The Sydney Institute has just sent out Christmas Greetings to those on its email list, and included the following paragraph:
STOP PRESS…. Great news! Gerard Henderson has just won Crikey’s “Australian Bore of the Year” Award, comfortably edging out Nicole Kidman who came second; Wayne Swan came a miserable last behind Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson.
Henderson’s acceptance speech, which runs for a mere four and a half hours, will be available on the Institute’s pod for after-lunch listening on Christmas Day 2008. It will of special interest to the intoxicated in our midst.
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Actually what is boorish about Gerard, as opposed to boring given how dangerous he is to honest analysis, is his deep habit of avoiding inconsistent nuance in his pieces, which are better constructed than mere rants, but falls too deeply into sophistry for regular strategic omission. A classic recently was airbrushing a good million dead via the Iraq War. Or even 1/10 of that body count. How does he do that and you know … sleep? (And not for the first time in the Fairfax acreage).
A writer and analyst who could be so much more and yet defaults to party allegiance rather than be his own man. So I guess he’s stuck in his ways. It’s worked for him so far and like Geof Boycott why change now?
An opener who has given up the dream of ever playing graceful strokes? Indeed forgotten what it even feels like. The Undead are surely envious of his constancy.