Saturday, February 17, 2007

People who carry guns

During the CBC’s ‘Politics’ show yesterday the press panel was shown a video clip of General Hillier’s "decade of darkness" speech about the devastating effect of Liberal budget cuts on the military. This was followed by a clip showing Liberal reaction and the ensuing discussion was about whether Hillier’s remarks were too political. The Toronto Star’s James Travers wasn’t happy. Then the Star’s Susan Delacourt blurted this weird little bit of Liberal paranoia:

Susan Delacourt [at 48:15]
"Yeah ...it actually segueways with what we were just talking about before too [it doesn’t ] ...and I don’t want to go too far on this for fear of walking out of here [??] (...nervous chuckle). But I do think we’ve got a disturbing thing going on, or it feels like we do, with the RCMP. Whether it’s... it’s people who carry guns getting political and sidling up to the government. Um..I think it makes everybody a little bit nervous, um, certainly makes me nervous..and ...um...yeah...uh."

Later Don Newman tried to bolster Delacourt’s nutty remarks by making reference to Harper’s having visited with RCMP Commisioner Zachardelli shortly after the election ("...they appeared to be new best friends").

Soldiers. With guns. In our cities. In Canada.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2007 at 7:08:00 PM PST

    I saw that too, and I also thought Susan Delacourt was weird in what she said. She said that she feared and didn't know if she should say what she said. Oh, good god....can they get any stupider???

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  2. KarenFebruary 17, 2007 at 7:13:00 PM PST

    Actually, the whole panel agreed, even gasp, Greg Weston, that well known liberal.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2007 at 10:07:00 PM PST

    I think that when the "Natural Governing Party" gets back into power one of the first things we'll see is the appointing of Senator Jim Travers. Too bad for Jim, if he worked for the CBC he could be Governor General!

    Peter

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  4. wilsonFebruary 18, 2007 at 8:31:00 AM PST

    Susan seemed, shaken up. Maybe they did some internal polling and the results were...frightening!!

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2007 at 10:44:00 AM PST

    This will make commies nervous as they desire to disarm the populace so that their secret police can easily dominate them.

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