In a scrum on Friday, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to attack the Telegram’s editorial writer.
She attacked the paper for things the Friday editorial did not say.
For good measure she claimed that she would now suffer further attacks from the newspaper in retaliation for her comments.
For anyone who read the editorial, she was full of crap.
Obviously full of it.
Painfully, blatantly, obviously full of it.
Just like the editorial painfully skewered the Premier and her administration for stuff they did and the implications of it.
Since the Premier was so obviously full of crap in her scrum, there are only a few possible explanations:
- She didn’t read the editorial but relied on a summary by the best experts available..
- She read it but didn’t understand it.
- She didn’t read the Auditor General’s report but relied on a summary prepared by the best experts available.
- She read the AG’s report but didn’t understand it.
- She didn’t read the letters that went to the AG but relied instead on what the best experts available told her they said.
- She read the letters but didn’t understand them.
- Stung by the truth of the editorial and the damage she’s done to her own credibility, she decided to play the victim card and make herself out as the aggrieved party.
That last one is a rather calculated, cynical ploy but at least it is the only explanation that doesn’t make the Premier out to be lazy or stupid.
Take your pick.
The only thing we know for sure is that the Premier wasn’t right.
- srbp -