Yes! It’s true! Sometimes you have to perform sundry calisthenics—stand on your head, for example— to understand these people. And that’s even aside from when Liberal Frenchman Stephane (Green Guru) Dion’s remarks are being “interpreted” by the state-run CBC’s Julie Van Dusen due to his lack of, um, English-speaking ability.
In that spirit, let me start not from the beginning of this news story, but nearer the end, while standing on my head and typing. (Suggestion for the folks at home: turn your monitor upside down):
During the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal, Cote testified that he received $120,000 in $100 bills from the executive director of the party’s Quebec wing. He distributed that money to 12 Liberal candidates in the 1997 federal election.
OK now the beginning of the story:
Liberals may allow disgraced organizer back in
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is facing questions about whether he supports welcoming back in to the party one of the key figures from the sponsorship scandal.
Dion told Quebec newspaper Le Soleil that he has no objections to Marc-Yvan Cote being allowed to resume his Liberal membership.
Cote, a former party organizer in Quebec, was one of 10 members banned for life from the party by former prime minister Paul Martin in the wake of the sponsorship scandal.
Dion added that Cote’s punishment was “exaggerated,’’ and that he’d recognized his error and shouldn’t be penalized for life.
Asked about his comments by reporters in Quebec City Wednesday following a meeting of the Liberal caucus, Dion insisted that no decision has been made on the matter and that it’s up to the party president to decide.
“I have no recommendation to make on that at all,” he said.
“There’s a procedure to be followed by the party, and we’ll follow the party procedure.”
Dion noted that he thought that Cote “recognized his mistakes.”
Gerard Kennedy, Dion’s special adviser on election readiness, says each case will have to be decided on its own merits.
OK now get high on crack, and see if you can see it the way liberals do.
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