Ask a silly question…

Until yesterday, the sharpest response to a question from a dopey Australian reporter is said to have come from Ava Gardner, who was shooting On the Beach in Melbourne when asked what she thought of the City on the Bay.

“The perfect place to make a film about the end of the world,” was the line that ran in the Sydney Morning Herald under the byline of Neil Jillett, who later admitted it was such a great quote he had to invent it.

Now, at last, there is a genuine put-down of Australia’s intrepid and fearlessly independent press corps — indeed, courtesy of the visiting Tucker Carlson, there is a whole withering bunch of them.

Click here to catch Carlson dealing sternly with an SMH reporter who thinks Covid jabs “saved tens of millions of lives”, and then shutting down a young AAP hackette pursuing the bizarre mission of attempting to blame him for mass shootings and racial prejudice. Between those two smack-downs there is a blast at the ABC so cutting even Tony Thomas would be jealous.

UPDATE: The evening can be viewed in full here.