Oh Julia - Is it just a flesh wound?

 8 20 am Monday 6 Feb. 2012

Oh Julia - Is it  just a flesh wound?

People suggest that the latest Nielsen poll is a rogue poll.

Wrong.

I say that it is merely based on a small percent of people who have sympathy for her lack of acumen and misplaced courage.

It is an original Gillard syndrome: ''t's only a flesh wound'' - derivated from Monty Python's heroic Black Knight.

Thus it is merely empathy and eerily based on Labor's putative core values.

It has no gravitas in the real world.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

King Arthur: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you stupid Bastard. You've got no arms left. 
Black Knight: Yes I have. 
King Arthur: *Look*! 
Black Knight: It's just a flesh wound.