{"id":651,"date":"2009-08-06T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:48:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T21:48:49","slug":"american-idiot-derides-air-strikes-on-feral-camels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"American idiot derides ‘air strikes’ on feral camels"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNBC’s Erin Burnett has smeared Kevin Rudd (spin on to 3m15s)<\/a> as a ‘serial killer<\/a>‘ after he approved a cull of a million feral camels in the outback.<\/p>\n

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“There is a serial killer in Australia and we’re going to put his picture up so you can see who it is.”<\/p>\n

“That would be the prime minister of Australia Kevin Rudd,” Burnett said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“OK well do you know what he is doing?<\/em><\/p>\n

“He has launched air strikes – air strikes – against camels in the outback.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AIR STRIKES!! STRAFING!! SHOCK, HORROR!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess killing camel jockeys<\/em> (and wedding parties<\/a>) with air strikes is OK, but *snif* leeeeve the por CAMELS<\/em> alone!<\/p>\n

In fairness, one ignorant American newsie does not a national character make, unless of course, you think it’s OK for all Australians to be stereotyped on the example of, say, Piers Akerman.<\/p>\n

Burnett’s definitely not scoring a lot of gravitas or credibility as a journalist.<\/p>\n

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Maybe she otta stick to getting her kit off for lads’ mags.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait, Burnett now says it was just a ‘deadpan joke<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

Sort of like the rest of her reporting?<\/p>\n

-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNBC’s Erin Burnett has smeared Kevin Rudd (spin on to 3m15s) as a ‘serial killer‘ after he approved a cull of a million feral camels in the outback. “There is a serial killer in Australia and we’re going to put his picture up so you can see who it is.” “That would be the prime […]<\/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-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}