I am getting so incredibly tired of faux-outrage. In the latest example of Liberal faux-rage, they unfocused Liberals are attacking the young Pierre Poilievre over his use of the term "tar-baby".
The Honourable Member said:
“On that side of the House, they have the man who fathered the carbon tax, put it up for adoption to his predecessor and now wants a paternity test to prove the tar baby was never his in the first place,” he said. He repeated the line again later.
The Honourable Member, Ralph Goodale responed in typical faux-rage:
"In addition to being a pejorative term, which might well prove to be unparliamentary, the parliamentary secretary might consider that there are many authorities both in this country and many others that consider the term racist," said Goodale.
Faux rage is so annoying.
What does the internet say about "tar-baby'?
Wikipedia says
"Although the term's provenance arose in African folklore, some Americans now consider "tar baby" to have negative connotations revolving around negative images of African-Americans.[2] In recent years, several politicians who have publicly used the term have encountered some controversy, mocking, and censure from African-American civil rights leaders, members of the popular daily media, and other politicians.[3][4][5][6][7][8]. Regardless, the history of 'the tar baby' in its original form by far precedes the accusations of its racist associations."
Dictionary.com says:
–noun
a situation, problem, or the like, that is almost impossible to solve or to break away from.
You can also see the term used by the Toronto Star and Liberal Lloyd Axworthy.
When I first heard the qoute from Pierre, I thought immediately of the tar sands, then went to the more racist connotation, before realizing he meant sticky situation. I have heard that tar baby was a racist slur, but have never heard it in usage. I likely read it was racist slur somewhere.
At the end of the day, people need to grow a bit of a thicker skin and stop being so PC. Clearly it wasn't intended to be racist. Clearly.
The Liberals just need to "stick to their knitting" (oh my I am so sexist) and carry on with whatever crap they spew. IE, EI is a unity issue??? I don't even know where to start with that one.
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Please use the phrase "tar-baby" frequently and loudly. It offends no one...really.
Perhaps the Liberals were trying to bury this new poll:
'...Pollster Ipsos Reid said 52 per cent of Canadians believe the economy will improve in the next year, a level of confidence the firm has not seen in 18 years of tracking consumer confidence..'
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Canadians+optimistic+about+economy+despite+downturn+Poll/1644523/story.html
I am of African decent and my teenage children never heard of tar baby; we live in a country where racial slurs are never heard any more, thanks to goodale and jennings I have to explain tar baby in it's racial context.
The conservative mp is innocent, he didn't know of the racial slur, he is to young for that. There is no need to apologize. Well maybe goodale and jennings should apologize.
I've never heard of the expression "tar-baby" being used as a racial slur... I've heard it used (like in the Brer Rabbit story) to describe a sticky situation; nothing more.
The Liberals are desperate and faux-outrage is almost as fun and effective as real outrage.
"Sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you...."
Ralph the Ranter, is behaving like a brat and well Marlene, is simply not credible any longer. Absolutely the most ridiculous display of Liberal outrage, to date.
They both need to go back to the real schools in Canada and see what their decades of Liberal govt has really created, in terms of racism.
They also should brush up on their definitions, nouns, verbs etc. etc.
Perhaps the Liberals were trying to bury this new poll:
'...Pollster Ipsos Reid said 52 per cent of Canadians believe the economy will improve in the next year, a level of confidence the firm has not seen in 18 years of tracking consumer confidence'...
Sure, Sharon. Of course that's what they were trying to do. I mean, it's not like the media can publish this stuff itself...
Why do want to keep your political co-partisans so dumb? Are you afraid of losing your position as "the smart one?" *snort*
Anyway, you forgot to include this bit from your source (which you didn't provide, naturally):
The telephone survey of 1,000 Canadians, though, was conducted over four days ending last Saturday, before Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the nation's finances were in much worse shape than he estimated when he presented the budget on Jan. 27.
Of course, the pollster, all-wise as we all know, says that probably doesn't matter. And maybe it doesn't. After all, the way people feel is all that ever counts when it comes to the economy.
Oh TG,
the link is at the bottom of my comment.
I posted both links to Akin's article and the original poll, if you just zoom around BTs you'll see.
Sent both to Bourque too.
And credit actually goes to FRMGRL,
posted on Blue Like You yesterday,
and Akins article was burried deep deep into 'Business Report',
as if it weren't front page newsworthy...oh but Tar Baby takes that spot.
I just spred the word.
Canadians are optimistic about the future, that doesn't play well to the LPC strategy, eh?
If Iffy had offered up some ideas earlier on, when asked, repeatedly,
he could now take some of the credit for all this optimism.
But Iffy's position was 'let Harper wear the recession'.
And the opps daily rant about how bad things are.
So now if the Libs want ANY credit for Canadian optimism,
they have to take credit for the coalition threat 'forcing the government to budget in a $40B stimulus package'
....
oh oh...that also means the coalition takes the credit for the deficit!
ok. great. it's not offensive. whatevah.
now, let's talk about the ECONOMY and how HARPER is going to keep me my job, alright?? let's FOCUS on the real ISSUE blogging tories. Who cares about the tapes, the ethnic slurs...
Show me what you got.
''how HARPER is going to keep me my job''
Gee LR, who kept you your job so far?
There's a saying
'I was looking for a job when I found this one'
You may have to go to where the jobs are LR,
instead of expecting a job to come to you!
Oh TG,
the link is at the bottom of my comment.
Thousand pardons, Wilsie. I was reading the comment from the post's main display, and didn't catch that jumble of characters; black print on blue is hard to read.
After all the trolling you've done, haven't you yet figured out how to code a link in html? Or is it because Conservative Central expects you to paste in that incredibly insightful comment at 4000 other blogs before the end of the day and you're getting sloppy?
Little hint: you can code the html, save it to the clipboard and paste that at each of the 4000 blogs.
Canadians are optimistic about the future, that doesn't play well to the LPC strategy, eh?How do you know this? Stop guessing; you sound ignorant enough as it is.
Anyway, you're given yourself away. You expect to Liberals to act as if they've been in charge the last three years. I'm sure the Conservatives are going to wish they had been.
*cackle*
LR, the only one that can "keep your job", is you. If your company fails, then it would be advisable to recreate yourself, be inventive and who knows, maybe in a few years with all of that moxie and self sufficiency, we will be reading about you, as the latest success story.
Been there, done that and believe me, the Liberal govt DID NOTHING for me. I did it ALL and am proud of it!
'I was looking for a job when I found this one'
You may have to go to where the jobs are LR,
instead of expecting a job to come to you!There you go, LR. Take it from Wilsie...she knows where to go to find work...
Been there, done that and believe me, the Liberal govt DID NOTHING for me...
Except for securing the financial system to protect it from the crises happening elsewhere, eliminating the deficit (no longer operative of course, with Dim Jim's 50 billion and counting), implementing a national health program that has kept this country's labour costs competitive in some key areas and greatly expanding Canada's public education system beginning in the 60's. And of course, keeping the country together.
Other than that, of course, Liberal governments have never done anything for you.
I'm kind of regretting now that they did all those things; all it's led is to ignorant ingrates with memories of gnats who probably would have (and should have) died at birth.
Ti-Guy! There is no need to get so childish with your name calling.
Public Healthcare has kept the costs competitive? Are you insane? If that is the case, why is our manufacturing sector so hard hit? The only reason we have had a manufacturing sector that has lasted as long as it did was because the dollar was in the tank for so long.
Canada become more competitive when it started cutting personal and corporate taxes.
Keeping the country together? You call two referendums (the last one the yes side barely won) and the sponsorship scandal that rocketed the Bloc to record highs keeping Canada together?
Also, Ti-Guy, would you prefer that the Government kept Canada in surplus and didn't spend billions more in auto bailouts, "stimulus spending", and increased EI benefits? Didn't the Liberals decry the 34 billion dollar deficit as too little?
''haven't you yet figured out how to code a link in html''
If you mean do that neat link thing, no TG, techno challenged, but who cares, right?
Libs always accuse BTs of being paid by the CPC.
They haven't figured out yet that CPC supporters give, as in donate their time and money.
''You expect to Liberals to act as if they've been in charge the last three years''
Iffy did that himself TG, with all his threatening a coaliton if necessary,
and putting the government on probation.
By doing that he has assumed the responsibility of the deficit he FORCED.
Your guy sucks Ti Guy.
He doesn't have a clue how to position himself to come out a winner.
And that's because he is a loser, always trying to position himself rather than take an honest firm stand.
ex: coalition of losers
Danny's six
asbestos
It took Iffy 5 months to figure out that separatists are a threat to national unity. duh
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