Defending his Government's decision to spend $42 billion to save the nation's faltering economy, Mr Rudd warned punters to expect a "political s---storm" during a pre-recorded interview of Channel 7's Sunday Night program that aired last night.
And gets pinged for it by Robert Doyle
Melbourne's Liberal Lord Mayor Robert Doyle told Sky News this morning that the colourful language was no accident. "I don't think he dropped it, I think it was a carefully scripted attempt to make himself appear human ... one of the lads," he said.
Of course he has form:
Kevin Rudd swore on camera a fair bit during his day in Afghanistan last week. Two s--ts, a bugger and a bloody. He also dropped his g's and lowered his language level generally. At Tarin Kowt, he reminded the reconstruction taskforce soldiers of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, an event over which Australia went to war, with the declaration: "Bugger that for a joke, we're in."
He was pinged then too:
It was Rudd the verbal chameleon, changing his language to suit his audience. The critics soon emerged, with one former diplomat citing it as a lack of character for a prime minister to feel to need "to speak like a wharfie". "Most people can see straight through that," he said.
Of course the funniest thing about all of this is that he is not speaking like an average Aussie, but like a caricature of one.
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