A little something from Cow-Irker Gail...

[msfledermaus]

...Just when I despair of our political situation and curse our stupidity as a nation, cow-irker Gail sends me this...

...Which is a nice reminder that we're not the only place in the world with weird politics...
(I've been told that it was actually a skit. I suspected it might be, but from what I've been told about Australian politics and what I know about our own, it probably wasn't that much of a stretch:)

Comments

[dublos.livejournal.com]

Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/frontfell.asp) has an article about this clip.

Indeed, this "interview" appears very much like a Saturday Night Live skit because it is in fact a comedy sketch from the early 1990s, the parts of the politician and interviewer being played by Australian television comedy duo John Clarke (http://www.mrjohnclarke.com/index.php?page=CD) and Brian Dawe (http://www.bryandawe.com.au/) as they discuss an oil spill (http://www.amsa.gov.au/marine_environment_protection/Major_Oil_Spills_in_Australia/Kirki/index.asp) that occurred in 1991 when the Greek tanker Kirki lost its bow off the coast of Western Australia

[annablume.livejournal.com]

Fake or not, that's funny.

Same sketch duo

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