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ABC Online's chief political writer offers apology to Kevin Rudd, apparently unprompted.
Of course, that's all part of the Annabel Crabb persona, the performance of an irreverent attitude to politics and political reporting both. It's not as if such an apology *costs* her, or the ABC, anything: rather, it shores up the 'real person' image she's got going, somewhere between a column and a blog.
And this article isn't precisely *nice* about the Ruddbot. Indeed, early on Crabb reiterates that evidence exists to support the contention that the Foreign Minister is a deeply, ornately strange human being - funny, and possibly true, and also evidence that this performance of contrition is about Crabb's readership, not Krudd at all.
Of course, that's all part of the Annabel Crabb persona, the performance of an irreverent attitude to politics and political reporting both. It's not as if such an apology *costs* her, or the ABC, anything: rather, it shores up the 'real person' image she's got going, somewhere between a column and a blog.
And this article isn't precisely *nice* about the Ruddbot. Indeed, early on Crabb reiterates that evidence exists to support the contention that the Foreign Minister is a deeply, ornately strange human being - funny, and possibly true, and also evidence that this performance of contrition is about Crabb's readership, not Krudd at all.