“We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.” – Pierre Trudeau
“Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.” – Lester B. Pearson
“They lay one egg. They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. … They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell. This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be.” – Michael Ignatieff
If hiding excrement is a fact of Puffin life then indeed they have a common trait with Iggy and his Liberals.
I suspect Iggy the Prof has saddled himself with a “fowl” symbolic “one egg” nest that he will regret for the rest of his unhappy Canadian political career.
The Liberal Party does include some colourful characters, and people are charmed by that. It does bode well, non?
Reminds me to rewrite an old joke:
There is a man leaning against the fence in a criminal insane asylum. He observes the farmer in his field.
Inmate: Hey farmer what are you doing?
Farmer: I’m putting dung on my fields.
Inmate one half hour later: Hey farmer what are you doing?
Farmer: I’m putting dung on my fields.
Inmate one hour later: Hey farmer what are you doing?
Farmer: Damn it all man, I’ve already explained twice what I am doing. I can express this another way; I am putting sh*t on my strawberries!
Inmate: Thats funny, I put whipping cream on my strawberries but I’m a criminally insane LIEberal.
Hiding excrement is HARD! You have to make priorities!
Liberals.
Hiding excrement.
In our cities.
I’m not making this up.
“Da proof is da proof, and when you have da good proof, dat mean it’s proven”
Greatest. Libquote. Ever.
Isn’t it marvellous – they’ll never live it down. Ahh, poor Ignatieff and the Liberals.
If one hides one’s poop. One must watch where one steps…
Gonna be a whole lotta scrapin’ goin’ on…
Thank you, thank you very much….
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the liberal leadership cadre… the gift that keeps on giving.
the element of this that’s too funny for words… is that the fiberals
have been branding iggy as “the smart one”.
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Generic lame-ass Liberal bashing comment!
An insult to good puffins everywhere.
Wonder if it was swish, or skretch that Iggy Poop overdid on the cruise?
If Harper or any other Conservative had said this, the CBC would have suspended all programing to run it over and over.
Does someone write this stuff for the Libs.A proof is a proof was a classic,,but hiding their excrement as one of their favourite traits is pure genius.
CTV just gave the modified verion wherein the Libs were fascinated by the puffin, and Iggy is interviewed and expresses his feelings on the wonderful creature,
but the ‘excrement hiding’ reference was not aired.
How noble of Lloyd Robinson…
CTV.ca had the whole quote earlier today…too funny!
“If Harper or any other Conservative had said this, the CBC would have suspended all programing to run it over and over.”
Good lord. How does a post that mocks Iggy for this massive gaffe morph into a sob story about the evil MSM mistreating the Conservatives? Don’t you get it yet? This story is getting national play! Even your favorite paper, the Toronto Star, is giving this story prominent treatment.
You have won another round, but you’re still carrying on like selft-defeating whiners. I don’t get it. Quit playing the victim all the time!
“How does a post that mocks Iggy for this massive gaffe morph into a sob story about the evil MSM mistreating the Conservatives?”
That would be because CTV ran the story but edited out the embarrassing excrement hiding part, whereas if it had been a Conservative leadership contender who had made the gaffe, they would have accentuated it rather than hidden it, (much as a puffin hides its excrement:)
My favourite bit of accidental political comedy was Bush recently quoting The Quiet American not realising that it was meant to be ironic in the novel and meant the opposite of what he thought it was. Priceless.
Hey Jose…..are you an illegal immigrant? I’ve always wondered that, given your SDA handle.
Yes, Jose, the Commander Guy is a veritable gold mine for that sort of material, isn’t he? Oh, what a glorious leader!
Jon, had it been a Conservative leadership contender who had made the gaffe, the MSM would have run with the story for days, pointing and laughing all the while. They would have tied the awkward remark to Stephen Harper through some devious machinations and brought down the government. Is that correct?
Eggs, excrement…what the H. E. double hockey sticks is THAT???
Here’s the CTV Video.
Lots of giggles here besides the Ignatieff puffin poop schtick at the end. It’s even funnier on video than in print.
Unfortunately, the various synopses of Mr. Chretien’s 2003-03-24 “da proof” quote as elucidated above do not begin to do justice to the majestic stupidity of the original, which, for the record, is:
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof is a proof? A proof is a proof and when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.”
Hey, I’ll go along with the “puff” of Puffin. The Libs puff out more hot air than anyone else in the country (the NDP may beat them on a per capita basis but there’s a lot more Libs around).
But seriously folks, what animal would you want to be our national symbol? I mean, the beaver is basically a water rat with a big tail. The Canada goose is beautiful, but it sounds awful and it craps all over my golf course. (Maybe there is something to this puffin stuff…). The polar bear? The caribou? Personally, I like the lynx; it looks cool, and it lives mostly in Canada. What do you think?
The puffin “excrement hiding” remark will stick to Ignatieff and Liberals like shit sticks to a blanket for a long, long time.
Wolf.
Gawd I love it when Libbrannos reach for the stars, and grasp Charmin… luv it…
I think Michael Ignatieff has it exactly right, and he hopes he makes that little metaphor the central theme of his next campaign for the Liberal leadership, a job I assume will come open in the next year or two (scroll down two entries).
Thanks to Vitruvius for reproducing the Chretien quote in all its splendor. The man was no Jesuit.
I guess we know what the Liberal Leader and Deputy Leader’s terminal degrees really mean now, eh? “Piled Higher & Deeper”, indeed!
Must be nuance-speak, meaning liberals are full of excrement, but good at hiding it.
I wonder if Michael Ignatieff considered these before settling on puffins:
http://www.mongabay.com/images/gabon/600/gabon_2043.jpg
More info here:
http://www.reference.com/search?q=dung20%beetle
Oh folks…don’t be to hard on Iggy….excrement is as excrement does.
Syncro
Nothing wrong with the libs picking the puffin for their icon … taliban jack most likely has dibs on crows and magpies.
For you libs out there … be thankful that in Iggys first exposure to nature he wasn’t shown a weasel when they went searching for drowning polar bears.
Is it possible to make a hole big enough for all the liberal excrement?
Probaly not.
FYI I have a young fellow from N.S. working and living with me. Been in Alberta for a couple of months and is learning the biz.
I pointed out the Igggy reference to him and he fell off the couch laughing…shite is as shite does.
Syncro
Considering the characters who…coexisted…with Chretien — or, at least, were in the same province — his audacious “da proof is da proof” quote is probably nothing more than the honest expression of the worldview of a certain corner of the Liberal party at the time.
But that was then, this is now; the party moves on — flexibly, eyes open, looking ever inward for itself. And in one fell swoop, a moment of pure inspiration, Iggy just nailed it:
“They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement…this seems to me a symbol of what our party should be.”
I don’t think anyone else in Canada could possibly have worded that quite so eloquently.
Eskimo “Hey Jose…..are you an illegal immigrant? I’ve always wondered that, given your SDA handle.”
I hope you didn’t overtax your mental faculties coming up with that humdinger.
They hide their own sh*t
that is friggin hillarious, Imagine Liberals Hiding of all things Sh*t & all this time i thought it was just Money,Taxpayer Ripoffs & all of the Scams that they have pulled.
Poor Puffin’s
If Iggy is the ‘smart one’ this ‘begs the question’…
Is he planning to hide Dion?
Somewhat off topic, but relevant, – in my London Free Press this morning PG A5 the story of Iggy describing the virtues of the “puffin” and using it as the Liberal symbol.
The line about the “puffin” hiding its excrement
(the real meat of the story) was completely omitted.
Nuanced reporting from the editorial staff of the LFP.
Nit picking on my part?
I don’t think so!
This says more about the decline in debating and speaking skills than the liberals which is a societal problem.
Think back to the days in the parliaments of Canada and England in Churchill’s day. Even without the obvious speaking skills of Churchill, the level of debate surpassed today by a large exponent.
Today’s leaders of all stripes are ineloquent rubes.
But don’t sell Bush short! He’s very entertaining – and people are always ‘misunderestimating’ him…
What I miss from the White House is the snarky, condescending, rude and grumpy Rumsfeldian Barbs that used to be hurled at the media when Rumsfeld was in town. I don’t think he did a good job but his press conferences were classic! He was the antithesis of the pandering, politically correct politician. Now if only he didn’t suffer from acute Hubris and overconfidence he may have been able to adjust to circumstances and Iraq may have been saved after post-Saddam week 2. But that’s a whole different topic.
“Puffin” for Canada’s national bird.
Was Iggy the egghead meeting with Mark Elmesary.
“Oh Wow Man , Look at the colours of their (PHHHHHHT) beaks maaaan!
CTV is THE liberal excretement hider in Canada.
CTV has to mock Iggy because Dion is only getting bad press.
The long knives are out for Iggy, he will never be priminister if the mandarins at CTV have been given the word to cut him off at the knees.
Sorry I meant Mark Emery (head) not Elmasary (terrrorist).
I take our fighting plover, is not back from exposing heaping piles of liberal guanno?
Iggy:
“Stephane, we did’nt get it done!”
Dion:
“This is unfair!”
…A few weeks later, the CPC releases a TV ad that all but destroys any chance Dion might have in ever becoming PM.
Now Dion is threatening to pull the plug early for an election in which, one can speculate might give Iggy some inroads/replace Dion…
Now Igg, has done it again…This time to himself.
I’m sure the new CPC ad is being prepared and ready as we speak.
AND HERE I AM SENDING LOT’S OF CASH TO THE CPC!
What the hell for? 😉
So now that Didi and Z-iggy are both toast…Who’s the next God (Dog?) in waiting?
Anyone hearing about the hard working Justin Trudeau these days?
Stop, stop . . . you’re killing me! I just couldn’t make this stuff up. That’s the best morning chuckle I’ve had in ages.
‘Intellectual’ is the best example of a misnomer.
Iggy is the best example of an intellectual.
Haha. That’s pretty good, Kate.
Careful, Prince Iggy! Emulating the puffin’s toilet habits are what got the Liberals caught with their pants down the last time:
“As the chick matures, the toilet is moved closer to the burrow entrance”
http://tinyurl.com/2rsfx6
One of the most revealing statements on the fallacies of Trudeaupian myth came from the great orator hizzown self:
PET said: We have to understand that Canada is not immortal”
A Freudian slip to be sure. From the man who did more to polarize this nation to it’s current morass where the two solitudes have devolved into a chaotic dystopia where numerous warring “groups” compete for special dispensation from the Jurocrats or patronize the kleptocrats for an extra slice of the public purse.
Then there was the dystopian gaffe of all times made by Senator Sharon Carstairs when she commented on the Liberal redraft of the firearms act:
” The registering of hunting rifles is the first step in the social re-engineering of Canadians, This is not as much about reducing crime as it is part of the pacification of North American society.”
WHO has hidden agendas??
sharon carstairs – senator yet.
there is an oxygen thief and a helium inhaler.
Hey i thought that the wackos sitting on the mountians meditating or that woodstock concert was suppost to bring about world peace then there was sending those paper boats with little candles on them or eating special diets or meditating to trees were suppost to