{"id":476,"date":"2008-03-11T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T05:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-03-11T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T06:13:08","slug":"howard-passed-in-both-lanes-at-high-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"HoWARd passed in both lanes at high speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say for a moment, you&#8217;re a CEO of a large company. You get sacked by the board for having fully mad, ill-considered policies and a destructive management style.<\/p>\n<p>Do you:<\/p>\n<p>1) Lay low until it all blows over, give it all some serious thought and later admit you were wrong<\/p>\n<p>2) Go on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/howard-breaks-silence\/2008\/03\/06\/1204779959627.html\">public speaking tour<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/11\/2186318.htm\">addressing fellow nutballs<\/a>, vehemently insisting you were correct and it&#8217;s the board which has a problem<\/p>\n<p>Path 1 has worked pretty well for Malcolm Fraser&#8230; but if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/uruknet.info\/?p=m41884&amp;s1=h1\">John HoWARd<\/a>&#8230; months will go by but you still can&#8217;t work out what&#8217;s wrong with that mean ol&#8217; board of directors. Littler Johnny would like you to believe he was unseated by those evil trade unionists&#8230; but I got a clue for the old boy, no trade union official filled out my ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be any more obvious that John Ho<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/07\/18\/1090089035899.html\">WAR<\/a>d wasn&#8217;t ever interested in participatory democracy, rather in ruling the stupid masses by edict, for their own good? No wonder HoWARd and King George get on like a house afire.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say for a moment, you&#8217;re a CEO of a large company. You get sacked by the board for having fully mad, ill-considered policies and a destructive management style. Do you: 1) Lay low until it all blows over, give it all some serious thought and later admit you were wrong 2) Go on a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}