Kevin Rudd Quotes
We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.
In Australia, the Liberal Party is a right wing conservative party, unlike England or the United States.
Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister (Labour), Speaking of John Howard's Liberal government, Rudd's first speech as Labor leader., Quoted in The Australian, December 5, 2006
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What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.
At the time, one of the favorite right wing accusations that the media were all biased in favor of liberal points of view. Any time a news story was covered that implied or showed that right wing ideology might be wrong, the conservatives would cry “liberal bias” without addressing whether the objection was sound or not. Often the most extreme right wing views are ideological and flaunt reality. Colbert turned this into a very funny phrase.
Kevin Michael Rudd AC is an Australian Labor Party politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving twice, from December 2007 to June 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013.