Change the channel. It's a repeat.

Now, if I was a cynic, and I am, I'd suggest that the surest way for the Howard-Costello Government to remove all the bad headlines that have been flooding the airwaves and filling the papers over the last few weeks would be to regurgitate that old favourite: leadership speculation. 'A slip of the tongue,' Howard claims, 'I was misquoted.' And he calls Costello to explain. While Costello just happens to be having dinner with a bunch of journalists from The Age. Come on, I've seen this on The West Wing. It worked there too, because the media is nothing if not predictable when it comes to leadership speculation. Someone give these hacks a clue.