Australian Prime Minister Exposed As A Serial Killer…Of Camels

The Prime Minister of Australia is a serial killer. Kevin Rudd may look like the kind grandfatherly type, but deep down blood is on his hands and the victims are spread throughout Australia. The victims are…camels.

Erin Burnett, anchor of financial news on CNBC, and another analyst, Jim Cramer, accused Rudd of “camelcide.”

Australia has a problem with one million feral camels running the outback. The camels are not native to Australia. Settlers introduced them in the nineteenth century. Although the camels are not necessarily destructive to native vegetation like other introduced species, when you have one million camels and growing, then things tend to be become trampled a bit. They have no natural predator, and their numbers can double every decade.

Rudd instituted a $19 million program to cull the herds.

However, camel killing is not pretty. They are hunted by land and air, and the bodies are left to rot on the ground. I guess that is too much for Burnett.

This week, Burnett broke away from her usual analysis of business news and put a stuffed toy camel on her desk. At that point, she called Rudd a serial killer and had his faced flashed on the screen.

“He has launched air strikes – air strikes – against camels in the outback,” Burnett said.

Burnett has now said it was a “deadpan joke.” She invited Rudd to come on her show and talk about the Australian economy…and the camel culling.

Burnett called the camel killings a “complicated issue.”

That is a strange comment for someone who now says it was all a joke. I have a feeling that in Erin Burnett’s mind, it is not a joke at all, but after some negative publicity, she figured that her job was more important than nailing a camel-plotting serial killer who just happens to be a prime minister.