The "fuck Kevin" post we had to have
Barrie Cassidy actually wrote it last week:
Rudd is campaigning. Rudd is talking to journalists about the leadership despite his astonishing denial.
I know the names of some of those he has spoken to. I know where he said it – in his office – on a parliamentary sitting day – and I know what he said. He told them a challenge would happen; he told them he was prepared to lose the first ballot and go to the backbench; and in one conversation he laughed about the prospect of Gillard stumbling again.
Yet the Foreign Minister has categorically denied ever having spoken to any journalist about the leadership.
He can deny the approaches only because he believes the journalists involved are bound to both protect their sources and to treat such conversations as confidential. He is protected by the cloak of journalistic ethics.
So, he's been talking to journalists about the leadership, personally seeding the ground, destabilising the party, and he's been lying, saying he hasn't.
His resignation speech should be viewed in that light.
Isn't it about time journalists did the honourable thing here, as Cassidy has done, and call Rudd's bluff on this whole "my hands are clean" schtick?
It sure would spare us a few weeks/months of him getting to play the martyr.
