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* Crazy Mark is having the time of his life:

For me it’s a bit of a hoot. Their criticism of me is a bit of a hoot and a bit of entertainment.

* But Peter Beattie believes Latham needs help:

I think he has lost any friends he had left in Australia. Mark has damaged himself, he needs to move on, he needs help. The book is atrocious. It is vile, vicious and nasty bile, it’s the sort of thing which would give a dingo a bad name.

* Latham’s first wife denies claims of bisexuality:

Ms Gwyther said yesterday the Latham allegation was silly and unfounded. “It’s like he operates in an ethical and moral vaccuum,” Ms Gwyther said. “For me, it’s just sewer stuff.”

* The Townsville Bulletin’s John Anderson points out that local defence personnel are unlikely to buy Latham’s book:

Mark Latham, after all, did call them ‘meatheads’ in his diary only weeks after he played tin soldier in an armoured personnel carrier while on the campaign trail at Lavarack Barracks in September last year, just 18 days before the October 9 poll.

There he was smiling and shaking hands, sliming the vote from the Green Machine while inwardly despising those very same soldiers he was ingratiating himself with for volunteering to defend their country. And this from a man who in his diaries condemns his own former colleagues for their duplicity.

* And John Howard reveals that he keeps a diary of his own, although “it’s of a different character than some diaries that have been serialised recently.”

Posted by Tim B. on 09/20/2005 at 10:20 PM
  1. John Howard is a different character to Mark Latham.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 09 20 at 11:33 PM • permalink

  2. Tim

    Why bother with all this Latham stuff? Why not cover real news? Haven’t you heard - Barry Hall got off!!!

    GO THE SWANS !!

    Posted by kywong73 on 2005 09 20 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  3. Right on, kywong73, let’s have less dull political soap opera and more of the issues that really matter!

    CARNA SWANNIES!

    Posted by slammer on 2005 09 21 at 12:17 AM • permalink

  4. I have just about had enough of this bull-dust - GO WESTCOAST EAGLES!!!!

    Posted by Razor on 2005 09 21 at 12:35 AM • permalink

  5. Mark Latham can go root his boot: WESTS TIGERS TO WIN!

    Posted by mr magoo on 2005 09 21 at 12:40 AM • permalink

  6. ”...he (Latham) needs to move on…”

    Ahem. 

    PUH-LEEEASE!!!!  Do not send Latham to the United States.  DO NOT!  I beseech you, people of Australia!  I’m anticipating the continued meltdown of other political and public characters, and I don’t want any distractions, thank you very much.

    That is all.  8^D

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 21 at 12:40 AM • permalink

  7. “PUH-LEEEASE!!!! Do not send Latham to the United States.  DO NOT! I beseech you, people of Australia!”

    Thanks for the suggestion #9.  It gives us something to work on. We’ll see what we can do.  Now where do you want him sent? Nawlins?

    Say maybe he could team up with George (Galloway).  That would be something!

    Posted by Wand on 2005 09 21 at 01:25 AM • permalink

  8. Maybe we can work out Pacific Solution for ‘Mad Mark’. I hear Nauru is nice this time of year.

    GO WEST COAST!!!

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 09 21 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  9. Well, if you send Latham to England, that would be fine.  We could stand an occasional visit.  Or maybe France?  He’d fit right in there.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 21 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  10. #7

    Latham doesn’t like Nawlins and
    that was before Katrina.

    On more important matters I’ve got a ticket to the Swans grand final. I was going to cancel my grand final preference this year but left it to late. It pays to be chaotic sometimes.
    Flights booked. First ever AFL grand final. Can’t wait.
    Go the Swannies.

    Posted by gubba on 2005 09 21 at 01:51 AM • permalink

  11. Well root his boot, he’s having a hoot.

    Posted by PW on 2005 09 21 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  12. I’ll bet that when John Howard’s diaries are published he’ll reveal that neither he, nor Janet, is bisexual - blazing headline!

    Posted by Ck on 2005 09 21 at 07:02 AM • permalink

  13. Andrew Bolt in today’s Herald-Sun:

    Kudos for cruelty

    The diaries of Mark Latham prove to me he’s capable of sociopathic cruelty. Even more shocking is that they prove Labor deliberately rewarded this man for his savagery by making him its leader.

    Oh, yes. His diaries are clear about that: the more cruel Latham was, the more Labor loved him.

    And that is the moral of his tale. Latham is, in fact, the sick face of today’s Left.

    Here.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 09 21 at 07:33 AM • permalink

  14. I wonder if there’s anything to what Latho said about Richard Bulter???
    Sacked by Premier Paul Lennon because he got pissed and made a git of himself at Princess Mary’s wedding???

    Posted by Brian on 2005 09 21 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  15. Brian - that was in ALL of the papers, at the time of the event.  By which I mean, Butler’s behaviour at that particular wedding was well documented.  His biggest crime was to break protocol by tucking into his food before the Queen had even sat down (he was the only person doing so, as you would expect), and he was pissed & starving, basically - couldn’t restrain himself. Something like that. 

    Was this the reason for his sacking?  Probably the last straw, would be a reasonable guess.

    Posted by Ck on 2005 09 21 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  16. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am suffering something akin to toxic shock syndrome from all this Latham bile. It has been sort of gratifying for the last week or so to realise what a disaster we dodged but it has rapidly gone to being downright sad watching a man seriously trash everything and everyone who has helped him over the years.

    I hope that Tim will turn the dial back to the easy listening Margo Leftoid station and keep away from Mad Mark Meltdown FM.

    Posted by rbresca on 2005 09 21 at 08:55 AM • permalink

  17. I’m over Latham already. The guy didn’t have anything to say that I wanted to hear when he WAS in politics. Imagine how much less I care now he’s out of it!!  I always thought the guy was a tool, now he’s proved it.

    GO THE COWBOYS!

    Posted by TonyP on 2005 09 21 at 09:53 AM • permalink

  18. Latham has turned into the grim reaper in the bowling alley-that Aids ad scared the “hell” out of everyone….the labor party are all going down like ninepins.

    Posted by crash on 2005 09 21 at 10:02 AM • permalink

  19. The Real Jeff S — from the Daily Mirror: SHOCK HORROR!  MP AND DOWNUNDER LOONY CAUGHT IN EAST END LOVE NEST!  GALLOWAY DENIES ALL!  LATHAM CHARGES BETRAYAL!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 21 at 10:05 AM • permalink

  20. One of the most surprising things about insane people is how other people in society insist on treating them as if they’re sane but just a little bad-tempered.

    Wake up, Australia!  The man is mad as a hatter!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 09 21 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  21. ‘it’s the sort of thing which would give a dingo a bad name.’

    Heh—Aussies do have a turn of phrase, don’t they?

    Posted by BruceW on 2005 09 21 at 11:29 AM • permalink

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