Mark Latham has been stood down/resigned/stormed out of yet another media gig. This time it was Sky News.
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Sky News rejects Mark Latham's comments
The broadcaster has acknowledged that it aired 'falsely imputed' statements from Mark Latham about Wendy Harmer and Kristina Keneally.
Which is great news for everyone except his fan base. My thoughts are with the two of you.
However, one couldn't help but wonder about the curious timing of this latest implosion.
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The former Labor leader has now lost another high-profile job, the second in two years, following a string of outbursts against a female colleague, a female radio broadcaster and, finally, a teenage boy.
Yes, it appears it was a comment about the sexuality of a Sydney Boys High School student, not his back catalogue of insults and attacks especially aimed at women, which was the straw that broke Angelos Frangopoulos' back.
The Sky News chief executive tore up Latham's contract and has now unreservedly apologised to ABC broadcaster Wendy Harmer, who Latham labelled a "commercial failure" and a "disabled woman", and "Yankee sheila" Kristina Keneally, who he called a "protege" of incarcerated and disgraced former NSW minister Eddie Obeid.
It wasn't the fact he once insisted on referring to highly regarded transgender Army officer Catherine McGregor as "he/she" in his columns for The Australian Financial Review.
It wasn't the fact he once attacked former Australian of the Year and family violence victim Rosie Batty, saying men resorted to domestic violence as a "coping mechanism".
No, he booked jobs in spite of those actions.
This time it was because Latham called a privileged school boy "gay" after he appeared in a video about feminism, which saw the curtain come down, once again, on this talking head.
Funny how offending a man over his masculinity was the match in the powder barrel.
Funny how Sky only took action when the women Latham went after - the most recent victims, anyway - threatened legal action.
His replacement for The Outsiders - the live-action version of Beavis and Butt-Head - has yet to be announced.
Latham has since defended his comments in the most Latham way possible: with 140 tone-deaf characters on Twitter.
Why does bigoted Left assume use of word "gay" automatically negative? I love gays! Away from poisonous Left politics they are great people
— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) March 29, 2017
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