Kerri-Anne Kennerley not the first to suggest climate protestors be run over.
Media Watch: Speed Bump Jokers
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Hello, I’m Paul Barry, welcome to Media Watch.
And that was Sky’s Paul Murray doing his own toddler impersonation as he spat the dummy at the Extinction Rebellion protesters who clogged up Australia’s capital cities last week.
And on Nine’s A Current Affair, sympathy for the activists was also in short supply:
So never mind the climate. What to do about those protesters?
Luckily, Studio 10’s Kerri-Anne Kennerley had a couple of ideas:
And if running them over was a little extreme, Kerri-Anne had a back up plan:
So was there outrage at her comments?
Well, enough of a noise for Studio 10’s Sarah Harris to come back to it later to hose it all down:
Yes, run them over. What a joke. Except it’s hardly funny. And not the first time she’s made it.
A week before, on Studio 10, she said exactly the same thing, but nobody noticed:
But Kerri-Anne’s not the only one with a wonderful sense of humour, because back in July viewers on Sky News were cracking up at the same suggestion from 2GB weekend host Paul Kidd:
And he was just re-telling the joke that Sky news host Peta Credlin had made so hilariously the month before:
And that same day on Sky’s Paul Murray Live, Mark Latham had offered a similar solution, but with a slightly different punchline:
I think it’s time they got some new material and perhaps stopped making jokes about killing protesters. Because some nutter out there might just take them up on it.
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