Just got home from a day in the paint booth. The radio at Unique is tuned to classic rock – nice to be insulated from news for a few hours. Insulated from Adscam, though, I was not. It was a topic of discussion on the shop floor.
Here’s an observation that should make Liberal party operatives’ blood run cold – some of these guys didn’t bother to vote in the last election. Most don’t follow currrent events. At lunch, the TV is turned to Speedvision much of the time.
They’re following Adscam.
And this, from “man on the street” interviews on local radio while driving home; “..the fact that he’s going to be on at 7 o’clock eastern time, 5 o’clock here….. he doesn’t care if anyone in the west is even listening to him. I mean, who’s he speaking to? “
Indeed.
I’ll be updating this post as I go surfing about – and drop your own links in the comments, if you wish.
Coyne is a fabulous read, as usual.
Heh. Rex Murphy;
Reading accounts of how Ottawa poured money into ad campaigns that sought to save Canada by advising Quebeckers on how maintain fishing rods, I was delighted to learn that the commission had played some of these radio spots for which so many millions were fire-hosed into Quebec advertising firms. Remember, according to Jean Chr�tien, this was a “fight” to save Canada, that it was, according to Scott Brison, the Liberals’ high-profile convert, “a war.”
Read closely. It’s a peculiar war that savages the enemy with the likes of this: “If the inside of the guide ring is scratched, if the line has been exposed to the sun for too long or if it was in contact with insecticides, there’s a good chance you could seriously shorten the life of your fishing line. Which is why you should check your line and change it at least once a season.”
Well, if I were an ardent separatist, burning under the imperial boot of Ottawa, and haunted by the dream of a independent nation of Quebec, that would pull me up short. Copy like that would have me jump from Hotspur to Hamlet in a trice. Maybe even half a trice.
I can see it now: “Is my guide ring scratched? How come the PQ or the Bloc never engage with my tackle? Do they care if my ‘line’ has been exposed to the sun and insecticides? Clearly, they do not. Avaunt, separatism. I am now voting federalist.”
heavyweight fishing line makes a very cheap garotte, ( but a noose from a lamppost on Rideau Street makes for better prime-time tv)
Rex’s sarcasm is almost as good as mine 😉
That pleading farce was a joke – we need a new government that will expand the Gomery inquiry to include money in Ottawa – God knows the Liberals have never spent a dime on the west – but then why would they – it’s really out money that they are spending.
If this was a fight to save Canada then their crime is worse.
To use a bad analogy imagine it’s the summer of 1940 and the Germans are beginning to blitz England and you find out Corruptien et al have lined their pockets with the money that was supposed to be spent on fighters and radar.
If Canada breaks up because of them there will be a dark irony to the whole sordid affair.
One of the things I miss most , since moving south , is Rex Murphy . The man is talented.
My favourite quote of his , was when describing Rush Limbaugh to a Canadian TV audience was thus :
” he is the largest canary in the mineshaft of prosteletizing liberalism the world has ever seen”
I also miss buttertarts and Dad’s Cookies