> > >KERRY O'BRIEN [quoting Mark Latham]: Howard the arse-licker and the brown
>nose kissing bums, as
>> >you put it, Abbott hanging out of the Queen's backside, the conga line of
>> >suckholes.
>>
>> Damn, I wish American public life were more like this.
>>
>> Doug
>
>Even setting aside his Third Way-ism [Book Review: Civilising Global Capital
>by Mark Latham, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1998
>http://www.wsws.org/polemics/1998/jun1998/lath-j27.shtml ], Latham does have
>real "dark sides", if you like. For example, his breaking the arm of a
>Sydney cab driver, in a confrontation a few years ago. A newspaper has
>tracked the guy down and he says he'll still vote Labor. Someone who says
>she won't be voting for Latham is his first wife, who says he was
>"narcissistic", "hard", "demanding" and disapproved of her reading feminist
>literature.
I'm sure he's objectionable in many ways, but I wish we had 1) interviewers as sharp as O'Brien seems to be, and 2) people who say things like "conga line of suckholes" on TV.
Doug