The truth is, it's because our "tolerant" left-leaning society has been successfully shielding ignorant cretins from receiving much needed and richly deserved beat-downs, and as a result it has emboldened them to engage in more and more outrageous demonstrations of obnoxious behavior with impunity. It isn't just the rabble on the street either, this phenomena is manifested in their leaders and other so-called "intelligentsia".

She doesn't look like a troll at all. More like a cute elf-girl.

All that's left is for Mansbridge to sign off tonight's newscast with the declaration, "Jack Layton died for our sins".

Never in Canada has a death been enjoyed by so many. I'm surprised the mourners weren't firing AK-47's into the air as the corpse of their martyr was schlepped from venue to venue.

It's pretty sad that Blatchford is on the receiving end of so much hate for simply pointing out the over the top antics of a so-called greiving populus.

Thank God it's over and we can begin to "heal". By healing I mean it will take a long time to recover from all of the B.S. that was laid on so thick this past week.

I said it before, and I'll say it again:

FASCISTS.

Christie is a great lady that cuts to the chase and tells it like it is. She is in a separate league with Rex Murphy, Barbara Kay and Bob Fulford.

The lefty demands for conformity and a forced sharing of "grief" and"mourning" over Laytons death parade has become a farcical charade of self flatulence. Get on board with the demands of conformity from the left regarding the media lead DeadJackMania or be prepared to face the onslaught of deeply entrenched lefty hatred. Let the healing begin...

A message from Grief Counselling and Hope Org.:

We are here to serve both stoic and collective grief.

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"Olivia Chow: An oil painting in stoic grief
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"Canada's collective grief suggests for many, losing Layton meant loss of hope
Winnipeg Free Press"

FASCISTS! Yeah, that's you...the sanctimonious, hypocritical right. Blatchford showed the country how ill bred so many of you fascists are. Good manners and/or actually having a soul could have been demonstrated by not mocking a dead man or those mourning him. Instead, she chose to take the low road. I'm surprised she didn't show up at the funeral service and piss on the casket.

It's really strange but, as quite a few have remarked, if you ask these weeping Laytonites what exactly Layton accomplished - they are unable to come up with a single item. That leads me to another perspective...one I'm just tentatively musing about.

Since the despair can't be based on any actual accomplishments, then...is it as fictional, is it as fanciful and fragile as the leftist rhetoric? That is, Layton's 'aura' was defined not by acts but by words.

He never had to translate his rhetoric into acts...acts that are defined within the hard and very real perimeters of economics, of history, of the law, of complex and diverse agendas. Words that are alienated from reality can be as utopian, poetic, emotional as any fiction...and that was the domain of Layton. Note that this rhetoric is always embedded within emotion..

Imagine a political figure that lived his whole political life - within fiction. The aura of 'hope and change'. Heh.
That was Layton. The few 'real events' that slipped into this fiction, such as the visit-to-the-massage-parlour, were quickly brought back to the fictional realm.

His role in what I consider the most serious attack on our Canadian democracy - the Coalition - has utterly disappeared from the collective Canadian memory.

All that's left - is the rhetoric..and since it's unconnected to reality, it is pure emotion.

It will vanish rapidly, but it does show that Canadians, like all people, live in two worlds: the world of fact..and the world of fancy.

Funny how the intellectuals on the left haven't figured out that that Blatchford et al have been commenting on the reaction by the living to Layton's death rather than his death itself.

For my take it's entirely appropriate for a state funeral because after all the taxpayer's picked up the tab for everything else in his life.

What exactly was the cause of Jack Layton's death?

Is it now a state secret that died with him?

Or did I miss it?

Any one of his friends care to elaborate?

All I can say is "Thank our Lord Jack it's over".

Well, I would be a lying hypocrite to cast stones at others about name-calling. 99% of the time I stay out of that cheap-shot game but I do recall saying some unkind things about Atwood's looks (for some reason I find her extremely irritating - perhaps being forced to read her books has something to do with it). Apologies, Maggie.

The c-word is extremely crass and should, IMO, be discarded from the English language. I have little respect for anyone that uses that type of language in mixed company and calling a woman one directly is unforgivable in all but the most extreme circumstances.

As for Layton...I half expected to see 103 white doves being released at his funeral. At least there was no rioting or looting. I'll be glad when this emo-parade winds up. Personally, I think it is partially a result of pent up grief over Harper and the CPC getting a majority government.

Cristie made the Laytonite's look in the mirror, and see themselves as looking ridiculous. Thus, the anger.

"I think it is partially a result of pent up grief over Harper and the CPC getting a majority government."

I agree with you LC Bennett

What did some dude named Jude have to say?

"They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted. They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame."

How about that in 2000 years human nature hasn't changed one jot or tittle.

besides abusing the "system", Jack did jack, so the over emotional lefties are like the fools that granted another fool who did nothing a peace prize

but if one cares to notice, you will see a lot of roadside memorials, were somebody died in a car accident, which to me is totally rediculas, especially ones were some fool runs a lite or a stop sign and pays the ultimit price. All just foolist emotionalism, and often by people who didn't know the perso who died, and most know squat about the Jackass!!

What did Jack actually accomplish?
Can anyone on the left come up with an answer? Safe streets? Cure disease? Save a life maybe?

Just what did Canadians for his 30 some years in "public life"?

Or should his nick-name have been "per-diem"?

According to advisers, Jack intended his death to be used for political purposes, and when I learned that I began to regret the respect I may have shown for his death and his postmortem campaign tour.
A lot of this fury is caused by our failure to drop to our knees obediently as they waved his hand at us.

I'm waiting for the loony left to start demanding (not asking) that monuments and landmarks be named after a man who spent his whole life feeding from the public trough. I'm still trying to find out what shattering, revolutionary deed(s) he did to warrant all the fuss and expenses. I wont talk about the nauseating and scripted display of share my grief. Luckily I know how to switch channels.

I know what Preston Manning did and how he changed our politics. No problem finding that out. But what did Martin Luther Layton do that was so special to most Canadians?

Just asking.

LCBennett: "I think it is partially a result of pent up grief over Harper and the CPC getting a majority government."

Partially that and partially the realization that without Layton, the NDP will return to their normal state of irrelevancy.

There has been much made of the idea that mr layton was an optimist. To me he was among the most deeply pessimistic public figures in Canada - constantly running down what this country has done and continues to achieve. He saw much of what I and many are most proud of as being completely abominable. And he said so right until the very end.

The only optimistic thing I saw him ever do was have a benediction performed at his funeral. And it was an act that in many ways repudiated much of what he stood for in his political life.

whit seven

Stephen Lewis summed it all up nicely during his eulogy when he described Jack's well crafted deathbed letter as..."at it's very heart it is a manifesto for social democracy..."

This whole spectacle has been, by design, political from the get go.

ET and LC Bennet also make good points regarding the aspirational nature of Jack's hokem and anger/fear on the left at the outcome of the election.

Add to that the left's penchant for wallowing in self indulgent displays of group emotional masturbation and this is what ya get.

Nobody likes getting caught making porn, hence the reaction to Christie.

What is with the left and their gullibillity to the cult of personality?

Taliban Jack.

Owebumble.

And the vociferous intolerance, as our troll Ibby has demod

'Never in Canada has a death been enjoyed by so many. I'm surprised the mourners weren't firing AK-47's into the air as the corpse of their martyr was schlepped from venue to venue.'

Thank-you for the smile Eskimo. Do those hair pulling,hand wringing, head bashing fools know how they demean their JACK! Jack was not a Regan or a Churchill or a William Wallace - he risked not a hair on his chinny chin chin for anyone (not even himself - proof being that he went to a private clinic for his Hernia operation, no bacteria ridden hospitals for him!). Jack Layton was a fellow in the Parliament of Canada. End of story.

Thank-you for your great aricle, Christie, Like you, SYF, I wonder what the late MP Jack Layton died from...with all the howling and snorting you'd think Oliva would have some designated a charity to donate to in Rememberance of her late husband. Just send $ by default to SDA- and wait for a reaction.

I am particularly pleased to see that no commentators have even bothered to address Ibby's "contribution" to the discourse.

Prediction: Ignore him long enough, and he may actually get out of his parents' basement and mow their lawn...

We don't know what took Jack's life? Well this is obvious. Where was George Bush, on the night in question?

He could have had a simple burial: but no, his wish was to polute (grace?) two provinces with his sludge.
This is so wrong for an eco-tard!

Among Taliban Jack's many accomplishments were a substantial increase in the number of pieces of junkmail delivered to Canadians as he abused the parliamentary privilege of free mailing to send communist propaganda to every person on the Canadian voters list. I was pissed off enough at this that every letter I got from him was sent back marked as "unwanted communist propaganda - return to sender". I'm sure the increased weight of postmen's mailbags contributed to a substantial increase in sick leave for back injuries and drove up the cost of mailing a letter in Canada.

He singlehandedly managed to get the HOC to pass legislation which prohibited this egregious abuse of parliamentary mailing privileges.

Obviously a major accomplishment like that is worth a state funeral for the top parliamentary spammer of all time. Just one of the examples of what Jack was best at - spending other peoples money.

The progressive's accused her of being crass and mocking their mourning whilst dishing Jack. She did no such thing, however their response was to Email her filthy, vile Emails full of profanity and hatred. They project themselves on the right, failing to see they are classless thugs full of hatred and rage towards those that don't inhabit their upside loopy mad world.

I think this whole episode in Canadian history is tacky and disgusting....when can we stop talking about Jack? Now please.

I will not comment about the purpose of this spectacle, or it's whether it is appropriate.

I will express my basic initial, and continuing reaction.......

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Thanks to Jack Layton many wealthy people have discovered that they were eligible for subsidized housing.

Christie Blatchford did us all a favor stopping this "Burning Man" adulation in its tracks.
Layton was a politician with all a politicians sins.
He dided young, & now his Party is using his death as a net & snare.
She made the right call in posting her srtcle, if not to stop the nonesense, but expose it as well.

I'm just reading Ann Coulter's new book 'Demonic' or "How the liberal mob is endangering America".

The whole Layton extravaganza is a prime example of what she writes. It's all about 'feelings and images' because that's what liberals understand. Especially if it fits nicely on a t-shirt.

And if you go against the narrative, well duck and cover because a whole lot of you-know-what is going to fly your way.

The amazing thing about liberalism is how they manage to co-opt and then re-shape history so that black is white and vice versa. Case in point: how the segregationist Democrats of the 20th century have successfully painted Republicans as the 'racist party' and the oppressors of America's black constituency when the reverse is true.

And the NDP, rather than being the party of the poor has and will always keep people in penury in order to have a constituency they can control through emotion and simple imagery of the 'fat corporate master'.