind.
Take a step back and consider that this is the best they can do against Albo. No sports rorts, no dodgy water deals, no drunken performance lying on the footpath, no breaking the bonk ban, the media has to lose its mind over some silly comment. The most crazy bit is how many Australians are buying into the outrage.