Wednesday, July 2, 2008

PP doesn't just make little errors

I recently decided to re-listen to Pierre (Perfect PP) Poilievre's little life-exposure on the mighty CFRA radio station with respect to his attitude toward aboriginals. I had a bit of interest in not just what he said but how he said it. This is what the press reports he said, in part: "Now along with this apology comes another $4 billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years."

Leaving aside his error in inflating $1.9 billion in compensation to $4 billion, I was focused on his term "partook". You can listen to how he said it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUxjYAD1vHo&feature=related.

What he actually said was: "Now along with this apology comes another $4 billion in compensation for those who were at...ah... partook in the residential schools over those years." He deliberately changed his wording to include the word partook. Can you say racist?

Now the Hill Times reports that 95% of Nepean Carleton (riding of PP) voters agree with PP. The source of that statistic was the very non-partisan office of PP! I asked the Hill Times to provide their confirmation of the statistics but they declined to comment. In the same article, HT reporter Harris MacLeod also quotes CFRA as saying that 85% of their listeners supported PPs blather. Can I get a list of their poll data? No comment. The truth is that 85% of the brain-dead followers of the bombastic Madley and Green at CFRA would agree, if Madley or Green said so, that the moon was made of green cheese.

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