In case you’re missing Karen…
…You can get a full 3 hours of her tomorrow on Newstalk 570. She’s going to be filling in as guest host for Jeff Allan. First topic looks right up her ally: Liberal Leadership Candidates.
I’ll be passing thank you very much, but please fill me in if you can handle it.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
NO THANKS!
November 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Karen WHO?
BTW, wasn’t today enough Lieberal rhetoric to finish out the week?
Oh well Joanne, you’ll just have to come up with another SUPER post, to keep us educated and entertained. tee hee…
November 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Hah! I’ll do my best, Bec.
My guess is that Karen Who is missing the limelight and the excitement.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
My guess is you are right Jo. She is wanting attention. It’s possible she is also looking for a job. Losing candidates have to support themselves. Maybe tomorrow is a trial. Now, wouldn’t that be interesting — to have to listen to her all the time.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
By the way, for anyone who wants to take part in an interesting discussion involving Mike Harris, visit Jack’s Newswatch here.
I obviously really like Harris, but that is hardly the main opinion.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
It’s possible she is also looking for a job.
Sandy, from what I’ve been hearing, she is getting ready to run again in the next election.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Someone should phone in and ask her what she knows about her former government acquiring the controlling interest, through the CBC, of Sirius Satellite Radio Canada and ask her just how many Liberal hacks ended up working there.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
Well I’m impressed if you can resist tuning in even out of curiousity or the inability to avoid staring at a train wreck. I’ll admit my curiousity may get the best of me.
Now, wouldn’t that be interesting — to have to listen to her all the time.
Interesting? Nope, that would be downright scary.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:08 am
Here is the report on the broadcast if you can stomach it.
Wow, I can’t believe how much talk there was about Barak Obama. Clearly the Liberals will be trying to mimic his campaign in the next election. I should have turned it off when I heard her comparing Sarah Palin being governer of Alaska to someone claiming to be a bartender but really having the keys to a mini-bar. What a strange and misplaced analogy and an insult to people who live in Alaska.
I did agree with something Bob Rae said about the decorum in the House of Commons. He said that he thinks that if the Liberals as the opposition party were to work on improving the culture in the House of Commons that it would have a postitive impact on Canadians’ view of politics and politicians. I agree with that and do think that the opposition party would be in the best position to exact real change in the manner of debates during question period. It would be great to see people being more polite and more rational in discussions.
Dominic LeBlanc emphasized his youth and spoke about making the party more broadly appealing. He said, “We’ve become in a way a ‘book club’ from Toronto and Montreal”. He seems quite well-spoken and is probably the best choice if the Liberal strategy for the next election is to run as close a campaign as possible to Barak Obama’s.
This was the first time I’d ever heard Michael Ignatief speak and I found his voice to be greatly annoying and pompus. Listening to him literally made me nauseous. I got even more nauseous when I had to listen to Karen kissing up to him telling him how great his sense of humour is. Then I got really bored and zoned out for a while only to be brought back by Iggy saying for the 10th or so time that he wants Karen back in the House of Commons. That made the nausea return but thankfully the interview ended then.
My main realization from this broadcast is that although I think that many other Canadians would be turned off by Michael Ignatief and that would therefore improve the Conservatives’ chances of winning, I still think I’d rather have Dominic LeBlanc as the head of the party so that I wouldn’t have to listen to Iggy. And of course, to most Ontarians, the notion of Bob Rae as Prime Minister in a time of economic uncertainty is simply laughable.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
Thanks so much for this report, Steph. I am sorry that your mission evoked so much physical discomfort, but better you than me.
I agree that having Iggy as leader and possibly PM would be simply intolerable, and Dominic LeBlanc does seem to be the best alternative. And yes, Rae will have to wear his legacy, whether that’s fair or not.
Great analysis at any rate and thanks so much for your unselfish act of courage. I owe you one.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
It’s okay. I’m fully recovered now after cleansing myself by reading a couple of your other posts.
I’d be interested to hear what others’ thoughts were who heard the program (if anyone else braved it too).
November 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Like Steph, I too ‘took one for the team’, and tuned in to what turned out to be a blatant Liberal Party “love-in” commercial. I agree with Steph’s analysis of the three “guests” of Ms. Redmond.
I can add that when Iggy was speaking, it is a good thing I was listening while in the middle of my ‘fitness walk’; if I had been in my armchair, I surely would have nodded off into blissful slumber. If this is the guy the Liberals hope to ‘connect with the youth of Canada’, bring it on. Please.
Unless 570News got some form of reimbursement from the Liberal Party (which I doubt), there had better be some balance coming up on future shows. It appears they simply handed over the mic to the defeated Ms Redmond, who after the 11am news break, rambled on ad naseaum about all her wonderful accomplishments in Parliament, and how much she was counted on, and how she sacrificed her family life, missed her son’s graduation, due to ‘an important mission to Mexico to help Mr. Marin’ etc etc. Gag me!!!!!!!
As far as I’m concerned Ms Redmond did a lousy job as party whip in the last parliament. How many Liberals did she get to show up for all the important confidence votes in the last few months of the prior session? Not a heck of a lot from what I saw. Terrible performance.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
So, the one who seems to smile with gritted teeth, sacrificed her family life for Liberal life, pitiful choice. We all have priorities, and as Dion says, it’s not easy to make priorities. Ms Karen made hers, she can spare us the sob story. Politics before family seems a poor trade off but they all know that when they get into it and make adjustments.
Don’t think politics was ever meant to be lifetime employment either but it’s changed, some MP’s have become fixtures. Ralphy Goodale is one example.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
if I had been in my armchair, I surely would have nodded off into blissful slumber
LOL! It doesn’t surprise me that he was a university professor because he definitely reminds me of some of my worst professors who caused me and my classmates to either have to stop at the campus Timmy’s before class or prop our eyes open with our fingers to stay awake.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 am
On the 24th they have John Tory guest hosting. They have to be getting desperate! Their website has a couple of articles by Mike Farwell about Tory’s promise of finding a seat before this session ends… http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/mikefarwell.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 am
…or prop our eyes open with our fingers to stay awake.
Ha! Even I remember those days, Steph.
November 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 am
On the 24th they have John Tory guest hosting. They have to be getting desperate!
No kidding!! John Tory isn’t much of an improvement from Karen Redman.
I wonder what happened to Jeff? Is he on vacation?
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
This is question I sent to Karen but I guess she doesn’t think her show should be informative but just a Liberal love-in.
Karen
Did Leblanc just say categorically that the Green Shift is dead as far as part of a Leblanc Liberal Party - that is what I heard?
What about Ignatieff on the Green Shift - Canadians want and are entitled to know?