In the recent media kerfuffle around newly appointed members of the Wiggles, the idiot MSM deconstructed everything from racial profiles to age through gender and the colour of underpants.
The one thing that it did not discuss at length was the greatest change by far. The Wiggles went from this ordinary-looking lot:
To this uncannily good-looking boy and girl band:
The lesson being that looks matter in the modern media world.
Which brings me to this man:
Do appearances matter in today’s media-driven politics? Yes. Witness campaign weight loss, and constant changes of glasses and suits to shift public perceptions. The donning of high vis and Acubras.
But are appearances fatal? They can be. Perhaps not when the struggle is between two equally dim lights.
Here is Peter Dutton’s leadership speech:
It’s far too early to make any judgement about policies or politics under Dutton. In particular, he’s got a long row to how for migrant communities and women. My advice on these fronts is to stop talking about listening and start doing like a policeman that believes in right and wrong. That means cleaning out everyone and anyone attached to the Morrison sleaze cult.
What we can say after the speech is that the new opposition leader did a decent job of making himself out as a safe pair of hands in the churning wake of Morrison’s chaos. He’s a policy potato but that’s no bad thing as we rebuild from Morrison’s deranged political environment.
Most significantly, he set up the major battles as energy prices and economic management in Australian suburbs.
Unless Labor thinks radically about how to prevent today’s building energy shock in coal and gas prices, keeps its boot firmly pressed down on Chinese relations, and delivers rising living standards, it does not have a charismatic enough leader in Anthony Albanese to see off the potato as a matter of course.
Even the humble spud can be fashioned into yummy golden fries given the right context.
