It was a simple question but Dion couldn't answer it:

The clip and subsequent story made it's way on to Canada's most popular daily political show, "Mike Duffy Live" where a Liberal talking head tried to claim that it was due to a problem with Dion's hearing:

Yeah, well there's a problem with that...  Actually, there are a couple of problems with that...  Dion is running to become the Prime Minister of Canada.  If he has a hearing problem as the spin meister claims, wouldn't his handlers have stuck hearing aids into his ears months ago in order to avoid such problems?  Secondly, Dion himself states several times in the first clip that he doesn't "understand" the question that's being asked.  Not that he can't hear it...  Now, with not "understanding" the question, we have to come to one of either two conclusions;

• Dion could not understand the question because it was posed to him in english instead his mother tongue of french, or
• Dion is an idiot.

If it's a language issue, how can we, as Canadians, vote for him when he can't answer a simple question posed to him in a language spoken by 90% of the Canadian population?  If he's an idiot, which is the direction I'm leaning, how could the Liberal Party position him as their leader in the first place?

Those questions aside, the Liberal operatives in the MSM are extremely pissed that one of their own (Duffy) had the gall to run with the story on his national news program:

Mike Duffy is a despicable human being
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For. Shame.

The only saving grace is that James Moore refused to be drawn in. Good on him. Mike Duffy is disgusting.

UPDATE: This is worse than the Chretien face-paralysis attack ad. CTV just won Dion the election.

UPDATE AGAIN: Here’s the clip, for those who missed it.

AND AGAIN: And as for the Tory spindorks, have their brains completely fallen out? How on earth do they think this is going to play in Quebec? Quebecers don’t much like Dion, but to have a bunch of rubes mocking the man for his poor grasp of English — yeah, they’re going to love that in Repentigny. They’ll be slapping their thighs in the Gaspe.

Honest to god.

The man behind the curtain has been exposed.  Dion has been shown for the idiot that he is.  MoonBat heads are exploding.  I'm going to make some popcorn...

Update:  I'm not alone with my assessment.

Peta is not amused:

Animal rights groups are up in arms over an annual festival in Peru that serves up hundreds of fried cats to locals.

The “Gastronomical Festival of the Cat” sees townsfolk in Canete, near Lima, feast on the fluffy pets for two days.

They believe that eating cat burgers — and fried cat legs and tails — can cure bronchial disease.

It is also believed that feline meat serves as an aphrodisiac.

The cats are bred especially for this festival — which takes place at the end of September on the Day of Santa Ifigenia.

But it has generated fury among animal rights groups.

“Having toured slaughterhouses for dogs in Taiwan, horses in Texas, and chickens and cows in Europe, PETA’s staff says the last thing we need to do is add yet another poor animal to the list of those being frightened and slaughtered for a taste,” a PETA spokesperson said.

 

Right.  For those of you of the "calander challenged" persuasion, the Canadian Thanksgiving celebration is this weekend.  Hundreds of thousands of turkeys, ducks and pigs are going to be frightened and slaughtered so we can fill our bellies.  That's a good thing.

WOOHOO!!!

It would be funny if it weren't so sad.  Read the whole thread.