hingehead wrote:Hello chaps
Re the Kevin .07 strip thing.
Why aren't more people wondering who the leak came from. Clearly it was from the host, a US editor for a News Ltd paper. Why has it come now? Because News Ltd (read Rupert Murdoch) wants Howard to stick around (the last of the Bush/Blair/Howard triumvirate publically blessed by Rupert prior to the Iraq invasion).
When the owner of 80% of the nation's print media wants someone to be prime minister you can betyourass I'm voting the opposite way.
Hello yourself, stranger!
I dunno about your Murdoch theory. I mean, everyone knows this NY Post editor was one of Rupert's boys. It's been mentioned a number of times in press reports. I'm not so sure that the leaking of "Kevin's shame" is a Rupert plot, exactly. The real question (to me, anyway) is why has it taken till
now for the story to emerge? I assume many folk (including the Oz foreign affairs minister who often travels to NYC for UN duties :wink: ) would have known of it for years. Why couldn't his enemies reveal it well before now, given that Kevin-Oh-7 has been receiving such splendid poll results for months? And in the damage stakes, is this the worst they could manage? Pretty lame, really & not nearly damaging enough to ruin KR's chances.
My hunch is that it's payback for the "Costello hates JH" story, which made the Treasurer look pretty damn silly & rather pathetic. And did a bit
more damage to the PM - does
anyone want him around any more? But why did those three journalists (including the ABC's Michael Brissendon, usually a very principled & respected journalist) wait all this time to publish that one? And implicate themselves in a "breach of privacy" issue. It makes no sense. I suspect that there's more going on than we're being told. And I wish I knew what it was!