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Who Knew Kevin Rudd Was The Sweary Type?

2:31PM Jess McGuire | How on earth did news of the Prime Minister dropping the S-bomb slip past me this week? This is exactly the kind of thing I live for – folks you least expect revealing a delightfully foul-mouthed side to them. That’ll teach me to frolic in the countryside instead of watching Sunday Night on Channel 7. From ninemsn: Speaking on the pre-recorded Sunday Night program, the prime minister used the word “shitstorm” when talking about the Government’s $42 billion stimulus plan. “People are going to run a huge scare campaign about government debt and government borrowing … people have to understand that because there’s going to be the usual political shitstorm, sorry, political storm over that,” Rudd said in the segment that aired last night. Grrrr! He sounds so… masculine. Like the bespectacled Milky Bar kid grew up to become a lumberjack or something. Crikey has rightfully mocked the media’s shock over the incident. More »