I was half watching Newsnet last night as it ran a piece on the Dion shadow cabinet announcement, and it was mentioning how Michael Ignatieff was appointed, or reappointed really, as deputy leader.
What was interesting though was the reporter said the Conservative Party is apparently trying to make hay out of this by circulating one of the videos we heard so much about from the Iggy haters during the leadership campaign, when he speaks to an American TV audience a few years back about then presidential candidate John Kerry. The dreaded clip where he refers to Americans as “we.” Oh, the humanity!
Interesting that Conservative operatives are circulating this video, and interesting too was the comment the reporter got from Conservative Senator and secretary of state for seniors Marjory LeBreton:
“…maybe he’ll use his new position to rid the Liberal Party of some of this anti-Americanism…”
Come on Marjory, didn’t Mulroney teach you better then this? It is soooo transparent. It’s so amusing that the Cons routinely decry anti-Americanism in the Liberal Party (never mind all the anti-Frenchism…anti-Francophonism? rampant in Citizen Steve’s CPC), heck, she even decries it in this clip.
But look at the Conservative’s strategy here. They’re trying to create anti-American sentiments in the Liberal Party by shopping around an old TV clip so they CAN THEN decry the Liberals for having anti-American sentiments over an old TV clip.
Yes, ironically, while they’re decrying the use of anti-Americanism for political ends they’re trying to stoke anti-Americanism so they can use it for political ends.
Pot…kettle…and so forth.
Friday, January 19, 2007
I know you are, but what am I?
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Jeff:
Imagine if Iggy had said something like...
Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States.
Wait a minute...
Yeesh. All I'll say is don't confuse Anti-Americanism with distaste for Bush Republicanism. A great deal of Americans don't like Bush's policies either, the fact the Dems retook Congress shows that. I don't know which you are but I, and most Canadians, Liberal or otherwise, like Americans. I travel there often, they're good people. Many of us do, however, have a problem with Bush's foreign policy. That's a different matter.
Yeah, I do blame the French. Cheese eating surrender monkeys.
imacynic,you need to get on medication.
As pointd out,Bush's policies are bad,but to label all Americans as Bush is totally wrong and unfair.
And you might want to do a little research on how much our economy is based on U.S. consumers.
Jeff, ... this post of your's is kind of silly, don't you think?
this post of your's is kind of silly, don't you think
I find it more ironic and sad then silly, but I'm sure that's not what you meant.
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