From a TV column in the Courier-Mail, commenting
on one of Michael’s recent
appearances.
By
Dianne Butler
THIS is why you and I don't have our own TV show.
Talk us through the mind of a suicide bomber,
Kerri-Anne Kennerley urged a studio guest yesterday,
nano-seconds after a truly dazzling demonstration of
a vacuum cleaner, abetted by Rozz, KAK's upbeat sales
whiz. Don't be surprised if one day you read a
limerick using some combination of the words Rozz and
whiz in this column. Rozz is from Brisbane and used
to go out with a big footballer, can't think which
one now. She had quite a morning yesterday, wrangling
white goods. And then, total non sequitur, in comes
Michael Ware, Baghdad-based foreign correspondent and
reliably impressive talk show guest. He used to work
here, and can I just say to the Australian Story
people, if he agrees to be on your program, there are
quite a number of people in this building who could
give you some fantastic anecdotes. Not sure you could
put any of them to air, but the offer's there anyway.
I'd been watching a stained carpet segment and
wondering how KAK was going to link Ware and cleaning
products -- they'd be messy, those suicide bomb
sites, maybe there's something there -- and I started
thinking, only KAK could pull this off. She really is
something. It's one thing to talk to a reporter about
the geo-politics of the Middle East -- anyone can do
that -- but a pasta cooker that also makes hot dogs?
I'd like to see you do that, Kerry O'Brien.
People who work in television will tell you there is
no bigger turn-off than the Iraq war. I find that
astounding. Have these people not seen It Takes Two ?
And doesn't it say something about this boneheaded
conflict that Mornings with Kerri-Anne is now the
venue where we can see footage of nutters detonating
themselves? You won't be seeing it tonight on the
news, that's for sure. But nobody cares about daytime
television so KAK gets to screen anything she wants.
If you'd seen those hot dogs . . . they looked like
carbon rods lined up in a test tube. Horrible.
I wonder who the audience is who watches KAK each
day? Any of you? Are you engaged by the Iraq war at
all? And did KAK pat Michael Ware's knee yesterday or
did I imagine that?
Ware did Sunrise yesterday as well, and amazingly was
in the studio. You wouldn't think there'd be room for
another alpha male alongside Kochie, but there you
are.