What’s with the Liberal MP’s slur (?) against a Canadian with an Italian name? PTBC reader Lorna spotted this Canadian Press story yesterday, and says it stinks like a slur to her.
Heritage Minister Josee Verner announced his appointment [Marc Patrone] as a full-time member of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday in a news release.
[…]
The Liberals immediately slammed the appointment.
“Is Patrone Italian for patronage?” said [Liberal Party MP] Michael Savage, who was slated to run against Patrone in 2005…
I wonder: if Patrone was gay, or Muslim, would the Liberal MP Savage ask whether Patrone was “gay for patronage”? Or “Muslim for patronage”?
AND BY THE WAY: As I’ve said over and over, the idea that a Liberal would badger the Conservatives for “patronage appointments”, after having spent decades stacking the entire Canadians landscape with liberals and sundry leftists —from top to bottom, sea to sea, down our throats and up our butts—is absolutely hideous. The story’s author doesn’t even inform us that Michael Savage is a Liberal Party MP, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he wouldn’t bother to point out the fact that we’re now fully ensconced with patronage-appointed liberals in this country, in every facet of our lives.
Conservatives should firmly and publicly commit to hiring only conservatives to all federal positions including our courts, for approximately the next 20 years. After that is accomplished, there will be somewhat of a balance between liberals and conservatives in the public service. This would be a good, positive service to our nation.
UPDATE: Apparently the Liberal MP Savage has already offered to apologize for making this remark, and the Conservative Party already took him to task for this—so I’m probably the 800th blogger to blog about this, and for that I sincerely apologize because that’s the last thing I want to do. I’m still sick and haven’t had the time to devote to my blog as I should.
…Dartmouth MP Mike Savage said Wednesday that he’s ready to apologize if he offended Italians with a comment he made about Marc Patrone on Tuesday. … “Clearly there was no attempt to offend any community,” he said, “but on the other hand, if it did, then I would apologize unreservedly.”
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
(I note that the Chronicle Herald story repeats the interesting lack of information about Savage being a Liberal Party MP by simply omitting that information and describing only as “Dartmouth MP Mike Savage”.)
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