Lethe
Captain
Paul Keating is a one-man crash course in Australian vernacular insults. He's one of the few genuine intellectual figures we've had in the upper reaches of Australian politics over the last half-century, and was a transformative statesman too, but he is also thoroughly entertaining and given to verbally eviscerating his opponents, something that has evidently not dulled with age.
In that same interview he went after the journalists (Hartcher and Knott) who published the alarmist "China: Red Alert" series a few days ago that some folks posted about here. When he was asked a question by one of the authors of that piece....
Here are some clips of Keating in his prime on the floor of parliament in the late 1980s and early 1990s:
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