Tim Blair

"subordinate Australia’s national interest to the altar of his lust for power."

Subordinate? To the altar? Does she even ask anybody what these words mean before she uses them?

"Ain't"? How folksy! Did she have to experiment with several different variations, such as "ainot," "aiN't," "aint'," and "haint," before stumbling across the correct one?

Margo seems to have inferred this:

Armitage also laid on the line something Howard has only dared hint at – that the Free Trade Agreement with the US was conditional on us staying in Iraq. Yes, it is blood for money. And it is money for political slavery.

from this:

"Mr Latham said he looked to the day that a Labor government could work with the US to further strengthen intelligence, strategic and cultural relations," he said.

"Apparently economic and political relations were not so important. Now, you either have a full-up relationship or you don't."

and this:

"I would argue that the US has spent a lot of time and energy trying to develop a free trade agreement with Australia but these are things the people of Australia have to decide for themselves.

I would hazard to guess that Armitage is scared that Latham will back out of both the Free Trade deal with America and Iraq. Especially since Latham is supposedly trying to get the Senate to reject the deal. Of course this simpler explanation didn't seem to register with Margo.

I especially dig the "ship of fools" reference. It, like, sounds so literary and everything, even if Margo has no idea what she's referencing.

Stop it, Tim. I tried to read it and it made my head hurt.

I concur JorgXMcKie. It is unreasonable to expect humans to decipher that.

I've said before that Canada and Australia could swap their useless columnists and no one would ever notice. I take that back. Take Margo's finale:

''A new government in America, Britain and Australia could yet avoid World War III. Which is what the world’s peoples are desperately hoping for.''

One government for three countries? And then an an incomplete sentence that reads like the world's peoples are hoping for WWIII? We just don't have that calibre of mediocrity.

All I want someone to answer is this: how did she get the job?

This American isn't shit scared that we're entering WWIII. I'm shit scared that we might lose it, though. Get with the program, Margo!

There's a line in "Lawrence of Arabia" ...

Be thankful that when God made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face

... And we should be thankful too, that when God made Margo Kingston a fool, He gave her a fool's prose, by which all may know her.

It's almost like she's trying to make herself easy to dismiss. Thanks, Margo, we appreciate the effort.

When God made Margo Kingston He gave her Margo Kingston's face. That was mean.

It is crystal clear that La Kingston is suffering from speed psychosis. Margot darling, cases of VB won't make it any better!