The Tolerant Left

Another example of the Tolerant Left :-(

Yup, Christie got balls. Others have commented on the tendency of the left to idolize their leaders. There is little to hang on to in their relativist, post-modernist belief system so they make larger than life figures of people like Layton.
As Christie pointed out, even in death he was the 24/7 politician and his parting words were simply cliches.
Although I noticed earthbound types like iberia and davenport thought they were simply dreamy.

The lionization of Comrade Jack Layton is something to behold. The lefty media and its camp followers actually believe that Canadians—who, in droves, did not vote for him or the NDP—are bereft at his loss. What jackasses—pun, originally, not intended—the lefties are: “Legends in their own minds.”

PMSH is very smart to let the toddlers run wild in their make believe playground. It’ll be a little difficult for them—though they’ll probably try—to make him look like the Grinch who stole Jack’s thunder. Like the Diana frenzy, once the riotous and self-referential tom-tom and chest beating are over, that’ll be about it. Jack will become a footnote to history. (I gather that the chalk tributes at Toronto City Hall are already being rain washed away . . .)

A letter writer at the National Post today actually thinks that Olivia is the leader in waiting. He writes of her, “She is street-smart [as in Chinese mafia], a policy wonk [sic] and her smile is as warm and sincere [sic and so?] as her late husband’s.” (Of course her Cheshire Cat smile is warm: she’s probably well over a millionaire on the taxpayers’ dime. 'Remember that her and Jack's expenses were the most extravagant of those of all MPs—and they both claimed the Ottawa housing allowance, even though they lived in the same place. “It’s legal,” said Chow.)

I’ve actually been on a forum with Ms Chow. I will admit that she was courteous—quite an anomaly for a political lefty. However, in the smart department, she’s a fuse short of a firecracker. Without Jack out there to provide a wake for her—as in “the track left by a vessel in the water”—I don’t think Olivia’s going to fare so well on the national scene.

The personal tragedy for the Layton family is compelling and I am truly sorry for the loss of their loved one. Politically, however, “sorry” would not describe my feelings in the slightest.

This just goes to show how out of touch with the ordinary citizens the lefties are.

It would be too much to hope this episode gets some post modern-"progressives" to examine the lack of real core values that force them into mindless histrionics like this latest display over Jack Layton's Death.

Any passing is sad,Cancer deaths in particular but when Libby Davies starts mythologizing Layton's passing with terms such as "He died for his country" Davies didn't just jump the shark she apparently partially devoured it.

There is indeed a "God shaped hole" in all of us, post moderns have just opted to fill it with tokenism ,street theatre,and shallow gestures.
Short rations for the soul.

Perhaps it is spiritual hunger that gives rise to the rabid hatred that underlies so much of the lefts ideology.
I admire Christie Blatchford's writing, She denigrates the over the top response from lefties with out in any way diminishing Jack Layton,

Christie B's article on Jack's demise was, in my opinion, the best article that has yet appeared on this subject.

Death is not a "tragedy". It is inevitable.

People who live with cancer (as I do)are not "courageous", they are not "brave", they are not "fighters". They are simply making the best of a bad situation.

The deathbed letter was mawkish, sickening crap. If a living politician had written it, he would have been crucified.

Oh, so now we have one rule for the living and a different ine for the dead.

We could change that to "one" in the last line if we were so disposed

Although Ms. Moran's letter was saturated with the usual socialist drivel and obvious adoration for Jack Layton, her letter demonstrates that she does possess a fair to middling command of the English language and a flair for hurling a decent insult. These abilities should be appreciated despite her obvious disconnect from reality.

That being said, her reference to those being right of centre not caring for social programs or the poor is as childish as it is predictable. Those on the left should really get some new material as references to capitalism and disregard for the poor and the working class are tedious and patently absurd.

I'm as conservative as they come, I volunteered last campaign but I do think that politicians of all stripes do deserve some respect. The whole idea of democracy is we elect people to represent us so to then say that somehow doing that job is "living off the taxpayer's dime" is ridiculus because that's the whole damn point.

P.S. SNN has been canny, like PMSH: two days ago, SNN paid respectful, due tribute to Jack Layton, as they should have.

Then, unlike the sycophantic, in La-La Land, delusional, lamestream media camp followers, SNN dropped the issue. (WHAT a relief!)

It will be interesting to see how long the lefty media try to string out this “Jack Love In”. Re the majority of Canadians, I really believe that the MSM are making a fool of both themselves and Mr. Layton. I don’t think he deserves that.

Christie Blatchford deserves an emerald crown for her spot-on criticism of this absurd Layton hagiography. "I am the lord thy Jack and thou shalt have no other Jacks before me" is as morally and intellectually offensive as the deification of Trudeau and I am glad someone pointed this out to the whimpering masses.

Libby Davis should shut her fat yap. Soldiers in the Second World War and in Afghanistan died for their country. Way to do them a great disservice, you silly walrus!

Dick, your post is ironic given the subject at hand don't cha think? I don't like the ideas of the NDP either but hey if we all agreed what would the point of democracy be?

I read Blatchford's column and I think it can be summed up by, "Do not make of him in death more than he was in life, for what he was in life was enough." He was a very successful politician, a good husband and father, I presume, and fought a very determined last election campaign in the face of a major adversity without asking quarter. Good for him. But if anything, over-the-top, syrupy eulogies simply make one squirm in embarrassment for both Layton and the eulogist. They diminish rather than enhance for one is forced to place mental brakes and counter points on the hyperbole of the sycophant in the interests of reason.
And Layton was a 24/7 politician. Some may see that as a strength. Personally, I see it as a flaw since it demonstrates a lack of perspective and a lack of what has been described as, "A healthy element of self-doubt." But everyone has flaws, and to point that out is simply to reinforce that he was very human and so his premature death is a completely human and personal tragedy, most especially for his immediate family.
Failing to address, gently, a man's flaws in a commentary on his death would result in a cartoon, not a portrait. Blatchford delivered a portrait, but it seems lefties live most comfortably in a world of cartoons.

Will the inevitable bankruptcy of the Canadian media please hurry along?

Tell the truth these days & you get your head handed to you, by the brigades of the Politicaly corect.
Truth, time or reality matters not a wit.

Heard a little bit of Evan Solomon this a.m. on the radio, describing the scene, where Jack was laid out. You would have thought his younger beloved brother was there in the box. Very "JFKish", if you know what I mean. Lighting the CN Tower in orange, give us all a break..

I'd like to add at this time, in keeping with the rule "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything", that the demise of Jack Layton has not adversely affected me in any way I can discern. One positive outcome has been many, many hateful Lefties crawling out from under their rocks where we can all see them.

We seeeee you.

I stand to be corrected - with facts, not emotional rhetoric - but anywhere in her piece did Blatchford attack Jack Layton personally? When I read it, her entire dismay was on the over-the-top "grievers".

Perhaps that really gets to the heart of why the Left is attacking her. They don't like the fact that she put a finger directly on their amped up grief.

Good post, Dr. D. The response to Christie Blatchford's reasonable and balanced critique is borderline hysterical. I think maybe it hit too close to home.

James said" I don't like the ideas of the NDP either but hey if we all agreed what would the point of democracy be?"

Democracy doesn't work without civil rights. The NDP doesn't believe in civil rights. They deserve no respect. You make a good point about "living of the taxpayers dime" though.

Layton's body is in Ottawa today and will be returning to Toronto tomorrow. Any bet on whether anyone will go on and on about Layton coming home on the Highway of Heroes.

Is it just me, or will this be a kick in the teeth to veterans and those in the services?

Being transported back and forth between Toronto and Ottawa, Layton's remains will travel the Highway of Heroes (Highway 401 east of Toronto) and the Veterans Memorial Highway (Highway 416 south of Ottawa). I'm sure the media will make a big deal out of at least part of this tomorrow.

Humph.

Christie Blatchford, God Bless the woman!-

Can we all agree that if Jack had not had the help of the unions in Canada and the US to "flash mob" the vote, the results might have been VERY different?
That the Liberals suffered from it more than our present and majority government is a positive development.
That Jack Layton has gone to his maker is a personal grief for his family and they will have to deal with that personally as the years go by.
If, however, Jack's NDP had been held to the 20 seats they left parliament with when it dissolved, ( with his help, mind) would we be having to endure the political posturing to take full advantage of a man's death?
That PM Harper allowed him to lie in state was generous of him, but totally unnecessary for a man who had political plans for this country and intended to use the "official opposition" position to full advantage to advance those plans.

Politically, Canada just dodged a bullet.

Personally, I am truly sorry the man is dead.
No human being , who IS human, relishes the suffering and death of another human being...which is why the bloodthirsty jihadists have advantages in their war against us.
Their big DISadvantage is in underestimating our resolve given our humanity.( but I digress).

Once the glaringly orange spectacle of giving what used to be a minor politician a state funeral the real spectacle of NDP posturing will begin.
It will be fun to watch with lessons to be learned about just how to thwart what I am sure will be attempts to take advantage of this to our detriment and the future of our country.
Do ANY of us think Turmel will continue on?
I do not. Some have suggested Olivia will pick up the 'mantle' and march bravely forward.
NDP are nothing if not opportunists, so that may transpire..but really look for the likes of Mulchair or Martin to emerge.. or some other rabid NDP, Union or socialist supporter.
Let's hope he or she and Stephane Dion have a great deal in common!

As long as throngs of people aren't on the overpasses, lickmuffin.
I won't turn on TV just in case.

I find hyprocracy abounds with both the left and right.

The same rightwingers who criticize Layton's send off, wouldn't agree with the leftists who criticized the recent police funeral in Toronto.

And vice versa.

I don't find either the zealots of the left or right especially tolerant.

For example, both only approve of free speech when they agree with the content.

The media asserts the Nation is mourning, can anyone posting confirm they know one single person in mourning? I can't in fact Jack isn't even being discussed outside the Media Bubble. That faux death bed letter taking cheap shots of Harper was sleeze, and totally despicable but that's not the issue someone pointing out that fact has hatred hurled at her for doing her freaking job.

You make a good point about "living of the taxpayers dime" though.

Only if it's not serially done. Not the case with those who have done nothing else but live off of taxpayers.

I applaud Harper in giving them the state funeral - although personally I think it is a huge waste of taxpayer's money. What it does is effectively shut the left up when it comes to spending any money on anything. How many single moms would be able to outfit their kids with back to school supplies with the money spent on putting Jack in the ground? How about all the homeless who need hats and mittens? How about all the seniors eating cat food?

If Olivia the NDP had been smart (which clearly they are NOT), they would have thanked Harper for the offer and declined because of the state of the economy. Love it!

james,the difference with Layton is that he ONLY earned his living from the taxpayers,never worked in private industry in his life.

How can a politician say he can relate to us when he's never been one of us,when he has never known the vagaries of life in the private sector?

Life long politicians who try to claim they're the "man of the people" should try being one of "the people" for a while,just for the different perspective.

I had a friend go ballistic on me during the election when I suggested that seeing how much of a mess the Liberals were in and that the NDP are never serious contenders,the Conservatives have a good chance of getting a majority.The insults about how greedy the war mongering right are,I finally had to disengage as her purple face was threatening to turn blue and mouth to mouth was never going to be an option.Funny thing is when she sees me she tries to be over the top friendly,like she knows how nuts she sounded.

To paraphrase Seinfeld, if you took the words "Rabble.ca" down and replaced them with "Self-Expression Forum for the Psych Ward", noone would notice the difference.

There is some sick people live in Canada no question about it!!! who do anything when hate some one for any small reason unfortuantly

IF jack Layton's doctor was Michael Jackson's doctor and if he family or mother is not alive to support his death like Michael Jackson

Did anybody know who was name and background of Jack layton's doctor here

maybe politicaly better to be quiete
and say who cares any way

better to let him rest in peace and keep forward

but still

Something made me strange and surprise me

in face of Jack Layton
he shrinks like skeleton
I never saw AIDS patients of cancer patient closly but I saw too many film explain about how they will suddently change and so quickly changed

second kind of desease we never know Jack layton got and he nevr said which kind of cancer he got that made him to death

still for me is weaired

french leader gone replace with Jack Layton

Ignatife gone and replace with Jack Layton

and suddently jack Layton gone without any expectation over all those years of work when he got elected

Did anybody know who was his name of his doctor

how much death insurance he has?
who was person who knows next to him?
what is exact reason for his death?
his ideas can made some people rich angry?
does he has enemy or not?
Did anybody check his family and close freind to him too?
how about all hospital and direction they gave him?

I wish he died in normal way not in any wrong way

but his face showed he suffered alot before his death but why? so quick?

rest in peace Jack...

Jack Layton was Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. That's not small. That's not obscure. It might well be worthy of a state funeral.

I do not agree with his politics. Not by a long shot. Nevertheless, for purely selfish reasons, I'm sorry he died. I had been eagerly anticipating many head-to-heads with Stephen Harper during Question Period. "Taken as notice" would not have worked indefinitely for Mr. Harper, and then? Another Ignatieff experience? It would have been enormously entertaining, and probably even useful.

I'm also sorry he died so young, and in the manner he did, but I'm a little glad that it didn't take longer. It's an ugly thing, and best over quickly. No one deserves prolonged suffering.

Anything else I might say, Rex Murphy said for me and, as usual, said it better than I could have. His CBC offering is on You Tube. I strongly recommend it.

The NDP are mouring not the loss of a person but the loss of their best chance to power in the near future....they won't admit it but they know it.

Whatever you thought of Jack he had that "thing". Whether it would last into the next election or not was another question.

As for his final letter....typical Jack. Bit of a narcissist really, how many times will we see the Layton media hound show up in the tributes. As much a part of him as his overwhelmeing sense of outrage and hi everyready bunny optimism.

How many tributes will include his over the top questions, "are you lying or just incompetent?"

This is a bit manufactured, since they had well over a month to plan it and Jack was super political...in a co-dependent political relationship with his wife (?), he made a point of calling her his partner not his wife. And whats with the religous tributes, he wasnt religous....he was a fellow traveller with the religous left but he wasnt religous. Why do you think his "service" in Roy Thomson Hall?

Anyway, sad he succumed, have we even been told what it was? Being a public figure for him to push this so long knowing he probably had something terminal is, well...not responsible.

Jack had won a great triumph and his legacy will benefit from him never having the responsibility to actually demonstrate what he was going to do with his accidental success. Like Kennedy his supporters can, over time, read into what might have been.

Not to be crass, but this is the best thing to ever happen to the Liberal party......Jack was the friendly face on the philosophy Canadians would not vote for. With him gone, they'll go back to Left Lite when they tire of the Cons.

Rest In Peace Jack...though I don't think you actually want to.

The Canadian memory is too short... It's why they get away with pulling this crap over and over again...

Lickmuffin- The decision has already been made. Indeed he will be received via the "Highway of Heroes".
An indecent slap in the face of all those that have gone before us in the real service of their country.
Disgusting!!!!!

I may well have been murder, new. You should investigate.

For the Left, common sense and differing views set them off like a disturbed bee hive, they have no capacity for reasoned thought. Christie Blatchford is a champion of common sense, honesty and reason.

Will the NDP milk this for all it's worth since they have nothing else? Jack was the NDP, there's no one close to filling his shoes in that party. The present makeup would have been a challenge even for him.

Another example of the Tolerant Left :-(

Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver) at August 24, 2011 4:03 PM
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Alice Moran
Canadian, Scuba enthusiast

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Scuba enthusiast: added, I suppose, just in case it wasn't clear from her lunatic screed that Moran is a Left-wing kook of epic proportions.

Give me a break the freaking CBC is broadcasting from Jack's coffin. Why is his coffin not draped with the Gay Rainbow Flag?

I certainly did not agree with any of Layton's policies which would have spelled ruination for the Canadian economy. He was opportunistic and phony. Undoubtedly his greatest contribution to Canada was managing to stay out of the Prime Minister's chair. He constantly stressed that he was there for "working families" and "the poor". Mr. Layton had absolutely nothing in common with working folk and he was never poor. He does, however, deserve some respect and if the lefties believe that making a gong show of his death is appropriate, then so be it.

As for devoting his life to politics, as one previous poster rightly pointed out, these people are not volunteers. Politicians, right, left or centre are all well paid for their services. So please spare me the references to a life-long devotion to that profession. There is not one Mother Theresa in the entire crowd.

About halfway through this video Michael Coren & Ezra Levant discuss this issue.

Mississauga Matt - "Scuba enthusiast: added, I suppose, just in case it wasn't clear from her lunatic screed that Moran is a Left-wing kook of epic proportions."

Hey! I scuba. I did when I was in Oz, anyway. Most scuba divers are daredevil types who know how to handle boats and equipment. I am not, but I ain't no hippy.

So, the Canadian left lost its favorite communist to cancer, and its favorite capitalist resigned due to his ongoing trouble with cancer this week. I guess we all should have bought stock in KMB on Monday.

This whole debacle is an exemplification of the shallowness of the Left. Like the death of Lady Diana, they have no idea how to grieve. Bereft of any sense of spirit, they will toss teddy bears and plastic flowers in an ersatz demonstration of their loss.
When normal people experience a loss of a loved one, we quietly and contemplatively grieve, with due awe and respect to the deceased. We acknowledge their contribution to our family and the community in which they lived and prospered.

Layton's death and subsequent funeral is becoming a virtual circus comprised of self-absorbed, shallow people.

It diminishes the man's worth.

Somewhere, Jacko is trying to explain to G*d or one of his assistants that " I really do believe in G*d and the afterlife, anything I may have said to the contrary was merely for votes."

Yeah, he died and we are all sorry and sympathize with the survivors but lets not make him into the latest winner of the Victoria Cross and mother Teresa combined. I caught a couple of seconds on the CBC Radio News (?) and it was positively nauseating in it's coverage with teary descriptions of Ed Broadbent openly weeping at jack's coffin to play by play analysis of the state funeral.

I don't recall if even old TC Douglas had such a grand farewell. I fully expect Olivia to throw herself on Jack's funeral pyre.

I really don't want to know but I couldn't help but notice that the provincial (only) flag at the local WCB (Worker's Compensation Board)has been at half staff the last few days. Coincidence maybe?

btw, the G*d thing is in reverence to batb.

what a gong show . . . that letter was what you would expect from someone who has never had a real job, has made his living with a public teat lip lock and was the epitome of Lefty "my crap doesn't stink" type of person.

I for one will go out of my way to avoid all coverage and media of Jacko's last great stage show.

I'm not sure where this "honest politician" stuff comes from; nor, do I suspect Jack-off's wife is mourning too much emotionally, but I do suspect professionally.

I grieve for those that loved Jack the man; but as a politician, a husband, and someone who did 'good', I cannot put Jack Layton on a pedestal of any kind. Quite frankly, Jack Layton was a creep.

All the driving around of Layton is starting to remind me of Weekend at Bernie's.

Hey! I scuba. I did when I was in Oz, anyway. Most scuba divers are daredevil types who know how to handle boats and equipment. I am not, but I ain't no hippy.

Posted by: Black Mamba at August 24, 2011 8:01 PM
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You must be weird - you didn't sign off as "scuba enthusiast." What kind of scuba enthusiast doesn't sign off as "scuba enthusiast?" :~)

Look, when we all realize that the collective left are, in varying degrees, unrestrained by conventional morality when engaging in their political obsessions, we will all take their oafish vulgarity as a genetic trait. A trait common to those who ascribe to radical political ideologies which is largely built on lies, and demands its followers to constantly confront those who see these fallacies with war like denialism.
Confronting a dogmatic leftist is a little like facing a member of a street gang – same relaxed attitude towards common civility and capable of remorseless barbarity and treachery – generally when your back is turned.
I don’t care who the frig they are or to what pulpit of indignant politically twisted morality they pretend to preach from – All leftists put their politics/idealism/cause/party ahead of ethics, morals and higher principle. All are fanatics at some level and are all capable of depraved behavior which they justify as being necessary for “the greater good”. Lefty will hide a mountain of crimes and misdemeanors under the pretense of servicing the greater good of their cause.
My case in point is Heather Mallick and the vile things she published about Sarah Palin. In anyone’s moral limits this would be slander but to Mallick smearing a political enemy was more important than the retention of her personal dignity or professional integrity.

Moral: never trust anyone whose political obsessing impacts their sense of right/wrong, fact/fallacy. The left are not the only amoral fanatic partisans but they are the most common.