…and we have a winner! Charlie Angus, come on down!

Now, it pains me to say this about Charlie, because he is a fellow aging punk rocker who dabbles in politics. He’s a good guy and usually pretty sensible.

But this bizarre attack on the CBC, just to get at Kory, is dopey. It’s foolish. It’s boneheaded, fatheaded, thick, cloddish, doltish, dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, gormless, unthinking, nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted and witless. (I’m on a roll, baby! Someone pay me to go on a TV panel, fast!)

Charlie, baby, people on panels get paid all the time. Hell, I was in Ottawa yesterday, and the smart and savvy NDP guy to the left of me (natch) was paid, just like I was to punditize the peoples. I don’t recall him tearing up the cheque.

Going back more than a decade, in fact, I have been paid to be on political panels on TV. One that paid me, all the time, was on CBC and it was called Counterspin. It’s host was an incredible, brilliant guy named Avi Lewis. He’s the son of a guy named Stephen Lewis. You may have heard of him. Perhaps Avi’s grandfather, too – David. He led your party for a while, there.

If NDP politicians think there’s something to be gained by attacking the public broadcaster for having the temerity to provide balance in its programming, knock yourselves out. Blow your brains out, Team Stupid. It’ll do wonders for the coverage/exposure you get. Just you watch.

In the meantime, make sure you send back all the fees your representatives have been paid to appear on various shows over the years. And don’t forget the interest – it’ll be substantial!

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Unfortunately, the only way to remove a Senator is to force him or her to resign. So, in 1998, Senator Andrew Thompson resigned after Prime Minister Jean Chretien removed him from the Liberal caucus. (Between 1990 and 1997, he’d attended only fourteen Senate meetings.) The “Tequila Senator,” you may recall, faxed his resignation from his villa in Mexico. Good riddance.

Nancy Ruth, the Conservative Senator who has told NGO’s to “shut the fuck up,” is also a disgrace. Her leader, the Conservative Prime Minister, must kick her out of caucus – or, failing that, explain why he won’t.

Ruth, meanwhile, should resign.

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Nice guy, too. Excellent taste in web sites, as well.

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Link.

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I’ve wagered 20 bucks she won’t find me. Hint: I’m somewhere in downtown Ottawa.

In the meantime, here is part of the speech I’ve scribbled out at…wherever it is that I am!

“…We Liberals, meanwhile, have a few points to make, too. They are the kinds of arguments that public opinion research tells us gets a lot of heads nodding, too.

For example: Mr. Harper, you divide and conquer to stay in power. You say you want to clean up politics, but then you let things like Rahim and Helena happen. You say you are the best guy to handle the economy – but you’re the same guy who turned a record surplus into a record $60 billion structural defcit.

You are the guy who is increasingly out of touch with Canadians – and who is secretive, and autocratic, and who acts like he is the President of Canada.

Canadians, most Canadians, know you by now. And most of them don’t like what they see…”

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It’s useful as a fundraising tool with CBC-hating SoCon grassy knoll types, I guess, but it’s also a lie.

To wit:

• “I’m not a CBC booster, but the CBC was the best.” – Stephen Harper, Globe, November 20, 1995
• “The CBC/SRC is and will remain Canada’s public broadcaster.” – Stephen Harper, National Post, September 15, 2006

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For the first time that I can remember, Mr. Angry has been the first politician to invoke the “E” word.  So much for his ever-helpful “unnecessary election” talking points.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

If there is an election, the Libs/NDP/Bloc should save that headline: it’ll help to remind everyone, in a paid campaign, who is really to blame.

UPDATE: Who says PMO doesn’t watch this web site?  They got on the blower to CTV to complain, and the headline was changed!  (Should’ve got a screen cap – I wonder if Kevin Bosch did?)

UPDATER: Never mind.  I did it myself.  You’re welcome.

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A senior member of rhe Premier’s staff has totally stood me up for lunch. He is about to discover how petty and vindictive I can be.

Bastard.

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…personally, I found it painful to watch.  There’s only so much gray hair, wrinkles and male pattern baldness I can take at a single sitting.  Particularly when it’s on me.

Wendy, however, looked smashing, comme toujours.  Link here, at about 31 minutes or so.

“Hi! Let me lobby you in front of this nice Yorkville sandwich shop.”

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