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Please Kevin, can you eat a moose?

By Laurie Oakes

September 06, 2008 04:10am

Article from: The Courier-Mail

IT’S not fair. The Americans have Sarah Palin. Why can’t we have one of those?

Mooseburgers may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect feed, and some people might baulk at giving their kids names like Track or Trig or Bristol.

Also, the Alaskan Governor holds some views so far to the Right that she risks toppling off the edge.

Please Kevin, can you eat a moose? | NEWS.com.au.

Out they all come. All suckered in by the Repulican PR machine. Now Laurie Oakes is beginning a love affair with Palin. Anyone can have the positions this woman has – they are easy.

It’s so terrible that Laurie has to sit through boring press conferences with politicians. Perhaps if he did some real work and research into some of the issues facing this country he might find some really interesting things to report.

Alas he prefers to sit around waiting for someone to send him juicy gossip emails that then form the basis for his ‘scoops’. Oh it’s so much more interesting to listen to someone like Palin who is a ‘conviction’ politician who believes everything has an easy answer – gee, it sounds eerily like the present encumbent. The US needs oil in the Middle East – start a war. The economy is tanking – cut taxes for the rich. Teenagers keep getting pregnant – just stop having sex. Heavans, if it was all this simple then none of these things would be intractable problems.

Still, that doesn’t bother Laurie, he prefers people that can deal him simple answers – wow that makes for interesting interviews. If someone is poor – it’s their fault. If there is oil in Alaska you just drill for it. There’s no such thing as climate change – it’s just a bunch of old cobblers.

Yeah, that easier to report isn’t Laurie? No research required. Just some ‘good ole’ home truths from people who prefer to let those at the bottom of the pile rot. Or worse, if they live outside of the US, just blow them up with cluster bombs.

It’s time for Laurie to hang up his keyboard. It’s obviously got a little too hard for him.

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