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PTBC J-Log

A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Monday, March 01, 2010

Preaching “respect” for “Canada’s institutions”, Lib leader Ignatieff once AGAIN calls PM “THIS GUY”

Written by Joel Johannesen on Monday March 01 2010 at 10:27 AM

Michael_Ignatieff_speaks_OH.My_.God_.He_.SpeaksThis is at least the third  time  I’ve documented the self-esteemed Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff stand up in front of a media scrum on state-owned CBC TV news and, speaking from on high to his fawning reporters, ignite a giant stink bomb of condescension and disrespect which permeates the whole room.  It was another hilarious though unwitting betrayal of his snobby, disrespectful condescending character, this morning, with his reference to the man and the institution of Prime Minister of Canada as… “this guy”. 

And nobody in the room — not one of the crack journalists — saw the irony, the hypocrisy, or even remotely appreciated the utter disrespect and condescension contained within Ignatieff’s character.

And what’s even more laughably ironic and hypocritical is that this comedic theatrical exercise (Act Three) is allowed by the playright — himself — to occur in the same breath as his highfalutin condemnation of “this guy” supposedly “disrespecting parliament” and “Canada’s institutions”, by the Prime Minister’s proroguing of parliament for 11 days (or whatever it actually was — not the “three months” as Ignatieff and all liberals tell you every chance they get, in what is an outright lie, which I guess they do as another sign of their great respect for you, and for honesty in politics and its institutions manifestly).   

Oh come on people.  Let’s just call it what it is.  It betrays Michael Ignatieff as just plain dumb at least politically, and in perhaps more than that way alone.  And as a guy who is utterly, deceptively disingenuous, and a total phony.  And a typical political blowhard.  And let’s also face it —if nobody in the media sees the irony and deception contained within his smarmy comments, then the media itself is either as dumb, and/or as complicit, in the making of this whole crap sandwich.  I still find it amazing that nobody in the media has called him on this.  Oh who am I kidding — I don’t find it the least bit amazing.

Reporter:  “...Recent polls have shown he’s bouncing back a little bit.  Would that indicate that perhaps the damage caused to him by prorogation is not as permanent as we thought?”

The Liberal Party Leader (and part-time respect cop) Michael Ignatieff:  “My sense is that shutting down parliament raised issues of character.  They raised issues of respect for parliamentary and democratic institutions.  ...  It went to character.  Does this guy respect our institutions?  ... ”

Recap:  it’s all about “character” and the “respect”, the condescending, snobby, blowardious one repeatedly tells us through his state-owned CBC division (which itself so respects us all —especially us on the right!). 

And so that is why he is so horribly aghast that, um, “this guy”, the one who heads the most prestigious political institution in Canada, the office which is supposed to be regarded as the highest and most respectful political office in all the land — the office of “Prime Minister” — could show such “disrespect”.  For “Canada’s institutions”.  Which Ignatieff so respects —you know, the other ones, not this one, even by him, the self-esteemed liberal who deserves our utmost respect. 


Posted by Joel Johannesen on   Mon, March 01, 2010 at 10:27:09 AM
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