How To Build An Imbecile II

The rewriting of history continues apace this week with the latest theory given oxygen being Christian Kerr's assertion over at Crikey that it was all the Lindsay fake-flyer business what won it for Rudd. Yeah, that makes sense. A campaign involving 180,000 ordinary Australians shifts 5.6 percent of the vote, but really it was just a crazed Dentist from Penrith. Christian likes to think he's ever so witty, with the occasional bon-mot sprinkled amid the whacky myths he likes to popularise, but usually he's about as funny as a dead baby's doll - and another good example of how even alternative journalism is riddled with the same pretentious plummy prats that clog up the mainstream media. Unaccountable, unreliable, self-serving and - as this instance shows - often just plain wrong. For those that came in late, it was the Your Rights At Work campaign that won it - along with the thousands of ordinary Australians that got off their arses and did something about WorkChoices. But the politics industry can't be seen to thank them, there's no billable hours in that.