“It took time, eh? Only 1974, the first one.”

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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it…

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… before an audience. Oops.

(Someone might want to save that clip to YouTube before it’s yanked).

58 Replies to ““It took time, eh? Only 1974, the first one.””

  1. If Stock Day had made this mistake CBCpravda and CTV(Tass)would be all over him like a fat boy on a twinkie.

  3. He also seem to have garble da name of the organization into *le Chien* Organization du Canada in his first stab at it! It took him several attempts to even say it right In FRENCH!!!
    Please keep making public appearances DiDi!!
    The more we hear you … more we LOVE you!

  4. According to this stilted dipsXXT Dijon, there are only 2 types of Canadians…Frensh and those who wish they were….did you puke when he handed out the Francophonie lesseons??
    More than anything this displays the Libs are still driven by their corporate nmmasters to open the doot to Chinese trade without restriction….so may of the Desmarais-Powercor Lib inner circle have massive investment in the Chinese infrastructure that is driven by their export monopolization…. they openly court the Chinese importers.
    Under Dijon we will have most of our goods and food supply poisoned by unrestricted Chinese imports and investment…besides the green dog Dijon rides in public it is the open boarders to China import/investment that his corporate sponsors demand.

  5. What a Jackass. The Liberal party truly deserves this guy, the country does not. He speaks broken flawed Parisian French, his English, if you can call it English, is un-recognizable as a coherent discernible language. He is the “leader” they want to follow into the blood sport of politics, lets only hope. Unbelievable.

  6. As bad as Dion is here, I think he’ll be even worse when giving stump speeches during an election campaign. The MSM editors are going to be severly tested, when trying to pick the best sound bytes from those speeches.

  8. My first instinct was…
    The right will call him an illiterate and oblivious idiot…the left and it’s supportive MSM will pretend it never happened but because a minority was involved,will yell ‘racist’.
    And so the partisan merry-go-round continues.
    But it goes much further than that.
    From a supposed proud history of peacekeeping to the world’s most caring health care system to the utopia of multiculturalism to ‘Harper’s’ war….the LPC has been shameless at distorting history to shine positively on itself.
    Not a big leap for any self-interested political party,but the LPC has the immense power of the MSM validating many of these lies on their behalf.
    A tragedy for anyone who values our history.

  9. Stephanie Di-ohn – clearly one of Canada’s greatest mistakes – and even moreso the mistake of the Liberal party.

  11. I’m sorry, but did nobody else notice the obvious?
    He spent the entire beginning of the speech addressing those of Chinese heritage on the proper way to speak French. What arrogant elitism! Seriously… can you imagine somebody standing before a Chinese association and telling them the proper way to say the name of the Liberal organization in any other language?
    They’d be spat upon for being racist!
    It’s obvious that half the audience there at that meeting were thinking the same thing that I was considering the reaction he was getting at the beginning. I bet that most of the people there couldn’t believe their ears.
    I’m sure this one is going to get buried by the CBC and CTV and the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. It’ll be like Officer Barbrady from South Park: “Move along, there’s nothing to see here.”
    Just like when they say there is no double standard against the Conservative Party. Sure. Yeah, I believe that.

  14. Don’t see how any Chinese ethnic could understand a damned word the silly Prig said. Beyond the statement “I called on you for dat” it’s mostly unintelligible.
    Yes, it can only get worse and what could be better than that!!

  15. My guess is that the MSM – the CBC, CTV, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail etc – are all going to ignore that Stephane Dion deliberately ignored that the first Chinese MP was a Conservative, Douglas Jung, elected in 1957 – and instead claimed that the first one was Arthur Lee, elected almost 20 years later, in 1974 under Trudeau.
    If it had been Harper making such a partisan error, the MSM would be shrieking with gleeful horror. But, I’m betting that we won’t hear one word, not one word, about Dion’s error and partisanship.
    Oh- and why should these Chinese people be taught by Dion to say the name of their organization in French? Why? Why?
    So- let’s wait for the Silence of the MSM on this.

  16. So according to Dion, the only Chinese MP worth mentioning is a Liberal one. Once again the Liberal Party demonstrates its supreme arrogance. And even if this was an honest mistake, Dion still looks like a blithering idiot for not knowing any better. Dion a leader? Hah, whatever!

  17. I could only listen to half of that speech. Listening to Dion massacre the English like that was just too much.
    I can’t believe that as a Conservative supporter I acutally worried about Dion at one point. No longer. In fact, he is probably the best thing to happen to the Tories since Harper.

  18. Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.
    As for the silence of the MSM, this really isn’t a major news story, especially since it is unclear what M. Dion meant by “this is the first one”.

  19. “Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.
    As for the silence of the MSM, this really isn’t a major news story, especially since it is unclear what M. Dion meant by “this is the first one”.
    Posted by: Richard Ball at July 24, 2007 2:41 PM ”
    Ummmmm…the first Chink? The first non-french speaking Lieberal? The first non-Canadian elected? Guess what Richard. It’s a non-stroy because your hero said it, not a Conservative. Hell, they even tried to say it was a Lieberal gubbermint in charge when our envoy rescued 14 Americans from the Embassy siege in Tehran! The Lieberal way…if history doesn’t fit your drive for total control of the sheeple,change the history.

  20. The speech seemed more in line with a “Bring Your Dad To Work Day” event at my kid’s elementary school.
    “Here’s my dad, he’s a politician and leader of a big political party in Canada…”
    “Class, everybody, give a big welcome to Billy’s father, Mr. Dion. He has some difficulty with English as it’s not his first language, so everybody be nice and try to listen as hard as they can.”
    I can’t believe the LPoC would post that on their website to showcase Dion. He comes across as inept, patronizing, clueless with his facts, and just plain boring.

  21. Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.
    Really Richard?
    Do you know who is Arthur Lee? He has been the first MP of Chinese origin, he has been an MP under Trudeau in 1974. It took time, eh? Only in 1974, the first one.
    There you have it Richard. What Dion stated was absolutley clear. Well, as clear as any person can be mangling the English language while simultaneously re-writting history.

  22. Wow!! Now that’s a defence that is truely suited to Dion….”especially since it is unclear what Mr. Dion meant by”…(fill in current gaff here).
    We have no idea what he meant, therefore no harm no foul!!
    I mean who would expect a polysci prof to have a working knowledge of Canadian political history?
    Furthermore, it is accepted fact that only Liberals represent “Canadian Values”tm and as such are the only party capable of achieving political/cultural landmarks.
    sarc off
    Arrogance + Ignorance = Blissfull Brilliance
    Syncro

  23. Douglas Jung joined the Progressive Conservative Party in the early 1950s. He had vowed not to join the Liberal Party of Canada because of its racist legislation against Chinese in the past

  24. Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.
    I’ve considered that as well. I wonder if Dion adlibbed his way into a mess. Maybe the prepared text made reference to the first Liberal MP of Chinese descent. He reads it but misses the Liberal part. Soldiering on, he makes note of the fact that Lee was elected in 1974 (also in the notes) and then adlibs the bit about how long it took for “the first one”, based on his mistaken reading of his own notes.
    None of this really excuses Dion on two points:
    (1) It is an unforced error in baseball terms. Dion was in front of a friendly crowd with prepared notes. He didn’t need to adlib.
    (2) Dion was in the House when the anniversary of Douglas Chung’s election was recognized. That was on June 11.

  25. Well said Steve….although I might characterize the crowd as polite (in a typically canadian, embarassed sort of way) rather than friendly.
    Regardless, he comes across as an oaf.
    Syncro

  26. Notice something else about the presentation.
    First, Dion has obviously been having some English pronunciation lessons. When he starts to ad lib, he moves back into this normal incomprehensibility, but, reading from his text, he’s ‘programmed’ to speak.
    Second, notice how his ‘handlers’ are programming his speeches to ‘make the audience react’. Instructions were obviously inserted into his speech, to ‘ask the audience’ what they think etc. His handlers are trying to set up images of him interacting with people – when he is normally an aloof ‘professorial’ person.
    As for his gaffe, I’d say it was due to him not being terribly interested in the Chinese community and thus, forgetting the previous House of Commons reference to Jung, and also, to his researchers who wrote the speech and were more interested in ‘selling the Liberal Party’ than in accuracy and truth.
    And – the MSM remains silent. Utterly silent. Imagine if it had been Harper – they’d be having headlines about the ‘insult’.

  27. The gLibs are 2 for 2 today: Warren “Less a Punk than a Twerp” Kinsella, trying to smear a PC candidate, put up a photo of a woman with a “thought” balloon (wonder how he knew what one was?) that insinuated she just wanted to stay home and bake cookies.
    The irony, of course, is that he was trying to smear the PC candidate for being a knuckle-dragger…
    Do you think he buys steel-toed Birkenstocks by the gross, you know, for all the foot-shooting he’s been doing?

  28. I remember teaching English as a second language for a couple of terms. Within months the students drastically improved their speaking skills, not really because of my lessons on grammar, etc., but because they were interested and listened to the world around them.
    So what does this tell us about double citizen dion? He’s bright enough, supposedly, but has made almost no progress in months. No kidding, if was teaching this jerk i’d check for a learning problem, then assume he just didn’t care.

  29. You guys are missing the even more obvious gaffe;
    “Canada has its roots in Europe. Canada belongs to the Americans…….”
    Now that’s a sound bite for an election campaign.

  30. Pd:
    He said “Canada belongs to the Americas.” I thought he said Americans the first time too. He meant to say that Canada is part of the Americas. Language problems again.

  31. For those who are trying to spin this as if Dion meant to say “the first Liberal MP”, can I ask you a question…
    If he really were talking about the first Liberal MP, why would he talk about “It took time, eh? Only in 1974, the first one”, which is obviously a statement — tonally, no matter what language barrier — that it took too long? Is he criticizing the Liberal Party for taking so long to have a Chinese MP, considering you’re also suggesting he knew that the Progressive Conservatives had a Chinese MP a long time before then?
    Hate to say it, but you can’t spin your way out of this one. The comment was one clearly suggesting that 1974 was too long of a wait. If you spin it to make it seem like he knew there was a PC Chinese MP before 1974, but forgot to add the word “Liberal” before “MP”, then it only makes it seem worse.

  34. “For those who are trying to spin this as if Dion meant to say “the first Liberal MP”, can I ask you a question…”
    No-one is trying to spin this. M. Dion’s speech would have been written for him. It is unlikely, given the context of a Liberal love-fest, that the writers would have gone out of their way to draw attention to a Conservative MP.
    Therefore, either they and/or he were ignorant of the Conservative MP, or the script was written as a litany of Liberal triumphs, and M. Dion deviated from the script.
    Read Steve Janke’s post again.
    Either way, it’s a gaffe, and the CBC etc. would probably have run with it if it were Stephen Harper because they are “out to get him” — and would have made much of it appearing on the Conservative website. But they are not “out to get” M. Dion.
    At the same time it’s not right to say that the MSM are “burying” the story, because it’s a minor speech and a relatively minor gaffe.

  35. I’m sure Mr Dion is a very nice person (and I don’t say that in a condescending way), but he would be a major disaster as a Prime Minister. He is not a leader, he cannot communicate in a coherent manner, and one needs to wonder if his incoherent speech is the product of a rather abstract type of mind.

  36. When I think of how eager my lefty friend was to go to Montreal as a D’yawn delegate it just cracks me up; HAHAHAHAHA
    Sorry, I just couldn’t, help myself there,….. hahahahaha…..snort.

  37. “No-one is trying to spin this.”
    That’s funny coming from the person who wrote:
    “Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.”

  38. I had to literally FORCE myself to watch that.
    You know that feeling of embarasment that you feel while watching someone else make a fool of themselves?
    That’s what I felt!

  39. I hated Archie Bunker, but next to Dijon, Archie’s like .. like Einstein, and Aristotle rolled into one!
    Best thing that could have happened to the Conservatives… by a MILE!!
    I would LOVE to see fottage of this wannabe attacking a hot dog with a knife and fork!! But I’d probably piss myself.

  41. Yeah – I’ve replaced the self-loading video with a link. As I said, though – I hope someone grabbed this in case it disappears.

  42. he comes across as an oaf.
    Yeah but in the immortal words of S. Dion, “Are you proud?”.

  43. “Perhaps M. Dion had in mind the first Liberal MP.”
    I sat through that illiterate prick’s painful speech twice and have no doubt that he meant to give the impression ’74 was the first ever chinese MP elected.
    Whether the misinformation was through ignorance or an attempt to mislead is another story.
    Given the sleazy track record of the LPC lately,it’s hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.
    And BTW,after two terms of Chretien’s excruciating voice,how dare the libs try to put english Canada through this embarrassing shit again.
    You know…..if you listen real close,he sounds kinda like a sped up version of Timmy from South Park.
    Timmeh!

  44. It’s all fun and games until you remember Chretien talked just like this turkey and he was considered hunky-dory by far too many Ontarians.

  46. “The rude language being used on this topic reflects poorly on the conservative movement.”
    Typical..unable to present a coherant argument so resort to crying foul or name calling.

  47. You have to be nice to Richard. He just got served a big can of whoop-ass by yours truly. 🙂
    But it’s okay. If he really felt rude language reflects bad on Conservatives, he should stay away from Jason Cherniak or Robert McLelland’s Blogs… he’d likely find he doesn’t have a home with any political movement.

  48. Chretien at least had some personality.
    This twerp is a 2×4. Everything is forced. Behind the reptile smiles lurks the pompous, pseudo intellectual. The veneer is thin. He thinks he’s above everybody.
    As he said about Iggy writing Lib policy. “He’s the best writer we have. Next to me.”
    One of the things that irks me the most is that he’s been in federal politics for 20 years and arrogantly hasn’t even attempted to learn proper English until now.
    He’s doomed.
    The Liberals are doomed.
    His English tutor is doomed.

  49. “Dat is not fair” said Borat Dion ” de next time I ‘ave to eat my ‘otdog with kniyfe an fark I will switch to eat with liddle sticks instead to show my sensy tivaty to da liddle Chinoiss piples”

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