Psychological projection
Psychological projection is the phenomenon whereby one projects one’s own thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings, and so on onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals, parents, children, neighbors, other drivers, political figures, racial groups, states and countries, also occurs).
Even while claiming that the Harper Conservatives have somehow reduced Canada’s once grand stature as, we are to understand, nurtured by the true liberals in Canada — which is just about the most strident lie I’ve heard from a politician since Obama’s last speech — Ignatieff is bent on talking-up yet another election. The fourth in six years.
“We have a prime minister who thinks so little of foreign affairs that he changes foreign ministers the way he changes his shirts! We’ve just had four in 3 1/2 years! And they seem to come and go with the seasons. Our friends abroad sees this revolving door!… “
—Michael Ignatieff today
Is that a giant banana republic in his pants, or is Ignatieff just glad to be on CBC again promoting an election to thrust himself into power?
Apparently Mr. Harvard W. Brilliant doesn’t see the giant banana republic in the room, much less the enormous pink elephant. Of course that’s because he is the elephant, and he’s the banana-in-chief. And if you think I’m mixing metaphors and twisting logic, you didn’t hear Ignatieff’s speech to the Canadian Club today. If he were so smart and so Canadian and loved his (other) country (Canada, this time) so much, he would know that constantly diddling his political banana and his sycophantic bunch of liberal bananas and his slippery media about yet another election, has of course already reduced Canada’s image in the world more than any Prime Minister could even if he were named Chretien or Martin or Dion.
And yet he has the gall to stand before a crowd in Toronto (where else?) just now, and proclaim (in idiotic Frenglish of course, making it utterly unbearable to listen to) that under the Harper Conservatives, Canada has now suddenly lost its grand stature on the world stage which it used to enjoy until 14 minutes after Mr. Harper was sworn in as Prime Minister. Those of us who aren’t in an alternate reality know Canada’s image around the world suddenly started improving and increased to new heights, and Canadians started regaining pride in their country internationally, approximately 14 minutes after Harper was sworn in.
Then he proceeded, as he often does, to talk-down Canada and rattle off his onslaught against Canada.
“After the last four long years of Conservative rule, it is hard to remember how much Canada once mattered!”
So he thinks Canada doesn’t matters much in the world, today? Guess not. No media asked, so I’m not sure, I can only guess.
“The Conservatives are giving up Canada’s place in the world.”
Did Ignatieff spend all those decades outside of Canada in America and England? Or in Botswana? Doesn’t he read newspapers?
The state-owned CBC was able to broadcast the Ignatieff speech live, thank God, because it’s “Canadian content”, and interrupted their coverage of Barack Obama’s speech only thanks to this special Ignatieff speech occasion —no other event having that kind of pull, not even historic protests against the Obama government with numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
The Ignatieff Liberals are a lot like President Obama. They spread misinformation and partisan politics and derision and resentment and refuse to work with their opposition and make allusions to “racism” all day long, and then when the media’s cameras are pointed at them (and the media’s been apprised of their talking points), they claim their opponents are racists and liars and partisans and nasty-pants and “the party of no” and that they refuse to work with Democrats. And the media reports that in full.
Other gems from his speech:
“We [Canada] built this world!”
OK. Huh?
“Up to 1988 there wasn’t a single mission we didn’t join.”
Up to 1988? So how’s that Harper’s fault? Who was in charge from then, and until the Harper Conservatives were elected?
• “Under Stephen Harper we are no longer the world’s leading peacekeeper. We aren’t even in the top-30! We are no longer among the world’s ten leading donors! Worse, Canada has abandoned Africa!”
and
• “Africa, which the Conservatives have deserted”.
He should ask his own Liberal and Paul Martin-appointed Senator Romeo Dallaire about that, since Dallaire wrote in his book Shake Hands With the Devil how, while he was a Canadian General leading the United Nations peacekeeping in Sudan, Africa, and literally begging for much needed but not forthcoming support from Liberal-led Canada, Liberals in Ottawa informed him that “We don’t do Africa”. And it was well before Stephen Harper was elected Prime Minister, and even at that time, Canada wasn’t “the world’s leading peacekeeper” either.
Didn’t the media catch that slight of hand or any of the others? Like this bon mot spoken like a true one-world-government and progressivist or even a global socialist:
“Our Canada will champion an agenda of international governance reform… expand the G-8… host a permanent G-20 secretariat in Canada… our Canada will lead the world in re-thinking financial regulatory reform!…”
And this trick in which he obliquely implies that Conservatives are racists:
• “If their name is Suaad Mohamud, our nation abandons them!”
and
• “Instead of insinuating that someone who has lived overseas is less of a Canadian, we should celebrate all of our citizens”!
And so it’s a good morning for the state-owned CBC news media. For the CBC it’s Obamatime, then quickly followed by an Ignatieff-fest, then soon after that, because the Conservative government made an announcement about Employment Insurance reform, a guest expert about economics and politics from the extremely far-left Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (where the “Alternative” is socialism), who was introduced without any indication whatsoever to CBC viewers concerning the group’s extremely far-left political advocacy, there to lecture Canadians about the changes introduced by the Conservatives (they’re not going far enough —shocka!). Apparently the CBC could find no objective analyst, much less a conservative one for balance. This kind of thing broadcasting from a state-owned news media is common in all banana republics.
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