Australian Reuters Writers’ Party Trick
Say that five times fast.
A kind of throwaway news item about the Western Australia opposition leader sniffing a woman’s chair - yes, le sigh - is made wonderful through the joys of spirited storytelling.
Here are the last three paragraphs:
Local media said Buswell has previously admitted to snapping a Labor party staff member’s bra as a drunken party trick and has been accused of sexist remarks by a retiring Liberal politician.
The deputy Liberal leader, Kim Hames, said he stood by Buswell, describing him as a “rough diamond with a robust sense of humor”, but adding he needed to change his behavior.
Hames also said there was no one to replace Buswell.
That’s not much of a party trick. I mean, if you’ve ever seen a woman topless, you kind of know whereabouts to grab.
But I really love the last paragraph. I sometimes wish news stories came with the ba-bum-ching! with which they were clearly written.
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April 30th, 2008 at 6:25 am
I don’t get the le sigh meme. It’s ever so popular these days tho.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Man, gotta love Google.
A quick search to try and find your email (yes I could go plowing through my previous emails but that seems far too much like hard work) and I find your blog. I could so do some clever ‘how do I suck up to my grader’ research here, but it would probably be more valuable for me to actually do my work.
I have to ask though, what do you think is the likelihood of a Liberal MP with Buswell’s charm seeing a woman topless? For him it probably was worthy of some congratulations.