Original sentence: Since retirement Keating described his predecessor, John Howard, as a "desiccated coconut" who was "araldited to the front bench", and that "Howard ... is an old antediluvian 19th century person who wanted to stomp forever ... on ordinary people's rights to organise themselves at work ... he's a pre-Copernican obscurantist"
Edited sentence: Keating described his predecessor, John Howard, as a "desiccated coconut" who was "araldited to the front bench", and that "Howard ... is an old antediluvian 19th century person who wanted to stomp forever ... on ordinary people's rights to organise themselves at work ... he's a pre-Copernican obscurantist"