The Rachel Maddow Show   |  December 06, 2012

The end is naught

Ezra Klein shares video of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing the end of the world in a clip that turns out to be a promotion for a morning radio show.

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>>> minister of australia . if that falls through, a tilda impersonator. the top dog, head honcho of australia . she's the prime freaking minister of australia , stood at a podium in front of an australian flag and in a somber tone delivered some incredibly bad news.

>> my dear remaining fellow australians, the end of the world is coming. it wasn't y2k. it turns out the mayan calendar was true. the world is about to end. whether the final blow comes from zombies, demomic hill beasts or from the tribe, if you know one thing about me, it is this. i will always fight for you until the very end. good luck to you all.

>> wait, wait. what? control room, somebody needs -- we need breaking news banners. we need your biggest siren. a prominent world leader just said the world is ending, maybe because we're all going to be eaten by zombies. i don't think i'm generally prone to panic, but i'm not very fast, so 28 days later kind of zombies, i find that worrying. oh, wait. okay. i'm told this is a joke. it is delivered with so little vermoof that it is hard to tell. this appears to be a promotion for a morning radio show in australi australian, a promotion for their end of the world party . prime minister doing your work. that's a good get, australian radio network . the world isn't actually ending, no more than it was a few minutes ago, so far as we know. that is the good news. the bad news is that that was only the second scariest news about doomsday we have for you tonight. the scariest doomsday news is something i will tell you about in a