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Originally Posted by Gresto
I sure hope Trudeau doesn't supplicate himself to Strumpf, but rather treats him with the same sardonic, stealthy disdain that his father treated Nixon. Nixon detested Pierre for being the smarter, more popular kid in school. Justin, likeable as he is, does not have his father's brilliance or urbane bearing, so I don't know if he can pull it off.
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I wonder how long it will take until we see something like this again.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
CREDIT: This Hour Has 22 Minutes/CBC
Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish tosses a George W. Bush doll on the floor and then grinds it in with her boot in an episode of CBC-TV's satirical This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Conservative and some Liberal MPs have denounced the prank as "bizarre and stupid."
Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish appears on This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
OTTAWA - Renegade Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish has once again enraged members of the opposition and her own caucus after tossing a George W. Bush doll on the floor and grinding it under her heel on a satirical television show.
Incensed Conservative MPs demanded that Ms. Parrish -- who last year referred to Americans as "bastards" and more recently likened the U.S. war effort in Iraq to "a coalition of the idiots" -- be banished from the Liberal caucus for her anti-American outburst.
Tory House leader John Reynolds said the incident sets the wrong example, particularly for children, and suggested "somebody like that needs some real help."
He also said Prime Minister Paul Martin should "kick her out and make her sit as an independent. Sometimes integrity should win over minority government."
But the outrage did not emanate only from the opposition benches.
Ontario Liberal MP Roger Gallaway called the stunt "bizarre and stupid," and lamented Ms. Parrish's theatrics as "a rather perverse joke."
"It's a pathetic spectacle that someone would behave in this fashion. I would expect more from infants. It's rotten timing ... and I would hope that she would consider mending her ways," said Mr. Gallaway, who nonetheless argued against bouncing Ms. Parrish, a four-term MP who represents the Toronto-area constituency of Mississauga-Erindale.
"I have a fundamental problem with removing someone from caucus because they're being bizarre and stupid. This place allows all kinds of bizarre and stupid behaviour. Stupidity is a defence here," he said.
Liberal caucus chairman Andy Savoy said he spoke to Ms. Parrish yesterday when she said she appeared on the program as a lark and thought the item was funny. Mr. Savoy, for his part, said he disagreed with her view of Americans and felt that stomping on an effigy of the U.S. President was "irresponsible."
The kerfuffle surrounds an excerpt from the CBC program This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which features a host handing a Bush action figure to a gleeful Ms. Parrish, who then drops it on the ground and stomps on it as the camera zooms in. The camera then pulls back to show a beaming Ms. Parrish.