Fairfax unhappy with the boot on the other foot Kevin Rudd's RM Williams boots were too trivial for for Fairfax pro-Labor shill Mark Kenny to even notice. THE moment best displayed what Barack Obama had called "a great meeting of the minds." The American President and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday had remained a diplomatic distance apart during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House. As about 30 reporters and photographers filed out and they were almost alone, they relaxed and leaned towards each other, heads almost touching. But when Liberal PM Tony Abbott also wears boots to a meeting with Obama, suddenly Kenny becomes the boot fascist: Abbott sat by awkwardly, his dull and inappropriate RM Williams wedge beneath him and frankly, looking a bit silly, next to the president's gleaming black lace-ups. Kenny is so partisan that he even admired Julia Gillard's schoolgirl crassness: OPINIONS on vegemite and a wayward football are the most notable diplomatic rifts between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama. President Obama has described Australia's national spread, Vegemite, as "horrible" and joked that the Prime Minister had nearly smashed a "bust of (Abraham) Lincoln" as she kicked an Aussie rules football around in the Oval Office. The good natured ribbing of Ms Gillard came as the two leaders met in the White House for 40 minutes and then proceeded to a high school in neighbouring Virginia, where they fronted a class of students and took questions. How did Fairfax become so infantile and so crude? Now Clementine Ford, fresh from printing and selling "F... Abbott" t-shirts, Tourettes on Twitter: It's even an old joke. But isn't the Fairfax board embarrassed that someone so foulmouthed represents it to the public? Thanks to readers Dan and Andrew.