Outrage! Shock! Horror!
The minister in charge of Australia’s broadcasting standards has dropped the F-word live on national television during children’s viewing hours. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was answering an AAP question about the risk for investment in Australia at the National Press Club in Canberra that was being shown live on the ABC today.
His offending remarks:
"In terms of sovereign risk, I love the debate about sovereign risk,”
"I have seen a new definition of sovereign risk, it’s asymmetrical.
"If a tax goes up, God, that is sovereign risk, but if a tax goes down that’s fucking fantastic, excuse me, that is fantastic.”
The opposition later attacked Senator Conroy for making a "sloppy and vulgar" speech at the press club. No doubt there will be other guardians of all that is good and proper in the world who will be outraged (rather than disappointed, because these days no one is just disappointed, or annoyed, when they don’t like something … no, they are OUTRAGED, at least according to the mainstream media’s view of the world)
I’d actually rather see our politicians drop the occasional F bomb, or do other “normal” things rather than have everything they say scripted and coached, bland and afraid to offend anyone.
Besides, complaining about politicians swearing is akin to complaining about them lying.
PS – this just demonstrates my point from an old post, that “fuck” is the most versatile word in the English language.
