The Murdoch Royal Commission is one man’s inadequacy

There is an unpleasant screaming and stamping of feet coming from aisle three where a toddler has been divested of the prime ministership. The tantrum has been going on since 2013 when, after being stabbed more times than Caesar, the embattled Labor leader blamed the audience instead of looking at his bloody paws. 

It was the papers – the press and their cruel headlines – that felled Kevin Rudd. Not the hated NBN, ratifying Kyoto, School Halls, the Resource Super Profits Tax, murderous Pink Batts, and the utter catastrophe surrounding asylum seekers. 

While Rudd may have envisioned himself as the tragic romantic figure of Australian politics, the public were enjoying Murdoch’s mean headlines over a morning coffee. The…