{"id":81,"date":"2005-08-29T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T01:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2010-01-27T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T08:56:16","slug":"pheatherweight-phydeaux-on-the-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Pheatherweight Phydeaux on the rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"203\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/\/blogimages\/phydeaux_pissed.jpg\" alt=\"BRRRRRRAAAPPPPPP!! ya know ya want me babeee\" title=\"BRRRRRRAAAPPPPPP!! ya know ya want me babeee\" \/>Recently retired NSW Premier Bob Carr nailed John &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=71\" target=\"_blank\">Phydeaux<\/a>&#8216; Brogden in one after the drunken NSW Lieberal Party leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/my-foolish-boozy-night-brogden-tells\/2005\/08\/28\/1125167552278.html\" target=\"_blank\">racially slurred<\/a> Carr&#8217;s Malaysian born wife Helena as a &quot;mail-order bride&quot; and <a href=\"http:\/\/notanothertermplease.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/brogden-sorry-he-was-caught.html\" target=\"_blank\">sexually assaulted<\/a> a couple of female journalists at a recent knees-up in Sydney.            <\/p>\n<p>&quot;My wife Helena has higher qualifications and a more substantial career than this <strong>featherweight of mediocrity<\/strong> will ever have,&quot; fumed a justifiably angry Bob Carr.&nbsp; Carr said Phydeaux&#8217;s remarks about Helena were a &quot;cruel insult against all Asian women.&quot;&nbsp;         <\/p>\n<p>Phydeaux and two male NSW Lieberal staff members had attended the Australian Hotels Association&#8217;s piss-up a month ago at the Sydney Hilton&#8217;s Marble Bar. After a half-dozen beers, Phydeax played <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/my-foolish-boozy-night-brogden-tells\/2005\/08\/28\/1125167552278.html\">grabass<\/a> on <em>Daily Telegooph<\/em> reporter Justine Ferrari and also put his arm around and <strong>propositioned<\/strong> yet another female journo from the <em>Sun-Herald!<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">         <\/div>\n<p>Phydeaux, you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/brogden-has-pep-in-his-step\/2005\/07\/27\/1122143910484.html\" target=\"_blank\">grand old <em>party <strong>dog<\/strong><\/em><\/a>! You really think women <em>dig<\/em> you&#8230;. don&#8217;t you?             <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/notanothertermplease.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/brogden-sorry-he-was-caught.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/wp-admin\/..\/blogimages\/lieberal_sexual_assault_NSW.jpg\" alt=\"Harmless fun?! It's common sexual assault, Phydeaux\" title=\"Harmless fun?! It's common sexual assault, Phydeaux\" \/><\/a><\/em>What&#8217;s truly stellar is that if you thought that Phydeaux&#8217;s treatment of women wasn&#8217;t bad enough when he&#8217;s pissed to the gills, check out his supposedly sober attempt at a recovery! Amazingly, Phydeaux <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,10117,16413641-28101,00.html\">at first in denial<\/a>, told the <em>Daily Telegooph&#8217;s<\/em> Bruce McDougall and Luke McIlveen<em>, <\/em>&quot;This is a grubby Labor Party personal attack,&quot; and &quot;They should get out of the gutter.&quot; The <em>Telegooph <\/em>says Phydeaux later rang to admit he <em>had<\/em> made the remarks and had &#8216;showed interest in several women on the night,&#8217; saying it was &#8216;all harmless fun.&#8217;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>In some kind of a sick attempt at an apology, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/national\/racial-slur-leaves-nsw-opposition-reeling\/2005\/08\/29\/1125167579381.html\"><em>The Age<\/em><\/a> quotes Phydeaux as saying, &quot;I completely apologise for my tasteless and offensive comments, they are unacceptable, they are untrue and certainly do not not reflect the fact that she has been, and is, a very successful woman in her own right and was a very dignified first lady of NSW serving her husband over 10 years.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"339\" border=\"0\" title=\"We're not larfing WITH ya, Phydeaux...\" alt=\"We're not larfing WITH ya, Phydeaux...\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/\/blogimages\/bob_helena_carr_jul_2005_smh_com_au.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;Bob &amp; Helena Carr, July 2005<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">                   <\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<em>image: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/major-supporting-act\/2005\/07\/29\/1122144024636.html\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em>           <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helena_Carr\">Helena Carr<\/a> is an incredibly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/major-supporting-act\/2005\/07\/29\/1122144024636.html\">capable and independent<\/a> woman, a self-made millionaire after having had great success in the printing industry. In the 1980s, Helena was the Managing Director of Leigh Marden, a subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coca-Cola_Amatil\" title=\"Coca-Cola Amatil\">Coca-Cola Amatil<\/a>, managing a thousand staff. Helena Carr certainly <em>supported<\/em> Bob over his unprecedented ten years as Premier of NSW, but you can bet your little cotton socks she never <em>served<\/em> him.            <\/p>\n<p>Remember folks, Phydeaux is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineopinion.com.au\/view.asp?article=904\">social Darwinist<\/a> who wants to implement <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=71\">majority verdicts<\/a> in your courts. <\/p>\n<p>A kind word of advice to the Lieberals- <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/fire-him-today-says-carr\/2005\/08\/29\/1125167578615.html\">sack Phydeaux<em> <strong>TODAY<\/strong>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>-weez&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff3300\"><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Good news and bad news&#8230;.<\/font><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/brogden-resigns-after-race-slur-row\/2005\/08\/29\/1125167578387.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phydeaux quits<\/a> as NSW Lieberal Party leader <\/strong>but remains as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drgreene.com\/21_917.html\" target=\"_blank\">Member<\/a> for Pittwater. Phydeaux reckons that by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200508\/s1448203.htm\" target=\"_blank\">staying on<\/a>, he&#8217;s helping the Lieberals win the 2007 elections&#8230;. <em><strong>HA!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Lieberal Party leader set to resign after drunken grabass on journos &#038; racially slurring former premier Carr&#8217;s wife &#8216;mail-order bride&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}