* i blogged recently about the curious case of the oz 'health' minister who is actually a creepy anti-abortion xtian zealot. it turns out that just as he was launching his anti-choise crusade, he discovered a long lost son who he never realised he had.
heres what i wrote at the time:
" in a curious twist, the oz health minister who has recently called for abortion laws to be 're-evaluated' has just discovered his adopted-out son. lots of media coverage. fancy that. the story is too creepy to follow - but it looks totally managed (i wont venture that it is fabricated) - there were coverstories in weekly media the day the story broke. somewhat curiously, they are only using one still picture of the son, on his wedding day (and he is grimacing/faking a smile). i cant bear to watch the media to see if it actually mentions his anti-abortion crusade - but i dont think so - meanwhile the story about his lost son is for some reason the # 1 or 2 story for 24 hours... fuck i hate the media. broken broken. and the media is showing old pix of him (Abbott) showing how handsome he was as a youngster - presumably justifying his behaviour) foul foul. (the same guy was also on tv lying thru his teeth in the week prior to the election denying that he had met the head of the catholic church a few days earlier)"LINK
surprise surprise, they eventually got around to doing a DNA test and it turns out the kid isnt his after all. the anti-abortion crusade got the requisite media, all the players are off the hook and can go about their daily lives, perhaps with enhanced bank accounts, and i feel fucking dirty.
" I guess I'm just sad for him that he's been dragged through the media mill because of a connection which it now seems didn't exist," he said."
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and just to make it more disgusting, abbott was "touring a stemcell research plant today."
it turns out that the 'son' worked in the media as a sound engineer, covering politics, and theres footage of them together in a professional context - coincidink?
luckily the son was out of the country when the story broke, and we arent sure if he is back yet. im not exactly sure how they did the dna tests last week...
do we really live in such a freaky fabricated world? even im reluctant to go that far - but it turned out exactly as i had suspected - and we have seen so much in the last few years that there isnt much that would surprise me. fuck. head exploding. am i good at this? or just lucky? again?
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happy half birthday pamboo
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