73-Year-Old Bob Katter Promises He’ll Only Be In Politics For Another 12 Years, Tops
Bob Katter's latest TV interview was absolutely hogwild.
Queensland-born pollie Bob “Let A Thousand Blossoms Bloom” Katter reckons he’s in pretty good stead, all things considered.
Heading into the election season, Katter has made an assessment of his chances with the voters, and he has unsurprisingly declared himself coming out on top. The reason for his buoyed spirits? Latest polls show that his competitors for the Racist Uncle vote, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, are struggling, and the pollie reckons that’s gonna make all the more room for him.
To celebrate what he reckons is an uptick in his odds, the man indulged in his most beloved pastime: delivering an absolutely off-chops on-camera interview.
His chat with the Today Show started fairly normally, with Katter congratulating himself on the results of advanced polling. But when the conversation turned to Katter’s actual policies — including giving children air rifles to shoot cane toads — the politician made an abrupt left turn.
“The whole nation will be bloody well sold off unless there’s a few people like myself around!” @RealBobKatter tells us about his plans to create another 200,000 jobs in North Queensland and promises he'll be around "no longer' than another 12 years. #9Today pic.twitter.com/o2jqK5lZlV
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) April 16, 2019
“You fool around with some sort of idiot, infantile stupidity,” the politician shot back, irritated that journos keep reporting the things he says in press statements, rather than the fact that he wants to build a train. “Where Australians live, we talk about the selling-off of our nation.”
From there, the interviewer pressed Katter on his retirement plans, noting that the pollie turns 74 next month.
“I’m aiming to go no longer than another 12 years,” Katter replied.
“I’m still beating my son, signed player for the Cowboys, in his day … I’m still beating him over the 20 metres.
“He said, ‘Oh you cheated’, so we did it again and I beat him again.
“Also,” he added, “the whole nation will be bloody well sold off unless there’s a few people like myself are around.”
So there you have it folks: all things considered, looks like we’ve got another decade of Katter press conferences ahead of us.