February 25, 2004
MARGO'S QUAGMIRE
First we were promised that Margo Kingston would return by the end of January. Then by the middle of February. On February 17, she was said to be returning very soon.
She’s now missed that first deadline by a longer time than it took for coalition forces to remove Saddam Hussein. What’s slowing her down? UN negotiations? The brutal Australian summer? Massed troops of Elite Republican Guardsmen outside the SMH building? Does she have an exit strategy? Is this another Vietnam? As Margo herself wrote during the war:
Posted by Tim Blair at February 25, 2004 11:48 PM... hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised.
I heard she was right in the middle of a face lift when the chain broke. A new chain is being fabricated by Hyundai Shipbuilding.
Posted by: S Whiplash at February 26, 2004 at 12:01 AMResignations abound
Nah, too much to hope for.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 26, 2004 at 12:23 AMTim, you seem to get more mileage out of Margo when she doesn't write than when she does!
Posted by: Joe Geoghegan at February 26, 2004 at 12:33 AMAnd it is much less painful when she doesn't write, too...
Posted by: Parker at February 26, 2004 at 12:56 AMIs she...is she perhaps on maternity leave ?
* shudder *
Surely Tim knows someone at the SMH who knows something. C'mon, leak a memo or something!
Posted by: Dylan at February 26, 2004 at 04:35 AMWho cares. It will only be a PLASTIC margo we'll get anyway. You know it to be true!
Posted by: Quentin George at February 26, 2004 at 06:28 AMHi comrades,
I'm at the annual anti-Imperialist seminar in Havana,
see you in April,
Your Margo.
No Pasaran!
Posted by: Margo Kingston at February 26, 2004 at 07:52 AMSo Margo's in Havana!
Margo, don't forget to ask your hosts when they are going to stop jailing people for life for the crime of journalism.
Maybe if you're lucky the jailers will give you a tour of one of their prisons. That will put Bob Carr's "crushing" of your "dissent" into context, won't it?
Posted by: The Mongrel at February 26, 2004 at 08:21 AMSend out a U.N. search party and one of its `humanitarian' aid agencies - to assist the Hyundai ship-building co repair the chain.
Posted by: d at February 26, 2004 at 08:37 AMMargo is up at Nimbin at the moment, writing for an audience who actually understands her- drug-addled hippies.
BTW, she has been hiding a dark secret from us for years.
Posted by: Habib at February 26, 2004 at 09:12 AMSummer? In Australia? Ah, that's were it is. We're still waiting here in NZ. You can never trust people who steal aboriginal kids with hyphens.
Posted by: Berend de Boer at February 26, 2004 at 09:24 AMMargo, don't forget to ask your hosts when they are going to stop jailing people for life for the crime of journalism.
In the case of this journalist, life in a Cuban prison seems a little limp-wristed; how about a lengthy bastinado session, followed by that old Elizabethan family favourite of hung, drawn and quartered?
Posted by: Habib at February 26, 2004 at 10:31 AMYou are just itching for that gig, huh? Crazing the spotlight? Not getting noticed enough? We here you're doing OK, though, doing your masters' bidding, pushing the buttons that need pushing.
Empty vassals make the most pounds, so the saying goes.
Posted by: Miranda Divide at February 26, 2004 at 12:07 PMI just gave up counting on google when I got to 60 posts on the blogmire by the bloghead about Margo. Seems there wouldn't be much content at all here if the cut-and-paste meister didn't have Margo, Moore and Adams to provide cannon fodder.
Equally, where would the bloghead be for opinions without Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt to provide guidance? Not to forget Bliar's powerful American friends, of course, who also provide much needed "guidance" to the shepherd and his flock.
I can't figure out here whether we have true psychopathy or simple drunkenness. For instance:
Empty vassals make the most pounds, so the saying goes.
Makes no sense, to say the least. Not on this planet, anyway. Posted by: Andrea Harris at February 26, 2004 at 01:48 PM
Watching the news tonight I heard a reporter say that the US Coast Guard had intercepted Margo off the coast of Miami. Seriously. Here's the Reuters story.
Posted by: Lawrence at February 26, 2004 at 03:28 PMAndrea,
I think it's supposed to be "Empty vessels make most sound".
To interpret his email, substitute vassal with vessel, pound with sound, here with hear, crazing with craving.
Fuck, it still makes no sense...
...OK, though, doing your masters' bidding, pushing the buttons that need pushing...
Better yet, what the hell does this mean? Miranda wouldn't be demeaning the good ol' blue collar profession of button pushin'?
Posted by: Quentin George at February 26, 2004 at 05:42 PMthey had to use a chain? why couldnt they just porta-power her jaw back to where it should be?
Posted by: roscoe at February 26, 2004 at 09:24 PM"Better yet, what the hell does this mean? Miranda wouldn't be demeaning the good ol' blue collar profession of button pushin'?"
There is plenty of evil Imperialist White-Male button pushing going on in the world too, remember. (I.e. "I hope that reactionary smirking chimp in the White House doesn't push The Button, that would *so* spoil my double-mocha frappuchino!")
Regards, Döbeln
-Stabil som fan!
Posted by: Döbeln at February 26, 2004 at 09:55 PMMargo got lost looking for the 'root causes of terrorism' and then got bogged down in the 'brutal Afghan winter'...
Katrina
Posted by: Katrina Gulliver at February 26, 2004 at 10:09 PM