Puppy love

Clive Palmer variably has said;

“Wendy Deng has been spying on Rupert for years giving money back to Chinese intelligence.”

“It is just a beat-up by old Rupert because he is upset that I said Wendy Deng, his wife, is a Chinese spy, and he doesn’t like that”.

“How much did you pay your wife to get her to marry you?”

“And rather than Rupert come out and say anything or make a statement, he doesn’t do that, he just gets his flunkeys to come along, or he sends Skype messages to (The Australian Editor in Chief) Chris Mitchell at The Australian, Chris says ‘go down there, give Palmer a hard time.’ That is all it is about.”

“You know the best barometer of my wealth, if you like, is the Murdoch press”

Two rich, vain, insecure and stupid men – there isn’t going to be any conciliatory moment here until one of them is dead.

But it’s very odd how democracy works though. Clive, under some circumstance is likely to have control of the senate, and a personal dispute between him and Rupert will be to the detriment of Tony Abbott and his coalition, Rupert’s boy in the Lodge.

In any case it’s not much use Rupert’s media going after Clive the way they are. The more they push this the more the 700,000 Bogans that voted for Clive will love him. They can sense a witch hunt and they love his funny and upfront approach to dealing with it. He isn’t stupid enough to a do a ‘Gillard’ and deal with it with a straight bat – he just uses humour to fling the mud straight back from whence it came.