It seems like there is only one thing that can actually motivate me to post these days.
Once again, our supposed War Room genius is making himself the the issue.
First he insults Chinese Canadians. And then he makes the situation worse by engaging in a public slap fight, apparently unconcerned that it wasn't just him getting cut up and dirty in the press, but the entire Liberal Party.
Now, it appears the author of Kicking Ass is getting his ass kicked (again) by trying to intimidate both a respected journalist and a public broadcaster by leveraging his political connections to pursue one of his online sandbox fights into the real world.
Kinsella's (a) ego and (b) temper are a lethal combination for a party that wants to/needs to make Stephen Harper, and not our warroom staff, the issue.
I could care less that private companies want to spend their moneu on Kinsella but I don't want my party throwing another election out the window because we've entrusted our War Room to a frat boy.
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Kinsella will be Kinsella.
I noticed something I like after scanning through the news and Liberal blogs and then scanning through Conservative commenters and bloggers (and a sprinkling of Liberal bloggers who can't find anything but Kinsella to motivate them to write).
The Conservatives are all in a tizzy about this volunteer Ignatieff supporter and trying to bring Ignatieff down a peg because of the connection.
Whereas news writers and Liberal bloggers and commenters and, frankly, the Canadian public and real people are concerned about jobs, the economy, Harper's poor performance, Harper's ever shifting reasons for his poor performance, his ever shifting projections, and his lack of plan and his clear lack of any clue about what to do.
I like it because it means they really are desperate and grasping at issues. It is very telling.
But let's not fall into the Conservative trap and buy into this deliberate and concerted effort to distract from the real issues. There are lots of things that should be motivating us to write. I would think Kinsella was waaaaay down that list.
Read the Latest on the Lying Jackal here:
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2009/02/lying-jackal-no-longer-associated-with.html
Both this original post and Ted have valid points. While Kinsella is not exercising due caution, if one looks at what he is getting into trouble for, it is really blown out of proportion. Kinsella apologized fully for the chinese restaurant remark and Harper's MPs say as bad, or worse things, without apologizing at all.
On the TVO, there are valid concerns about how they pick a guest like Shaidle and it seems like the host is not interested in addressing these valid concerns, but only in airing his fight with Kinsella. It is rather disappointing behavior on all sides.
So, yes, Kinsella is not being smart and is causing trouble, but others are really exaggerating the importance of any of this. There are Conservative MPs and people working in the PMO which have taken part in really nasty partisan attacks against citizens and not been called on it. Harper's MPs and his staff have slandered people like Riddell and Zytaruk and many others, with no apologies at all. The people attacking Kinsella don't seem the least bit concerned with that. So, one has to question their motives.
@ ch, because the Connies did it, now the Liberals should also?
Kinsella is a bully and should not be tolerated - what it says is that the Liberals are no longer progressive, care only about power and will achieve it at any cost...
Give it a rest, CWTF.
Are you seriously trying to claim that Chretien was not progressive?
Ted, how do you even infer that I said that Chrétien was not progressive?
Do you, or even maybe, can you read?
Kinsella is a bully and should not be tolerated - what it says is that the Liberals are no longer progressive, care only about power and will achieve it at any cost...
Well, you equate Kinsella with not being progressive and he has been employed by only one federal Liberal leader and that was Chretien. Same could be said about McGuinty, of course, on the provincial level.
Warren seems to be yet another of the political nymphs who emerge as fully developed strategists and policy experts in Canadian party politics. Perhaps if we have more people who knew which end of the shovel goes into the ground we wouldn't have to deal with these Icarus' every election cycle.
A gifted writer who, like many, believes his own press.
I think you have good reason to be worrying about WK.
You better be careful, Warren make train his gunsights on you. You could very possibly be the next Cherniak.
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