Elizabeth May Press Gallery speech

Unionist wrote:

Ken Burch wrote:

I endorse the sentiment May expressed in the speech, regardless of the phrasing.

I watched her entire speech and couldn't identify a single view or expression that I found wrong or "offensive". I might have missed something, but that was my overall impression.

I wish I could say the same for some of the posts above.

agree, i especially liked the commentary about throwing the dinner rolls and the closet!!!!!

montrealer58 wrote:

Somebody who has problems sleepinig is going act in a number of ways that others may not find to be perfect. She may act in manners considered to be "erratic" or "bizarre". It is extremely obvious to anyone who has experience with this kind of thing that there are going to be many symptoms. Religous ideation. Megalomania. Maybe even some delusions of grandeur, leading others to see her as "arrogant", "sanctimonious", etc.

After it was really really really really clear that Ms. May needs to see a doctor for her sleeplessness, condemning her for her condition would come from someone with a substandard set of ethics and a complete lack of sensitivity whatsoever. If you don't have any experience with these matters, back the fuck off and shut the fuck up.

You are making yourself look arrogant, consdesceding, sanctimonious, narcissistic, and manipulative. You are doing an Internet shaming while hiding behind the anonymity of your on-line handle, and exposing the lack of character that you are. After all these years, you have finally exposed yourself as the worst kind of human being imaginable. Someone who kicks a woman when she is down. There are other words I would like to use to describe you, but I cannot use them on this forum.

Leave Elizabeth May the fuck alone. If I see any more of this baiting, I will cause more pain.

Fuck off, asshole.

Does Elizabeth May have an actual medical condition diognosed by a doctor?

Catchfire wrote:

Clarification: I am not surprised that people are calling for her resignation. I am surprised that babblers are. But, that too could be foolish.

Some babblers are condemning her for the same reason they always do - that she takes more courageous stands on a variety of issues than the tightly-scripted scaredy-cat NDP would ever do. It's the narcissism of small differences.

For example, the indignant outraged comments above about making jokes about Omar Khadr. Except in the case of krop (and I agree with him about May's vomit-inducing apology), not one of them gives the slightest shit that the NDP has said [b]NOTHING[/b] about the release of Khadr, no condemnation of the Harperites for continuing to slander and persecute him...

The NDP must still be counting polls to decide whether they dare mention the name of the savage terrorist Khadr. Or did I miss some fine print somewhere? I apologize in advance if they've done the right thing.

May welcomed Khadr and told the plain truth, that he is a far better human being than the totality of Harper's cabinet of monsters. Whoops, sorry for being profane, so fucking fire me.

 

If Mr Harper gave a speech like that instead of Mrs May I don't think people here would be too quick to let him off the hook and chalk it up to a poopy performance. I'd bet most would be demanding he loose his job. No?

And Justin Trudeau called Peter Kent a piece of shit in the House of Commons, and he still has his job.

Misfit wrote:

And Justin Trudeau called Peter Kent a piece of shit in the House of Commons, and he still has his job.

Justin Trudeau said that under his breath in his seat - not to Peter Kent directly.  It just happened to be picked up because the mic was still on.

And what Trudeau said about Kent was accurate, anyway.  Trudeau even got some praise from some BQ supporters and a poll showed that most people agreed Kent deserved it after his condescending put-down of Megan Leslie.

Mr. Magoo wrote:

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Leave Elizabeth May the fuck alone. If I see any more of this baiting, I will cause more pain.

Fuck off, asshole.

Just to clarify, you've already caused some pain, then?

Also, what kind of baiting is it that you're so violently averse to?  Because I didn't see the pain the first time and I'd like to see some now.

Stockholm wrote:

Its hard to have any sympathy for May's drunken rant and meltdown because she's such an unsympathetic character. There is no one in Canadian politics as arrogant, sanctimonious, self-righteous, condescending, narcissistic and manipulative as Elizabeth May - so forgive us for feeling some schadenfreude at seeing her make such a fool of herself.

Stockholm, you seem to have a personal dislike for Elizabeth May, but I'm not sure why.  Is she really any different than a lot of other politicians?  Having a big ego is pretty common in the political world, you know.  All the other party leaders think highly of themselves.  No one would describe Harper, Trudeau or Mulcair as having small egos.

And in the big picture, let's remember that it's Stephen Harper who is the one in power and causing all the damage in this country, not Elizabeth May.

Jacob Two-Two wrote:

This thread is demented. What a total non-event. I won't bother to watch her speech but I can't imagine it's any weirder than this whole conversation about it.

+10000

Cringe-inducing, actually.

onlinediscountanvils wrote:

NDPP wrote:

Omar Khadr, you've got more class than the whole fucking parliament!'

 

I think I'll write him in when I cast my ballot this time.

Not a bad idea. But spell it "Omar Kotter". Nice mélange to screw somebody's head.

Yeah, what ever happened to the good old days when the Press Gallery Dinner guests simply threw dinner rolls?