If It Wasn’t So Pathetic It Would Be Funny
I’ve decided that I’m going to add a new set of links in the side bar, I’m still debating what I gonna title it (how does “If it wasn’t pathetic it would be funny” sound?), but Cherniak on Politics is gonna be on it.
Via POGEE we find the following.
Let’s face it. People cheat in politics. It’s not a good thing. It shouldn’t happen. But it does. The rumour around TO (Let me be very clear; I am not suggesting that the rumour is true. I am only stating that it is out there.) is that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina.
People cheat in politics, and Jason the Liberal Cherniak just provided a wonderful example of that, and then he followed up with.
At its best, politics is about compromise. Let’s bring down the volume of the debate and discuss it rationally.
Ah, yeah, dude, first let’s help spread a nasty political smear around the Canadian blog-o-sphere, and then call for rational debate… does he actually read the stuff he types?
– if it wasn’t so pathetic it would be funny.
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I heard that a certain prominent, no-longer-quite-so-young Liberal blogging lawyer was spotted having oral sex with a dead goat in the Spadina subway station. I’m not suggesting that this silly rumour is true, just reporting that it’s out there.
What’s both ironic and deeply depressing is that Cherniak is, on one hand, trying with his Liberal colleagues to convince Canadians that the old style Liberal sleaze is a thing of the past, while gleefully demonstrating to the world that the very worst aspects of the party live on in the “new generation”. If you had to produce one specific blog-posting to prove that the Liberals are as vile as they were during the worst excesses of the Chretien regime, this would be a good choice.
How about “people that make me feel relatively more intelligent” or “when cousins marry”?
Whooee! Cherniak oughta be tossed outta ProgBlogs, Liblogs and the Liberal Party of Canada. This goes way over the top vis-a-vis acceptable speculation.
I don’t find pathetic or funny. Slimy, maybe. Not funny.
JB
Have you heard the latest rumour about J.C.?
Its all over the internet.
What a sicko is all I’m going to say (if it’s indeed true).
Aw, drat. When I saw on progblogs that you were going to do a fancy sidebar, stageleft, I thought you meant that you were going to write out a glowing, self-congratulatory autobiography and then solicit blurbs from the rest of us so that both your sidebars would be mostly you you you, although we could get wee credit lines.
So I’ve been sweating over my blurb for nothing?
Jason is the “new face” of the old liberal party. I guess my mom was right – apples don’t fall far from the tree.
Here’s Jason’s explanation.
“This is amazing. Do any of you deny that the rumour is out there? Of course not – so why are you acting so shocked and appauled that I am mentioning it?”
Keep diggin’, sonny.
Some have suggested, via scurrilous rumour only, that the incorrect spelling of the term ‘apalled’ in the anti-mama mia, not-even-half-a culpa cited by balbulican above will be used, at a later time and place to be determined some time in the future, by the Liberal party operative in question to deny that he ever wrote the thing.
(and just for the record, I have never, not even once, seen that musical about Abba tangentially referred to above – unless, of course, you count that dark and stormy night not long ago in T.O. But just to be absolutely crystal clear about it – neither I nor Tony Ianno’s campaign even paid for the tickets. OK?)
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He’s playing with fire, given the history of voter-list-irregularities in Edmonton Centre, ex-riding of the Screecher.
People make mistakes but the caviats and the way he presented it as if he was writing about something else make one go “erghhhhh”.
Whooee! Was it all a big mistake? Howcum everything was couched in legaleese weasel words from the get-go? He ain’t taken back the accusation of voting irregularities — only scaled it back. Sorta like sayin’ he don’t beat his wife anymore — except on alternate Mondays.
I reckon lawyer Cherniak executed a well-planned, politics-at-its-worst, dirty trick that will give birth to a new zombie-lie like the one about Jack & Olivia in public housing.
Slimy stuff.
JB
I think you’re exactly right, JB. Vicious accusation, followed by weak statement of regret (which incorporates and reiterates the original accusation), and a petulant protestation that “the rumour is out there…” Well, if it wasn’t, it sure is now, thanks to this manipulative little prick.
I wish I were a Liberal supporter just for the sheer pleasure of quitting being a Liberal supporter.
Well, I gotta say, it takes a special kind of talent to make the wide range of people in this thread agree on something. At least Cherniak has done that.