Sideshow Bob

There were reports, apparently mistaken, that the movie Brokeback Mountain would not be screened in rural and regional Queensland when it opens in Australia next week.

Bob Katter, a rural Queensland politician made the news with this clanger. I missed the bleeped out part to try and read his lips, but he was chuckling right through:

I’ve never heard of a ****** cowboy in my life. Maybe there are some out there, but I’ve never heard of them. I mean, it’s not a profession that attracts those sort of people.

It is amusing that he says it with such ignorant confidence. As clangers go, he’s still got nothing on Pat Robertson, who continues to churn them out with regularity.