MALCOLMIC MOJO MONKEY MAN
“Is the PM getting his mojo back?” asks the Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter FitzSimons.
“Is the PM getting his mojo back?” asks the Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter FitzSimons.
Short answer: no. Longer answer: of course not, you Father’s Day book-writing, gorilla-slurring, ragheaded faux everyman. But, to be fair, let’s take a look at Peter’s description of a recent Turnbull-attended event:
It was fascinating to see him in action Friday morning in the offices of Mamamia, as he launched Mia Freedman's wunnerful book – on how not to have it all, and not worry about it – Work Strife Balance. I tell you, sports fans, he was positively mobbed, by a crowd of about 200.
A book launch inside the Mamamia office. Talk about a representative cross-section of middle Australia. Old Hyundais were lined up all around the block. Some attendees owned just two properties!
They loved him, and he loved them, as he waded in, taking selfies, slapping backs, kissing cheeks and haling all and sundry …
He means hailing.
… before delivering a witty speech where among other things he noted that when he first asked Lucy to marry him she said, "Wouldn't it be better to wait until you grow up?". Brought the house down.
Did he ask her last year?
As I say, it was a bravura performance. I'm just not sure whether it is because he has hit his stride once more, or because so many of the people there were his own tribe of the Eastern Suburbs fabulous – Mia is in his electorate, and a long-time friend. Either way, he was on the front foot, and strong.
Readers, of course, are aware that FitzSimons dooms any individual or cause he champions. And so it was with Turnbull, whose mojo was subsequently exposed as a mojoke by Monday’s Newspoll. Graham Richardson:
The cleverness of the use of 30 consecutive Newspolls being lost in a row by the Coalition helped in unseating Tony Abbott but now the words have come back to haunt and tease Turnbull every time another Newspoll lights up the front page of this newspaper.
The PM became so desperate that he chanced it all on a giveaway, supposedly popular budget. The expected bounce in the polls, however, just didn’t happen. He threw caution, not to mention his and his party’s reputation as safe minders of the national till, to the wind.
Turnbull’s on the front foot, and strong. Sure he is.
(Via John P.)
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