Youtube – h/t to reader “Neil in Toronto”.
Update – I didn’t hear about this on the CBC last night;
So, uh… no one has any problem at all with Mark Tewksbury serving as compere for Paul Martin’s farewell ceremonies at the federal Liberal convention? In a city whose small businesses are sitting with millions in unpaid invoices from a sports festival that Tewksbury more or less created? Nobody has any problems with the sudden crumbling of years of Tewksburian promises that the OutGames could not and would not lose money?
More Liberal cleverness – This comes across as a little cowboyophobic, yes?
And this just plain creeps me out.
Oh, the irony of a gay athlete and a “liberal” promoting negative stereotypes…
Another moment in the liberal vein of “Alberta can blow me” (beer and popcorn Scott Reid) and “Who needs Alberta, I’ve got Quebec” (Jean Chretian).
Go Ted Morton!
NCF TO…..yes that is funny.
Toooo funny! The poofter wing of the LPC must’ve cinched up Mark’s pink spandex too tight to make him tell a wopper like that with such a painful expression of regret.
I guess even parental respect is on the table if you are evangelizing the the gay political agenda.
We note Mark now lives in parts east where fibbing homosexuals who trash Alberta are idolized….and feels free to call the hometown people who raised and trained him names.
Better Red Necked than Pink Butt.
BTW: this little Gays must hate Harper screed brings a whole new meaning to the concept of “butt snorkeling politics”.
This dovetails nicely with Dean’s message to campaign everywhere and no write-off regions. Not!
How embarassing for Mom. Intolerance is so ugly.
Notice how weakly the Liberals applauded? They knew.
I could care less about whether Mark is gay or not–this comment simply makes him look and sound petty and stupid. However, good point NCF.
WL Mackenzie: “We note Mark now lives in parts east where fibbing homosexuals who trash Alberta are idolized…”
Or trash Saskatchewan, WL. I’ve got a gay niece in T.O. that widely advertised she moved to the center of the Liberal Universe to escape her abusive simple bumpkin upbringing. It’s like she escaped across the iron curtain at the height of the Cold War. It’s hip and happen’n in T.O. to be a refugee from the oppressive West.
These people are so lame. Even my lifelong Liberal parents preferred to watch CSI last night.
Just another example of our tax dollars at work.
him: You may not care if Mark Tewksbury is gay, but he certainly wants to make sure everyone knows that his gayness is what defines him.
What a strange man, how old is he? It seems like he’s mentally 13 years old or something. Has he got some kind of retarded development handicap? “Mum and Dahd”, sheesh.
With his comments now recorded in history, Tewksbury scored a hatrick by managing to insult his parents, his home town and his native province.
Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Mark Tewksbury, who’s next?
Maybe the Libs should carry on with national conventions, just change the name;
~~~ THE ANNUAL INDUCE VOMITING CONVENTION ~~
Speaker; any Liberal (including Democrats)
Good call Kate. Brown people and homosexuals use “redneck” exclusively to disparage white people. It is a code word for “white people”, more offensive than “frog”.
If Toronto born and raised suburban dwelling economics geek Stephen Harper is now considered a redneck then let the revolution begin.
You have to pity Liberals, they can’t even detect sarcasm when its delivered by a family member.
Sound card is not working. Where can I find out what he said. He also made some dumb remarks introducing Bill Graham. Does he support Scott. Don’t these idiots know that without Alberta the ROC would sink. Hopefully, tomorrow Ted will win, with the help of the fed libs like Mark. Guess I will get out my old bumber sticker, Southern Alberta Redneck and Proud of it. For those interested, from another thread, my granddaughter is busy passing out Cdn Maple Leaf lapel pins, in Que, thanks to Solberg’s office.
Has Tewksbury ever seemed so giddy and off in front of a crowd?
It turned out that he paralled much of what followed, singing some ditty about beavers, and talking more about himself than the man he was there to toast.
In slagging a sizeable slice of potential voters from Alberta, he must have missed the Liberals latest command from the Howard Dean Headquarters, to play nice with everyone you come in contact with. Afterall, you are in election mode with every contact you make.
Much of the symbolism of the tribute was dreadful! What were they thinking?
An opera singer sacheting herself around the former PM and his family, who returned to the stage…table set for one, alone in an empty, stark place…. to gargle wine, drizzling it down her face…and gracing the audience with the spectacle of a woman suggestively accepting a mouthful of spaghetti…. and then trying to talk with through noodles pushing their way through her teeth.
Need one go any farther than that?
Well no, but Tewksbury showed they could, and would, anyway…
I was only sorry (ya, right), that I couldn’t stay to watch the man of the hour try to preserve some dignity for the party. Did he pull it off?
Pretty devoid of celebrity Liberals if organizers had to dig that low into the barrel for a Master of Ceremonies. But then again, the Liberal talent pool has been historically of a low and questionable calibre.
First Belinda and now Tewksbury. Is the Liberal Party going “PINK”?
I’m sure “Mom” is very proud of her boy today!
Stephen Taylor interviewed Anne McLellan on his blog. I think we are seeing history in the making. No, not Anne. Blogs covering the news. Just imagine. In a few years MSM and their spin may be a thing of the past. Unless of couse you are a Lib.
Also, on stephentaylor.ca check out some of the buttons at the barffest. They are goOD !!
~~ Four Million Visits ~~ coming up, in about a week’s time ??
Policy #45 – lowering the age of consent to 14 for anal sex legal should make all Liberals proud.
A new Liberal “Canadian Value.”
Well, that Harper guy IS scary. Anyone catch CBC’s lengthy “who can stop Harper” convention piece last night on the National, which had an ominous, constantly morhping graphic of his sneaky face looming on the left of the screen while the Liberal hopefuls were being discussed?
Mark should confine himself to the exploits in the pool, which is where he excels.
That useless bit of palaver, speaks to nothing.
Mark is just promoting the divide and conquer tactics that the LIEBerals have always used.
In short, the proposition that Toronto/Ontario ethnocentrism is better than Alberta ethnocentrism.
So it is better to slag one’s home, parents, and political opposition than to actually offer a positive vision of what you actually support as an alternative.
To paraphrase Joe Clark from the 1976 PC convention:
“People don’t want to know what your are against they want to know what you are for.”
So far the LIEBerals are still stuck in ‘attack the opposition’ mode with clips like this. Obviously, a long long way from fundamental renewal that they use as a catch phrase.
The LIEBerals will need a little more than ‘sanding the pickets and a fresh coat of paint’. Maybe they need to examine the planks they are using in constructing the LIEBeral fence, since the planks are still rotten.
him commented that he “could care less about whether Mark is gay or not–this comment simply makes him look and sound petty and stupid.”
him has the last part right and NCF TO took the words right out of my mouth when he said, “he certainly wants to make sure everyone knows that his gayness is what defines him.” That was the WHOLE point of “the joke”: You know? I’m gay, my parents aren’t, but THEY’RE STILL NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR THAT REDNECK STEPHEN HARPER.
Gag. Barf.
As for anon’s question about how old Mark is: 13? That’s a huge problem with gays–and I have a lot of very dear and close friends who are gay: They suffer from the Peter Pan Syndrome of never having to growing up. They’re stuck in adolescence, and that’s the level of Mark Tewksbury’s humour last night.
Cringe-making and EMBARRASSING.
Gormley’s all over this on 980 Regina.
This could end up being another beer and popcorn moment and really come back to bite the “tolerant” Liberals in the upcoming election.
How could anyone,even a Liberal,be that stupid?
For Mary T:
Mark said he was from Alberta and that his parents had voted Reform and basically were rednecks–he then put his fist in the air and said something like “Just what their gay son wanted to hear” or words to that effect; Like, GREAT (sarc/on)!
He then said that his mom had recently been interviewd on her way out of the grocery store and was asked the question “Would you vote for Stephen Harper?”
His mom had responded that there was no way that she’d ever vote for “that redneck.” Mark was obviously extremely proud of his own redneck mom.
Way to go, Mom!!
Did “The Mole” invite this guy to the Liberal convention?
And Montreal can have him: as long as they keep sending jobs and working people West.
What a retard… he probably thought he was funny, or intelligent or whatever he went up there to be but sadly those dreams will never be achieved by this particular twinkie.
I wonder how many “Red Neck” taxpayer paid dollars helped fund Markie’s swimming career?
Colby Cosh made an excellent point about Tewksbury. He co-chaired the OutGames, which have a $5.7 million dollar defecit, attracted more participants than spectators, and still haven’t paid many of their suppliers.
As far as the government of Quebec getting their ‘loan’ back, good luck. Tewksbury is a prime example of the Liberal notion of spending taxpayer dollars on pet causes.
PM Harper a redneck….good one….he is about as far from being a redneck as you are going to get…me, with 10 yrs army, 10 yrs utility lineman, 4 tatoos, crew cut, big muscles, play sports, drive north american, like country and heavy metal….now i may be a redneck…but PMSH, policy wonk, economist, desk jockey, etc, etc, etc…he is not a redneck….man those libranos are getting desperate….
Thanks HC – I’ve added an update.
What exactly make Stephen Harper a “redneck”?
He grew up in Toronto and came from a pretty well-to-do family, he has his master’s in economics from the Univeristy of Calgary.
I guess he must be a redneck because he doesn’t pander to radical gay activism. Sorry but doesn’t this minority group already weild more power than most? Do they really need to throw around the “redneck” tag at all who oppose reforming society around their wants?
Half Canadian stole my thunder. Tewksbury is such a model that he completely screwed up the OutGames which were only organized because a few of buddy queens got into a hissy fit with the Chicago based Gay Games. First the Liberals reach down to get Dean, now they really lower themselves to get this dork. Tewksbury swims and he’s queer, what else does he do?
Bloody Tewksbury was out of town when the good news came that the businesses and taxpayers of Quebec were out of pocket to the tune of $5million. Yet he has no problems being here to talk up a storm at the hypocrite convention. A pox on his house.
Then Canucks talk about European appeasers. I know tht Queerbek is the most rascist province in Canada.
If his mum is has stupid has he made her sound, no wonder she produced a queer a***hole like him.
“Quebec were out of pocket to the tune of $5million.”
Now. Now. Calm down. We’re all one nation, here. Can’t we all just get along?
Thanks for the transcript. Just got back from reading the g&m comments on Morton as potential leader. One repeated concern was he was from the US. Just think, on Sunday, Canada could have 2 american leaders. Lots of comments re the draft, but I thought Ont welcomed draft dodgers and what they had done for Canada. Some comments re the salt fish NFLD sent during the 30s. But, no comments re when Oil was found, and AB went east for financing they said NO. Therefore, the US was brought in and the rest is history. Also, the comments said someday we would be in trouble. We were, it was called the NEP, and liberals are still paying the price. I do predict that if Dinning wins tomorrow, the ALLIANCE party gain many seats, and may form the govt. Will the liberal party soon be known as the GAYPINK party, and if you are not gay, you are not welcome.
Forgot to mention an online poll in Cal Sun. Will you watch the speeches today. 91% said NO. Liberal party should pay for all the time yesterday and today, for electioneering.
good pick HC i think that the quebec gov’t even said that they were going to right the loan as they new that there would be no repayment.
So once again Taxpayers got screwed not the athletes,then again in this case.
Mark Tewksbury:
Singing in the rain, over moonbeams. A rainbow for all ,except the pot of gold at the end, which is forever for liberals.
That he called his own Mom a redneck, with the rest of Alberta in tow. Tells me all I need to know about this joker in drag.
That he dissed small towns with his straught bashing, is indicitive of this type of behavior. By radical homosexuals with there narccasitic fleshly agenda.
Perhaps the boy should care more about gays in Muslims Countries, where there being slaughtered than Alberta . So far stonings for gays is zero for zero.
Probably his Mom, was a Presten supporter. Has not gotten over the leadership race yet.
Hey but whats a few lies amoung the original liars club. The Liberals?
I watched about Mark Tewksbury’s introduction to the Paul Martin eulogy: five minutes of hysterical lisping and giggling was about all I could take.
The man confirms every worst stereotype about homosexuals.
I was only surprised that he wasn’t gushing all over Scott Brison.
Liberal culture is alive and well!
The future is in the youth movement!
or
All of the up and coming youngsters have seen how the culture of entitlement works and they want in.
Tewksbury just wasn’t very good
Ah, another stereotypical moonbat liberal.
They had Howard “The Scream” Dean, a “hated” “American bastard”, right there amongst them… I thought Liberals hated Americans? Guess they lied! They got the nudist communist Bob Rae, the angry-professor Iggy, now some athlete who thinks he’s special ’cause he likes folks with the same kinda happy-place equipment as he has…
Plus there’s this, about thongs and condoms with the Liberal logo on them, at the Lib convention:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=7f8e0537-fde5-471f-abb1-d2ac88557088
Do the Liberals realize what kind of message they’re sending?
Are these folks mainstream, or a motley crew of moonbat extremists and various kinds of perverted sex addicts?
These are the people who think they have a “right” to govern most of the time?
Hoo-boy!
Tewksbury’s problem is not that he is gay (that is irrelevant.)
Tewksbury’s problem is that he is not that bright and is a Liberal (but I repeat myself.)
John B asks, “Tewksbury swims and he’s queer, what else does he do?”
I don’t think we really want to know.