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Alexander Downer’s LiveJournal-esque Sook Doesn’t Impress Crikey One Bit

2:08PM Jess McGuire | Oh, my. I do love when Crikey starts their daily email to subscribers with the textual equivalent of a king hit, and today they didn’t disappoint, slamming former King of Mayo Alexander Downer in three punchy paragraphs. What a bloody sook Alexander Downer is. His response today in The Sydney Morning Herald to Peter Hartcher’s savage farewelling of him last week contains a standard-issue lament about the anti-conservative bias of the Australian media. More »