@azureline** wrote:
THE Prime Minister has responded today after being accused of rudeness by a woman who did the make-up of both leaders before last night's people's forum.
The claim was made in a Facebook posting by Lily Fontana following the debate in Brisbane.
Mr Rudd today said he was "in the zone" when his make up was being done - and noted that blokes don't like getting their make up done at the best of times.
He noted Ms Fontana had withdrawn the post, saying "when you are preparing for a debate with two or three minutes to go and someone walks in and puts stuff on your face, you smile, you are in the zone, you're ready to go - I don't know about you folks but I'm not happy about having make-up put on at the best of days."
He added: "I think a misunderstanding has occurred and I have no hard feelings in terms of the comments which this person has now withdrawn."
With the incident taking the shine off Mr Rudd's announcements that he will "cut red tape" for small business, Liberal politicians pounced - with Malcolm Turnbull saying such rudeness was "a rather disturbing insight into character."
from that abc link ^^^
When contacted this morning Ms Johnston said the incident she referred to had occurred before Mr Rudd was Prime Minister.
a very big misunderstanding in that case
