Oh, Canadians are all talking about prime minister stephen harper's BOFFO performance at one of his wife's events at the National Arts Centre a few nights ago. (I'm talking about it, but I can't evaluate harper's performance because I'm totally uninterested in watching it.) WOW! herper likes The Beatles! He has a pleasant voice! He can actually play a musical instrument! This is the MORE HUMAN side of a guy everybody thought was a soulless, bloodless, amoral, socially-inept asshole! He should do this sort of thing more often!
Reality-check people: A bit of artistic talent doesn't detract in the slightest from one's overall disgustingness. A lot of great artists can be absolute monsters. And there have been other examples of vile politicians resorting to a musical number as part of their attempt to endear themselves to the public. (I remember the moronic and scuzzy Condoleeza Rice banging a few notes on a piano between green-lighting some Israeli atrocities against Lebanon of the Occupied Territories.)
Case-in-point: harper's revolting treatment of the Military Police Complaints Commission and it's Chairman Peter Tinsley. One of the things Tinsley is trying to discover is how much was known about the probable torture practices of the Afghan security forces and the prison system to which Canadian Forces personnel were handing over their prisoners. You see, some of these prisoners aren't the evil Taliban.* They're simple farmers who many journalists have reported are defending themselves against the thieving, rapist police forces employed by their druglord Northern Alliance governors. In the worst-case scenario, CF personnel capture a 16-year old teenager who took up arms against the government that kidnapped his father and assaulted his sister. Not having a prison system of their own, the CF hands the boy over to the local prison authorities where the wardens are accused of being rapists. Just your tax dollars at work.
So, harper is trying to stymie any investigation into these and numerous other atrocities, on top of his ongoing efforts to destroy our access to healthcare and safe food. As a result, people start to think he's a walking garbage pile. Posing with kittens didn't work. Maybe plinking out a few notes of a 40-year old song will do the trick! Hey! It worked!
We're smarter than this people. Dump the Motherfucker Already.
*And even if they ARE evil, evil Taliban, torture is a crime against humanity.
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Relax, Thwap. There's not a shred of evidence to suggest that Harper's cringe-worthy pantomime has made him any less of an unwiped asshole in the eyes of the vast majority of Canadians. It was just another laughable sweater-vest moment.
My first thought when I heard about this bullshit was, "Wait a minute! He sang 'With a Little Help From My Friends'? Harper? What fucking friends?"...
That was uplifting! Thank you "Sir Francis."
I hate to contradict Francis but I feel, from observing media and talking to people out in the world, that Canadian's power of critical thought is highly diminished.
I'm sure the reasons for the dumbing down are many but when you see the results that dog and pony tricks like this and smarmy negative attack campaigns garner, it bodes ill for the national psyche. And look at what is presented as the "viable" alternative - death by a thousand cuts or death by 999 cuts.
Some one named "Pale" did a remix of the video with a few reminders spliced in. It is worth viewing. I blooged it here...
O.M.G. - I'm voting Conservative now because I'm a gullible shithead
Youngfox,
I agree with you too. It was just NICE to read such an unapologetically negative response to that smarminess.
Wow. Dr Roy Eappen is apparently right. You people have positively lost your minds over this.
Sub-human? Isn't that a bit extreme?
Then again, maybe it's just harmless. Nothing bad has ever happened when people are denounced as "sub-human", right?
Huh? What's that?
Awkward...
Patsy,
You and Dr. Roy disagree with me? Thanks. That way I know that I'm on the right track.
I assume that YouTube link will go to somewhere about nazis.
You have no idea how ridiculous you are, do you?
Tell you what patsy: When your hero harper turns himself in on war crimes charges (covering up torturing prisoners and incidences of child rape) then I'll turn off the labels like "subhuman."
Did you grasp the significance of that patsy? YOUR side hears about children being raped and tries to sweep it under the rug. And then you see fit to lecture me about ethical political behaviour.
Idiot.
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