In the third or fourth-rate dregs of Canadian news this weekend, we are reminded that the ever so smug and pompous superior being, Liberal MP Garth Turner, learned how to get onto the internet one day, and then the less superior parts of his being (his inner thoughts) started to ooze out into the public realm. While taxpayers are paying him.
This weekend, while sitting in his basement in his jammies, Turner chose to log onto his groovy blog and defend his (new) hero Stephane (the “Green Guru”) Dion taxation and social re-engineering plan which the Liberals are trying to sell to Canadians at the Calgary Stampede. Dion’s big job there wasn’t merely selling snake oil to good people—it was selling it to good people in Alberta, who have all the real oil and don’t much have a need for snake oil from greasy salesmen who are telling them it’s good for them, and who can barely speak Albertan much less English. (I’m reminded of my audio recording of him telling the excellent Calgary radio host Dave Rutherford, after Dave welcomed him to his show, “Thank you to invite me Dave!”, and then felt the compulsion to add “Since the election I came in Alberta seven times!” (Listen here)
Speaking of Dion, Turner wrote:
“You might not agree with everything the man says, but you have to admire this about him. He stood up once to the self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist losers in Quebec. I guess he can do it again in Alberta,” Turner wrote. “Not that there are any similarities.”
Nice. And please note we “have to admire” this about Dion. This is much as we are told by his hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist brothers and sisters in the liberals’ Order of Canada and G-G divisions that we officially “have to admire” Morgentaler. (Not that there are any similarities…. oh hang on…).
Now, other politicians are oozing the brain poo. The you’ve got to be kidding party’s Jack (“ass”) Layton, thinking he was doing the Dudley Do-Right Canadian thing, ran to the rescue (running like a girl) of his fellow socialist Quebecers, sputtering out this:
“The Liberal leader must impose sanctions for these shocking comments which are insulting to Quebecers,” totally forgetting that he actually insulted the bajeezus out of capitalist Albertans too (or more likely fully recognizing that fact, but giving it a pass since they’re but Albertans).
Turner relishes the attention. Loves it. Lives for it. Without apologizing afterward, he says, to all the brilliant attention:
“Everyone I have heard from tells me this was a mistake … I have anything but respect for my fellow citizens in Quebec and Alberta.”
And he started that blog entry with a huge, no doubt ripped-off photo of a giant Canadian flag, as if to emphasize how much he really just loves Canada (you big idiots).
What an ass.
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