Playing hardball … fuddle duddle eh!
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has advised The Canadian Press he intends to sue the national news agency for defamation for a headline it ran on a story featuring controversial comments he made on a home-movie videotape made more than 16 years ago.
“The headline of the article is false and defamatory of Premier Wall and, given the breadth of its publication, is likely to result in significant damage to Premier Wall’s reputation,” says the letter from the premier’s lawyers, dispatched Friday to The Canadian Press.
The headline, published Thursday, referred to the release of a video by Saskatchewan’s opposition NDP that showed disparaging comments from Wall, current Saskatchewan Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski, and others who were working on the 1991 provincial re-election campaign of then-Tory leader Grant Devine.
Update:
Brad Wall announced this morning that he will not proceed with the suit.
So much for growing some.
One point that seems to be ignored here is the fact that back in the ’80s & ’90s the term faggot, when not applied to a burning stick or cigarette, usually had anti-liberal overtones. A person who voted wimpy left was questioned about his sexual preference and moral compass. I can’t help but wonder how much of the use of the word faggot was predicated on the anti-liberal sentiment in the room of conservatives.
“Teflon” Brad’s lawsuit threat is just a way of deflecting negative attention from the hateful comments in the video.
I guess some people don’t have a problem with the threat of sending letter bombs to Union leaders either.
Don’t feed the manatee.
“Well if you think Lukiwski’s sentiments are just fine, then say it loud and say it proud. I know you do, but what about Harper and co. Are all Conservatives cowards as well as knuckle dragging troglodytes?”
A fine example of the point I made upstream, i.e. You can’t play with skunks without getting sprayed.
As far as disseminating a videotape made at a drunken party nearly two decades ago, it’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing other than the weak debating tactics of the Left, and their MSM minions.
As for the comments themselves, a fellow named
Samuel Clemens said it well:
“We all have thoughts that would shame the Devil.”
Fortunately, most of us aren’t being videotaped at the time, or having our videotapes or diaries or love letters or any other private property relased with a flourish for publication many years later.
Brad wall why would you keep this going, you have four year’s to prove this is B.S. Destroy the ndp with good govmn’t . If you react to every hack that come’s at you that’s all people will vote on.Yes I have to listen to the lefthugger’s having their laugh at coffee row .but I can take it. Now give me some legislation good for sask. and i’ll laugh back. deed’s are the only counter to slur’s! Somthing that the left will hate would be nice . Like controling the hrc insask. thank you
Personally I don’t think that lawsuits are necessary. People who actually believe MSM and leftist tripe will not have their opinions changed by the result of a lawsuit nor will it be honestly reported. What Brad (and other conservatives in solidarity) should do is no longer permit Canadian Press (or any other organization that carried the story) to attend press conferences until they issue a A1 above the fold apology. These companies make money by having access, so we should remove the access and the pieces should fall into place.
I think we need to look under the “petty” dipper’s rocks.
The most common Government Contact that would favor the union bosses is “Cost-Plus”. The Labor Costs are passed back through the contract to the Government resulting in unlimited Union Candy (overtime). This results in “huge” over costs to the taxpayer.
a) Did the NDP engage in Cost-Plus contracting?
b) The twining of #1 trans Canada between Regina & Manitoba border has gone on more than >15 years. This is ~130 miles of clay based flat prairie. What has been the total cost per mile, including Government agencies & Crowns? Was it a Cost-Plus Contract?
BTW: Cost-plus Contracts are only entered into when both the Client & Vendor have an unknown task/risk that can’t be identified or Bid. The Client must manage the costs diligently.
A simple, but nauseating, example of the alternate universe the Canadian media live in was in today’s Toronto Star. The concept of decency, respect for another’s private feelings, or even simple courtesy just escapes this so-called “journalist”:
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Prime Minister silent after Auschwitz tour
TheStar.com – Canada – Prime Minister silent after Auschwitz tour
Prime Minister Stephen Harper. After signing memorial book, Harper also toured Birkenau, last stop on his two-day trip to Poland
April 06, 2008
Allan Woods
Ottawa Bureau
OSWIECIM, POLAND–Prime Minister Stephen Harper uttered not a word of reflection to the Canadian public following his visit to Auschwitz yesterday. The intensely private political leader took a tour on behalf of Canada at the world’s most public testament to the World War II depravities of Germany’s Nazi regime.
He didn’t speak after kneeling before a red-and-white wreath at the camp’s Death Wall memorial, where thousands of prisoners were executed, though he did appear to be moved.
He didn’t speak after emerging from the claustrophobic gas chamber and crematorium, the lethal machine of Nazi terror. He left just one reflection of three sentences, written in blue ink in a leather-bound memorial book.
“We are witness here to the vestiges of unspeakable cruelty, horror and death. Let us never forget these things and work always to prevent their repetition,” he wrote.
“Lord, bless the souls of those who have suffered and perished here and deliver us from evil.”
That statement was the only clue Canadians have as to what was in Harper’s mind as he bore witness to the depravity of Auschwitz, where upward of one million Jews were exterminated, along with more than 100,000 Poles, Gypsies and homosexuals.
Nice to see Mr. Wall find his spine. Pity he couldn’t have found it a couple days ago when this circus came to town.
Maybe a trip to court will serve notice on the MSM in this country that smearing conservatives is no longer acceptable.
Here’s an idea for those who are pissed at the news media. It’s quite childish & petty but who cares?
(Copied from comments on another blog)
To all of the people who want to fight. Here is a nice little mean spirited nusiance way of fighting back.
If your favorite TV radio magazine or newspaper allows leters to the editor to be faxed in then write the letter on a small 3 X 3 inch piece of white paper. Then tape that paper to a 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of BLACK paper and fax it.
By the time the fax on their end finishes printing their fax machine will be out of toner.
Like I said, petty but who cares? Have a nice day.
Patrick:
I’m think I know why PMSH offered no comment.
I’m sure it’s because the Holocaust was his fault.
Good. It is time to hold these msm clowns feet to the fire. They have gotten away with their defamation for far too long. Those who appropriated private property and the released it to the media should also be sued.
On the edition of today’s Toronto Star. Page A2.
I saw the header in print. “Prime Minister silent after Auschwitz tour. I may be off the mark here but I sort of felt the journalist Alan Woods(Ottawa Bureau) was invoking a powerful statement. This statement has been revised and no doubt misquoted many times.
It was by Pastor Niemoller. Heading two sentences with “He didn’t speak after kneeling…..” and “He didn’t speak after emerging…..” Later on in the article it went on “with barely a public word spoken to explain his trip, express empathy…..”
Again I may have this subject and unkind piece wrongly trying to tie the Prime Minister with Niemoller’s
indictment.
“First they came for the Communists and I DID NOT SPEAK. Niemoller goes on to say and I DID NOT SPEAK. Then saying that when they came for there was nobody left to speak etc.
Nasty unecessary stuff by this man Woods.
John Luft : ” … released it to the media”
I can’t believe that a NDPer or MSM would do anything that “noble”.
http://tinyurl.com/4389cs
re: PMSH not speaking after his Auschwitz tour:
Umm, perhaps read the comments he wrote, “unspeakable cruelty”. What more could he say?
wendy.g: Well said! One of my friends Mom’s best line was: If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.
I say let the Liar’s and Dipper’s hang them selfs with all of this crap. People go to work every day expecting that their government is taking care of business and that they should not have to worry. Canada no longer has to worry when their Prime Minister leaves the country, wondering if “(he(s))” is going to embarrass Canada. Stephen Harper has done a good job on the international stage, I for one no longer hang my head in shame, I hold my head high, proud of our country and our Prime Minister. This is what will make our country strong. Harper’s not a lawyer, he is a Canadian and from what I see there are more than a few in this country that could take some lessons. Especially in politics and media.
This tag team effort between liberal leftists and the media against conservative leadership is pathetically desperate.
Are all Conservatives cowards as well as knuckle dragging troglodytes?
—manny
Not one conservative here seems to want to stoop down to your level.
I guess you will have to try harder.
Good luck…
For dicussion. Another example.
If you had a group of people that privately produced a warning tape that discusses for example that homosexuals are disease carriers with the group of people on the tapes intent not to make it public and then someone else finds this old tape and takes the tape to have it aired on TV without the permission of the people on the tape. Would this be promoting hate? Who is promoting the hate, the people on the tape that never intended to have the tape aired or the person that takes it to have it put on the air without the permission of the people on the tape. This is the argument Ahenakew made about the reporter. He new his statements may be published, whereas the people on the tape new it would not. Some people told the person with the tape not to use this. The person with the camera was told “X-rated you cannot publish that x-rated”. Someone published that.
Disgraced conservative??? Pmsh should punish this man harshly .much like the libs have done with some of their disgrased members!!! A senate seat like Mr Rock got????
Disgraced conservative??? Pmsh should punish this man harshly .much like the libs have done with some of their disgrased members!!! A senate seat like Mr Rock got????
Don’t forget the Sask Conservatives are not the Sask Party. One owes the other money. Someone did not receive something. Job, position, and etc..
Patrick B. and set you free – you have never been to Auschwitz I would almost guarantee; if you had been you would know that after a tour in that place a person cannot speak, you cannot trivialize the magnitude of the horror that lingers there with words.
I heard that journalists wanted to question the P.M. about the ‘yellow tape’ and PUNISHMENT for Mr. Lukiwski, after that tortureous tour. Imagine the revulsion a sane person would feel getting questions like that in a place like Auschwitz? Our Prime Minister must have felt his stomache retch in shame , for the ‘inquiring fools’. The press people are grotesque.
I agree with the Phantom re Premier Brad Wall.
The Question Period on CTV was a public shameing of the people that run that show. They sank to new lows that even I would have never believed possible. The press outfit and that new Puffin M.P. oozed self righteousness. Why were they sitting there squirming in gnome like glee? Maybe because the only topic that they seem capable of understanding is something involving sex and/or the private lives/conversations of people who are not following the ‘CONTROL the peons’ agenda laid out for them by someone who wants carbon taxes, poverty, and slavery for all people. These agenda setters are Human haters, they loath their fellow man. The press gang should read a few books written by Solzhenitsyn (a gulag tortured, hunted Soviet citizen who was once a Soviet Officer); he tells of the fate of ‘useful idiots’. Did any of those people ever read anything but National Enquirer and the ‘slop and pail’ during their lifetimes?
Sorry for the long rant Kate.
Jema54, I wish there was a little thumbs up icon I could throw you way. Well said.
Jema54, I wish there was a little thumbs up icon I could throw you way. Well said.
Sure and they won’t show the “Mohammed cartoons” even ONCE but I’ve now seen these “shocking” scenes TWICE without even trying. Aren’t they worried that someone, “B men” everywhere, could be offended and someone else maybe assaulted somewhere down the line? Isn’t this exactly what Levant and Steyn did? Is the CEEB going to join MacLeans in the CHRC docket? Yeah right.
“But,But,But, he doesn’t even look like Gamil Gharbi.”
I used to use that alias đŸ™‚
Patrick B – I did not read the first line in your post; I am sorry that I inferred, by addressing you in my post, that you did not know how a ghastly place like Auschwitz can rob a sane person of speech.
Allen Woods (the author) must be quite a ‘piece of work’. Thank-you for reproducing his far from noble scribble to highlight, for the rest of us, how truly under educated, ill mannered, and ignorant are the people who work in the Canadian press mess.
I wonder if the ‘sensitive’ small minded fools encountered some people in Poland who were smoking cigarettes, in public places? Did some smoke actually enter their lungs? Were the press prissies ‘mouth breathing’ instead of using their nostrils? (that of course would require keeping their big yaps shut, not probable) Oh the horror that those people must have endured in all that tobacco smoke – why would I mention something so revolting? – Well I wonder if any of them apologized for Canada’s Nazi type tobacco smoking bans to the friends and family of the late Mr.Dziekanski, who probably died in the sterile confines of the Vancouver airport because of a nicotine deprivation or a nicotine overdose via ‘quit smoking’ drugs? I didn’t see anything on this – did I miss something?
The only thing likely to damage Brad Wall’s reputation is his behavior and all his apologists trying to cover up for the shameful and shameless actions.