When attack is really praise

There is much frothing at the mouth amongst the ALP and a few media hacks at the moment.

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull wrote a very intelligent article in the Weekend Australian, in which he, inter alia, congratulated Kevin Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, on their success.

In the article, Turnbull, quite reasonably, criticised Kevin Rudd on his hypocrisy in mocking Turnbull for being wealthy, and to attack the "neo-liberalism" by which Rudd's own family has obviously benefited.

Malcolm Turnbull did not attack Therese Rein, as has been breathlessly, and oh so predictably reported.

This is what Turnbull said:

I congratulate the Rudds, especially Therese Rein, on their success.

Some 'attack'.

The ALP, Kevin Rudd, Craig Emerson, Glenn Milne and any other moron who thinks a congratulatory remark by the leader of the opposition to the wife of the prime minister constitutes an 'attack' on her, should get over themselves. I'm sick of them.