Photo: Rosemary Barton, CBC
“Alabama,
you got the weight on your shoulders
That’s breaking your back.
Your Cadillac
has got a wheel in the ditch
And a wheel on the track.”
- Neil Young
The Liberal blogosphere is alight with complaints of yellow journalism today, over the light jibing the party received when their bus broke down on its maiden voyage.
It’s difficult not to chuckle softly to oneself, given the fact that the media being accused of said yellow journalism are journalists such as Rosie Barton, John Ibbitson, and Aaron Wherry. Not exactly your hostile crowd.
But the bus malfunction is, you have to admit, a perfect metaphor for the Liberal Party. All dressed up and nowhere to go. Stalled out on the starting line. Finished before they’ve begun. I could go on, but why bother when Rick Mercer can explain it visually?
Well, what did the Liberals expect the media, armed to the teeth with 3G WiFi Blackberries and iPhones, to do other than write on-the-fly updates about being stuck in a broken-down bus in the rain, and the torture of being trapped in a confined space with Don Boudria hosting a sing-along?
At least the Conservative war room is having some fun with it. Apparently reporters embedded in the Liberal tour were handed t-shirts featuring Michael Ignatieff waving over top of the slogan “Just Visiting Express.”
As for Michael Ignatieff, it would seem that his poor attempts at improvised humour need some work. As the bus arrived on Parliament Hill, the rain that had been steadily dumping on Liberals and reporters alike, suddenly turned into a downpour, soaking all concerned.
“We don’t care about this Conservative weather, do we?” Mr. Ignatieff joked.
Indeed. “Conservative weather.”
Well, nobody said the man was a great stand-up comedian. But day one of the Liberal Express did get some big laughs. So maybe it all worked out in the end.
“The Liberal blogosphere is alight with complaints of yellow journalism today”
I see what you mean. There was like, two whole posts up at Liblogs.
Anyway…
You forget Twitter.
Twitter is the blogosphere? I am not sure you can compare the two, but whatever floats your boat…
I welcome a more appropriate term that encompasses the two.
Iffy made another funny,
“There’s a little rumour circulating that Stephen Harper was seen stealing away in the night with motor oil on his hands.”
hahaha Iffy,
I thought the transmission blew up, not the motor?
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100713/national/ignatieff_bus_trouble
Perhaps there is none, since the two are different???
‘We’re not here for a long time…
Oh, this is jsut too precious.
The theme song of the Liberal Express –
“Doot doot doodle oodle OOT doot do do
doot doot doodle oodle oot doot do do
doot-doodle oot oot
doot-doodle oot oot
doodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle-oodle doot doot”
.
Re: The acts of Iggying and Ignatification by one Ignatieff.
We must do everything we can to keep Our Canada from being Ignatieffed. The nation would be in dire straits were we to wake up one morning to sadly find Our Canada had been covertly Ignatieffied.
Note: None of the foregoing to be confused with Dork, Dorking, Dorkification and Dorked or Dorkified.
tj
ttfn
t.e.&o.e.
….and the Ignatieff continues to deal in “rumours,” baseless canards, lies, innuendoes and “hidden agendas.” All this, while continually upping his grades on the International Veracity Deficit Scale.
(International V.D. Scale)
tj
ttfn
t.e.&o.e.
OMG I was not aware that Iggy was seriously disabled. Iggy needs a theraputic sensing dog, as the cats (and their cats meat) are not working. The reporter found out that Iggy’s wife has been wearing pink shoes because Iggy stepped on her toes.
So far, we have the following facts.
1) listening is a problem for Iggy; (all the “I” words to begin sentences are now scripted out to “we” by Donolo, but now sound wierd); he says he wants to listen, but in the next breath wants listen only to persuade.
2) talking has always been a continuing problem (due to foot-in-mouth disease); unfortunately, the disease appears to be getting worse as he goes camping, as his black fly immunity is lacking, given that he was not living in Canada for such a long period.
3) his vision appears to have been clouded by an odd past and Liberal buzzards circling; as a result, his eyesight remains blurred and fuzzy.
4) Izzy appears to have halluncinatory phantom smells of sulpur; he now hope that the smell of timbits will cure him, although his wife will not let him eat them.
5) his sense of touch is becoming even more out of whack with Canucks. Even at home, he can’t help but step on his wife’s toes by accident.
This accidental tourist bus trip is going to be amazing foder for our best Canuck comedians!
To quote Rodney Dangerfield “If I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” Nuff said – one could almost sympathize with Ignatieff and his plight – foot in mouth disease and lack of horse power. Cheers.
But the icing on the cake is ,, taaa daaaa,, the bus was repaired in Cornwall at a place called, Harper Diesel,,lol,, Come on,, that has to get a smile from all political junkies no matter what color underwear they wear..lol