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I thought prostitution was illegal?
Not when it comes to Liberals.
Wow, all with the blessings of the cheer leading media party!
Holy Mackerel, what’s happened to all the Johns? Now-a-days it’s just sluts lining up to visit old whores.
It’s good to see these left wing apparatchiks using their political position for whoring. They certainly wouldn’t get far on looks.
Yea! He discovered Liberals.
Mr. Coyne has taken an important stand on partisan media, Conservative bashing,Liberal loving, two standard, crowd control, elite loving, Canadian media bathwater drinking, CBC loving,Pravda inspired, dumbdowning Canadian-style journalism.
He agrees with it.
Politics is prostitution for ugly people.
there is no whore like a vote whore
This differs only marginally in corruption from the private meetings *her and her staff have with the Public Sector Unions.
If you give any credence to the idea that some personality types are over-represented in certain careers, politicians auctioning off their favors to the highest bidder shouldn’t be a surprise.
Devil’s Dictionary (1906)- Politics:
n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
All you can say is that you’re surprised that politicians have gotten so bold about it and no longer give a shit about how bad it looks. They’re untouchable, unaccountable aristocrats and they know it. If the media barks at bit then throw some treats at them and they’ll grovel and roll over. Fancy dinner parties paid by taxpayers and flattery are cheap.
Now that Ontario and Quebec leaders have decided on cap and trade, the real fun begins for the politicians. I’d imagine the $6000 is just to get into the club. To talk privately to the leader and energy minister must cost a bit more. Those businesses that want to get exemptions and free CO2 emission permits will have to pay more dearly (the bad guys) than those who want subsidies for renewable energy (the good guys). I wonder if anyone still uses brown paper bags in the age of Bitcoin?
Coyne has always been a liberal
Yes it’s okay -Steven Harper did it ! Well , maybe not. I have a ( very ) small business. I cut a small cheque to the Coservative party from my business. It was returned. They would not accept the donation from my business. I made a donation from my personal account. It is totally lost on The Harper haters that they were funded by real normal people by many small donors. I guess that’s what you do when you are a dictatating demi – God. Or maybe not. Maybe we just have a lot of intolerant divisive haters. Any possibility that it could be support from hardworking people who love this country and are willing to back it with their own money ?
Also a small business owner and with the new Liberal overlords, I have very little of my own money left.
And unfortunately it will get worse. Nobody gets left behind doesn’t work – but nobody gets ahead will ! Watch for the coming capital tax !
With the exception of the teachers, almost everyone knows the liberal party invented corruption in politics.
It appears to me Coyne is on the spectrum somewhere between apolitical and a dues paying Liberal. He tries to pass himself off as a conservative so he can get the paid role of Conservative pundit on CBC. Playing the part of the CBC’s faux conservative gives him a small amount of money but enough street cred that he can earn a living passing himself off as a pundit, journalist and he may even be a paid a a contributor for Macleans.(I can’t say because part of my mental hygiene regimen is to avoid putting garbage into my head.) He is a very intelligent man who understands politics but plays the game purely for his own gain; not for principles. I would LOVE to hear Rex Murphy’s unfettered view of Coyne.
Hey Andrew
They Canadian media complex took a an important stand on officially influencing federal elections, by registering with elections Canada to ensure Liberal victory.
They are for it!
And that includes you Andrew. No amount of window dressing is going to change the fact Coyne is just another left wing hack dedicated to the advancement of progressivism in Canada.
Hidden away somewhere in the Ontario legislature’s attic is a portrait of Kathleen Wynne that just keeps getting prettier and prettier.
Bingo and well said.
Coyne is the leader of the Cognitive Disonance movement.
He leads by example and has for a long, long time
I understand that many conservatives respect for journalists as a group is equivalent to ambulance chasing lawyers and used car salesmen but they’re not all awful all of the time. At least Coyne bothered to write a column on it. The rest of the journalists merely tut-tutted, retweeted each other and will not pursue this any further. Credit where credit is due.
Besides, Coyne is more of an internationalist than Liberal or liberal. I’ve also noticed that despite how many times big government disappoints him and flaunts its corruption, he still prefers strengthening centralized government instead of local government (who are more responsive to the voters). I suppose that makes sense since he thinks, and frequently says, people are stupid. More of a Bloomberg “nudge and tax” for their own good type. Big into making things mandatory like voting and long form census (no matter how long and personal it gets). Except for helmets laws, oddly – the only time he seems to have a libertarian impulse.
About 250 or so years ago some fellers south o here gots tegether en figured no matter what eventually thems that ya govern ya tends ta get too big fer ther britches. So they figured better give the governed folks the constitutional right to remove them thar politiciuns and jus so them thar politisuns knows the govern’d folks mean biznus they also made sure to giv em a constitutional right to keep a fire arm for jus such an eventuality.
Corse them folks in Ottowa n Britain they think thats a dangerous idea….cause them govern’d folks can’t even be trusted with thr own money.
Sarc off
Greece – 10.8 million population
Greece – $393 Billion Debt
Ontario – 13.5 million population
Ontario – $296 Billion Debt
Liberal room for error.
Come now, Canadians are in-heat little Puppy dogs. They celebrate worthless Scientists like the Canadian crack head Suzuki. What do you expect but ridicule… Morons are born every day.. Suck it up A-holes.. No payday in your future….
Great comparison! But I think the Greeks are ahead in the food department (everything from souvlaki to moussaka). And having some really bright people as part of their history (Plato, Aristotle, etc.). Ontario didn’t even dream up poutine (that was Quebec) and one would have to go back to Sir John A. to find someone from Ontario who accomplished anything in terms of nation building.
Wasn’t coynes sister married to PET
Why he is practically fambly
You can pick yer nose, but not fambly….
I think it was his cousin who had a child with PET. I’m certain it wasn’t his sister. I don’t think that would make a difference anyway. Lots of people don’t like their in-laws.
My cheque was returned as well.
Remember – Liberal voters wanted this.
Remind them how they love supporting corruption every time they put up a Liberal sign on their professionally manicured lawns.
The only news here is how lonely Coyne appears as he questions the routine sleaze that the rest of his fellow “journalists” give a free pass to. Wynne is an uglier (if that is possible) version of the very evil Mrs. Clinton. The bovine human facsimiles that voted for her are complicit.
Who has the Madam hired to play the piano in the whore house?
No it wasn’t. His 1st cousin is Deborah Coyne, mother of PET’s daughter, but Andrew is not responsible for a cousin’s mating. He is no relation whatever to the Trudeaus.
Any time the political rulers get together with business bosses in secret, it can be said that fascism is creeping in.
They conspire to make schemes to keep the plebeian down and the ruling class in control.
This is so bad, communists and national socialists have nothing on this scheme, though both of these like to hobnob with the oligarchs.
Expecting some serious objections.
Umm…Sir John Alexander MacDonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
True enough. But he was transplanted to Ontario. Never lost the scotch (or the gin) though….
I think Coyne is best described as a disgruntled or self-hating Liberal. I don’t think he sees eye to eye with the Liberal party leadership at all, and he evidently has wide-ranging views of the merits of the general run of the party’s people and policies, and doesn’t like a lot of them. But he sees himself (I daresay rightly so) as quite literally a born Liberal and no more capable of abandoning the Party than his family or any other essential element of his identity. He isn’t Liberal because they or their policies are good to him. He’s Liberal, and therefore puts up with them and their policies.
So do you agree with the Liberal Premier of Ontario it is alright to contribute $ 6,000.00 to enjoy a Fine Meal, (no Pun intended with the Fine word) and spend time with Her and a Cabinet Minister.
However if the Conservatives, to show up the Hypocrisy plan a meal costing $, 5,000.00 it is against the Law.
Same old; Same old; double standard when the Corrupt Liberal’s want money; they will make it or take it or bake it into a Pie full of Liberal Cronism.
We know the left howls over a $16 glass of OJ, which apparently is infinitely worse than Orville’s $6,000 meal.
Liberal math and hypocrisy on display