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Okay, okay, you’re quite right. We’re not above getting immature thrills from clips of people engaging in bizarre personal grooming practices. It was disturbingly amusing to see Paul Wolfowitz (the father of the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq) grotesquely licking him comb in preparation for a TV interview and there’s something voyeuristically satisfying about seeing the golden child of this election slipping up similarly.

You know about which clip we’re talking. It’s an international hit! Most Americans probably don’t even know the name of our current PM, but there’s a good chance that they know something about Kevin Rudd.

David Letterman and Jay Leno both gave the clip a flogging on their late night talk shows and it has just passed the 400,000 views mark on YouTube - proving it to be a bonafide classic as far as Aussie political clips are concerned. And now you get to enjoy it right here, right now.

See Kevin Rudd indulging in a little tasty ear wax now…and then be ashamed of yourself for being so curious.

Proving once again how much election campaigning has jumped aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon this year, the Kevin07 website has been getting creative Aussies as involved as possible in the process of creating political point-grabbers. The latest few to appear on the Kevin07 website are rippers (and may even help to distract voters from thoughts of ear wax munching mishaps).

Here’s one that Hugh Atkin and Monty Taylor prepared earlier: