Post by pim on Oct 6, 2012 14:19:44 GMT 11
Emma Alberici always serves up a debate between two protagonists from either side of the political divide. It can be and at times has been quite good. Something for late night political geeks and junkies. Not everyone's cuppa tea (I almost said earl grey and then I remembered! Sorry Phil!) but hey, if it's good then it's interesting, if it's boring then it's batshit boring. Last night was batshit boring. Not even Emma Alberici - a good interviewer in my humble opinion - could rescue it from the doldrums.
The Friday night debate was so boring I can't even remember clearly what it was about. For the Libs there was Kelly O'Dwyer. She's the new member for Higgins who inherited the seat from Peter Costello. I swear that this lady has inherited Peter Costello's smirk. She's touted as a young hotshot on the way up with a big future in front of her in the Liberal Party. And she probably is! Thing is that after seeing her put on toast by Tanya Plibersek on a Q & A I'm afraid that if Kelly is what the Libs call a "young hotshot" then we're in for very mediocre governance should she ever become a minister.
On the Labor side there was the new Member for Fraser which is the ACT electorate north of Lake Burley Griffin. The former member used to be Bob McMullin and since 2010 it's been an egghead called Andrew Leigh. He's an economics professor with lots of academic runs on the board and it's good that there is that expertise on the Labor side. But oh so boring. He was so boring that he was beyond batshit boring. We need Buzz to help out here:
Buzz, without resorting to euphemisms, give us a pithy expression that encapsulates "boring beyond boring-as-batshit".
No light was shed, no insights were explored. Kelly O'Dwyer couldn't shut up and was put in her place by Emma Alberici and Andrew Leigh confined himself to professorial hair-splitting "on the one hand ... but then again on the other hand ..."
It was so soporific that I fell asleep. Perhaps that was the general idea!
The Friday night debate was so boring I can't even remember clearly what it was about. For the Libs there was Kelly O'Dwyer. She's the new member for Higgins who inherited the seat from Peter Costello. I swear that this lady has inherited Peter Costello's smirk. She's touted as a young hotshot on the way up with a big future in front of her in the Liberal Party. And she probably is! Thing is that after seeing her put on toast by Tanya Plibersek on a Q & A I'm afraid that if Kelly is what the Libs call a "young hotshot" then we're in for very mediocre governance should she ever become a minister.
On the Labor side there was the new Member for Fraser which is the ACT electorate north of Lake Burley Griffin. The former member used to be Bob McMullin and since 2010 it's been an egghead called Andrew Leigh. He's an economics professor with lots of academic runs on the board and it's good that there is that expertise on the Labor side. But oh so boring. He was so boring that he was beyond batshit boring. We need Buzz to help out here:
Buzz, without resorting to euphemisms, give us a pithy expression that encapsulates "boring beyond boring-as-batshit".
No light was shed, no insights were explored. Kelly O'Dwyer couldn't shut up and was put in her place by Emma Alberici and Andrew Leigh confined himself to professorial hair-splitting "on the one hand ... but then again on the other hand ..."
It was so soporific that I fell asleep. Perhaps that was the general idea!
