Demonstrating that it’s never the wrong time to portray someone you dislike in a bad light, Andrew Bolt takes a swipe at Kevin Rudd:
![He has ways to make you helped: Kevin Rudd helps out: GEARIN: The cameras captured you today meeting a man who didn’t want to leave his house, and he was a veteran of the 1974 floods. Did you come across that a lot, and are you concerned for those people? Rudd: Yeah, they kind of make you want to pull your hair out sometimes [laughs]. They’ve got water levels rising and you’re having a Socratic dialogue with somebody about why they should be moving out. I mean, strewth. Anyway, I put the coppers on to him, so we’ll see what happens.](http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/files/2011/01/Picture-1.png)
He has ways to make you helped? What is this? A third rate World War Two movie? Rudd’s attempts to assist the people in his neighbourhood somehow is comparable to a caricature of an SS officer?
Perhaps from the safety of his deeply indented chair in a dark Melbourne study Andrew has failed to understand some of the issues facing Rudd, as the member for Griffith, and his constituents. Did it occur to Andrew that calling the police to evacuate this man may have been an action that could save his life? Or was the opportunity to portray Rudd as some authoritarian bully too good to pass up?
This type of churlish nonsense demonstrates why Bolt’s attempts as analysis are suspect at best. He seems unable to see things without a screeching partisan filter skewing reality. What a pity for Bolt’s commenters that they have been denied the opportunity to get in a kick of their own in, but I’m sure that by the time comments are re-enabled Andrew will have found some other way to sledge the people who don’t subscribe to his views.
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Angra @ 34 Thanks for that. And yes, you’re right.
AFAIC all the leaders in that crisis were excellent. They all did their jobs properly and they all kept within the bounds of their jurisdictions. Seriously what do these asoul commentators want? Moses? The Combine to come and suck the water up?
They showed great leadership (anyone that doesn’t think so should watch their performances, how they gave info and instruction etc etc. Thats what leadership is about. It isn’t whatever Tony Abbott did yesterday.
As evidenced by his hard work and sincerity, Rudd’s heart was probably in the right place, but for him to acknowledge that the bloke was “a flood veteran” and to then call the cops, just shows how sheltered and well schooled in mindless bureacracy he is (like most politicians, including those with failing tickers). IMO, it smacks of a rusted on paternalistic attitude, though that should perhaps be scoring him points with some bloggers.
Andrew Bolt can go fly a kite.
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