EYE-BALL’s Harry’s Growl on – Election 2013 – Growl No: 26 – The Morning after – Australia feels like they have just been date raped …

Latest ‘Harry’s Growl’ Posts: Larry Pickering Cartoons – Added 20th Mar 2013 – click to view in a new window: To see more of Pickering’s Political cartoons – use this link … – 21st Mar – Election 2013  – Growl No: 25 – The ALP still in the quagmire – Today’s Leadership Spill achieved nor decided anything – – 20th Mar – Growl No: 24 – Stephen Conroy – the ‘Black’ Prince of all ALP Ministers – – 12th Mar – Election 2013  – Growl No: 23 – – The Track Record of the Worst Prime Minister ever – – 11th Mar – Election 2013  – Growl No: 22 – – The Monkeys are in the trees – – 10th Mar – Election 2013  – Growl No: 21 – Gillard is the Dumbest … i.e. –  457 Visa’s – – 22nd Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 20 – The ALP Brand – a Catharsis of toxicity  – – 18th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 19 – – The Sham Marriage between the ALP and Greens – – 18th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 18 – Paul Howes – AWU National Secretary – standing under the crap flow leaking from above – – 18th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 17 – Wayne Swan’s ‘Sarah Palin’ Moment – – 17th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 16 – Gillard Blunder’s Again – Draws a line under Age Pensions – – 16th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 15 – The Devils Brew: who’s left, Gillard, Swan, Shorten, and who else – 15th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 14 – The ALP tinkering and staring at the abyss … – 10th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 13 – The Obeid Dynasty Profile – – 9th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 12 – Dunce Hat’s sit firmly on Gillard and Swan’s noggin’s – – 8th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 11 – Parliamentary remuneration – Peter Slipper in Profile – – 8th Feb – Growl No: 10 – Parliamentary remuneration – Peter Slipper in Profile – – 7th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 9 – Gillard in Focus – – 6th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 8 – Obeid has decided to take a few with him – – 4th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 7 – ABC’s “Q&A” proves none of them have a goddamn clue – 4th Feb – Election 2013 – Growl No: 6 – Gillard in Cartoon Form – – 4th Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 5 – Poll Results,  Senate Leadership, & Pyne’s Hitler Gibe – – 2nd Feb –  Election 2013 – Growl No: 4 – Craig Thompson’s Bankruptcy revisited – – 1st Feb – Election 2013  – Growl No: 3 – Roxon’s Rocky Status as the AG  – – 31st Jan – Election 2013 – Growl No: 2 – Gillard lifts her skirts to thrill the Media  – – 28th Jan – Election 2013 – Growl No: 1 – Senator Penny Wong … policy exposed – – 18th Jan – Hedley Thomas and Larry Pickering – – Resume their AWU crusade against Gillard  – – 1st Jan 2013 – Jenny Macklin – Joins Swan as another ALP Fu_kwit – Claims she can live on the Newstart allowance – To see more EYE-BALL Harry’s Growl posts: click here …	Title: – Election 2013  – Growl No: 26 – – The Morning after – – Australia feels like they have just been date raped … – | Author: EYE-BALL’s Harry’s Growl | 22nd Mar 2013|
	Latest Pickering images – [8 New Cartoons added] – 20th Mar 2013 – see image links to the left, of go to the end of the text – linked here The Canberra Press/Media have become this horde of tramps acting out like a congregation of evangelists hunting down the story that will make their careers.  Ever since they were caught asleep whilst on watch when Gillard rode on the back of the faceless men to bring down a sitting PM – the media are ever vigilant to the next leadership spill.  In fact they have ever since been trying to create the ‘spill’ environment as payback. They meander as a horde of charging wildebeests in flight, often changing direction and darting like a Wilbur Smith savannah novel describing the hunter and the hunted. Their lead is the scented and puckered droppings of Parliamentarians who feed the press like monkeys in a cage at the zoo.   The media hoard can only see what is in front of them, nose down and ass in the air ready to pay the levy for a good lead. Their sense of smell about a good story is even confusing the media – they never stop and think about motive, opportunity, or rationalisation of the why and who benefits from the story before they run with it.  They act like bad detectives and are getting worse as Gillard pulls their strings to her wants and desires.   Now this might be what the McTurd [McTernan] brings to the table … but the media are accountable for their own stupidity and lack of research. We only have the media to tell us about events emanating out of Canberra.  When the MP’s need to stoke some fires and create a misdirection exercise,  they can always rely on the media whores parked outside and all to eager to please, to take the bait and report exactly what the MP’s want them to. By any other name, they are the ‘dogs of war’ and sacrificial … they are hunger primed and ready to do the bidding of any MP prepared to test them and their loyalty. Yesterdays stories were already in train before Crean fronted the media 30 minutes or so before Question Time was to begin.  The positive story was to be the ‘Apology’, and the negative story being ‘the Gillard and Conroy capitulation surrounding the proposed Media Legislation’. You don’t have to be Einstein to realise which story would have appeared on the front page today.  That story would have fed into the polls taken over the weekend and would have had Gillards numbers under 30 come Monday next.   Yesterday was another Gillard stunt to change the media focus and get her bad policy and bad governance off the front page. Some History: For weeks, even months, the media have been hinting that ALP MP’s have been backgrounding them about the ALP leadership distention .. reporting it as news and all to an effect that caused continued destabilisation. The cut to the chase reasoning here is that if Government policy is bad, and Governance is hit or miss – why is it always assumed that it is because the existing leadership is being destabilised and under threat.   Why can’t it be that Gillard just sucks at her job? She is a thug at best and beats up on the Opposition and her own every chance she gets.  It’s all a front to cover up the fact that she has no idea about how to run a Nation, nor interface with the people she means to govern.   What can anyone say about what she has in common with most Australians – how many married men with children has she slept with – in fact that alone makes most women think of her as an ‘overacheiving bitch’ … a ‘cad’ in women’s clothing. This mornings media misandrists are out there singing her phrases and sounding every bit the nutters they surely are – where has common sense and logic disappeared to. All MP’s from all sides do this ‘backgrounding’ thing with journalists because they have to be clear in the messages intent – some journalist need to be hand-fed so they get the right slant for the story … This is the motive the MP’s carry within themselves for higher office … prostitute themselves for the benefit of someone who can make their careers take off … The weak-link in the exchange has proved to be the media – the reporters/journalists doing the bidding of these traitorous sycophant MP’s  do so for their own vested reasons as well … politics is war, and the ALP suck at it. Crean’s sacrifice yesterday has many prongs if one was to try and analyse his motives and actions.  He helped get Gillard into politics as she hawked herself around Victoria after her AWU Wilson affair and involvement and the Slater and Gordon sacking.  Who knows what she did to get Crean’s attention but her married man complex would certainly have been invested in doing whatever she had to do to get what she wanted. Crean’s transparent actions yesterday were laced with a frustration in his beloved ALP and his want to rise as a party saviour … or that is the way Crean would have us believe. Crean’s ties to Gillard go back to his own Leadership issues where Gillard stood steadfastly beside him and repaid the loyalty she owed Crean for her career in the late 90’s post the AWU scandal and the Slater and Gordon sacking.   Was Crean another married man in Gillards notched dildo that Pickering draws her with?   This author only raises the thought … sorry about that … A year ago this is what Crean had to say about Rudd: Simon Crean blasts ‘disloyal’ Kevin Rudd, says he should challenge or quit the team | Author: Lanai Vasek and James Massola | Date: February 21, 2012 | Link to On-Line Story. | Click here or on image below to see Video of Interview | CABINET minister Simon Crean has accused Kevin Rudd of disloyalty and urged an “assertion of leadership” by Julia Gillard to address Labor’s leadership crisis. The loyal Gillard supporter said the Prime Minister should have a frank discussion with Mr Rudd, who he said should “exit the team” or bring on a challenge. “He is not playing as part of the team,” Mr Crean told ABC Radio. “He’s clearly been disloyal internally. I know he’s been talking to other people.” Mr Crean said the time had come for the Prime Minister and her rival to resolve the issue. He said Mr Rudd should “put up or shut up”. “I think what’s got to happen is the Prime Minister has to have a discussion with him. The conversation should be if he can’t be part of the team he should exit the team. “(It) needs to be a frank one and an assertion of leadership by the Prime Minister.” Mr Crean warned of the damage to the party if the issue was not resolved. “The responsibility for us is to stem the mutual destruction that is going on and get back to some principles of integrity and openness and honesty and frankness,” he said. “(We should be) prepared to confront the issue directly – not just deal with this madness that is going on by leaking.” Mr Crean dismissed speculation that if pushed Mr Rudd would resign and trigger a by-election in his Queensland electorate of Griffith, threatening Labor’s slim majority in parliament. “I don’t think any loyal person would trigger a by-election knowingly,” Mr Crean said. “No loyal person would knowingly put the party in that position.” Mr Crean said Mr Rudd was failing to convince Labor MPs of the need to reinstate him as prime minister and his supporters’ alternative strategy was to go public. “For all the time that he has been trying to say that he is different, a different Kevin, a new Kevin, all he does is reinforce the old Kevin,” he said. Mr Crean said the destabilisation was causing Labor’s primary vote to slump and meant Ms Gillard’s key messages were not getting through to voters. “It becomes a self-fulfilling evidentiary process the more you undermine, the more the primary vote comes down and you reinforce your point,” Mr Crean said. “The sooner it’s understood that he hasn’t got the support, the sooner it’s accepted, and the better it will be for us as a party.” Speaking in the United States on his way to Mexico for a G20 meeting, Mr Rudd refused to be drawn on speculation he was preparing to launch a challenge. “I’m off to the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting as the Australian Foreign Minister,” he said. Trade Minister Craig Emerson urged the “small group” within Labor to stop its active destabilisation campaign, which he said was overshadowing the government’s important policy initiatives, including today’s release of the Gonski review of school funding. “I think there is a real risk here based on what has been happening before that this important national discussion could possible be overshadowed by more talk of leadership,” Mr Emerson told ABC radio. “That is in the hands of those who have taken on the task of destabilising the government. What I’m urging is that they stop doing that so we can have a national discussion about a fundamental Labor reform. “There is a campaign on here, and it’s a campaign that is anti-Labor, it’s against the interests of the government of Australia and it’s against the national interest and it should stop … and it’s being run by Labor people.” Defence Minister Stephen Smith strongly backed Ms Gillard, saying she was “doing a very good job in tough circumstances”. Schools Minister Peter Garrett also supported the Prime Minister. Former Queensland Labor premier Peter Beattie urged Ms Gillard to call a ballot next week to resolve the leadership. “It’s time that there was a caucus meeting and the matter was dealt with once and for all,” Mr Beattie told ABC Radio. “Otherwise the damage to the Labor Party’s campaign in Queensland will be simply immeasurable.” Independent MP Tony Windsor does not believe Mr Rudd will be able to mount a successful leadership challenge. “I don’t think he’s got anywhere near the numbers, but I’m not a number counter for those people,” he told ABC Radio. But he added: “I think for the country’s sake, there needs to be some clearance of the air in relation to any attempted coup.” The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry also called on Labor to resolve its leadership tensions for the nation’s sake. “Those matters and the extent to which they need to be resolved are matters for the politicians, but there are risks to the economy, especially when there is political instability inside a governing party,” ACCI chief executive Peter Anderson told ABC Radio. A year later and after the events of yesterday – it seems like a replay from the archives and the question is why … why does the ALP keep going to the Leadership well to distract the media over bad Governance? Yesterday’s and todays rhetoric coming from the victors have them telling us that the Leadership issue has again been resolved.  Who wants to or can believe that? ‘Bad Kevin’ and ‘Good Kevin’: Rudd is a Jekyll and Hyde type character – there is ‘Good Kevin’, smiling, appeasing, and doing stunts for his millions of Twitter, Facebook, and other followers.  Then there is ‘Bad Kevin’ – the man who has festered in his own revenge plans ever since Gillard stuck him with the long-knives of the faceless men in June 2010. ‘Bad Kevin’ wants nothing to do with the leadership turmoil yet is basking in his silent role at its agenda – telling everybody that his word is his bond – and he is true to his word as his refusal to challenge Gillard yesterday spilt blood everywhere and yet he remained unstained. The desperation of the caucus to seek good media is their own fault – they fell over themselves and in line with their Union boss’s to put Gillard on the throne. Be assured Rudd had the numbers yesterday, just not enough to give him ‘overwhelming numbers’ to justify him turning back his assurances to the electorate that he would not challenge again.  Bob Carr and some other Gillard hater were overseas yesterday and were not there to give Rudd their vote ‘Bad Kevin’ is having a ball … he enjoys Gillard’s lurching from policy disaster to policy disaster.  … but as Gillard and her waddle group charged down the corridors to the Caucus Room meeting,  one could only think about this cluster of MP’s cluttered in behind their would be saviour,  and all oblivious to what was really going on. Gillard knows she already straddles the spit atop the fiery embers of a ‘slow roast’ cook-off … she is pegged and straddled and she screams back at the the fire – ‘take your best shot’ as ‘Bad Kevin’ turns the cradle … Gillard’s toughness lights the eyes of her followers, it is easily mistaken for bravado and a devil-may-care attitude, she’s a ‘all-in’ punter and pretty good at bluffing those in her awe … It has worked on Abbott ever since she became the PM … but people are beginning to realise that the tough outer skin hides a persona that will destroy everybody before she will listen and take advice that Australia no longer listens or wants her anywhere near the PM role. Back to Crean’s actions yesterday – we know that he spoke with Rudd a few days before the spill – from that conversation share in yesterdays press conference before the spill, Crean told us that he believed he could be the Deputy Prime Minister if Rudd challenged. Yesterday was all about Crean’s following someone elses agenda … but who was he working for? Was his sacrifice a Gillard plant to try and draw Rudd out yet again, was it a distraction to have the media fumble the real story of the day – the failure of the media legislation – stripped from the weekend’s papers. Was it a stunt to get the media talking about Gillard’s toughness and resilience? There are so many hinges involved and the media are oblivious … ‘Bad Kevin’ response showed us he is still enjoying Gillard’s demise and his want to ‘rise from the dead’ … his rebirth is still some weeks away … maybe months, and maybe not until Gillard is shunted from office in the most humiliation of ways … i.e. Anna Bligh [ALP QLD Leader – only won 7 seats], and in similar vein to the NSW ALP’s Christina Keneally …  both women by the way … Crean’s sacrifice was not unlike Roxon’s attempt to do Gillard’s bidding when she tried to push new ‘anti-discrimination’ legislation and then fade away when it failed.  That legislation failure was masked by Roxon’s and Evan’s resignation from the Gillard Ministry. Crean’s show yesterday has him also resigning his Ministership, and he now resides on the back-benches with Roxon and one K Rudd – i.e. ‘Good Kevin’ … Gillard has used up two of her most loyal Ministers in Roxon and Crean, and at this rate how many will survive as Gillard serves them up to do her bidding. Today it all returns to a becalmed silence as the House in in recess for seven weeks before the Budget sitting. Bad Government still prevails and what will the media write about now?   What will Gillard’s next stunt be to distract the Australian public? Some Backgrounding – The Sports Doping Story: Nobody has canvassed the real reasons for the ‘Sports doping’ story being outed when the ALP were free-falling in the polls.  It happened at the peak of the ICAC Obeid revelations, and the Thompson arrest over HSU fraud charges.   This came days after the Evans and Roxon resignations and the ‘antidiscrimination’ legislation failure. These stories were absolutely destroying Gillard and the ALP at the time. In the time since Gillard offered up the ACC report on ‘sports doping’, what has it revealed about ‘sports doping’.  The whole case no depends an players confessing to a crime they don’t believe they committed in all good conscience. The ACC report was nowhere near complete when Lundy and Clare were sent pn a Gillard mission to get the Obeid and Thompson debacle off the media focus.  In essence – Gillard threw Australian athletes and Sports Administrators under the bus to try and save herself. Now look to yesterday’s events and try and see what was different – she threw Crean out there to flush ‘Good Kevin’ out on a Leadership spill as a media distraction … ‘Bad Kevin’ saw her coming from a mile away and shot her stunt down … and the loser was the Crean and to a larger degree the ALP … Gillard’s stupidity is being mistaken for toughness and political savvy … what really has changed other than Crean now gets to sit next to Kevin and keep an eye on him in the House. Larry Pickering’s Political Take: To bring some much-needed levity – there is always the Larry Pickering Cartoons … below is a sample of his summer offerings – his images page can be access here … [click on image below to enlarge] … enjoy and don’t hurt yourself with the belly laughs … Larry Pickering also writes some very intelligent blogs including many on the AWU scandal.  Whilst not as regarded as Hedley Thomas in journalistic circles – his penmanship and his heady wit give him a take on things not easily publishable in mainstream media.  None the less … his take on events cuts to the chase and he does not mince words … his Facebook page can be accessed here … Added 20th Mar 2013: To see more of Pickering’s Political cartoons – use this link …
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