And the sausages will set you free

So I was half-watching the 7.30 Report tonight. Health Minister Nicola Roxon found herself responding to Kerry O’Brien’s taunts about the Government’s spate of pre-budget leaks.

Kerry was rightly suggesting that the Government was being too blatant in it’s time-honoured strategy of strategically leaking news to the media in order to get the electorate on side. His question was code for “you guys don’t seem to be playing the media game very well.” That is, we’re all supposed to pretend these leaks are real leaks and not tools to manipulate the masses.

Roxon responds (to the best of my memory): “Media management is like sausage making. You don’t really want to know what goes on behind the scenes.”

Funniest thing I’ve heard on current affairs TV for a long time.