(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”.
Okay, let’s look at the political landscape now. The Liberals still have the muslim, aboriginal and newfie votes … while the Conservatives have the Chinese vote now. Toronto and Vancouver should be solid Conservative seats come the next election thanks to WKs indiscretionary comment about the Chinese serving up cat meat in their restaurants.
The RoC need not know anything, but the Chinese-Canadian community must certainly be aware of the WK-Ignatieff insult to them.
Bernie wrote:
“In year of the Ox
The bigot a hairball coughs
O schadenfreude winter”
I like it.
‘Rough justice” comes to mind.
This story will soon be dead, Iggy has probably sent his Puffin brigade out to bury it with the rest of their poop.
Warren is getting a taste of his own medicine in the blogosphere and I’m sure Garfield is not amused, but that’s where it ends.
Thanks for the link to Mark Steyn Kate. ‘Catsmeat Kinsilla’…it just rolls off of Mark’s pen like a symphony.
Hopefully this is the time when War-wren Catzilla ‘meats’ his match.
I hope he loses his job. I hope he’s humiliated and becomes despondent and universally despised. I hope his kids spit on him and his wife dumps him for another woman. I hope he gets gigantic festering hemorrhoids.
But if by some chance he gets haled before the HRC, as sweet as it would be to watch, I’d send him $20 for his defence. Nobody deserves to be prosecuted by the state for speaking improperly.
Well OK, I wouldn’t send him any money, but I’d be aware that he was being wronged. Well, even then I wouldn’t really worry about it.
Well, actually I would gloat and laugh. I would find it very hard to find any sympathy for him whatsoever. I would cheer for the HRC. Just this once.
Actually, I feel like filing a complaint against him myself. Screw ‘im.