Australian Senator Discusses Oil Spill [funny]
This Australian Senator states his position very clearly: It’s not that oil tankers are unsafe, they just need to build them so that the fronts stop falling off! Enjoy this satirical short (under 2 mins.).
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I loved it! It got funnier and funnier as it went along–I especially like the description that the ship was no longer in the environment–it was towed “beyond the environment”.
I know, I really liked the ‘beyond the environment’ line. Totally silly, yet so very poignant.
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 mitigate or deflect blame or criticism of their government (or from themself).
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