Warren the K pledges his troth to Mickey I.

Or, as Chuckercanuck puts it (links in originals):

Iggy and Warren Now Sitting in a Tree

Its official:

Warren Kinsella is to Iggy what [dearly departed] Jason Cherniak was to Stephane Dion!

Not worried, fellow Tories? Enjoying this gossip over martinis in Winnipeg this week (sorry I couldn't join you - work first)? Well, let me give you a flavor of what's to come:

One. Iggy will Kinsella-fy his language by morphing the proper names of things into insulting - well, by juvenile standards at least - variants. Flop & Mail, National Pest, PeeTV, Tories become the Sorries, Montreal becomes Duncetreal. Iggy will smile cutely and wrinkle his nose everytime he reaches for such a Kinsellism.

Two. Whenever Iggy is backed into a corner, we will be showered with diverting punk rock trivia. Perhaps Iggy will even start his own punk rock band - he has the name for it, we must admit.

Three. Suddenly, Iggy will start calling everyone a racist. Want to cut taxes? Racist! Want to review food inspection standards? Bigot! Want to invest in urban infrastructure? Neo-Nazi! And Dippers, don't think you'll be excluded from the hate-on-hate festivities. Everyone's a target unless you submit now to the crushing tide of Ignatieff-mania sweeping Etobicoke.

As for "racist", this from Steve Janke:

The National Post is the only place where you will read Liberal Party leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff declaring Canada, and in particular, the Canadian government, to be actively racist:

Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff opened his campaign for the Liberal leadership on Thursday with a full-on assault aimed at Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his fellow Conservatives, accusing them of a range of political crimes. After announcing he is not running against fellow Liberal candidates but “against Stephen Harper and the Conservative government,” he charged them with dishonesty, incompetence and something close to bigotry and racism.

“We do not want a Canada where the colour of your skin, the language that you speak, the country you originated from determines how well you survive this economic downturn,” Mr. Ignatieff declared. Liberals, he added, “are going to fight for all Canadians to get the same shot at the economic dream.”

Where is there evidence that skin colour or language or country of origin is affecting decisions companies are making about plant shutdowns, or the way government benefits for the unemployed are being distributed?..

Mark C.

Posted by markc at November 15, 2008 05:40 PM