The Daily Entrails

Today the Daily Telegraph is a must-read.

Now that Kevin Rudd has been restored as the Labor prime minister and is leading the polls against the retard that is encumbering the Liberals, the Daily Telegraph has started to panic.

What was a previously an exercise in leisurely pulling wings off a fly when Gillard was the PM, has now become a desperate diatribe against all things Rudd. And they are anti-Rudd, not anti-Labor. The era of the LEADER is with us.

From the editorial, to the columnists, the opinion pieces, letters, reviews, special features and especially on the front page: it’s an over-the-top ravaging of all things Rudd.

I wonder if it is the editors or the owners, or both, who are driving this approach? Whoever it is, they have lost touch. By being so one-sided they will lose the opportunity to influence the swinging voters. They will simply appeal to the votes they already have. It doesn’t make much sense.

I wonder what is driving this. What are they all about to lose? Are they expecting some very nice handout from Abbott if he gets in? Like some loosening of the media ownership rules? Or is it simply an idealistic pogrom; if so, it makes no sense because to identify the practical differences between the parties requires the dexterity of a train spotter.