{"id":239,"date":"2007-12-17T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T05:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-12-19T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T22:48:42","slug":"episode-278-viva-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE #278 &#8211; Viva the Revolution!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this was the big post-election wrap! Much dissection was had. Everything from Jackie Kelly, and Jeff Kennett, to the ALP candidate Newhouse getting slapped by some mad mother\/ journalist\/ no longer employed journalist at a polling station, to an overview of the election coverage.<br \/>\nIn fact, if you didn&#8217;t like the election result (why are you listening to the show?) or you&#8217;re not into politics, then this was not the show for you! With a Kevin 07 shirt on the wall, and dreams of sugar plums dancing in our heads &#8211; victory was ours!!<\/p>\n<p>There was much navel gazing by the now Opposition. The Libs fell apart. Squabbling, fighting over whose silver spoon was whose, and of course the ritual &#8220;i dropped the soap&#8221; game (but that&#8217;s pretty standard for most branch meetings of the Liberal Party). Many said the defeat wouldn&#8217;t have happened if Costello was in charge &#8211; and to a point that&#8217;s true. If he was the leader then the ALP would have won the Senate too! Richard used his standard indepth political brain to label Mark Vaile a &#8220;grimy little retarded frog man&#8221;, an apt if not particularly probing examination. Jeff Kennett was on the horn again, calling Peter Costello &#8220;gutless&#8221;. Mike Bailey, the ALP candidate for North Sydney was only beaten by the Libs high-profile Industrial Relations Minister Joe Hockey by 5 points once preferences were counted. Poor Joe!! No one loves a loser! &#8230; oh and Kevin Rudd won the election!<\/p>\n<p>So before they finally decided on Brendon &#8220;The Earring&#8221; Nelson, there was a tussle. A tussle of class, ideology and hairstyles. The Libs love the quaff and the hairspray &#8211; it was a battle royale:<br \/>\n<strong> Tony Abbott<\/strong>, the man described by Paul Keating as &#8220;a young fogy&#8221; was a front runner, but after bungling pretty much anything he touched during the election, it will be a surprise to see him till well after New Years.<br \/>\n<strong> Young Brendon<\/strong>, the eventual winner, has busted the Liberal Party mold. He admitted the Iraq War is about oil, he&#8217;s socially moderate, and was once a member of the ALP. What ever happened to that ALP &#8216;blood in, blood out&#8217; rule?<br \/>\n<strong> Malcolm Turdbill<\/strong>, Richie Rich, Mr Silver Spoon, Captain My Dad&#8217;s Richer Than Your Dad. Paul Keating says he&#8217;s &#8220;like a fizzling firecracker&#8221; and his arch conservative views are well known. That being said, he really didn&#8217;t endear himself to the Liberal Party when he was the main voice for the Republican Movement. Those grannies just wouldn&#8217;t be happy haveing him in the top job!<br \/>\nBut in the end it came down to Nelson. The Earring, the big hair, the embarrassing laugh. Oh I&#8217;m quite looking forward to the next election!! Speaking of which &#8211; Kevin Rudd won the election!!<\/p>\n<p>At this point Maxine was ahead in our final edition of <em>Battle For Bennelong<\/em>. She eventually won (and didn&#8217;t Johnny look happy!?!), but during the show there was only 2702 votes separating them. Tight!! Little Johnny voted at a local primary school, in fact the very school that Pete kicked Paddle Pop Lion in the Jatz Crackers. We shouldn&#8217;t be hard on Pete though. That <em>was<\/em> the week before the election&#8230;. which (if you didn&#8217;t know) Kevin Rudd won!!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Pete, his wild, untamed political brain finally got the better of him, and 4 days after the election victory&#8230; Pete called it as a Labor win! Yes, it was 4 days later &#8211; but he called it. No other political commentator would come out so forcefully so long after the victory to make a statement like that. He really is the powerhouse behind machinations of the political machine! Go Team Pete!! (which not only endorses, but fully supports the Kevin Rudd election victory!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Poll Smoking<\/em> revealed the truth of it though. The polls were wrong! Roy Morgan was closest, and the SKY News exit poll was pretty close &#8211; but overall the polls were wrong. In fact next month Pete is going to predict the final tally, and I&#8217;m pretty confident he&#8217;ll be 99% right. There&#8217;s a prediction. There&#8217;s the kind of hard impact analysis you expect from A Walk in the Black Forest! The programme that whole heartedly accepts the new Rudd government.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck O Meter this week&#8230;<br \/>\nP: 4<br \/>\nR: 3<br \/>\nA: 0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image240\" alt=\"FuckOMeter 278.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/FuckOMeter%20278.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; that&#8217;s because we&#8217;re so f&#038;#king pleased about the election victory of Kevin Rudd and the deposing of the Howard Junta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this was the big post-election wrap! Much dissection was had. Everything from Jackie Kelly,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/?p=239\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EPISODE #278 &#8211; Viva the Revolution!!!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-shows","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.walkblackforest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}