I Want To Punch All Of Them
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I want to punch Mark Riley for being such a grub that he picked yesterday of all days to play Gotcha with Tony Abbott over a comment made to some soldiers several months ago.
I want to punch Tony Abbott for his reaction to Riley, which showed that he simply does not have the brain power, intelligent as he is, to overcome his anger and answer a simple question when he's under pressure.
I want to punch Julia Gillard for spending so long saying, standing for, and being nothing, that when she finally shows some humanity by breaking down when speaking of individual heroes and victims of the Queensland floods it seems valid to question whether she was sincere.
I want to punch almost all of the Canberra press gallery for giving the "Abbott disrespects dead soldier with foul language" air time and column space.
I want to punch everyone at Channel 7 for deciding that "shit happens" was a story.
I want to punch everyone at Channel 9 who's playing Holier Than Thou, when it was 9 that gave us Mark Latham: Reporter.
I want to punch everyone on the Left for gloating over Abbott's stupidity, and I want to punch everyone on the Right for accusing Gillard of pretending to cry.
Most of all, I want to punch the people of Australia for being so shallow, so uninterested in politics, so uninvolved and so venal that this is the media, and these are the politicians that I have to look at every day.
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