Harper speech: preppy dazzles hicks with spin
September 30, 2008 10:44 am UncategorizedDriving back from hockey this morning, I heard Bob Rae chuckling abut the ‘plagiarism’ thing with some CBC radio host. (Oh, those UCC boys. ‘Remember when we short-sheeted Biff?’) It reminded me of Mike Keenan measuring the visiting team’s bench when he had a playoff game in the other city - why, this bench is five inches shorter than regulation! I’m not quite sure I can put my team on the ice under these conditions! These illegal, lawless conditions! Standard mind abuse of your opponent. Hardly a colossal gaffe of thermonuclear proportions. Oops. Forgot to put quotation marks around that. Hardly “… a colossal gaffe of thermonuclear proportions.”
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Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch
Dalwhinnie :
Date: October 1, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Just imagine what happens when the people who drink rye and ginger ale at the Legion discover that plagiarism is not, after all, a sexual deviation but involves copying speeches.Can you imagine their derision of Bob Rae? “You mean, all he did was copy a speech?”
(Sorry for the condescension to the splendid chaps at the Legion, but most people do not know or care what plagiarism is),
Duggans Dew :
Date: October 2, 2008 @ 2:50 am
And those who do know, like Andrew Coyne, realize the foolishness of applying the word ‘plagiarism’ to one political speech-writer borrowing from another. As election campaign tactics, however, the accusation makes a dandy brushback pitch and Bob Rae is a good chap to deliver it.