Followed by the networks continued waiting… waiting… waiting… for Dion’s taped response…. air time filled with CTV’s Lloyd Robertson, Craig Oliver and “analyst” Peter Donolo spinning on behalf of the missing Liberal leader.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
Update… and still waiting… though there are unconfirmed reports leaking out that a man of the general size and description of Michael Ignatieff was seen running down a street in Ottawa with something clutched in his hand….
7:29 Central… Lloyd Robertson: “Apparently the tape has not shown up yet, may not show up yet…. Goodbye for now”
Update … more unconfirmed reports that Dion is still working at the tape do-overs…
And he’s here! Incoherent (out of focus… wtf?) and …. live?
Webcam?
And it’s over. Marcia McMillan looks stunned…
From the comments – “Check out the book over Dion’s right shoulder. The title is “Hot Air”. No kidding !!”
This will be Youtube gold.
Note – I’m watching on CTV Newsnet, but apparently, the main network didn’t get it on air at all and finally cut back to regular programming. Yowza.
Jack must love that he had to take a back seat and wait as Gille “not mentioned in the coalition” Duceppe was able to respond first.
That whole “Three Stooges” thing is looking less like a metaphor all the time!
Update: The Leader of the Not-Quite-Ready-For-CTV-Primetime-Coalition addresses the nation from his bunker.
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/clip118347#clip118347
waiting…dum de dah…waiting…mmmm…bits and bites….waiting….
That was short and sweet.
Wonder if the other speechwriters are scrambling to avoid plodding on for more than 4:44minutes!
Some Liberal hack on the CBC named Don Newman is spinning to the nth degree.
Oh wait a minute . . .
Did you guys see Craig Oliver’s hissy fit?!!!? What a joke — the man needs to retire, and soon.
no sign of dion yet; maybe they decided to take over iceland while they were at it
Steffie Dion, a man of action! . . . eventually.
CityTV’s coverage isn’t bad – had Peter Van Loan on right after PMSH, he spoke quite well & wasn’t drawn in by the interviewer’s offsides.
Is that Craig “how does cutting people’s taxes put money back in their pockets” Oliver.
Trudeau’s old canoeing buddy & lifelong closet Liberal ?
How many do-overs does Dion need to get this thing taped and delivered, anyway?
Wow, the networks Harper and Dion a 30 min window, and he has 3 minutes by my clock to show up. This man wants to lead the nation?
Saw it on CBC – watching Mansbridge, Boag and Newman trying to minimize the BQ’s involvement etc. was too sickening – I turned it off.
Again I am reminded of how the press conducted itself during the Charlottetown accord referendum. They are a part of the Old Canada Elite – they hate Harper because he is such a threat to how they like things done – in the backroom and over big company corporate boardrooms. This upcoming trouncing of the oppo parties will set them reeling…
This is too funny!!!!!
Boag says it’s a 2 party coalition, not 3; Mansbridge says Trudeau and Levesque negotiated all the time
And this guy wants to be PM????
Dion….missing in action.
Apparently Layton is scrambling to replace him.
Dion is asking for a restart?
Okay, I’ve got to ask … are Craig Oliver’s eyes glued open?
Dumb Dion!
Canada’s entire media is ready and waiting to report the greatest speech ever, and the twit can’t even show up.
Stephen Harper is trying to run this country, the Troika is playing partisan games. European style coalitions include the party that “wins” the election thus any Canadian coalition must include the Conservatives….
What is so diffucult about this that no-ne seems to get it. Go ahead, start having coalition governments, but all they are a formalized minority governments. Gawd!
If this takes another election so be it…I’m on board , and I’ll be working it like never before!
Dion’s having do-overs….. and more do-overs.
Actually, he wants an election do-over.
“Qualition?”
Wot dat?
the loooooooooooooooong tape delay makes me wonder if Steffi is having a hard time getting his coalition partners to approve his speech ??
Picture this.
Command at Alert report Russian troops establishing maneuvors within Canadian territory.
We now go Prime Minister Stephane Dion…..
tick tick tick
Dion will need three takes to get it right. It’ll be a while. The ear problem is probably a little worse today too.
Focus!
the tape hasn’t “shown up yet;” did they send it c.o.d?
uh… Blind partisan fooding?
Dion’s address is on CBC, but not on CTV. I guess he thought the coalition already abolished all non-state owned media.
Haha – you couldn’t have written this for a play! The man couldn’t deliver a 5 minute tape! And you want to run the country, or worse, a rag-bag coalition of socialists and separatists?
Liberals, behold your leader!
CBC Newsworld has Dion-o-gong blathering, but CTV Newsnet doesn’t. Wtf?
Ah… the Libtard connection and preferences assert themselves once again.
My local CTV station has gone to Access Hollywood. No Steffie at all.
Hahaha, Dion’s looks like it was filmed for a junior high civics class. And it took him three tries to pronounce “significantly”.
a fence post with hair would be better tan Stephane. What a pathetic loser. He says he a nd Layton made a deal…he can’t even count to 3!
It took them an extra 30 minutes to edit out the worst of his franglais so that the general public could actually understand him. Apparently it was all for naught….
Makes you wonder if he is retaping the whole segment, if he was expecting to address the PM saying he was going to Proroge….hmmmmmmmm
As in major rewrite and “do-over”
Imagine if they let him on live?
Networks wont be happy at all that their expensive airtime got prempted for more than the block alloted.
Nonetheless….CtV and CBC are pretty brutal in saying, why are we here, nothing new.
Harpers message….we are working on this, have been working on this and we have a budget to come. No Paul Martin pleading…thanks god….
Also the Quebec commentators dont get it….they are saying he burned bridges…..ulm, look thats what happens when you dont vote for them. there is more fish to be had hanging the NDP and Liberals with a trucking with seperatist lodestone than there is trying woo soft nationalists…..just the way it is.
Liberals are going to have a hard time in Montreal. This is soveriegnty association…the quebec “national” party cuts a deal with the ROC party. And all thanks to Dion and Layton.
Yup this is what Canadians wanted.
Dion didn’t understand the question. “A tape? In Anglais?”
What did these morons expect?
And the spin that Harper set this off is pathetic. They’ve all heard the Layton tape.
Oh, oh, here’s the French citizen. Can somebody please put English subtitles up?
I can’t, I won’t believe this.
Geezus… watching this turd Dion on TV makes me wish someone would walkup to him, live on TeeVee, and give him a wet willie.
The tape started part way through. Who starts a speech with the word Jobs.
Anyone else notice the book over Dion’s right shoulder. Sums up his coalition nicely.
EVEN WITH ALL OF THE DO OVERS DION COULD NOT GET IT RIGHT
EVEN WITH ALL OF THE DO OVERS DION COULD NOT GET IT RIGHT
keith boag looks like a spinning top
Check out the book over Dion’s right shoulder. The title is “Hot Air”. No kidding !!
Shorter Steffie: Let me be PM, I’ll leave in a few months.
anyone else see the book behind Dion that was titled HOT AIR. I’m not even joking it was there
Nice campaign speech by Dion – when do we get to vote?
Bob blinky Fife just slagged Dionne for not having his Prime Ministerial address ready for prime time….bawahahahaha!!!!
This is the wildest game of political poker I’ve ever seen…it’s like watching Maverick play Yogi, Booboo and Deputy Dawg.
Oh wait….Booboo is giving his address via his web cam….bawahaaaaaaaa!!!
All I learned from that was that Steffi’s mom has a nice basement.
*snork*
Syncro
“I whant, to buay, a ehmbruger.”
“I woooont, to bayyy, a hambreuger?”
“I want, to beeeeay, a hamburrrr-gerrrr!”
anyone else see the book behind Dion that was titled HOT AIR. I’m not even joking it was there
Unbelievable….the Corpse get’s it (the tape) but other networks are going nuts….2 minutes, just 2 more minutes….just 2 more minutes…what a bunch of dorks…..oh wait we have Jack ready to go at the live mike….oh wait Graig’s eyes have shut…..call the para-medics.
Bverwey