This is such arrogant twaddle it makes me happy that I didn’t vote for her.
Falsehoods and slander are nothing new to public discourse, but two factors make today’s world different from what we have experienced before: the vast quantities of false information flowing from spurious news sources over the Internet, and the apparent impunity afforded to people in high office to proffer blatant lies that in an earlier time would have been fatal to their legitimacy.
No mention of Romney’s tax returns. No anger over the drug-addled factory worker whose job went to Mexico.
She yearns for a time when “scholarship” and “journalists” ruled the information flow and had no bias….no seriously, that’s what she wrote.
Campbell is still angry that, like her, Clinton was judged and found wanting.
What about the biggest lie of all, that Kim Campbell was conservative. She brought in more gun control as Justice Minister. I never voted PC after that.
What does an increase in subscriptions to The New York Times, and Washington Post have to do with “curing” FAKE News ? Perhaps the word she was searching for is “disseminating” FAKE News
Back in the 70’s & 80’s there was a “my turn your turn” sameness to the 2 main party elite. Thank goodness it didn’t yield an NDP government, but until Reform/Alliance showed up, it promised more of the same everlasting.
“…until Reform/Alliance showed up, it promised more of the same everlasting.”
Now that they no longer exist, we are back to square one.
“…the vast quantities of false information flowing from spurious news sources over the Internet, and the apparent impunity afforded to people in high office to proffer blatant lies that in an earlier time would have been fatal to their legitimacy.”
Well, in this one paragraph, I think she has “almost” hit the nail on the head. Because what she is (indirectly)addressing is the gullibility of the general public and its lack of concern for ethics in our systems of governance. And I post the election of turdo la doo and the re-elections of McGuinty/Wynne as proof positive of both
But by assigning blame to the Internet while leaving out the MSM as a source of “spurious” news, she drops her robes and exposes herself for the elitist hypocrite, wannabe journalist that she is.
“She yearns for a time when ‘scholarship’ and ‘journalists’ ruled the information flow and had no bias…”
You mean back when unicorns roamed freely through the forests of the land?
good lord, that bitch has never heard of Communist Bullshit Corp, me thinks
and she twaddle’s about scientists and how “good” they are, guess the cow believes in AGW
“Citizens should defend the value of truth.”
Agreed. And so should politicians and journalists.
FAKE NEWS = Liberal MSM, aka globalist propaganda & censorship.
I remember when the Ctown Accord failed and all its “supporters” immediately forgot about it. But Campbell went on tour to explain how stupid we all were.
Hmmmmm… I remember during the US election, Ms Campbell was on the CBC commenting that it would be good for Hillary to win the election “so that the world can see that a woman can lead a country”…a reference to the Glass Ceiling being the only valid reason for voting for Hillary. This completely ignores real history (speaking of false news…..) Great Britain, Israel, and India have all had female leaders, but Ms. Campbell either chose to ignore them, or does not believe they counted. After all, those women were more conservative than Hillary. And that contradicts the meme of conservatives not voting for women, which is the excuse that Ms Campbell and Ms Clinton use for losing their elections. So who is the purveyor of false news now?
I didn’t vote for her party when she was the leader, either. She had a huge opportunity to make a difference, and she squandered it.
How ironic Campbell’s opinion piece IS; Wente and Simpson, writing for the Globe and Mail, penned absolute drivel the night before Obama was first elected. At midnight, The Globe and Mail published their squishy, teary self-congratulations on Obama’s win BEFORE American voters had cast their ballots. I could not believe it. Wait ’til the little people have voted, you pretentious twits.
I’ve been reading a lot from comments sections, after articles, and Trump has a very solid base. He just needs to carry on and do what he promised to do. Obama is showing his TRUE Marxist colours.
I used to think that a man with abilities and accomplishments equal to Kim Campbell’s could never be a candidate for a Cabinet appointment, let alone for Prime Minister.
But we have elected Justin Trudeau to that office, so I guess we have at long last achieved equality of opportunity for men and women.
She was treated relatively well by the media of the day. When you are a Red Tory, the media accepted you to their cocktail parties as an “acceptable” kind of conservative because you were indistinguishable from the Liberals. She is a female version of Joe Clark. The Canadian media led by the state-owned fake-news outlet is a partisan arm of the institutional left. But then so is the institution she works for.
Kim bills herself as one of Canada’s Prime Ministers.
This is factually true, but only in a disingenuous way and a claim without bragging rights.
She was never elevated to the top office by the electorate but instead gained the dubious title due to her boss and former PM mulroony who threw the reins to her and leaped before the wheels came off the donkey cart.
No one took her seriously and she was trounced less than 4 months later.
Stay in LA madam…it looks good on you.
SC
Exactly! Kim Campbell was not a conservative by any stretch.
What she really means is that she longs for a return to the days when liberal biased news was all anyone had access to.
The lying bitch did more damage to gun owners than any other Canadian politician in her zeal to capitalize on Gamil Gharbi.
The media briefly lover her, remember the “Canada’s Madonna” bullshit?
I don’t like Madonna either, but she at least made it on her own talent,Campbell was a lifetime trough hog, jumping from one venue to another to further her own career. When Campbell ran in her last election,I cheered for her opponent,Hedy Fry,the only time I have ever had anything good to say about that nutcase.
In “The Secret Mulroney Tapes”, Brian expounds on how he was sucked in (I don’t know if that was literally or not. Probably not,I can’t see any man having an affair with Kim Campbell when Mila’s waiting at home)by the lies Campbell told him about her qualifications and ability.
Oxford graduate, fluent in Russian, except she wasn’t either.
I’ll once again drag out that old joke we gun owners used to tell ” You’re in a room with Idi Amin,Muammar Gaddafi,and Kim Campbell,and you only have two cartridges for your gun.What should you do?
Answer: shoot Kim Campbell twice.”
Kim Campbell aka Avril Phaedra Campbell is Hillary Clinton North.
We all need to go on a hunger strike until this fake news thing is cleared up.
Who want’s a ‘fish broth burger’?
I’m buying!
Was there bigger farce than those idiots in the media agonizing about how Chief Many Chins was doing on her ‘all you can eat’ hunger strike?
Is she still alive? Can we fix that somehow?
Campbell is still alive? Huh.
She was so clearly not conservative that in the only general that she stood as PCC leader, her party lost all but 2 seats, hers included.
As Minister Of Justice and Attorney General under Mulroney, it was her job to write new abortion laws after the older ones were stuck down by the Supremes.
She failed.
She has cost the lives of about 2 million innocents. Judge her? Yes.
I have two words for her: two seats.
That’s what she reduced the PC party to in 1993.
I guess it’s OK to talk about this now because as she also said, elections are no time to discuss serious issues.
Go away. When she was MND she frustrated staff to no end with her ignorant critiquing of operations. She had a reputation for not listening.
Living the dream, first non-male PM.
Can we have some more intelligent topics Lance? This woman is as irelevant I am.
Kim who?
That dizzy bitch Campbell! I once wrote her on her gun control bullshit. I could not believe the letter she sent back justifying her actions. I told her I would never vote for her or any member of her party. Further, I would encourage everyone I knew to vote against her. I was more than pleased when she was blown away and the PCs reduced to two seats.
Don’t stick anything in her without proper precautions.
The freedom of the press unsurprisingly needed to be protected from governments and rulers who were threatened by the forces of public opinion that the press could awaken indoctrinate.
There! Fixed it for ya.
Darn… the strike tag didn’t work! the word “awaken” was supposed to have been striken through in the quote above.
Hope this clears that up.
Yes. I have tried the strike tag in the past too. No avail, sadly.
HTML is only partially supported. Shouldn’t be a surprise.
Also, it’s no surprise to regulars that I’m a snarky SOB which the strike tag exists to stylize.(so there is that)
Constancy and understanding your self image is your friend.
(also, ya gets what yaz paid for)
I was a party apparatchik in the 93 election. The country had tired of lyin’ Bryan and we all sensed a librano win. Nobody saw the devastating loss coming. It was something to be around.
The word on the inside was that Campbell was humping some big Russian (she is fluent in Russian afterall as someone pointed out above…sarc). Apparently she’d retire to the boudoir with Ivan while the bus was travelling between events. The journos assigned to the Campbell campaign looked the other way and gave her a pass. They probably realized she was er..goin’ down.
For some reason Kim 2 frigging seats Campbell always reminded me of the old folk song Camptown Races:
‘Old muley cow come on to the track, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
The bob-tail fling her over his back, Oh, doo-dah-day!
Goin’ to run all night!
Goin’ to run all day!
I’ll bet my money on the bob-tail nag,
Somebody bet on the bay.
Yeah, for some reason the song “Camp Town Races” always reminds me of Mel Brooks’ movie Blazing Saddles.
My favorite Mel Brooks movie is Twelve Chairs.
“Nobody saw the devastating loss coming.”
I never dreamed it would be so devastating.(well I didn’t dream so much in those days with the NEP still wrecking Alberta with 2 terms of the PCS)
Depends on your point of view what you saw, though.
I remember what I saw of the LPC Leadership Convention which was held in Calgary, of all places.
Our family car was a Chrysler Reliant and it had unceremoniously up and died during the convention. I got to witness Alberta Liberals discussing their convention issues while riding the C-Train, and boy! were those people on fire!!!(emphasis necessary)
They were excited because Ly’in Brian had screwed the Saint Bernard(very large pooch) with the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.
Rule #Number One of Canadian Politics:
Canadian Politics are a Popularity Contest, so DO NOT BORE the Stupid A-Holes who VOTE.(I’m thinking of you, Stephen Harper)
Bottom Line: This whole influence peddling thing that western X-politicians do has got to stop.
It’s like criminals profiting from books or interviews about their crimes.
Public Service??? They are Serving Themselves and Their Future Interests.
All of them do it and Kim Campbell is riding the wave on what?
She does speeches to male audiences? NO.
She does speeches to female audiences who praise her for being Canada’s first PM who squats to pee.
Also, there is an underlying issue that is important to identity politic females: ABORTION.(apparently now we have unregulated immigration too)
Yes. Kimmy was supposed to rewrite the abortion regulations that were struck down and she did not do so.
Canada is the only western nation that has unregulated abortion.
She undermined what the Canadian people wanted her to do and she got paid for failing until Canadians had a chance to say their piece.
When Canadians spoke Kimmy was given her pink slip and told to kick stones. Thank you Lord, that she isn’t Minister of Justice(Canada’s top Judge any more)
Just an addition, to show Kimmy’s character:
From wiki>
Campbell entered the London School of Economics in 1970 to study towards her doctorate in Soviet Government, and spent three months touring the Soviet Union, from April to June 1972.
(this during the height of the Cold War when actual Soviet citizens needed a visa to travel within the Soviet Union …my ed.)
Like Obama’s mommy, Kim Campbell was also studying the Russian language at this time…
I can only hope that she did so because she wanted to convince the Russians of gun control in addition to the benefits of killing innocent children through abortion.
It’s a secret. Most everybody knows. We just didn’t tell you…
(:>D-
Falsehoods and slander are nothing new to public discourse, but two factors make today’s world different from what we have experienced before:
Ms. Campbell was raised on in the era of ‘You Are There’, a fake newscast hosted by a celebrity, who went on to create fake narratives during the Ho Chi Minh years.
You Are There 1955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w
If you’re looking for where a pack of lies can commonly be found in an aspect of public life, look no further than the political parties’ election platforms.
You can bet the politicians won’t have anyone tampering with that.
“She is a female version of Joe Clark.”
Nailed it!
Correction to ‘You Are There 1955’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1mliA_54Cw
Forget the soother,more like a plunger.
The Ghost of Irrelevant’s Past…..
“She is a female version of Joe Clark.”
Exactly! Did not Joe “Who” Clark support Shiny Pony in the 2015 election?
Most liberal-lefty politicos know full well that they are peddling BS to the people, as does the MSM. They’re purpose is to mislead the proletariat into surrendering our lives to our intellectual betters. But she doesn’t get it.
I can only surmise that she is mind-bogglingly naïve, as is evidenced in this paragraph:
“The two most important resources we have in finding and defending truth are scholarship and independent journalism. Scholars go deep into the areas we need to understand. Peer review holds them to standards of academic accountability. Scientists constantly seek to disprove findings to determine the most robust understandings. Journalists help us to understand the here and now, although investigative journalism may also follow stories over a longer term as shown in the film Spotlight. Journalism also serves as a conduit for the findings of academic research to the public, creating an accessible bridge between the deep research of scholars and issues and interests of the public.”
Oops, THEIR purpose, not they’re.
I recall a comment of hers during that election: Asked which Hockey Team she supported she replied (in a most disdainful manner) “I don’t drink beer and watch hockey”. I thought then; well sweetie, best of luck being elected in Canada!