Trying to make up for a career-ending mistake of questioning the seal hunt, the NDP’s Ryan Cleary shows up for a photo-op wearing a borrowed seal-skin vest with this idiotic line:
“until I can buy one, that I can afford.” (see here)
Are you flipping kidding me? The guy makes $160,000 a year. The average per capita income for someone in Newfoundland/Labrador is $34,000 and I’ll go out-on-a-limb and guess seal hunters don’t make even that.
I certainly will be looking forward to PETA posting Cleary’s picture wearing this skin after making him out to be their hero (see here).
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January 27, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Not surprised really…the NDP are all over the map on everything…and I WON’T hold my breath for the Lame Stream Media to pickup on this…now if it had been Harper just wearing the vest, the MSM would had crapped itself to get pictures of the ‘fat’ PM and would have been commenting about how ‘goofy’ he looked (wouldn’t even try to discuss the actual issue of seal hunting).
Nope, don’t expect this to make it onto Peter Mansbridge’s radar…
January 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM
No need for national media attention. It’s a local issue that he has hung himself on and everyone there is aware of it.
January 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM
I don’t know….everytime a Conservative makes a comment about a ‘local’ issue that might be in contradiction of the party-line, the national media has no problem dragging it out…I mean how many times has Harper been asked to respond to the opinions/positions of those in his caucas which might not be the official party-line? From my recollection, every misstep a conservative makes anywhere, is national in nature…
January 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM
What I’m saying is this has massively damaged him locally and needs no national media attention.
January 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM
He should be as dead politically as the skin he’s wearing and pining to buy when he can save enough money.
January 27, 2012 at 2:48 PM
“To PR Milsom I agree with you about the Canadians I actually found a distant relative living there she seemed nice enough,but thought I was a bit strange because I cared about animals”
I just HAD to repost this comment about “Canadians”!
Not only do we massacre defenceless animals,dear, we also pollute Mother Earth with tar from our tar sands. We only call them “oil sands” when we’re out in public,behind closed doors, we know what they are!
There’s no question, we’re worse than the NAZIS. But then our current Leader IS Hitler.
May that politician have to find a real job soon.
January 27, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Don’t feed the troll…
January 27, 2012 at 4:17 PM
This is why recall legislation should be looked at.
January 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM
Putting aside this issue – which is a “motherhood” issue in NFD – it is interesting to see how undisciplined the NDP have become. At this rate, the Official Opposition will soon be in their comfort zone of third party. Cheers.
January 28, 2012 at 8:06 AM
Let’s give the guy a little credit here!
After all, how many people can skin themselves alive and then hang themselves out to dry?
That really is quite a feat you know!