Carolyn Parrish doesn’t Care about Blog People
Former Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish was on The Current this morning as a guest host. She has just spent a less-than-weighty few minutes talking to people about blogs. First off, none of the people she spoke to seem to have a real grip on what a blog is, what its history is. The entire thing came off as ill-informed, narrowly focused, and reactionary.
To make things worse, Carolyn Parrish used this time on the radio to talk about how she has been attacked on blogs, and gosh darn how can we get those darn bloggers to stop? Wave a magic wand mr. legal expert; how can we stop the blogs? My reputation is so important, mr. legal expert, and while no blogger actually defamed me or did anything illegal, there should be some mechanism around for me to stop these populist personal websites from mentioning my good name! Sure, I’m an outspoken political figure, but that doesn’t give Canadians the right to have opinions! About me! Stop them, stop the bloggers!
What crap is this?
So, until this show, I really didn’t have any negative thoughts about Carolyn Parrish. Her ranting against George Bush didn’t offend me. Even the silly thing on This Hour has 22 minutes with her grinding a George Bush action figure until her heel didn’t bother me. But her piece on the radio this morning painted her as petty, self-obsessed, and antagonistic to the idea that people have opinions. Stop the blogs? Who thinks things like this? Not your average CBC listener, who clung to the CBC employee blogs a mere three months back.
Possibly she should have considered her precious reputation before taking such a silly attack position against a diverse group of people on the public broadcaster. What’s our legal recourse against her?
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Canada’s foremost defender of speaking Doc Martens* to Power, paraphrased; “gosh darn how can we get those darn bloggers to stop? Wave a magic wand mr. legal expert; how can we stop the blogs? My reputation is so important, mr….
So here you have irrefutable evidence that Parrish is shallow and egotistical (as many of us previously suspected) and a danger to the Canadian system of government. She does first and foremost what is in her personal best interest. If that is what you want in power, then please vote her in again. We all have a choice. You lefties rant about “change” being inevitable, but you embrace change only when it means sticking a finger in the eye of laws and customs of Western civilization. How about embracing some change in government “for a change.”
[Interesting how you manage to be so righteous about someone you clearly don't know much about...Carolyn Parrish isn't even running in this election. We lefties like to at least know something about what we're talking about before we deign to comment on a stranger's blog. And yes, I find so much personal joy in sticking a finger in the eye of those sacred laws and customs. So much joy, I don't know where to begin. Thank God group sex is now legal in Canada; now I have something to do this afternoon before my traditional christmas celebrations. R.M.]
I guess she misses the Action of being a Back Bencher with NO Hope of voting for what the people in the riding want.She’s gone,out of the limelight and may have to GET A JOB like the rest of us.
Carolyn Parrish is so typical of “Entitlement” Liberal politicians I am suprised that Paul Martin has not taken her back into the party. Perhaps she will be getting a job with CSL as a fog horn.
I have a low, very very low opinion of Carolyn Parrish who described Americans as bastards (including my children and grandchildren). I have a much lower opinion of Jean Chretien not flinging her out of the caucus because her ignorant, self-serving anti-Americanism served his creepy brand of anti-American politics.
I heard her on the Current and will not listen to her again. She has taken Canadian political discourse down several notches. I feel shamed by her antics – so sue me!
[Yes, I'm quite sure Carolyn Parrish was specifically thinking of your grandchildren when she made her comments about the American administration. Points to you for finding a way to take it personally! R.M.]
[...] Did a Canadian political candidate, upon winning the Liberal Party nomination to be the candidate for a seat in Parliament, exclaim in joy “Islam wins!”? The answer appears to be…no. Kathy Shaidle shows other bloggers how fact-checking is done with her response to the unfolding story over who said what; Random Access Mazar analyses the reaction of MP Carolyn Parrish to the discovery that there are things called blogs and people can actually use them to say what they like about her and the Canadian government can’t actually have them sent to re-education camps; and Small Dead Animals has a funny story about Paul Martin, difficult to believe though that is. [...]
I have discovered that the most intolerant people I have ever met are those on the “left”. Their inability to consider anything outside of their worldview is appalling. Well, at least, a pure unadulterated democratic who firmly embraces all of the ideals of a parliamentary democracy is now vying for her seat in Mississauga. /sarcasm off
[Intolerant of what, exactly? The right's desire to take rights away from gay people? The rights of religious people to discriminate against those they think their God frowns upon? How does the left enter into this conversation at all? Carolyn Parrish is a Liberal, not a New Democrat. And apparently I'm a tolerant leftist; leaving these comments on my blog means I cam mock them more fully. R.M.]