Do you remember the Happy Days episode when Fonzie had to admit he was wrong? Well, old timer, at least do you remember Happy Days?
Anyway, the Fonz stood there trying to get the words out, “I was wr… . I was wrrr…. Wrr… rrrrrr….” Eventually he gave up and stormed off, with or without a flick of the collar of his leather jacket – I don’t remember.
He couldn’t do it. After all, he was Arthur ‘the Fonz’ Fonzarelli and he was never w-w-wro…
Kevin Rudd is very relaxed, so he keeps telling us, but even he might admit that he’s not cool. Hell, he’s not even cool as Richie. He certainly isn’t the Fonz.
Yesterday in Parliament, our relaxed Prime Minister channelled the Fonz when he refused to admit he was “wr..ooo …o” over having mistaken an inflation target.
It was as cringe making and revealing. Had he just apologised and said the number had momentarily popped out of his mind he would have got a ribbing but nobody would have given a fig. Some might have found his candour refreshing. Instead, the lipless one squirmed and scuttled and obfuscated and showed himself to be vain and weak. His behaviour was w-r-o-n-g.
As the Fonz would say, “Not cool, Cunningham. Not cool.”
