(bumped) the "Catgastrogaffe" scandal grows... How Ignatieff’s war room handles a crisis"
Seriously, for someone who claims to be an Internet guru, he is exceptionally naïve – like this time, when he seemed to think a Nigerian scam-mail letter was real; or this time, when he bought into an Internet hoax about cell phones – and then deleted his embarrassing responses to same. I wonder if Kinsella has liquid paper all over his computer screen. [...]
Is this the template for how Ignatieff will handle other crises in the future? No campaign is error-free; no chatty politician, let alone a team of them, can get through a campaign without making gaffes. A war room cannot stop gaffes from happening, but they can try to defuse them as soon as possible. Kinsella turned a one-day minor story into half a week and counting – and his blamestorming “apology” will only irritate anyone who actually reads it, though I’m not sure the 200,000+ readers of Sing Tao are all clicking their way over to Kinsella’s site right now.
In the interest of fairness and balance - "Lots of people do eat cat."
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I disagree. Hopefully, he does lose his job.
Heh - first ever "Minister's Award for Culinary Excellence in Multicultural Cuisine".
Plus! - "If the free-speech Nazis get their way, Catsmeat will be free to do even more of his sick racist So-this-Chinese-restaurateur-walks-into-the-Humane-Society "jokes".
another "special K " moment in time....i love it when the party of inclusion implodes... well its time for supper. i think we're having pig's ass and cabbage.lol
He's one of Canada's leading assholes and he should lose his job. Anyone else committing such a politically incorrect blunder would certainly be punished for it.
Not that what he said was so bad, but that he has lambasted so many others for the same thing.
He is a man-child hypocrite but then, he must know that. His narcissism won't allow him to feel remorse.
I picture the plucky Chretienites self-flagellating in disgust, crying, "why did we load up Section 13 with all this crap, truth is no defense, hurt feelings, likely to cause contempt. What were we thinking?"
Pass the chopsticks.
No quarter for the self-described "ass kiker"
He can throw a punch, let's see him take a few.
Iggy can fire him and stay clean, or be tarred by Kinsella's scuzzy, slimy bottom feeding reputation.
When you lay down with a pig, you smell like a pig.
Iggy, your choice.
Ignatieff should fire him because he's a political liability, and a link to the Chretien era.
I've
always disliked Warren because of the "Barney" stunt he had them pull on Stockwell Day, one of the more decent people in politics.
Has this hit the MSM yet? Nothing will happen unless it does since Kinsella's relevance doesn't extend beyond Canadian blogs (and he's barely relevant to those who do follow the blogs).
People like Kinsella are so self absorbed that I doubt the impact of this scenario will even faze him and should he escape unscathed then don't expect any real remorse or introspection on his part.
Warren plain and simple got his "ass caught in the wringer" by trying to appear cool to his audience when in fact it was no more than an illuminating insight into Warren's rather insecure psyche.
What may prove to be the saddest part of this paper dragon could be WK missing the perfect opportunity to readdress his so called racist warrmanmongering tendencies and realize that a big chunk of life's everyday humour is in fact accomplished by embelllishing our thoughts at the harmless expense of ourselves or others at that place fondly known as the Theater of the Absurd!
Shake a leg Warren and remember that what goes around comes around.
I would be concerned if Igbert fired Kinswaila. It would show a modicum of discernment. We don't want that in any libleader - better to have Warren implode at a more appropriate time.
"Hopefully, he does lose his job."
Why? He's a liability to the Liberals. Remember, Mr. Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics couldn't even kick my ass...or yours. Leave this chump right where he belongs; giving Iggy bad advice.
I agree with Kate.
Special K made a career out of branding others as racist and playing "gotcha politics". Now his own virtues are biting him in the ass...
I hope he loses his job. I feel no pity for his family if he does, as they, themselves have benefited from his games. Do you think the chicken they're eating tonight was bought with Warren's purity? I feel no shame in reveling at the thought that they very same vile system he helped create may now take him down. Justice will be served and served well if that happens, and, if it does, I'll head over to the flea and dance...
Re Kathy's points, I agree, to a degree. The PC crap sucks and shouldn't exist. That said, we need libtard help to get rid of it and that won't happen until a few more of them get stung...
I think he should be fired simply because he's an ass and I don't like him. He's the blogosphere's number one arse for dragging people into court, or the HRC.
I will light a Macanudo and sip a whisky-sour in celebration if he ends up kicking his lunch pail down the road.
"Why? He's a liability to the Liberals. Remember, Mr. Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics couldn't even kick my ass...or yours. Leave this chump right where he belongs; giving Iggy bad advice."
I'll make a notation for my memoirs. Robert actually has an excellent point here.
Couldn't agree more, Kate. He should lose his job for this. I've sent an email to Ignatieff saying as much.
My take, K-man has done nothing wrong. Zero. He printed words on the internet. A lame-o joke. That's nothing.
And because he's done exactly nothing, he should get NAILED TO THE WALL in exactly the same fashion as others have been nailed to the wall by him and his buddies in the anti-hate industry.
Perhaps the object lesson of seeing one of their own nailed up will instill a molecule of common sense into his fellow morons.
The K-man himself, I do not think he comprehends the gravity of his situation. Probably doesn't know what TV show that's a quote from, either. You cannot teach a stone to polka.
nah!...i play hardball....especially with someone as morally bankrupt as this punk clown....
....i say fire his raddled pasty hypocritical mick(and i speak as an albino irish catholic backsliding recidivist with a face like a plateful of mortal sins bedad) ass...when's he going to learn papa jean ain't around to cover asses no mo'?
....and i encourage any 'progressive' Celestials out there to file a blizzard of complaints to the CHRC about their hurt feelings....
Wow, Rube-ert made perfect sense. I'm going to look outside to see if there's a rain of toads to go with that anomaly.
What yea sow, shall you reap. How can one feel any other way. What goes around comes around. So sad to bad.
yun yee yit cheen gam...
translate that SVP would you dp...?
“Et Tu, Brute?”
Thus falls another petty tyrant. I bet he's to radioactive even for the Infernal HRC's now.
okay okay...mebbe i went over the top...it's just that being irish and all...and spending a lifetime living with the shame of being of the race that in the olden time 'ate it's young'.....and doing all i could to live down that fact and be respectful of other folks and all and then seeing a fellow murphy being so insensitive and all..well, i just snap.
I am not at all surprised to see that Warrin' Kantswalla is finally attempting to find refuge in that hoary old chestnut which affords little merit but is a definite "tell" of a racist twit. He's not doing to well for a wee Irish laddie with an Eye-Talian name.
ALL together now, from the top, let's have the Warrin' Kantswalla Song of Redemption:
". . . but, but BUT...some of my best friends happen to be people of the Chinese persuasion . . . and they all think that I'm just one huge hilarious fellow . . ." Well they certainly laugh at me.
Regarding Warrin'? I'd have to quote my sagacious uncle from Dog River:
Jack-ASSSS!
tj
t. e. & o. e.
Tune in next week when Kinsella goes to an Italian restaurant and shows his culturally-sensitive side by blogging about how it must be run by the mafia.
Then tune in 2 days later as the post disappears, and new posts gushing about his many Italian friends.
But on a serious note, David Akin mentioned that Kinsella apologised. Is there any truth to that? No link was available. Anyone?...
Really, the less said about iggy thingie the better.
Don't give any attention to it at all.
Just let the aggrieved parties pursue their complaint if they want.
Shit disturbers are energy vampires.
They feed on attention.
Any attention is good attention.
That is all they understand.
I read that blog every day when it seemed sensible, for a while.
And then I realized I was feeding the monster with my hits.
I don't feed the monster anymore.
Call it a new year's resolution.
Last year, Liberal MP Raymond Chan wrote a news release calling for the removal of Conservative MP Alice Wong because of her "extreme views," including her ties with a family values association: "Significant evidence has surfaced of (Alice Wong's) extreme views on refugees, the environment and the rights of women." Chan described "the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association," which Alice Wong donated money to, as "an extreme fundamentalist organization." He declaimed, "It is intolerable that any individual seeking public office would provide financial support for such extreme activities."
Extreme. "A number of Alice Wong's...extreme views recently became public," he said. Example: "(she)...called the Kyoto Protocol 'a great lie.'" This, in the context of his demand for her resignation.
He also considered Alice Wong's refusal to publicly recant her non-LPC views a self-evident outrage which necessitated her removal as a candidate: "On Friday Sept. 26th 2008," Chan wrote, "Ms. Wong was quoted as saying that 'her positions on the questions of same-sex marriage and abortion had never changed.'"
"Either Alice Wong must do the honourable thing and resign," said Liberal MP Raymond Chan, "or Stephen Harper himself needs to remove her as a candidate."
See, the job requirement for being a Liberal staffer or MP or part of the Liberal "team" includes not only constant expressions of faux outrage when people from other parties don't hold the LPC's own views, but also demands for the firing/resignation of such offenders.
By their own massively self-righteous standards, Kinsella should be out the door. He has gone to ridiculous lengths to excoriate others for their putative "racism," and whenever he has done so, nasty partisanship is always the propellant. So if, while he's an advisor to the Liberal-PM-in-waiting, he blithely floats -- writes publicly, AND publishes a vanity-vid of him repeating the slur -- one of the most pernicious racist slurs extant he should be fired for abject stupidity if nothing else. .
This isn't a freedom of speech issue in the slightest degree. It's about the organization he represents, and in this case, the organization he represents shamelessly excoriates non-racists and non-misogynists for racism and misogyny for no other reasons than partisan advantage and to draw public funds to their supporters' hands.
In the same way that you don't get fired for cheating on your wife unless, say, you're an ordained minister, and you don't get fired for playing defense for the Calgary Flames unless you're an Edmonton Oiler, you shouldn't necessarily be fired for making a racist slur -- unless you're an advisor to a Liberal leader, in which case, there's no redeemable excuse.
Kinsella's toast, IMO.
BTW, if an adviser to Stephen Harper had made the identical comment, and published it on a blog, do you think it wouldn't be all over CBC/CTV/the Star, etc etc? This is just one more piece of evidence of the pure hypocrisy of the chattering bureaucrat-journos.
And YES. I too hope that he gets turfed. AND sued, really sued - HUGE, by the owners of the Ottawa Chinese restaurant whose reputation and business Kantswlla has seriously damaged.
tj
t. e. & o. e.
My cat is very upset at this terrible insult. Why right this very moment, he's holding a hunger strike until he get's his Ginger Kinsella.
"(and he's barely relevant to those who do follow the blogs)."
I never heard of Kinsella until blogs - just one more reason I'll never forgive AlGore.
Now it is really true.
Little children around here are saying Warren is a wee-wee.
Any volunteers to go on camera with a Garfield stuffed toy?
Kinsella has said yonight that he did not get a chance on Politics today to give Jason Kenny some kind of big "surprise" - so it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Hmmm - I wonder who he is planning to sue now?
I can't understand how this sophmoronic fifty-something adviser to the Liberal party (past and present) can engender the comments posted here. Everyone of you understands that the prime directive for being a Liberal is "Don't do as I do, do as I tell you!" This latest escapade of WK is just another of untold and innumerable examples.
I think if you put 5 paragraphs of "everyone who disagrees with me is a racist for various other reasons, and therefore are not credible" in front of your weak appology, it is not an appology. Either you are sorry you said it, or you are not.
Kathy is right in this case. She dishes it, she takes it, but Warren sues for it.
In one of her posts, Kathy made some one-off comment about mythical small pox blankets. I was shocked by it. I liked her less because of it. But that is the beauty of free speech. She says something I don't like, and the consequence is that I like her less, or not at all. Kinsella insists on trying to make that choice for everyone through threats and lawsuits. He would love to be the hall monitor for what we are allowed to hear and read.
I'd rather have a whole country full of Kathy, and whatever crap she is dishing out than one more sanctimonious crybaby like Kinsella.
And Steyn is now calling him Catsmeat and that is funny...
Any volunteers to go on camera with a Garfield stuffed toy? Posted by: lyle bert at January 30, 2009 9:46 PM
My hand is raised. :)
Big Garfield fan, myself. Wish they still sold those suction-cup-paw Garfields, as one would look good on my car window. I'll gladly reach into my gym bag, pull out the stuffed kitty and...
I'll have a message for Mr. Kinsella: "Chinese restaurants in Canada do NOT serve sweet and sour cat, cat and broccoli, cat fried rice or anything like that, and anyone who would say they do is, well..."
I'm torn on the Warren Kinsella thing. Is he Canada's answer to Potsie Weber or Ralph Malph?
"crybaby like Kinsella"
Cat's got his tongue.
Any volunteers to go on camera with a Garfield stuffed toy?
Both I and my cat are game...
The MSM is already likening Iggy to the Big O.
He will then, of course, need practice throwing people under the bus WK could be the first of many.
What makes WK even sadder is that he tried to hide,er cover up.Posting a letter in Chinese would insult me even more.
What a coward.
Warren..
A tip.
No.
No.
No.
Yes.
No.
Self trumpeting "Ass-kicker", kick his own ass.
Hahahahahahaha
Live by the (as)sword by the (as)sword.
kicks
OMG , me too.
Live by the (as)sword, die by the (as)sword.
I wonder how much he paid for five paragraphs of "attack" in Chinese, followed by a "but" appology... I guess when you live in a "at arms length world" you can choose to view it in the same resolution as you get from your cell phone camera. What a fuzzy character that Barney-hugging, Starbucks latte-sipping WK is.
The Toronto Red Star still loves this miscreant as much as it loves all other leftist liberal Che/Fidel/ Peeair types, as usual they give him front page for his drivel an the usual hate Harper angry faced pundits take their usual run at conservatives. Toronto must be a real cesspool to keep this pathetic publication in business.
In year of the Ox
The bigot a hairball coughs
O schadenfreude winter
I will avoid all Ottawa Chinese restaurants in the future - just to make sure.
"Toronto must be a real cesspool to keep this pathetic publication in business."
Yeah, BigCesspoolLib lives there, for one ...
While I don't wish anyone ill will as far as jobs go, we (Kathy - whom I adore) need to remember that WK is a lawyer and unless he gets disbarred there's not much chance of his family going without food or any other creature comforts.
Warren is, by the title of his book alone, one seriously arrogant dude.
If Iggy has any class at all, he will cut WK loose and hire someone equally nasty and arrogant - it is, after all, the Liberal way of doing business.
Bye Warren, we hardly (wanted to admit we) knew ya.
Shouldn't we contact the irony police?
Syncro
Good life lesson for Kinsella, on how easily his political ambitions and livelyhood could be destroyed. His every word and joke now scrutinized. He has been labeled a racist. That is a label he throws around like candy, and one that is very hard to shake.