“I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire hasever melted steel.”

Inspired by the Right Wing News selection for “The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007”, I am opening the comments for your submissions for Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007: Canickstan Edition.
My nomination:

“All these workers living too fast for the easy money in the north. It’s not good for the economy.” – Stephane Dion

Let’s see what others you can come up with, and I’ll post the selections in a few days.
Update – Related!

135 Replies to ““I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire hasever melted steel.””

  1. Canada needs more Group Actions .
    Dion , at his Calgary town hall ramblefest in January .

  2. Kate – I am quite astonished that you would start the New Year off by misquoting Mr. Dion. He didn’t say that. What he said was “All dese workers livin too fast for da izzy money in da nort. Izz not gut for da e-con-om-eee.”

  3. Prime Minister Stephen Harper: “I met the Dalai Lama in my office but I meet everyone in my office. I don’t know why I would sneak off to a hotel room just to meet the Dalai Lama. You know, he’s not a call girl.”
    …nor is he a jelly bean.

  4. All that idiotic ranting from AL GORE this wacko is completly unglued and this is the jerk who wont listen to reason

  5. I should have known Rosie’s “melting steel” tirade on the View was only the tip of the iceberg.
    Reading those remarks make me feel like I’ve just waded through a cesspool of stupidity, gotta go take a shower. 🙁

  6. … Nor are you a functioning member of society, lberia. Is that the best you can come up with against Evil Stevie? Come on, I’m sure the CBC invented some better quotes from him.
    That list provided in the link is truly scary. The good news? Most people know the loony left are, well, loony.

  7. “The people of Pakistan need to know that we’re going to stand with them against horrific violence such as this.”
    Jack bin Layton
    Sure Jack….just like you stood with the Americans after the horrific violence of 9-11.

  8. Taliban Jack, talking about BSE: “Another important issue is SARS. I was just talking to a cattle producer today who said the situation is worse now than when we were in the middle of SARS.”

  9. From mr lberia himself.
    Migrant workers aren’t really white, so they need to be treated differently: Take the seats out of a minivan and shove about 20 of them in because seatbelt rules don’t apply to non white foreigners (like it’s done in BC); make them work more than 40 hours per week without overtime pay because labour regulations don’t apply to non white foreigners(3w.canpay.com/manitoba.html); then, blame unions for interfering in how the plantation is being run. Pre-emptive floggings would have put a stop to this travesty

  10. 14) “Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in congress who refuses to save our union from these traitors by doing nothing needs to be recalled.” — Roseanne Barr
    And here I thought she supported the American troops. This woman is so stupid; she is too stupid to know it.

  11. My nomination for most obnoxious quote of 2007:
    “I write this public response to you because I believe that by its inaccuracy, innuendo, exaggeration and expressed malice towards hundreds of Canadian journalists you risk damaging not just your target, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but also public faith in our political process.”
    — John Cruikshank of the CBC, i.e., the institution whose inaccuracy, innuendo, exaggeration and expressed malice towards millions of non-Liberal-voting Canadians continues to destroy public faith in the profession of journalism. (Cruikshank issued the statement after having “reviewed” the Conservatives’ pre-Christmas fundraising letter to their own constituents.)

  12. Without going through reams of records, this one comes to mind:
    ” Mr. Speaker, last evening I was in the House to raise a question on behalf of my constituents. At that time, I saw the member for Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam with an open laptop on his desk and on the screen was an image of a scantily clad woman.”
    “Hon.” MP for London-Fanshawe, Irene Mathyssen.

  13. Note lberia, pretending he doesn’t understand what Harper meant. Typical behaviour from the likes of him, he probably also pretends Bush said Mandela is dead. Playing dumb sure comes naturally on beria’s side of the political spectrum.

  14. Actually, I know Roseanne Barr never supported the troops, I was just being facetious….just in case anyone thought I was registering on the Stupid Meter.
    A few of the people quoted need to bend over and be paddled by a long line of so-called’ idiots in the US military; a lot of pain and humility would do them good.

  15. lberia – please help me out; I don’t understand the reasoning behind your selection. To my understanding, the agenda is to provide obnoxious quotes.
    By this term (obnoxious) I understand that the statement must include a certain level of ignorance, as well as arrogance and even, insults.
    Mr. Harper was replying to the Liberal/NDP objections to his meeting the Dalai Lama on official or government grounds, ie, in his office. He was, quite correctly in my view, showing that THEIR questions and complaints were obnoxious.
    Could you explain, therefore, why you suggested this quote? Thanks.

  16. “It’s a noble bird because it has good family values. They stay together for 30 years,” Ignatieff said Thursday outside a Liberal caucus retreat in the Newfoundland capital.
    “They lay one egg (each year). They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. … They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell.
    “This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be.”
    ——————————————————————————–

  17. Irene Mathyssen; It was soft porn, Playboy kinda stuff. I know wat I saw and it is demeaning to womyn and…………..

  18. “The long, tiring, unproductive era of bickering between the provincial and federal governments is over.” — John Flaherty

  19. “McGuinty seems to prefer to become the small man of Confederation.” — Peter Van Loan
    [And I like Van Loan, but throwing out direct personal insults is no way to govern. That had a ‘beer and popcorn’ obnoxiousness to it.]

  20. “without my glasses I cant tell a horses derrier from an Alberta Tory” _Micheal Enright -CBCpravda journalist and non partisan type.

  21. What’s more incredible; that Harper is tied with Dion, the carrot, or that Harper has blown the environmental file twice in two years, despite the Liberal record?
    Do yourselves a favour and find the CRAP a new leader before Dion humiliates the Portly Minister in the general election.

  22. “I haven’t heard anyone say that the Taliban can be defeated, and nor do I believe that that’s possible”
    -Jack Layton

  23. “This prime minister has been more accessible, gives greater media scrums and provides deeper content than any prime minister has in the last 10 to 12 years” — Sandra Buckler

  24. “Small Dead Animals doesn’t speak for the people of Saskatchewan” – Forlorne Calvert – 2007 (RIP)

  25. December Hansard is pretty productive hunting ground.
    Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP)in the HOC December 6, 2007:
    “Mr. Speaker, what we are seeing is the same smoke and mirrors game that gets played by the Bush administration. It is exactly what we are seeing here and the big focus is on other countries. Let us focus on other countries and hope that nobody notices that our government here is permitting the biggest polluters to continue to pollute.
    The Prime Minister likes to say there are reductions for the biggest industrial sectors, but these reductions, so-called, allow them to pollute more, a lot more, and the rest of the world knows it. That is why they are not taking Canada seriously.
    Why is he trying to undermine international negotiations?”

  26. We have to focus more on rebuilding as opposed to combat…any left wing lunatic mouthpiece.

  27. “If they accept my homerun record with an asterisk I will boycott the Hall of Fame” Barry the “Juice” Bonds.

  28. Harper signals his desire to go even further than the recognition of “nation”. A commentary suggests at least more special status that singles out Quebec and implies constitutional change, and the media, other than the interview in La Presse, ignore it.
    “Je veux assurer les Québécois et les autres que nous n’avons pas oublié cette motion. Nous reconnaissons qu’on devra faire plus pour vraiment continuer dans cette voie positive. La population du Québec cherche une solution, comme je dis, nationaliste, et le reste du pays veut une solution qui peut garder un Québec fort au sein du Canada. C’est la raison pour laquelle je n’ai pas l’intention d’oublier cette motion. J’ai l’intention de continuer à faire des choses, étape par étape, sur le terrain pour assurer cet avenir.” — Stephen Harper

  29. Danny Whine for Wine Williams before accepting the payola from the rest of Canada – the feller dat cant add.
    “Over the last month, I have cautioned the Canadian people about the trustworthiness of this government, and their propensity to provide misleading and inaccurate information to further their own interests,” Williams said

  30. Nothing to add, just seconding (tenthing?) the nomination of the ‘izzy monny’ quote, which was repeated, never modified, never excused or withdrawn.
    It is a perfect example of the contempt the likes of Dion have for the West, workers, and wealth creators.

  31. “Obviously the Liberal party opposes the change we have made, which is to give the police a voice in this process. I am not surprised, given what I am reading in The Vancouver Sun today, when I read this how the Liberal party makes decisions: “The Vancouver Sun has learned that the father-in-law of the member of Parliament for Mississauga–Brampton South–“. (MPs start shouting: “Shame! Shame!”) — Stephen Harper, smearing the Liberals by trying to link them to Sikh terrorists
    “I can understand the passion that the leader of the opposition and members of his party feel for Taliban prisoners. I just wish occasionally they would show the same passion for Canadian soldiers.” — Stephen Harper smearing the Liberals by trying to link them to Muslim terrorists
    “When the leader of the Opposition is able to stand in uniform and serve his country, then I’ll care about his opinion of the performance of the minister of defence.” — Stephen Harper trying to say that he doesn’t really care about the opinion of Canadians who disagree with him
    Just like Bush can (and does: http://www.slate.com/id/76886/) fill whole books on moronic statements, Harper could fill whole books on abnoxious statements. Too bad for him too. If he wasn’t such a petty little uber-partisan man – and left the dirty work of politics to underlings the way other PMs have, instead of relishing it for himself – and acted like he cared about all Canadians, then he’d have found himself higher in the polls now than he was on election day. Alas for him, it is just not in his DNA to be a statesman.

  32. Ted, your conclusion is illogical and invalid. Nothing in Harper’s statement suggests what you conclude that: “A commentary suggests at least more special status that singles out Quebec and implies constitutional change”
    You obviously don’t understand the nature of decentralization. Ah well. Harper is talking about the original intent of the BNA act, which was a federation, not a centralized dominion run by Ottawa.
    And that is what Harper is always referring to – a federation, with more powers to the provinces instead of the corrupted mess that the Liberals left us with – ie, a centralized nation with an authoritarian Ottawa governing in isolate ignorance.
    It’s best to base your conclusions, ted, on knowledge rather than ignorance.

  33. Easy Money!!!
    I’ll tell you what easy money is … it’s being a university professor … Professor Dion.
    Those folks up in northern Alberta work their butts off and have a short career. There are no sabbaticals or tenure and the likelihood of serious injury is great. They also must leave their families for long periods of time. The pension plans are negligible when you consider that no one stay on that job for a very long time. Those people are akin to being in the armed services. They do us a great service and danger is everywhere
    Dion is a disgrace to this country if that’s even possible after all the years of Liberal governments. And he is indeed the cherry on the stupid Liberal sundae.

  34. “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.”
    Of course everyone knows that you make that ‘alloy’ called steel, by fusing iron and carbon together in a refrigerator.
    A coke oven is where they make coca cola.

  35. My favourite quote is neither obnoxious nor from 2007, but it is something we would do well to remember.
    President Reagan convened a cabinet meeting. All the atendees were anxiously awaiting his presentation.
    He entered, and said ” Gentlemen, I hate inflation, I hate high taxes and I hate Communism. Do something about it”.
    He then left the room.

  36. “The written word, condensed, fractured and often discombobulated by cyberspace, is unique.”
    Sheila Copps.

  37. This is my last for today, but I think it is probably the most obnoxious, maybe even a winner for the year 2007:
    “OK, whoa! You live in the United States of America. This is a country where Evangelical Christianity has ascended to the highest ranks of power, where conservative social values drawn and justified by the bible are imposed on people every day….They shoot abortion doctors in the United States of America! …Homophobia is rampant!….Is there a school where they teach you these American clichés?”
    heard right on our very own CBCPravda, on June 11. Avi Lewis…come on down and get your well-deserved prize.

  38. “You (ban smoking in) cars and then what? Do you get into people’s homes?” – Dalton McGuinty February 8 2007
    “The car is a kind of personal space. On the other hand, as a parent, I think the idea of smoking inside a car is reprehensible. Kids have no choice in the matter at all so I think it’s an important debate to have.” – Dalton McGuinty December 10 2007
    When it comes to principles he’s like a feather in a tornado.

  39. The entire non-apology from the hostile feminist CBC chick re: the doctored photo fiasco is my nomination. In particular, I found the use of quotation marks around “warming filter” to be the most obnoxious punctuation I have ever seen in my entire life:

    “We made a mistake…In this case, the original image was treated with a “warming filter,” which gave it the sepia tone, and cropped slightly to use as a graphic image. Fair enough, except it was – mistakenly – dropped in a file accessible for use with news stories and subsequently posted with the Baird story.”

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006051.html

  40. from that most believable of sources the Goracle.
    “He was known to be the best passer of all time, Bobby Hull’
    I love this contest

  41. Ted…thanks for reminding us off some of the best moments in the HoC where our PM once again demonstrated his backbone and fortitude with some great smackdowns…even tho you tried put you T.ed( TO editor?) slant on them.
    For my vote it’s a tossup between izzy money and puffin poop. If I had time I’m sure I could find a real shallow hypocritically obnoxious quote from Suzuki.

  42. from dizzy miss lizzy may – talk of the environmental record.
    “a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis”

  43. ” I have an average sized penis”— Dr. Suzuki on the nature of things. not in 2007 , but years ago.
    see he always made things up.

  44. I didn’t mind Kathy Griffin’s comments about God. It was a nice change from those who loudly and publically thank God every time something good happens to them, which was what, I believe, she was satirizing.
    As if God gives a damn who scores a touchdown or wins an award.

  45. Not obnoxious, but a knee-slapper by our friend Ted, proclaiming a 50/50 split in the media:
    ———————-
    Pretty much every city in the US, certainly in the north and California, has at least two major dailies, one more or less “left” in your view and one more or less right. That doesn’t count the fact that most of the papers and media in southern states are distinctly conservative. Or the fact that Sun Media – which you can argue is not “truly” conservative, but it certainly isn’t left or liberal – is the largest media company in our entire country.
    The Vast Leftwing Media Conspiracy is only sustainable if you ignore over half of the media. In fact, it is only sustainable if you pick and choose media and pick and choose articles within that media.

  46. 1. “I want my Canada back” -Liberal MP Ken Dryden
    2. “The PM is a political whore” -Liberal MP Barf Turner
    3. “Some people call me a hero” – Liberal Leader Stephane Dion on his enviroment “record”.

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