Rudd is having some memory problems in the states it seems…
During a television appearance on Rove McManus’ comedy program last year, Rudd opted for Clinton when asked “Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?” But Rudd now says he was only suggesting that he thought that the New York senator was going to win the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“When you’re doing, I think it was a John Denton interview,” he said, at which stage he was interrupted by reporters and reminded it had been Rove’s show. “It was all a blur,” Rudd replied. “As I remember it, it was all a bit of a blur.
“(It was) all about who was in my opinion was going to win at that stage, and you don’t punt.”
The McManus/Denton gaffe is reminiscent of an episode when Beazley confused McManus’ name with that of White House strategist Karl Rove on the morning of the funeral of McManus’s wife, Belinda Emmett. For the record the ABC’s Andrew Denton, not John, hosts a regular talk show program.
