"If you behave, and you're sober, and there's no problems, and if you don't do a sit down and whatever I don't care. One of them showed up the other day and was drinking," Lannigan said in the clip.
"Are you calling me an alcoholic?" asks Matchewan
"I'm not calling you an alcoholic, it's just to say you're in a federal office. If you're coming in to negotiate, I expect, there's decorum that has to be respected."
I guess it could be the use of "them". But that is a bit of a stretch, I mean, we can't always couch our words and get perfect precision every single time we talk.Lannigan obviously didn't want a repeat of the last protester from the band who came while drunk/drinking. Seems like a reasonable request if they have had problems in the past. Sure, not phrased very diplomatically, but still.
We should worry less about perfect phrasing and more about issues.
No I am sure this coupled with the Ritz thing from yesterday will be used to show a "pattern" or something.
There is a big difference, Ritz said "Please tell me it's Wayne Easter." upon hearing of a new death. That is crass, insensitive, pathetic, and just plain wrong. You should never wish for harm for anyone. As for the cold cuts crack, to me, that is just gallows humour.
Let's hope the war room can pull its head out of its ass and get back on message.
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How could the "war room" even contemplate the stupidity of those that pull these "pseudo scandals" out of the air.
If someone turned up drunk at my office i would tell them to come back when they are sober - what is wrong with that.
Of course, in the dying days of an election campaign; it can make great fodder if you want to take down the leading party.
Which is EXACTLY what this is.
We are back to a "scandal du jour"!!
That is not the issue. The protester this was said to was not the one that was drunk. It was a protester the showed up a few days earlier.
Gotcha politics.
The media with the
'We made you, we can break you' attitude.
Plus people like Craig Oliver have been around soooooo long, they feel like they have the right to contaminate any campaign they want to, just because they can.
Thank goodness for Quebec. Seriously, Quebecers are politically very wise,
they see thru all this crap, and have the Tories leading in the polls today.
Just notice when the Libs thought things were so hot they had to pull the Ritz story out of the pocket...the attack on Bob Rae's destroying the economy in Ontario.
Go get 'em PMSH.
ya...100% accurate...he wasn't the drinker...he was resposible for and in the company of the person this was regarding...
I'm sorry, if an employee of mine were to show up drunk and I don't straighten it out or dismiss them from the worksite or meeting room then I'm seen to be condoning it and responsible for them...
There's a whole story being intentionally ignored in the reporting of this story
Greg Westen tried to find a pattern of RCMP "doing Stephen Harper's dirty work."
His first example? The RCMP escorting the CBC "22 minutes" press conference crasher out of the room. He promoted them to "a television crew" lacking any disputable details.
The CBC At Issue set is really sucking up to the Mothercorpse to get on.
The Liberals don't have the Kelona Accord to rope in the aboriginals vote, so I guess this is plan two? Speaking of Owliver...he said "these things have Harper knocked off his theme. Dion is at LEAST sharpening up his attack and this has given him a HUGE boost." I think the only SHARPENING going on here are the knives in Dions back from his TEAM of losers.
You know, I'd never spent much time around natives or native communities growing up. So I'd hear the talk about the stereotypes and think, "Isn't that awful, how can people think that."
I went to northern Manitoba a few weeks back. The particular town has a significant native population.
I am really sad to say that experience opened my eyes about why those stereotypes exist.
"Quebecers are politically very wise,
they see thru all this crap" -- I think most Canadians see through this crap, and crap it is. The media must know this, but because they are addicted to "scandal mongering" -- it is apparently too much of a challenge for them to deal with actual issues. It's pathetic. Having said that, I am not too unhappy, because if all they can do is dwell on trivialities, then Harper is still in pretty good shape. The faux outrage is pretty transparent. LS
I work in the north at a mine that has 60% natives. The biggest problem among them by far is alcohol and drugs.
Giving someone a pass for being drunk just because they are native is being an enabler.
The aide did the right thing, she told them to be serious and not show up drunk if they wanted to be taken seriously and have a productive meeting.
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