Now I Know What's Wrong With Harper

[blackrock13]

MP Harper admits to only watching American news on the tele. He doesn't watch Canadian newscast as he doesn't want to hear what Canadian think of him.

....and he stupid enough to admit it on the record. DUH!!!

 

[danmand]

I always find it amazing, that the conservatives, who loudly profess their
canadian nationalism every time they have a chance, have this dream of
making Canada into a couple of states in the US of A.

 

[Cycleguy007]

And yet

It is the leader of the opposition that lived as an American up until recently...

The level of hypocrisy in Canadian politics is just laughable!

 

[blackrock13]

It is the leader of the opposition that lived as an American up until recently...

The level of hypocrisy in Canadian politics is just laughable!

Iggy was/is never an American. With that train of thought any Canadian that spend time working in the US or elsewhere is not a Canadian anymore. Sorry CG, it's nuts!

How many times do you hear reports trying to attach any type of tie to anyone who does well so as to claim him/her Canadian. The weirdest connection I've seen was trying to proudly claim the architect of the new AGO, Gehry as Canadian . He hadn't lived in Canada since he was a child. Huh!!

 

[someone]

Iggy was/is never an American.

Legally true but he did say he was an American. Either that was because he was starting to see himself as an American or he was purposely lying because it case convenient to be seen as an American, at the time. I suspect that he was purposely lying about his nationality (which in some ways is worse than honestly seeing himself as an American) because it was convenient. However, either way, it is not a positive thing.

 

[onthebottom]

Legally true but he did say he was an American. Either that was because he was starting to see himself as an American or he was purposely lying because it case convenient to be seen as an American, at the time. I suspect that he was purposely lying about his nationality (which in some ways is worse than honestly seeing himself as an American) because it was convenient. However, either way, it is not a positive thing.

Think of it as an upgrade

A politician saying what's convenient at the time.... gee we have none of that down here......

LOL

OTB

 

[Cycleguy007]

Iggy was/is never an American. With that train of thought any Canadian that spend time working in the US or elsewhere is not a Canadian anymore. Sorry CG, it's nuts!

I didn't say Iggy WAS an American... I said he was LIVING as one.. and as "someone" said, he did claim to be American at one point.

You're right about one thing though... Canadian Politics is 100% nuts!

 

[peter4]

Yeah but thank God there's a politician that tells it like it is (unlike the Fiberals).

Well said JohnFK !!

 

[peter4]

I'll tell you what's wrong with Harper - nothing - nada - zilch - zero !! He is exactly what Canada needs during these uncertain economic times !!

 

[Brill]

We needed GM bailed out?
Nobody else would have stepped in to build cars??

I thought only socialists nationalized private businesses.

 

[Anynym]

MP Harper admits to only watching American news on the tele. He doesn't watch Canadian newscast as he doesn't want to hear what Canadian think of him.

....and he stupid enough to admit it on the record. DUH!!!

Where do you claim that Harper said that?

What Harper DID say was that he doesn't watch Canadian newscasts because he doesn't like watching himself on the news.

And, by the way, I think Harper already knows more than what the news is telling the rest of us: it would be a waste of his time to watch.

 

[blackrock13]

Where do you claim that Harper said that?

What Harper DID say was that he doesn't watch Canadian newscasts because he doesn't like watching himself on the news.

And, by the way, I think Harper already knows more than what the news is telling the rest of us: it would be a waste of his time to watch.

Point on is Harper speak for I don't want to hear what they say. He doesn't have to watch but that doesn't mean one of his minions doesn't a reports back, believe me.

I was as only repeating what he said in a scrum at some gathering reported on a Canadian news channel. It literally was being broadcast while I was on the computer. I haven't heard a follow up since.

....... and since he makes so many of the headlines, of course he knows more. Only what leaks, stumbles, or falls out of his little corner of the world is reported by the news. From what I glean from what's not said, I wish I could be a fly in the caucus room when they meet. It's scarey.

 

[peter4]

Point on is Harper speak for I don't want to hear what they say. He doesn't have to watch but that doesn't mean one of his minions doesn't a reports back, believe me.

I was as only repeating what he said in a scrum at some gathering reported on a Canadian news channel. It literally was being broadcast while I was on the computer. I haven't heard a follow up since.

....... and since he makes so many of the headlines, of course he knows more. Only what leaks, stumbles, or falls out of his little corner of the world is reported by the news. From what I glean from what's not said, I wish I could be a fly in the caucus room when they meet. It's scarey.

..... have another drink Blackrock. I think you are down a pint !

 

[blackrock13]

No, actually not enough. I don't want to touch any of this american suds. It hurts the kidneys something fierce and you run to the loo too often.

 

[blackrock13]

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Last Updated: 22nd October 2009, 6:42pm

OTTAWA — Say it ain’t so, prime minister.

Even Stephen Harper’s own cabinet seems to be having trouble accepting that the man with the famously frosty relationship to the national news media doesn’t consume Canadian news.

“I tend to watch American news,” Harper said this week during a question-and-answer session at a Canadian Chamber of Commerce convention in Toronto.

“I don’t like to watch Canadian news and hear what Allan (Gregg) and everybody else is saying about me. My hobby is to watch politics elsewhere.”

Gregg, a pollster and CBC pundit, was in the audience.

Industry Minister Tony Clement was aghast Thursday when asked about Harper’s news viewing habits.

“I’m sure he does” watch Canadian news, Clement said outside the House of Commons.

Told of Harper’s assertion, Clement was frankly skeptical.

“We’re news junkies, all of us are. Come on. You know what we’re all about.”

Peter Kent, the junior foreign minister and a former Global TV newscaster, said Harper “absolutely” watches Canadian news, but backed off when pressed.

“Well, I’ve never sat with him but I assume that he ...”

Jason Kenney, Harper’s politically astute citizenship and immigration minister, had a nimble response at the ready when asked about Harper’s news-viewing habits.

“I think the prime minister is too busy to sit there being vainglorious and watching himself on TV,” said Kenney.

But Liberal Bob Rae said he found Harper’s claim “quite shocking.”

“We all have an obligation to know what’s going on and to know what other people are reporting and what’s taking place,” said Rae.

He confessed to being a news junkie himself since his days as Ontario’s beleaguered NDP premier during the recession in the early 1990s.

“I’m afraid I watched it always and I also read the newspapers,” said Rae, adding he still does.

“Look at the colour of my hair,” he said of his bone-white mop.

“Of course I still read it.”

A spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office said Harper may prefer American news, but he likes hockey “on Canadian networks” and also enjoys family time watching Dragon’s Den, a CBC production, and CTV’s Corner Gas — a comedy on which he made a cameo appearance in 2006.

That was on the queue card in front of him at the time.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Think of it as an upgrade

A politician saying what's convenient at the time.... gee we have none of that down here......

LOL

OTB

Guess you don't pal around with Ditzy Sarah, eh....

 

[clubber]

Perhaps Iggy will have a better relationship with our largest trading partner, and be able to take advantage of other trade around the world. Harper is really terrible internationally. His record on trade is absude http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2085924

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/02/11/tradedeficit.html

Really one could go on and on with link after link. Even in the Recession era Brian Mulroney was able to grow our trade. Brian made quite a great effort, as has some other Prime Ministers. Harper seems content to see our postion in the world decline as well as our trade. The thing is Iggy is now all we have to replace Harper. I think it is time to give him a try.

 

[WoodPeckr]

'President' Harper.

At least Jean Chrétien was no cute little lap-poodle like Harpo....

 

[train]

Well, hey , its not as if he watches Fox News

Why would anyone actually read the Toronto Star or listen to the CBC news- no less biased than Fox but the polar opposite in editorial focus.

 

[canada-man]

MP Harper admits to only watching American news on the tele. He doesn't watch Canadian newscast as he doesn't want to hear what Canadian think of him.

....and he stupid enough to admit it on the record. DUH!!!

the king of amerophiles in Canada outs himself