Bob Katter Is Copping It For His Weird Murder Ad But He’s Not Sorry ‘Bout It

ICYMI, Queensland MP Bob Katter released a really weird political ad yesterday in which he murdered his Labor and Liberal opponents in the Outback because of their commitment to foreign investment. The Australian political discourse absolutely requires someone who is willing to kill, so it was clearly a welcome addition.
One could question the timeliness of releasing an election ad featuring a double gun murder only days after the Orlando mass shootings, and question it people did. People from both sides of the political aisle united to slam Katter as ‘insensitive’ over the ad, which was produced with satirists from The Betoota Advocate (or, as Katter called them, The Betoota Advocator).
Fellow Queensland MP Barry O’Sullivan thought it was enough for Katter to pull out of the election race, and Liberal Senator Iam Macdonald called the ad “offensive and childish”.
Katter showed up on Sky News to defend the ad, which he called “screamingly funny” and beloved by all Australians except the book burners in the “political correctness brigade”.

Katter is also copping it on another front. He’s infamous for his weird comments in the past about gay people in his electorate – he reckons they don’t exist – and he gets mighty fired up whenever anyone tries to mention it. Like on Triple J last night, when he walked out of the interview when Stephen Stockwell asked him about the issue.
Bob: Look mate I’m not interested in talking about it. You want to talk about it. All you blokes get obsessed about it, every time we open our mouth you get obsessed about it and you seem to be obsessed now. I’m not obsessed about it but I’ve got to worry about you blokes that are.

Stephen: I’m just curious, I mean you’re the elected representative for this area, do you worry about how statements like that make the young gay people in this community feel?

Bob: Mate, I told you I’m not talking about it right? Don’t you understand English? You’re obviously obsessed with it, you’ll just go on and on and on. You can have your obsession, I’ve got my right to say I’ve got better things to do with my time.

Listen to the full interview below. 

Seems like Bob’s pet issue, foreign investment, isn’t getting much airplay when he’s filling so much airspace with weird murder videos and his deeply strange beliefs about LGBT people.
Source: The Guardian / Triple J.
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