Tony Abbott Got Completely Destroyed By Kochie On ‘Sunrise’ This Morning. Kochie.
"The public feels you've lied to them consistently in your first year of office, that you've broken so many promises that you've lost their trust."
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Is this real life? First drunk-on-morning-TV legend Karl Stefanovic has a go at the sitting Prime Minister of Australia. Now Kochie, of all people, is getting in on the act, questioning Abbott on his sinking poll ratings, broken promises and the public’s lack of trust.
Karl was weird enough, but at least he had started to display some slight whiff of political awareness in the weeks leading up to that famous interview. This is Kochie we’re talking about. The guy who has, in the twenty-first century, written and published several joke books. The guy who thought the Boston bombing might have been committed by some rebellious Irishmen.
That’s the guy who chewed up the Prime Minister and spat him out on TV this morning. While Kochie’s questions on broken promises and the electorate’s lack of trust are pretty good to watch, the best part comes when a clearly flustered Abbott forgets the name of the bloke interviewing him and just calls him “Chris” instead. Twice.
Having a bad interview on a news program is not ideal for a politician, but if it were Leigh Sales or Sarah Ferguson or Laurie Oakes doing the interviewing, you could at least understand how someone might come off second best. The guy in charge of our society and economy for the next two years just came off second-best in a battle of wits with the “host” of Kochie’s Angels.
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