Club Bloggery 9: Not Funny
The election may be over, but our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online continues unabated for now (if perhaps at a pace more commensurate with the impending summer holidays). This week, we take a look back in some degree of anger at the ‘just kidding’ defence for political stunts gone wrong, which was employed several times during the campaign.
Not Funny
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we’ve just put behind us were our politicians’ and journalists’ usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence whenever some political stunt or statement didn’t pay off.
We saw this first with Labor’s star recruit Peter Garrett, who was reported to have said “once we get in, we’ll just change it all” in what he was later at pains to describe as a “short and jocular” conversation with Channel Nine personality Richard Wilkins and talk radio shock jock Steve Price.
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