KEVIN RUDD "set up" by Prime Minister's Office to Sack.
Channel: Mike Hunt
Date: 2012-02-19

He told Sky News he assumed the "embarrassing" out-takes had been destroyed. He speculated they had found their way into the archives of the Prime Minister's office or a government department. He said it was suspicious "it suddenly emerges now".

Mr Wilkie, whose vote could be critical for Labor holding power if there was a leadership change, said he was "favorably disposed towards Kevin".

Labor MP Steve Gibbons said Mr Rudd was a "psychopath with a giant ego" who had blown his chance.

Kevin Rudd the Dudd has vowed to colleagues considering the Labor leadership that he has learned from his mistakes and is even swearing less.

He said he had learned to delegate more, consult more, and do less in a given day.

Mr Rudd's strong self-positioning as a reformed man was a bid to counter his lingering reputation as an aloof and inconsiderate Prime Minister. 

The Foreign Minister was clearly angry over the release yesterday on YouTube of out-takes showing him swearing and attacking staff while making an official video a few years ago as Prime Minister.

Mr Rudd agreed to an interview with SkyNews just before midnight -- and just hours before flying out for a meeting of G20 foreign ministers --   to give his response to the pirate video and its salty language.