Welcome to another Media Panel of Media experts on Politics.
Enjoy Joe Hildebrand 'explode' with excuses, so much so - that he does his best to make himself look good when everything he stood for obviously didn't.

I will just say this.
In America - we all know about the 'under-achievers' cliche.
Well in Australia - we have the 'over-achievers' problem.

People who make a simple thing, more complicated than it needs to be, just to come across as being more sophisticated than they really are. (quote: me)

check it out.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/paul-murray-slams-albanese-over-his-reaction-to-voice-defeat/ar-AA1ieCMv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=1be6764daf124519bc4c5e8277e1f3d2&ei=11

Quote:

People who make a simple thing, more complicated than it needs to be, just to come across as being more sophisticated than they really are.

And we also have forum commentators that use
brightly coloured, oversized fancy fonts because
they're silly enough to mistakenly think it makes
their comments more worthwhile or impactful, or
more eloquent.

Whereas it just looks childish and wastes bandwidth.

   Bit sad really.    ::)