chooses the home of Sydney frat boy misogyny to respond to the NSW wave. Sounds about Morrison. https://twitter.com/political_alert/status/1340762541450915841

Found the station. I think. No prime minister yet. Ads ads ads. A whole 6 minutes of commercials. Nice little earner there for prime minister-friendly media.

here he is. Ten minutes late. Hard hitting opening question: how are you doing personally, PM? How are you looking after yourself and staying away from the struggles?

Like that it is fucking job???

this gives Morrison what he needs - to blab about the family he leverages for political ends and tell the population where he is. I’m in Canberra, he says. And creeps on about the wife a bit more.

this is risible. Are you getting sleep? Have the fires and pandemic aged you? What about exercise? The bullshit bike story gets a run.

This entire interview is about the feelings of a wealthy white male who could be acting on a virus outbreak in his home town but is not here.

the prime minister then tells an anecdote about how his daughter noticed that he talks to staff/the public just like how he talks to his children! Gosh! This is supposed to be cute, problem being we are not children and he is the prime minister.

the host - jesus christ this is unspeakable - then tells prime minister Scott Morrison that he is an average bloke just like everyone else, thanks him for the less than 10 minutes of his time, pretends Morrison is busy and actually working lmao as if, and signs out.

no announcement. Nothing. The entire segment was about how Morrison is feeling and platform to pitch his preferred and very fucking phoney image. Its purpose was obviously ONLY to confirm he is in Canberra, which anyone could guess, given the work to be done is in Sydney.

I lost count but Triple M got almost a full 10 minutes of commercials into the space of time they said Morrison would be on. They then said “hey bru, pitch us your Bunnings bullshit” and he did and THEN they pretended he is not the worlds biggest bludger and off he fucked.

won’t make that mistake again. I genuinely assumed Morrison would address the Sydney outbreak. All he said was he has feelings and [insert bullshit image construction here] mate and is holed up in Canberra with the missus and the kids mate [paraphrased].

rough calculation going by the time stamps on this thread, but it looks like Triple M got more minutes of ad-buy money between when the PMO said the PM would be on (0805, came on at 0815) than the actual time he spent dribbling shit about himself on air (0815-0822).

I never listen to commercial radio so the degree of crassness, of phoniness, the shallow self-serving drivel and nuclear grade toxic masculinity in that segment actually appalled me even more than I would have thought possible.

I did know this: the prime minister and his massive campaign team are literally responding to the Sydney outbreak as a comms problem. So many lives upended and he is concerned ONLY with the fact that this outbreak disproves the Liberal Party lies they have been telling all year.