What a time to be alive.
Someone — a public official, no less — dropped the C-bomb into Australians’ lounge rooms last night.
C*nt struck. It’s the word on everyone’s lips after the Michael Lawler and Kathy Jackson Four Corners interview (an interview that, let’s face it, would be generous to describe as a complete trainwreck for its subjects.)
It’s the word embattled Fair Work Commission official (and Tony Abbott appointee) Lawler used, nonchalantly, to describe how others might see his relationship with the former union official accused of fraud, Kathy Jackson.
This is what he said: “I’ll be characterised as that scumbag, crook, fraudster and at the very best, somebody who’s been bewitched by an evil harridan, namely Kathy, that I’m c**t struck and that I have been utterly taken in by somebody who’s a serious crook.”
Interviewer Caro Meldrum-Hanna didn’t miss a beat. “And are you?” she asked.
“No, no!” he responded.
Let’s rewind a moment, shall we? “C**t struck”.
Yeah, he said that. What’s even more excellent is that the ABC elected to keep it in the show. I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall of that production meeting. To c**t struck or not to c**t struck?
Watch a clip of the show here. Post continues below…
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I first heard this expression when I was about 14 in 1978 working on my parents farm, a stone fruit orchard in Bathurst. Many of the seasonal workers were children in the depression and were some of the funniest men and a couple of women you could ever meet. They were the masters of self deprecating humour and always told me I have no right to laugh at anybody else until I could laugh at myself. One saying was "He's a victim of the claw" - couldn't stop masterbating, a compulsive masterbater, the proponent of a hair brained idea or just a plain old silly bastard. Another was the "dumb glutton has got the better of him". It means he is thinking with his dick rather than his head, not dissimilar to "c**t struck". Contraception for the depression generation was "buying a ticket for Central and jumping off at Redfern".
Oh by the way I was a teenage boy in those days, it was before my gender correction. Hear me on Mamamia podcast tomorrow, Oct 21, 2015
Mamamia, are you planning to publish an article that goes into what actually matters here? A public servant taking nine months "sick" leave on full pay, while working on his partner's legal defence? Low-paid HSU workers being ripped off to the tune of over a million dollars?
Craig Thompson's misdeeds paling in comparisons and the proportion of Media attention played to that compared to Jackson
The difference is that by getting rid of Craig Thompson from Parliament would have brought down the Gillard Government. Indeed given he has only been convicted for the theft of about $5,000 spent in brothels he may well be the one who was C**t struck.
Abbott and Pyne were great supporters of her and remember when they wanted the labor party to apologise to her