“Hockey, sir. Remember to tell them you love hockey.” *

57 Replies to ““Hockey, sir. Remember to tell them you love hockey.” *”

1. And yet he is out on the bus, trying to get rural and small town Canadians to believe he is an everyman politician.

2. Wow, that sounds exactly like what someone would write if they were trying to impress the hippie crowd from Toronto.
   Russian Buckwheat cereal… that says it all right there… ‘Yep, I wouldn’t be able to live with out my Russian buckwheat cereal.’
   He really expects us to believe the he and his wife spent 10 days reading War and Peace to eachother? AND wants us to know about it?

3. Wow, what a girlie man. He better go easy on that broccoli, he could build up enough steam to blow off those famous brows.

4. I didn’t think it was possible but he is actually more annoying than I thought.

5. They read War & Peace? Don’t they know there’s a film?

6. bs

7. Black Mamba is an evil genius.

8. Oh yes, I love ice hockey. I attended a match with Zsunnanna once. They were moving so fast out there that she dropped her parasol and I suffered an annoying kink in my neck.

9. Reading War and Peace to each other was a highlight of their time together?
   Could this be used as the new definition for “dull”?

10. He must not have had a coffee in years.

11. Kind of sounds like if he really needed a country, it would be Russia that he would choose, doesn’t it?

12. I’m surprised Toronto Life didn’t ask what is his favorite brand of tampons.

13. I’ll bet he also wears sock suspenders and has his wife cut up his food for him…and maybe taste test it, too…
    There is absolutely nothing normal about this guy. He is one strange bird.

14. My question: can this man change a light bulb unassisted?

15. Why does he read a TRANSLATION of War and Peace?
    Also, wasn’t that book banned by the Bolsheviks?
    Ah, I see, it makes him NOT look like the Russian plant he is. Putin told him to do this.

16. When did John Kerry become leader of the Liberal party?

17. I feel sorry for Iggy. This was probably the most honest interview or Q&A he’s ever given, and it just shows how removed from mainstream society he is. The problem for him now is that when he presents himself as an average Canadian we’ll know he’s being disingenuous and respond accordingly.

18. Blowing his brains out was also good enough for Ernst Hemingway…

19. His wife’s name is Zsuzsanna? Pronounced Zee-sooz-sanna?

20. He missed out by not mentioning long walks on beaches, or picking buttercups in a field (make that left field, eh).
    Count Iggy likes smokey old backroom deals, not clear mountain mornings,
    Little warm yuppies, leftoids, and girls of the night.
    Them that don’t know him won’t like him and them that do,
    Sometimes won’t know how to take him.
    He’s so wrong, and an asshat but his ego won’t let him,
    Do things to make you think he’s right.
    ***with great apologies to Willie & Waylen.

21. Ahhh yes, moleskine notebooks, obscure Ruski cerials, figurines and classic pianists .. politically correct coffee and vegan diets.
    Yes I can see this self absorbed metrosexual connecting with the hockey arenas and Tim Hortons culture .. like underpants on a steer.

22. 1. My morning kick
    Kicking Horse: Canadian 1/10
    2. Notebooks
    Mole­skine notebook: American 1/10
    3. My breakfast of champions
    Kasha: Russian 1/10
    4. An heirloom figurine
    Wooden figurine: South America 1/10
    5. Classic conflict resolution
    Tolstoy: Russian 1/10
    6. Tickled ivory
    Alfred Brendel: Austrian 1/10
    7. A night at the opera
    Canadian Opera Company: 2/10
    8. A home-cooked meal
    Broccoli and puts it in pasta: 2/10 (I would have given him a point if he had said the pasta was Kraft Dinner)
    9. Lacing up
    Ecco: Denmark 2/10
    10. A little love tchotchke
    Doll: Hungary 2/10

23. tewchip nails it in the very first comment.
    The article describes several facets of Ignatieff the man. Nothing wrong with that. I may not like the same things he does, so what? But, the basic dishonesty of traveling around to various Tim Hortons’ and acting like a “regular” Canadian simply heightens the distrust most of us have for the man and his party.
    BTW, has anyone actually seen him in a Tim Horton’s during this trip?

24. BJG, I am sure his handlers have put a come-a-long on him a couple times to get him through the door of a Timmies.

25. Can’t…get…the..taste..out..of ..my.. mouth.

26. Aren’t vampires known to include red meat in their diets?
    And my brother wants to know if Iggy worked in the True Blood TV series or the Twighlight movie series. My guess is that he is the original Barnabus Collins from Dark Shadows.

27. Posted by: charles f. thompson at July 22, 2010 12:48 PM
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    Hey Dennis, he’s no Stockdale.

28. OMG – and I thought little Steffie was the Liberal’s pantywaist…

29. I don’t understand this whole “Tim Hortons” thing. I am an ordinary red neck, and I don’t like Timmy’s. I hate lining up like an old soviet citizen. The line up is usually 10 minutes long. Even at minimum wage that wait is worth a couple of bucks to me. I just go to Second Cup, Starbucks or wherever there is no line up.

30. My top 10 list included Iggy’s bus tour rolling into Bienfait, SK (pronounced been-fate) so the Igster could better explain the “French fact in Saskatchewan…just look at the place names” in regards to a bilingual Supreme Court. I know, how can that compete with a Ernest Hemingway-wannabe moleskin notebook? Prairie hicks have such provincial concerns.

31. Sure Charles, think what you want about the trogs here and that we are all unemployable, but don’t ask for the post where the commentators here gave their career info out.
    The point of the post is that Iggy and his handlers are trying to sell him as an everyday Canadian, that he is one of “us”. He clearly isn’t. Not that there’s anything wrong with his refinements, just that they aren’t those with which “most” Canadian men can relate to. Where is the discussion about his man-cave? The guy doesn’t even own an RRSP or other self directed investment. State pension and salary only. The guy is a dud.
    Mike Milbury stated on HNIC that the pansification (pussification) of our nation has begun. I agree.
    All your man genes are belong to us!

32. Dunno, Jim, without an actual sighting I have to remain skeptical about whether Mr. Ignatieff will darken a Tim’s door. We trogdolytes aren’t worthy.
    The mental imagery of the heels of his Ecco’s digging into the asphalt as he is winched through the door is pretty amusing, though, as is Speedy’s depiction of the aftermath.

33. He forgot to mention the pina coladas.

34. Heh. After reading the first two or three points, I honestly thought I was reading a satiric piece. By the time I got to around the fifth point, I realized this was a genuine article.
    Jeebus.

35. I certainly wouldn’t fit in with that crowd.
    Until googling Moleskin notebook, I was left wondering what properties mole leather would posses making it desirable as a notebook cover.

36. In Liberalland, the more feminine a “man” is, the better. Yep, he’s a liberal.

37. Absolutely nothing wrong with a good notebook (I’m partial to the Lee Valley line.)
    I also like lace up shoes.
    I have two things in common with Iggy, that’s about two more than I thought.

38. What a poopsie millie man. Makes Svend and the eco-echo poofter look like John Wayne. Mikey, who hates everything, manly including Steeeeven should stick to knitting, or could he hurt himself with a big needle.

39. three out of ten are sort of Russkie.
    I was sure his favourite cereal would have been Count Chocula.
    if you like pina colados , and getting caught in the rain.
    if your into yoga , and missed half your brain
    Long books at midnight.and the folds in my cape
    the job down in Harvard , Ive planned my escape

40. [deleted. watch the mouth. – ED]
    Paul in calgary

41. Well, he is a Count after all. A pampered life is only to be expected, n’est-ce pas?

42. What happened to real men? Ones who answer things like “Steak” and “Starbucks” and “a good English breakfast, but only cause they have 4 kinds of protein on the plate (bacon, sausage, beans and eggs)”
    No wonder women my age cant find men, they’ve turned into women!

43. charles f. thompson @12:48 – you’re missing the point. Iggy’s trying to present himself as things he’s not – a Canadian, a regular guy – and he’s doing it really really badly. He wants – nay, deserves – power, but trying to get elected is beneath him. He combines awkward, dismissive aloofness with weird half-hearted attempts at pandering. Whenever he gives campaigning a shot he hits every wrong note, to the extent that I suspect his subconcious is trying to sabotage him.
    Even when he’s being sort of honest about who he is, he’s still lying. I mean, he can’t live without some gift-shop-looking Hungarian doll? He likes War and Peace because it’s about “conflict resolution” (good lefty that he is)?
    A person with normal self respect wouldn’t have answered that stupid list-thingee in the first place.
    His aides must be crying themselves to sleep.
    And I think you’re mistaking being cultured with being a poncey pseud.
    Phantom @10:42 – praise from Caesar!

44. PiC @2:30
    Dude, really.

45. It reads like something right out of Stuff White People Like.
    Hell, coffee is at #1 there, too.

46. Couldn’t bring myself to read that tripe,but wondering,did he mention Toronto Maple Leafs at all??

47. charles without the capitalization,
    get over yourself.

48. charles, stop being such a p*ssy, or we’ll take your vote away.

49. Ignatieff is only a lone down home boy.
    Now leave him alone, poor sucker.

50. Charles you make a good point but it still doesn’t change my mind about him he is weak he is not a good leader he has not and can not change that not even in liberals minds they know they are bluffing . So i stated the obvious maybe it is becasue i am younger and i use the F@G word more innapropriatley to describe my dislike of someone or something and i will in the future try to refrain from such words .
    I will not appologise for what i said becasue i feel that way and this is not the best medium to share those sentiments so i will keep my nasty words to myself .
    i hope harper gets a majority govornement i want to see how far left he will swing i truley hope he moves further right but i can only hope and dream .
    Paul in calgary