First Jim Curran, and now this;
“If this gets out, it could mean the end of the Liberal Party of Canada,” warned a local politico, requesting anonymity.
And what, pray tell, has the Grits so up in arms? It seems that when Stéphane Dion touched down in Winnipeg last month, he and his entourage popped by North End mega-icon Kelekis for lunch. There, Dion shocked locals and his handlers by eating Kelekis’s world-famous hot dog with — gasp! — a knife and fork.
“It conjured images of George on Seinfeld eating a Snickers bar the same way,” said another witness who, for obvious reasons, also asked not to be named.
Whether Stephen Harper’s Conservatives use Wienergate to their advantage — at press time there was no word whether they’d be rejigging their official slogan to read Getting Things Done (Without Utensils) — remains to be seen.
Looks like it’s going to be a long day at Liberal party headquarters.
ROTFLMAO and taking pics of Copps Cootie….so sorry. Laughing so hard my gut hurts.
Maybe a headline of Deyawn forks PMSH’s symbolic penis(with Dijon moutarde,of course)…LOL
Actually, the Liberal Party is in more disarray than some may think because of these scandals. During 1926, William Lyon Mackenzie King was fortunate enough to discover that offering “more democracy” distracted many Canadian voters’ attention away from them – enough to push those scandals under the radar. Nowadays, the “more democracy” vein is pretty much exhausted, as Paul Martin discovered to his sorrow during the last campaign.
This sea change means that the comfortable denizens of the “generous” Liberal boodle machine are seeing its customary shield dissolve. I don’t know how they’ll react, but something to watch for is a future drop in campaign contributions to the federal Liberals.
That fits so perfectly to my image of Dijon in two ways. Either: Will not get his hands dirty in the real world (ivory tower sociology professor)
Or
His hands are SO dirty (with corruption like other Liberals), he won’t even eat a hot dog with them.
George was just trying to make the world a better place.
There’s a bit of history to this, maybe Dion didn’t want to be photographed eating a hot dog normally because it wouldn’t play well in Quebec:
“Trudeau also looked down on Bourassa personally, once referring to him as a mangeur d’hot dog (a hot dog eater), though Trudeau later admitted in his TV biography that the comment was a friendly poke at Bourassa’s habit of bringing this choice of food to meetings, saying that the original sentence was more like “Bourassa brought his hot dogs, we are ready to talk”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bourassa
When Duceppe was photographed eating a hot dog during the 2004 election it was a big deal, and written up in the press as a sign of his confidence. At least that’s how I remember it. More:
“Ever since Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s derided then-Quebec premier Robert Bourassa as a “hot-dog eater,” Quebec politicians have avoided the public consumption of a chien-chaud like the plague. But Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe indulged in not one, but two, hot-dogs at a campaign stop in Gaspesie on Saturday. The Trudeau curse lived on in today’s papers in Quebec where the picture of Mr. Duceppe chomping on the fine delicacy was a turnoff for anyone eating breakfast. The saving grace for Mr. Duceppe was that in Le Soleil, the picture on the opposite page showed Liberal Leader Paul Martin at work on a fatty poutine.”
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_ZCggptQOmEJ:www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040513.wxblogtemp0513/BNStory/specialDecision2004/+duceppe+hot+dog&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
Maybe the wise professor has finally seen the light and is just taking the precautions required, to take up a career in hand modeling.
It must have been humiliating for the elitist French citizen, far left university professor to be served a hotdog. Imagine eating peasant food!
he should have had a hamburler, hamburle,haburger, hanburger never mind stick with the Dog.
James Curran: MayDion’s Liberal “SWAG” man.
SWAG = $$$$$
Curran soliciting $$$$$$.
Curran was the lone/only candidate for the nomination; charged with 2 counts of fraud.
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The “What Do I Know Grit”
CRUSHING CONSERVATIVES ONE RIDING AT A TIME
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Stephane, Stephane, Stephane, Stephaaaaane
Di-on! Di-on!
Don’t forget to bring out some SWAG to the Dion event today! See everyone at 5:30!
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Librano$ Leader image = Trudeau
He was tanned.. Dion, well. .
He was athletic Dion, well ..
He was macho, He was crisp and decisive.
Makeover? Too late. = TG
I hate to say this, but I sympathize with Dion on this one, like eating a Banana, eating a Hot Dog is not something a politician should do in public without utensils.
It’s far too easy for a cheap-shot photo to make it look sexual in some obvious enough way.
Don’t care what you guys say. The best chien chaud et Pepsi I ever ‘ad was at the Granby zoo.
Le mieux!
I take my fork and knife and bam…da dog dead.
For breakfast, I ave eggs parallel avec bacon side by each.
With apologies to Cal2.
Borat Dijon breakfast: “I’ll ave deux eggs side by each, both eyes up, an a pair of toast.”
Curran should be more carefull afterall he is setting a precident “getting caught for Fraud before being elected, Liberals usually wait until after”
nite all
The French eat everything with a knife and fork.
Dion eats his hotdogs with a knife and fork.
Ergo Dion is Citoyen first and Citizen second. VIVA LA FRANCE!!!!
If he isn’t man enough to handle a hot dog, how would this wuss handle a terrorist attack. Worse. How more disconnected can you be from the culture you live in?
South of the border, girlieman John Edwards was filmed getting his $400 haircut.
hot dog with a fork? Egads, what would he ever do with a nip? ** ‘peger inside knowledge joke**
The number of people in the country over the age of eight who don’t know how to eat a hot dog can’t be all that large, but the Liberals not only managed to find one of these exotics but make him leader. I guess congratulations are in order.
Oh now at least the Liberal leader knows how to use a knife and fork. Apparently the con leader can’t even dress himself. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070417/national/harper_stylist
Thats fine and all, but is Dion master of his “domain”.
Oh now at least the Liberal leader knows how to use a knife and fork.
albatros39a, so, I’m assuming you’d use a knife and fork on your hot dog too? Out of curiosity, how does that work for you at sports events/concerts/wherever? I mean, it’s not that difficult a task, if you have a cultural IQ, to pick up the hot dog like the 99.9% of your fellow Canadians and eat it. The bun is there for a reason.
I don’t think you are getting it with Dion, lefty loser icon, but, then, I’m guessing peddling dumb snark is about the depth of your getting anything. It isn’t about Dion’s ability to use a knife and fork, it’s about venue, the common culture, running for office as less than a clueless effete.
he finally proved my point….citoyen bombardion is a euro-weenie
“Cisses de renouilles” so good ,Citoyennete’Dion & his Maitresse May use a spoon.Common folk ,gotta love em!
Dainty Dion
In order to placate the ‘superior kulture’, (in Queerbec)- perhaps they could rename this, a ‘tubesteak’?
Copp’s cooze,dion’s wiener,where does it stop? A private members bill is needed.
It might one-up the famous pic of Robert “the best-prime-minister-Canada-never had” Stanfield’s monkey immitation with the banana. Of course he fumbled a football too, I think. Very bad optics.
“Copp’s cooze,dion’s wiener,where does it stop? A private members bill is needed.”
Very good Wallyj.
Funny…I was listening to “Hot Dog” Led Zepplin (in through the out door) on the way home today.
heh
He really is a queer fellow. And not the hip gay kind of queer…..
My weiner has a first name its D-I-O-N, my weiner has second name its l-o-o-s-e-r……
Then there’s the exquisite mental image of Dion trying to decide which end of the dog to bite (and not fondle it the way he surely does his dog…) and then watch the relish squirting out green and down the front of his suit… in the glare of the flash and full on in the front page of the Toronto Sun…
In other news, Dimwit Dion attacks elected Alberta senator Bert Brown for the purposes of reducing Western alienation…
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=5bf0b29c-dc5b-424c-8a2b-cce3f379f5ee&k=8532
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion criticized the appointment and added he doesn’t believe Harper is appointing “the best person” for the job as required under the current system, joking that he hoped Brown wouldn’t also be appointed to cabinet.
“The prime minister comes from Alberta but he is not working in the interest of Alberta. The election took place a long time ago and at the end of the day, the prime minister wants an elected Senate without clarifying what dispute mechanism will be used to settle disputes between the two chambers,” Dion said.
Seeing we are on the topic of scandals. This arrived in my e-mail today.
>>>The Income Trust Disaster
Impact on investors and the economy
In the wake of the Harper government’s disastrous decision to tax income trusts – after promising during the last election such a tax would never take place – the results have been brutal on both investors and Canada’s business community.
Hundreds of thousands of investors have seen the market value of their income trusts reduced by tens of billions of dollars. Experts estimate that individual Canadians have lost about $25 billion from their savings, many of them retired, with not ability to recoup those funds.
Foreign investors have poured in to buy up Canadian income trusts after the government’s surprise tax reduced their value dramatically. In the last three months, ten trusts worth billions of dollars have sold, taking those business revenues out of Canada. As a result, the government will collect zero taxes from them, opposed to the taxes they were collecting from income trust investors.
Observers around the world are calling Jim Flaherty’s move to tax trusts as “one of the worst decisions ever made by a person in a position of monetary authority.”
“The reasons to see why Flaherty made a giant mistake are obvious,” says Halton MP Garth Turner, a well-respected personal finance author in private life. “He has caused the greatest drop ever in the savings of individual Canadians through this one action, as well as wounding our economy, and none of us should just let it happen without a fight.”http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20060321/160X_cp_harper_060321.jpg
Puffy shirt too no doubt.
Don’t make fun of that dion guy … bullies!!!! He is thinking outside of the bun …. forward … visionary …
May said “He had me when he named his dog Kyoto”
Dion is a moron of the first rank.
I am not a hot dog fan myself, but if you are going to eat them, eat them right!
the libs are floundering so badly in public opinion because they don’t know how to use modern technology, the ol’ reliable MSM is failing them now. IMHO blogs like Kate’s and many other Blogging Tories are absolutely crucial to help fight the good fight. Soldier on.
kelly
“the libs are floundering so badly in public opinion because…”
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/tories_liberals_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories
Sorry Kelly the tide is starting to change again, hot dog or no hot dog.
I seem to remember on the Seinfeld episode at the end of the show everywhere they looked they saw people eating bars, cookies,etc. with knives and forks. I can picture liberal BBQ’s with liberal supporters all eating their hot dogs the same way-straight faced and not feeling the least bit stupid.
Mssr. Dion can eat all the hotdogs with a knife and fork that he wants. I just dont want a report on what Scott Brison does with his.
Dog and a Big Gulp please
And speaking of weiners…from G&M,Svend is moving to France! Comments re same on the post are hilarious!Mostly suggest they should take Citizen Dion home with him.
“The reasons to see why Flaherty made a giant mistake are obvious,” says Halton MP Garth Turner, a well-respected personal finance author in private life.
Hey albatros39a, re a well respected personal finance author.
Maybe you should ask some of the folks who followed Garthie’s advice on morgaging thier houses to invest in tech stocks in the late nineties, how they feel about his great advice.
Anything Garthie says is well suited to the Liebrano fold as he fits in perfectly with thier philosphy…..Lie, cheat and steal……….
Nice try though………
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be the first time Harper took advantage of a weiner.
I’d hate to see what he does to a hamburger.
I think the libs have given up (with the exception of pinko-albatros) on even trying to cover for this walking freak-show.
It’s like shooting dead-fish in a barrel.
Poor albatros once mommy kicks him out he either has to get a job or better yet work for the lieberal party of canada he already has the lying part down and the utter stupidity to believe garth turner can even wipe his … without help, well you have two of the three you go albie.
I will admit to eating chili-dogs with a knife & fork, as there doesn’t seem to be any other way.
I had a boss that ate a hamburger with a knife & fork, and was pretty much vilified for it (here in Alberta, anyway).
So unless Dion’s dog was so loaded as to be inoperable under normal circumstances, he comes across as a twit, at least in the ROC.
Surprise! He loses.
I will admit to eating chili-dogs with a knife & fork, as there doesn’t seem to be any other way.
I had a boss that ate a hamburger with a knife & fork, and was pretty much vilified for it (here in Alberta, anyway).
So unless Dion’s dog was so loaded as to be inoperable under normal circumstances, he comes across as a twit, at least in the ROC.
Surprise! He loses.
Hot dogs by design are finger foods as are Hamburgers. Don’t recall ever being given a knife and fork at a hot dog venue.
Steffi just doesn’t trust himself to keep his face clean while noshing the dog.
He should have thought about keeping his hands clean when he decided to try to manipulate the voters in Central Nova by not running a Liberal against Green Mamma. He sure doesn’t know squat about finger foods, lets hope the people in that riding give him the finger.
A friends father eats hamburgers that way… knife and fork adding preferred condiments to each bite as he goes. He has impeccable UK credentials, so it is likely just an eccentric quirk.