Dion must remove Liberal Candidate Walt Lastewka from his slate of candidates for the tasteless and inappropriate joke published in his riding association's newsletter that came to light in July.
In this newsletter a "joke" that was supposed to bring "smile and a chuckle" to follow Liberals makes light of an assassination of the Prime Minister and his wife.
A quote from the story:
"Dykstra has not conducted himself in a manner I would expect from an elected official," said Jane Cornelius, the president of the Liberal riding association in St. Catharines. "An elected official who had concerns would have contacted me. I think this is further evidence of the ongoing maligning of people and their character."
If you say so. So what do you say about taping the Ritz comments and then releasing them two weeks into the campaign? Ok because a Liberal did it? That's not a character assassination ? Liberals live in lala land.
Using Jane Cornelius' logic Stephane Dion should have privately approached Gerry Ritz and expressed his concern, not release the comments to the press. We all know what really happened.
The Liberal's are using these inappropriate comments as a life raft to rescue their own failed campaign, a campaign in so much trouble that Dion had to drop the Green Shift and had to trot out the failed leadership contenders to prop up Dion.
One of Dion's critics, the opposition's equivalent of a minister, Thibault makes ageist and sexist remarks and his is not forced to resign his critic post nor his candidacy.
The Conservatives will have to fight fire with fire.
We're better off with Harper.
4 comments:
I think you mean assasination not assignation.
no one died.....Ritz joked about dead people and wanting a person to die.
total so far 19 deaths....yuk, yuk, isn't that funny.
Hey Anony - the difference, sweetie is that your Liberal guy did it in a public forum - a newsletter.
Gerry Ritz did it in the context of a so called "private" conference call. Not a call that the whole of Canada could hear, not a call that anyone other than those 30 people should have been privy too.
So tell me anony - how come, if it was so offensive, the offended person didn't stand up right then and say, "Minister, I don't think it is appropriate that you made those jokes."
I'll tell you why - because he knew that he had some fodder for the campaign and he/she held on to it for three weeks until it could be put out to do the most damage.
So Anony - comments made in public are much, much worse than those made in the context of a private setting - unless of course you have a snitch sitting amongst you.
Oh, and anony, I wonder how many of those 30 people laughed when Gerry said those things. My bet - a good number of them. So doesn't that make them just as complicit in joking about "dead people"
Give me a friggin break anony. If you can't see the difference then I feel sorry for you.
anon@6:23
No one is saying it is funny.
Also, many government officials are assassinated throughout the world. I guess the riding president was making fun of them?
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