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Originally Posted by Jason Marcel
Look, Carolyn Parrish, a former Liberal member of Parliament in Canada, was booted from the party after she called Bush a moron. What really bugs me is that my wonderful nation caved in and basically alienated her just because she spoke her mind. Yes, it is unprofessional to call someone a moron, but her comment wasn't made in a speech, is what caught on tape as an aside. Cheney didn't lose his job for telling someone in a gov't session to go "fuck themselves" and what about when Bush was running in 2000 and called that reporter from the New York Times an ass hole? . . .
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Parrish did alot worse. I am not a fan of the Bush Administration by any means, but IMHO, Parrish's conduct was outrageous and offensive beyond diplomatic criticism of Bush into basic insults thrown liberally at the American people and juvenile antics railed at Bush. Her primary business as a run-of-the-mill MP for Mississauga was her local business, not tirades on America.
First, she got caught on recorder saying "Damn Americans, I hate the bastards." She tried to subsequently claim she meant the Bush Administration and not the American people and was given a pass on it in Canada. But Bush wasn't what she said, though--she said Americans. Her local constituents even reelected her after that.
After her relection, she then called supporters of the North American missile defence proposal "a coalition of the idiots", and there is no secret where that barb was aimed.
After Bush was re-elected, Parrish said that "America is completely out of touch with the rest of the free world" and said this was a result of Americans having suffered "extreme psychological damage" due to 9.11.
Then, she went on the CBS TV show,
This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and stomped on a Bush doll and chanted voodoo on its head, where, she said, "it would do the least damage."
After that, she told Paul Martin he could "go to hell" if he and others wanted her to stop making similar comments and that she had no loyalty to the party. It was then--and only then--that she was expelled from the party.
This, to me, in this picture of her with the Bush doll, sums up how entirely immature and unacceptable her behaviour was:
The person who called Bush a 'moron,' though, was former PM Jean Chrétien's spokeswoman, Françoise Ducros, who resigned after making that comment in Prague.