{"id":567,"date":"2009-04-22T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-04-22T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:34:10","slug":"australian-political-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/australian-political-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian political language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mention of former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/04\/ol-57-varieties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today<\/a>\u00a0brought to mind his successor as PM, Paul Keating. \u00a0Journalist Mungo MacCallum&#8217;s great book, <em>How to be a Megalomaniac,<\/em> includes a list of the terms of abuse which Keating had used against his opponents during his time in politics (pp. 68-9):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>harlots, sleazebags, frauds, immoral cheats, blackguards, pigs, mugs, clowns, boxheads, criminal intellects, criminals, stupid crooks, corporate crooks, friends of tax cheats, brain-damaged, loopy crims, stupid foul-mouthed grub, piece of criminal garbage, dullards, stupid, mindless, crazy, alley cat, bunyip aristocracy, clot, fop, gigolo, hare-brained, hillbilly, malcontent, mealy-mouthed, ninny, rustbucket, scumbag, scum, sucker, thug, dimwits, dummies, a swill, a pig sty, Liberal muck, vile constituency, fools and incompetents, rip-off merchants, perfumed gigolos, gutless spiv, glib rubbish, tripe and drivel, constitutional vandals, stunned mullets, half-baked crim, insane stupidities, champion liar, ghouls of the National Party, barnyard bullies, piece of parliamentary filth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As MacCallum notes, this listing is only of terms which Keating used in Federal Parliament, which of course has rules of decorum not applying in the rougher world outside.<br \/>\n<em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nMungo MacCallum[2002]: <em>How to be a Megalomaniac. <\/em>Sydney, Australia: Duffy &amp; Snellgrove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mention of former Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, today\u00a0brought to mind his successor as PM, Paul Keating. \u00a0Journalist Mungo MacCallum&#8217;s great book, How to be a Megalomaniac, includes a list of the terms of abuse which Keating had used against his opponents during his time in politics (pp. 68-9): harlots, sleazebags, frauds, immoral cheats, blackguards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rhetoric","p1","y2009","m04","d22","h15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}