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Keating: How good has this show been?

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:34:15 GMT

It's been absolutely fascinating.

I can't imagine any other politician who I would want to listen to more.

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icyfroth — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:37:18 GMT

who was it that likened Mr Keating to Goebbels?

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freddie*rooster — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:37:53 GMT

He was one of a kind.

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cherples — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:40:42 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
who was it that likened Mr Keating to Goebbels?

Who was it?

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:41:49 GMT

Well icy, he had the perfect response when O'Briens questioned him on how he put people off. He smiled and slowly said " Yes but how many millions loved me?".

In other words "Who gives a toss".

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debra9275 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:44:02 GMT

Don't you just love him? Interesting interviews, interesting man!

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donnashuggy — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:49:36 GMT

It has been great, wish I could remember all his advice.

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i-need-a-martini — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:50:53 GMT

I think the only other past PMs I would find as interesting are Menzies, Chifley and Gillard.

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icyfroth — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:05:06 GMT

@cherples wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
who was it that likened Mr Keating to Goebbels?
Who was it?

"some years ago senator Amanda Vanstone accused the Labor prime minister Paul Keating of behaving like the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels. However, this tactic is much more common on the left side of the Australian political debate"

From This Link

But the full story was about his Zegna Suits. How he chose to dress himself up in the finest Italian suits just like Herr Goebbels.

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polksaladallie — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:12:20 GMT

Bring him back. He would wipe the floor with abbott.

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windrake — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:59:15 GMT

Don't they know that this series is COMPLETELY SCRIPTED. It took months to put it together, Keating insisted on it being COMPLETELY SCRIPTED & old bleary was only too happy to help him rewrite history.

I nearly fell of my chair when at 13 he JUST KNEW that a Le Brueget watch was PERFECT, he just knew that classical music was for him.

This from a poor working class family from Bankstown no less.

It was laughable watching this uneducated person cast around try to articulate his inner thoughts & failing miserably.

But hey, everybody loves a suave bully boy clothed in Zegna.

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lakeland27 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:00:29 GMT

Why does you hate the fact that you cant produce anything but failed accountants arent you going to mention his 'foreign wife ' and his french clocks ?

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icyfroth — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:45:13 GMT

I liked Annita but I think she should have done something with all that hippie hair, specially after it started turning grey.

Oh and that mole should have been taken off her face too.

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azureline** — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:43:02 GMT

@windrake wrote:

Don't they know that this series is COMPLETELY SCRIPTED. It took months to put it together, Keating insisted on it being COMPLETELY SCRIPTED & old bleary was only too happy to help him rewrite history.

I nearly fell of my chair when at 13 he JUST KNEW that a Le Brueget watch was PERFECT, he just knew that classical music was for him.

This from a poor working class family from Bankstown no less.
It was laughable watching this uneducated person cast around try to articulate his inner thoughts & failing miserably.

But hey, everybody loves a suave bully boy clothed in Zegna.

Uneducated?

Poor working class does not mean you can't aspire and achieve, surely?

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crystal**flake — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:44:52 GMT

I missed the beginning of that show sadly.

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spotweldersfriend — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:03:59 GMT

I like Breguet watches.Chateau Margot and Mont Blanc pens and I'm as dumb as a bag as hammers 🙂

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i-need-a-martini — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:05:00 GMT

@windrake wrote:

Don't they know that this series is COMPLETELY SCRIPTED. It took months to put it together, Keating insisted on it being COMPLETELY SCRIPTED & old bleary was only too happy to help him rewrite history.

I nearly fell of my chair when at 13 he JUST KNEW that a Le Brueget watch was PERFECT, he just knew that classical music was for him.

This from a poor working class family from Bankstown no less.
It was laughable watching this uneducated person cast around try to articulate his inner thoughts & failing miserably.

But hey, everybody loves a suave bully boy clothed in Zegna.

What ridiculous comments.

My parents are working class, relatively uneducated and I didn't grow up surrounded by antiques. Yet my first pay packet when I was 15 went on a magnificently fine 18th century liqueur glass and I have collected ever since.

And if you seriously think that Keating is unintelligent then you couldn't have watched the show.

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freshwater-2 — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:15:50 GMT

Any working class person who 'makes it' in life has done so because they have put more effort and work into it than a privileged class person. Nothing is handed to them on a plate (or a silver spoon).

I haven't always agreed with Keating.....but I do admire him.

And he has a great sense of humour and appreciation of the ridiculous. Always a plus for me.

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icyfroth — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:37:16 GMT

@spotweldersfriend wrote:
I like Breguet watches.Chateau Margot and Mont Blanc pens and I'm as dumb as a bag as hammers 🙂

I don't mind a glass of Moet et Chandon. Or two.

Then again I can't really tell the difference between that and a glass of Yellow, except it's a bit more "brut".

I must be a bogun lol.