Is Iggy smartening up?
So, I guarantee you: somewhere out there in the dark ether, some bitter, irrelevant Internet hater will parse and twist my words, to achieve some “victory” that isn’t. lying jackal
Are they reduced to shooting the volunteers in the OLO?
Update – A correspondence
Hi WarrenAs you have suggested in the past that I get in touch with you before running with a particular story could you please confirm that you will no longer be running the Liberal War Room in the next election.
Thanks,
Jay
Your email was forwarded to me.I do not discuss my status with people I do not know. I particularly do not discuss my status with loathsome bigots such as you.
If you wish to speculate, as is your wont, you will be held to account if you are wrong.
Yours truly,
Warren Kinsella
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
Thanks Warren,An attempted insult and a threat all in one short email.
All I am trying to confirm is whether Iggy is smart enough to have bid you adieu.
Not to worry though, there are other ways to confirm your status.
Poor John Tory.
Cheers,
Jay
Now, as is my wont, I’m speculating here, but I suspect the Lying Jackal is out on his ass.
Iggy fires the also rans and then mucks out the stable.
Update 2 – Well if you sue a guy for 5 million bucks he’s probably got a file. And, big surprise, Ezra does indeed have a file. Rather a large one. If Iggy has not let the Lying Jackal go yet, he might want to after reading Ezra’s chapter and verse.
Update 3 – Apparently not smart enough. Jane Taber reports that Iggy was stupid enough to leave the Jackal in his office.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hmm I wanna be the 1st to comment – Good Riddance Lying Jackal you pinhead!
November 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
We’ll see Arnie…But it would make sense in light of the other departures and Apps beclowning himself on H1N1
November 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Remember this?
http://www.warrenkinsella.com/comments.php?y=08&m=12&entry=entry081231-204047
“TEN POLITICAL PREDICTIONS FOR 2009
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 08:40 PM
Lots of media folks – who have never stuffed a political envelope, or walked a campaign canvass in their lives – are writing thumbsuckers about their political predictions for the year ahead. To balance out the universe, I thought I would make some media predictions for the year ahead. But I couldn’t think of ten things to predict about the media – other than the demise of the Post – so I’ll stick to ten things to predict about politics.
And what do I know, anyway.
1. There’ll be an election. A minority government, and a country in a near-Depression, are mutually-exclusive concepts. As things get worse, the pressure on the Opposition parties to topple the Conservative administration will be enormous. Personally, I’m all for toppling ‘em right now.
2. The Liberal Party of Canada will win the election, because we’ve got the most impressive leader: he’s super-smart, he’s accomplished, he’s decent, he has an extraordinary ability to bring people together. We’ve also got the best team: we’ve got a Rae, a LeBlanc, a Trudeau, a Dryden, a Garneau, a Hall-Finlay, a Dhalla…I could go on. (I will, too.)
3. The Liberals will win the election for another reason: in the extraordinary circumstances in which we find ourselves, it is traditional “liberal” policy which makes the most sense – smart government involvement in the economy, and everything that means. Hoary old “conservative” chestnuts – tax cuts, privatization, indifference to the weak and the poor – just don’t appeal to people in times like these.
4. The Reform Conservative Party of Parts of Western Canada will lose the election, because they’ve got an angry leader that people – women and young people in particular – just can’t warm up to. They’ll lose because they’ve got a pretty unremarkable team, too. Apart from Jim Prentice and a couple others, I’m guessing 99 per cent of Canadians couldn’t name five ministers in the federal cabinet. When the face of your entire political organization is one man – and a man whom voters are increasingly unenthusiastic about – you’ve got trouble, baby.
5. The economy, as I’ve suggested before, will be the answer to every political question. Foreign policy matters a bit, as we are seeing right now; so do important questions like Afghanistan and so on. Of course; that’s obvious. But, to many voters, none of that matters as much as their ability to feed their families, or pay the mortgage, or figure out how to keep the hydro on. That’s not right or wrong – it’s just the way it is. And no incumbent government has ever been elected, to my knowledge, after presiding over a deep recession and/or near-Depression. That’s why I believe the Harper Conservatives are toast. Every factory closing, every job loss, every bad economic headline is killing them. In these circumstances, their political opponents need only maintain a pulse.
6. The Conservatives iron communications discipline will continue to crack. Now that caucus and cabinet and staff see how many mistakes Mr. Harper has made in a very short period of time – cozying up to ADQ loser Mario Dumont and angering majority Premier Jean Charest in the process; blowing a Parliamentary majority with a ton of rookie mistakes during the election campaign; causing a constitutional crisis that united the Left and left the Conservative leader looking like a tin-eared rageaholic – they will continue to lose confidence in him and his PMO. They will start reverting to type, and showing up in print.
7. The Liberals, meanwhile, will continue to embrace communications discipline – because, as Michael Ignatieff clearly has shown them, communications discipline works. The Grits will utterly dispense of the Chrétien-Martin era internecine warfare, because nobody remembers anymore what they were fighting about in the first place. (I sure can’t.)
8. I can’t predict what the Conservatives will do in their budget; they’d gotten crazier than shithouse rats, around the end of 2008, and it’s hard to predict the behavior of crazy people, let alone rats. But if they come up with a stinker, and more silly games, they’ll be defeated in the House of Commons and at the ballot box. If they figure out a way to evade the executioner, they’ll be governing during the worst of the worst economic downturn in decades. Either way, they’re screwed. Short-term, long-term, they’re hooped.
9. We’re overdue for some sort of environmental calamity. That, when combined with the Reform Conservatives’ complete disinterest in things like climate change, will make people angrier. John Baird will wish he had listened to Al Gore. So will everyone.
10. Warren will spend quite a bit of time in Ottawa, starting, well, in just a few days. My little web site will therefore get a lot more partisan, disappointing Conservatives and delighting me in the process. Spring will come, flowers will bloom, the natural political balance will be restored. God bless us all.
You’re welcome. Bill’s in the mail.
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November 12th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Just shows what an absolute fuckin’ idiot the author is.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
See, typical Liberal, he wants to be paid for being wrong.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Ohh. Scary.
Actually, could be the seeds of a brilliant comeback for Ignatieff.
Vote for Me or I’ll Sue You!
Derek
November 12th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Gee. Everybody’s a bigot these days. It’s the new cool!!
November 12th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I’m hope the hell Warren, the volunteer strategist, takes his volunteer strategies over to the Coderre sandbox…whoo boy! gold I tell ya, pure gold.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Jay gets all the cool names.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Sure…but can I get a nomination at the Infidels?? I mean the Jackal calls me a Loathsome bigot and not a peep. None. No respect, I tell ya.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Man, if that’s what you get called for being courteous, one can only imagine what he reserves for the truly nasty…;)
November 13th, 2009 at 4:23 am
I nominated you Jay, and it wasn’t out of Pity…really it wasn’t.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:46 am
If you wish to speculate, as is your wont, you will be held to account if you are wrong.
And what is THAT supposed to mean?
November 13th, 2009 at 5:41 am
It speaks volumes about your delusional state of mind, Jay, that you would have the gall to ask Kinsella a question and then play the victim when told to go….yourself.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Well, clearly Jackel was not in a good mood. Nice to know he is after Ezra yet once again.
But Arnie, given the correspondance quoted above, I might have to Vote for Jay out of Pity – really.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:05 am
this ultra-thin skinned liberal and litigator should have his words thrown back at him, every time he opens his unprincipled yap. Disgust is too light a word for my feelings for this hypocrite – I understand some liberals feel the same way
November 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Taber says he hasn’t been fired:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/the-last-man-standing/article1361976/
November 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Oh my Jay. You have been called a “loathsome bigot” by Warren Kinsella. How will you ever get over the shame?
November 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I seriously doubt that Ignatief gets his white gloves dirty mucking about with the trivia, like firing people. That’s why these guys have ‘people’. You know, like “Have your people contact my people.”
(I’m guessing there are ‘A’ people and the ‘other’ people.)
November 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am
@ “loathsome bigot” – I personally think that ‘Jackel” has not been shown a metro map is the same reason that “Lucy” also hasn’t = they know where the evidence is blurred & buried.
But what they fail to realize is that they are our best dream and Iffy’s worst nightmare. The longer he puts it off Prof.Iggy Dithers) – the worse it will become.
The Beaches Gang would never have carried any Wheat in the West and/or Wacky Tabakki/BC Bud in far West. So fre the Tamil 76 have not been given party cards. Proxies?
November 13th, 2009 at 10:14 am
“Taber says he hasn’t been fired”
Oh goody goody catsmeat casserole! Gilligan is still running the Minnow. Great news for Harper no doubt.
King of geeks managed by the geek from hell. Too frikin’ precious! LOL!
November 13th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Kinsella is working for Iggy??? Who woulda thunk it???
Iggy, your fortunes in the polls (and your credibility) might take a big leap forward if you were to fire that chirping flit out of a cannon.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
> and then play the victim when told
> to go … yourself
Surely you meant go f##k a Jew, right Robbie? Yeh, we remember how you roll.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
9. We’re overdue for some sort of environmental calamity.
This one holds true for the Liberal Party inner sanctum…
November 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Robert: this isn’t about Jay. It is about someone in the inner sanctums of the leader of the opposition.
Of course, it is a waste of breathe to point out the obvious.
Derek
November 13th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I wish I could have been called a “loathsome bigot” by the likes of Warren Kinsella. You rock, Jay!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Oh, I hope it’s true that Catsella is still working for Iffy. Pleasepleaseplease!
November 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Gee, I wonder what strategy he’s going to employ in the next election… I’m going to go far out on a limb on this one and take a wild guess: he’ll try to paint the Conservatives as a bunch of racist rednecks. Problem is, things are different now. Back in the Chretien days, the vote on the Right was split. Now, the vote on the Left is split 3 ways: Green, NDP, Libs, and 4 ways in Quebec with the Bloc. So the more the Liberals try to make the Conservatives look like a bunch of neo-cons, the more Left-wing they’re going to sound, which will give the Conservatives control of the centre.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I just can’t help making fun of the poor schmuk.
“I do not discuss my status with people I do not know. I particularly do not discuss my status with loathsome bigots such as you.”
Well Kantsellya, which is it? You have once again proven your idiocy. Do you know Jay? In the first sentence you you apparently do not. Then you call him a loathsome bigot. Are you in the habit of calling people you don’t know loathsome bigots? Of course you are!
Kinda takes all the fire out of the words if they are plied indiscrimminately.
You do realize you have to discrimminate when applying labels to people, right Warrin’? Ahsole you do discrimminate!
You do realize it is against the law to discrimminate, right?
What a turd.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Hey, Jay. Be sure to confirm the Jackass’ status working for Iggy. If he is a “volunteer”, as you state and as he has stated publicly in the past, then there are rules about this… see for a little more background: http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsNov1209.html
November 14th, 2009 at 8:36 am
There are also implications for volunteers under Elections Canada and Ethics office rules… see for comparative purposes http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsNov0309.html
November 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
So what’s the deal? Someone has they keys to Ignatieff’s kids’ silence, or what?
November 15th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Hey – just wondering: does Warren Kinsella even get paid to do what he does for the Liberal campaign?
Perhaps by the Tories?
November 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
This little Iggy went to Mensa,
This little Iggy went to focus group,
This little Iggy went “oui, oui, oui, I shall fire all the helpers who have brought me down.”
November 17th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Tues. Morning:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/the-last-man-standing/article1361976/
Looks like Kinsella is safe for now.
Sorry about the source though…
November 18th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
“At least I can count on you, Warren.”
(famous last words?)