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Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill Video
on September 13th, 2007 - UncategorizedAdd comments
OK, just to prove that it not just Americans that get caught saying something silly on video. This sounds like a Monty Python skit, but it isn’t.
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Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill
This might sound dumb but its a hilarious video! An Australian Senator is interviewed regarding an oil spill that resulted in 20,000 tons of oil being dumped into the ocean.
Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill Video
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September 14th, 2007 at 03:25
“This sounds like a Monty Python skit, but it isn’t”
Correct. It’s not Monty Python’s.
But it’s also not a senator. (And not Australian either: he’s from New Zealand).
But absolutely YES, it IS a skit.
Do a search on youtube for “John Clarke and Bryan Dawe” for more of those ‘interviews’
(You KNEW you could count on me to figure this out. Also: this is an excellent, and sad, demonstration of how people regard politicians if they thought, as many did, that this was ‘real’)
September 14th, 2007 at 06:50
@Paul - I told my son I didn’t think it was real, but that I hoped it was - it was just too funny! Thanks for doing my homework (again!)
September 14th, 2007 at 07:00
Now…. had he been American .. I probably would have been fooled too… *ducks and runs*
September 14th, 2007 at 07:04
Well I knew he wasn’t Dutch because he was sober
September 14th, 2007 at 09:09
If you think that getting drunk would make you Dutch .. then I have to disappoint you.
There’s a lot more involved in accomplishing that! (becoming Dutch .. not drunk)
August 29th, 2008 at 21:13
In August 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of Australia split in two dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil. An Australian MP quickly appeared on a TV news program to reassure the Australian public with soothing rhetoric. This is NOT an actual interview with this Australian Parliament member but a funny satire done on something like Australia’s version of an American “Saturday Night Live” skit. In fact as a comedy sketch, the parts of the politician and interviewer are played by Australian television comedy duo John Clarke and Brian Dawe (the former reportedly engaging here in a parody of Peter Cook, the former Australian Minister for Shipping and Aviation Support and Minister for Trade / see website: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clarke_and_Dawe ). Clarke and Dawe’s stock-in-trade is presenting satirical takes on current events, often in the form of mock interviews in which Clarke assumes the role of a beleaguered politician (or other prominent public figure) attempting to explain away some blunder while being grilled by interviewer Dawe.
However, while as a spoof explaining an actual event, this video clip humorously illustrates how politicians everywhere often try to put a CYA (Cover-Your-Ass) spin on things using political double-speak and language to down play tragic events or circumstances to the public in effort to deflect blame or criticism of their government (or from themself).