It’s time to grow up already. One expects more from a mainstream columnist. I hope that Antonia apologizes.
h/t: Michelle Malkin
Stephen Taylor is a scientist, political analyst and a blogger. Taylor writes here regularly and is the founder of bloggingtories.ca. Taylor has contributed to Macleans, CTV, talk radio and has been a featured speaker on new media at numerous events including the Western Standard Cruise and the Forum for Public Policy. In December 2008, Taylor organized Rally for Canada, a series of rallies held coast-to-coast to protest the proposed coalition government.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
“Time to grow up”? …… Please, this is a newspaper columnist you're talking about.
Who cares if she apologizes? Like most of the MSM elitists she believes she is above reproach.
Any apology she would make would be reluctant, and a complete lie anyway (just like ANY apology made by a journalist).
April 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Umm I know who Michelle Malkin is….. Now who the hell is this Zerbiasssssssss lololol
April 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
You hope she apologizes? How about you DEMAND she apologizes?
April 28th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I suppose I hope for the best in people. Besides, folks like Keith Olbermann looks silly demanding that folks resign every week… though not so much recently…
April 28th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Inciting the public to take shots at someone is against the law and a criminal offence, at least in Canada, is it not? That silly woman should be charged for the criminal offence she's committed.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:09 am
In terms of dumb things…Harper's antics last fall have dearly cost him in Quebec. The latest CROP poll out this am shows the Libs ahead of the Bloc with the Tories sinking like a rock.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-can...
April 29th, 2009 at 8:11 am
How many times have you had to change your nappy with this exciting news?
The Liberals ahead of the Bloc is good news for the large minority Conservative government. The Bloc will get to work fixing the Liberals' little red wagon. Only a fool would get excited over a Quebec poll at this time.
When is Iggy going to pull the plug and who will be lending the hands he needs to do so?
April 29th, 2009 at 8:12 am
She should be fired and teh police should investigate and charge her with a Hate Crime.
She's beyond pathetic, beyond useless.
She is a waste of oxygen.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:38 am
LizJ makes a good point.
The Liberals rising in QC (and Ontario in you're NDP) just puts the Dippers and Bloc in safe mode. It isn't in their interest to trigger a General Election right now, at least until they see themselves benefiting. They don't want to lose what they gained at Dion's expense and who can blame them? You won't see anything from them (except from the by-elections in BC and QC) for a while.
And as far as the Quebec poll, are you really that surprised? Iggy's nose is stained brown from trying to make gains there. The NDP could just as well be in the same position, or the Conservatives. Talking the talk in order to please Quebec isn't that hard. I'd say the same if CPC numbers were up in QC. Bending over to appease them isn't my style, and Iggy is right at home in Quebec given his own antics and flip flopping.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:51 am
There's a difference between whipping someone up in a frenzy (that in turn becomes murder) and calling for murder.
My calling for the elimination of the capital gains tax could set you off in a murderous rage though I would not be responsible. If I said that X should shoot Y, yes, the criminal code covers that.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Actually, I think you will find the criminal code will probably more adequately cover the first scenario than it would the second.
There is such thing as “criminal negligence” which occurs when someone does something that shows wanton or reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other people. Whipping people into a frenzy you know or ought to know will result in them committing violence against an identifiable group could qualify. And of course, there are always the “inciting hatred” provisions.
On the other hand, in order to qualify this joke as a criminal offence, you would have to prove that the writer actually intended to counsel an offence – which in this case would be impossible to do. In this case, in order to establish criminal liability you must prove both the act and the intention to commit the act.
In any event, the only real place you would see a conviction in either scenario is on an episode of Law and Order.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I think changing “depends” is your role in life.
Iggy is not impatient to get into power as he knows the Harperites are well on their way to self destruction and a majority LIBERAL government beckons. The country will be cleaned up fiscally after that although you will obviously be changing your “depends” even more often.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
David K…RE: Iggys nose stained brown…it looks as though he has got the stain down better than Harper ever did with all his fiscal stupidity in La Belle Province and his daliance with the losers at the ADQ. You must be extremely jealous that Liberals can appeal to Quebecers in numbers that make the Haperites drool. Stupidity always comes back and hits you like a swinging door.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Keep on dreaming. The latest poll in popularity as of today at the Liberal Convention Harper is way ahead of Iggy. When people were asked who had the better vision of Canada, Harper or Iggy. Harper again won by a substantial margin.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I guess that applies to you too.
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:19 am
Keep on dreaming. The latest poll in popularity as of today at the Liberal Convention Harper is way ahead of Iggy. When people were asked who had the better vision of Canada, Harper or Iggy. Harper again won by a substantial margin.
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:22 am
I guess that applies to you too.