I didn't want to start a Carrolyn Parrish pt.3 just yet because I think the best is yet to come, prior to or when Bush makes an appearance here in Ottawa shortly.
But now it is getting just stupid. Parrish is shown stomping on a doll of Bush ( on this hour has 22 minutes) but the worse thing is when Mercer asks her to stick a sharp object (a pen) in Bush to see where it would do the worst damage. She takes the pen and sticks it in his head and says something like "There is nothing in there." Can't recall her exact words cuz I just caught the clip.,... but really, will this end? When asked what her response will be if Bush speaks to parliament, she said she hadn't made up her mind yet. And Paul Martin,..well as of today he is still being Paul Martin. Doing nothing.
I know this has been rehashed but really,..shut the fuck up. Given her history of criticizing the Bush administration, this comedy skit is adding fuel to the fire. Free speech is wonderful. I couldn't care less if she would like to see Bush getting assfucked by Cheney but enough is enough. Diplomacy should rule the day, not some two bit hack like Parrish precursing a book deal because of her ignorance.
edit--Rex Murphy just had a scathing review of Ms. Parrish's actions. Good for him. Another Canadian who opens his eyes every morning and the first thing he sees isn't the inside of his ass.
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Thu, November 18, 2004
'He can't control me'
Carolyn Parrish isn't sorry for stomping a Dubya doll, and as for the PM and fellow MPs who are seeking to curb her: 'They can all go to hell'
By JOAN BRYDEN and DAN DUGAS, CP
MAVERICK Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish says she won't heckle George Bush when he addresses Canada's Parliament later this month, but she has no intention of toning down her criticism of the "warlike" U.S. president.
Moreover, Parrish met with Prime Minister Paul Martin late yesterday to advise him that his repeated efforts to shut her up are doomed to failure and are only fuelling controversy and making him look weak.
Parrish also refused to apologize for taking part in a skit for the CBC television comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes, in which she stomps on a Bush doll. The skit was denounced by Conservative and Liberal MPs alike.
Parrish accused her colleagues and the media of overreacting to her various pronouncements on Bush.
"It's 'backbencher burps, world ends'. It's ridiculous," she said in an interview.
Speaking shortly before her meeting with Martin, Parrish said she intended to tell him: "Every time he gets up and reprimands me, be it ever so gentle, it just feeds it and he looks like he can't control me, which he can't.
"And if he wants to know why he can't control me, I have absolutely no loyalty to this team. None.
"After what they've put me through and lots of my colleagues, they can all go to hell. But he's not going to control me so all he's going to do is end up looking weak."
Parrish said she's "not out to get" Martin. Indeed, she said "I don't care what happens to him," having lost respect for him earlier this year when he refused to intervene to ensure a "clean race" for the Liberal nomination in the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Erindale.
That ugly nomination battle, in which Parrish defeated former Liberal MP Steve Mahoney, was rife with allegations of dirty tricks on both sides.
"If he loses the next election and he has to resign, I wouldn't shed a tear over it," Parrish said of Martin.
Still, she said she sought the meeting with Martin in a bid to head off undue controversy over any anti-Bush comments she may make during the president's first state visit to Canada on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
"I'm going to assure him when I walk through the door that there is absolutely nothing to worry about. I am not going to heckle the president of the United States, not because I have any respect for him (but because) I have respect for the office and I have respect for myself. I'd look like an idiot."
Nevertheless, she said she plans to take notes when Bush speaks and will give her opinion if asked by reporters.
"I have opinions. They're strongly held and colourfully expressed. They always have been ... I am not going to change the way I function. If I do that then (critics) have won, they've shut me down and ... there are thousands of people who agree with me."
Parrish, who was adamantly opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, made headlines last year when she was overheard telling a reporter: "Damn Americans. I hate those bastards."
While she regrets that outburst, she said she has no apologies to make for any of her subsequent remarks, including her reference to supporters of the U.S. ballistic missile defence scheme as the "coalition of the idiots" or her most recent jibe that Bush is "warlike."
During the This Hour Has 22 Minutes skit, taped Tuesday in her office, Parrish said she simply followed the directions she was given by the 22 Minutes crew. She said she also kissed the Bush doll.
"Come on guys, this is humour ... I am not a monster lady. I'm not an angry wet hen. I am actually a pretty funny person and humour is one of those tonics in life."
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Ottawa...18/719205.html