You couldn’t script the life of ruthless billionaire Clive Palmer. Dinosaur enthusiast, world’s biggest Titanic fan, Australia’s richest man devoid of a brain and founder of his own newspaper and political party: the stuff writes itself.
Just look at him; a potential contender for Prime Minister of our nation:
Anyhoo, something amazing happened yesterday when Clive Palmer went on ABC local radio. Speaking with ABC radio’s Michael Spooner, the ever-modest Palmer attested that a function for his Palmer United Party (PUP) held on Saturday drew impressive crowds because the public were keen to meet PUP’s newest puppies members, not to see Palmer—in anticipation of witnessing him saying something politically incorrect, or falling over, or impersonating a pterodactyl, or whatever. (They were.)
Spooner asked Palmer about PUP’s Federal member for Lyne, to which he responded that he “lives in Lyne” (nice one, Palmer) and has “done a really good job” (phew, nailed it, CP!). Sniffing out a potential goldmine to embarrass the human meme, Spooner innocently asked “What’s his name again, I’m sorry?” Attempting to dodge a fatally awkward bullet, Palmer flustered and said, “look I’m not going to be questioned by you on rubbish” and hung up on air. Knife in the heart; curtain rolls, END SCENE.
Palmer, somehow you’ve out-Palmer’d yourself. It’s no mean feat.
Listen to the audio of Palmer’s on-air #burn right here.
Via ABC News.
