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Justin responds

by Aaron Wherry on Friday, May 15, 2009 4:24pm - 24 Comments

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  • Critical Reasoning

    The link seems to be broken.

    • Jarrid

      … and something tells me we’re not missing much.

      • http://deleted Sandi

        Oh, c’mon now – try to be less partisan and obvious. It’s not healthy to be so negative all the time.

        • Chuck

          Relax. Jarred is jarred. Health is not an issue to the zombie nation.

  • Anony Moose

    “…foundering and flailing, flapping and failing!”

    The alliteration simply took my breath away. Justin for PM!

    • Paul Wells

      I believe that’s a Hold Steady lyric.

      • Chuck

        Reminiscent of Talking Heads and beyond subtle:

        You start a conversation you can’t even finish it.
        You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.
        When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
        Say something once, why say it again?

        Harper Fail.

    • http://www.jackmitchell.ca Jack Mitchell

      We don’t have enough alliteration in Canadian politics. Apart from P-p-p-pierre P-p-p-pollièvre, of course.

  • David

    Justin responds to what?

  • Critical Reasoning

    Trudeau needs to hire a voice coach. His bizarre elocution is very distracting.

    • http://www.jackmitchell.ca Jack Mitchell

      I didn’t find that. I thought it was refreshingly intense. I say, Enough with the wisecracking tone we get from most political ads.

      • Critical Reasoning

        You think his delivery was refreshingly intense, I think his delivery was oddly “affected”. I wasn’t wisecracking; that’s my honest opinion. I don’t have a problem with Trudeau fils. I just hope he wises up and consults an expert so that I don’t have to wince every time I listen to him deliver a speech.

        • Critical Reasoning

          Oh, sorry, Jack. I’m a bit testy tonight. Upon rereading, I may have misunderstood the “wisecracking tone”. You were contrasting Justin’s theatrical intensity with the wisecracking tone of a humourous attack ad. I thought it was in reference to my own tone.

          • http://www.jackmitchell.ca Jack Mitchell

            Ah, sorry, CR, yes, I wasn’t accusing you of wisecracking — as you say, just with the usual cynical “we know best” tone of our parties’ political ads. Actually Trudeau’s tone — which, I agree, certainly needs a bit of polish — reminds me of Harper’s earnestness in the 2006 (or was it 2004?) ads that Paul put us on to a few posts back, where he’s sitting with a girl at a table. It looks cheap, naive, etc., a bit like Trudeau fils here, but it worked (acc. to Right Side Up).

  • Emmett

    wow.

    just, wow…

    Is Justin a member of a Grade 8 poetry club or something?

    Is that a political response or is he trying his own rendition of the corniest scene from the episode of Gossip Girl where they have an election for class president?

    What a masterful blend of Shakespeare, used car saleman and Mayor Quimby.

  • seth

    WEAK
    justin is no pierre

    • http://deleted Sandi

      Nor should he be – he should be and is his own man.

      Have you ever listened to the other Pierre (Poilievre)? Either he has a speech impediment or his talking is talking down to people as if they are mentally challenged.

      Oh the jealousy is just oozing out these days.

  • William

    Honestly, I thought the comedy troop in Quebec were doing another spoof on Justy. Then I played it again—-this guy is embarassing, even to me.
    If he were a teenager then one could forgive him for his amateur attempts at speaking but isn`t he in his late 30`s.
    What is he doing—-competing with Liz May for the 12 year old vote.
    When he was rhyming off those Four F words I was thinking of one more F to describe this poor naive but priveleged young man.

    • Chuck

      So, are you the ghost of Buckley senior?

      Can your snout rise any higher?

  • http://dredtory.blogspot.com/ Sir Francis

    …justin is no pierre…

    Actually, Trudeau père was as awkward and over-inflected a speaker as his son seems to be when he was Justin’s age, as contemporary news-reel clips will confirm. He had to cultivate a public manner quite deliberately and methodically, as Justin will no doubt do, if he remains in public life long enough.

    • Critical Reasoning

      If true, that is a fascinating observation (sincerely). It makes me wonder whether the entire Trudeau persona was carefully cultivated. That’s what makes intelligent politicians so interesting, like Nixon or Trudeau. The public and private sides are often shockingly different, and there is much going on behind the scenes.

  • http://dredtory.blogspot.com/ Sir Francis

    It makes me wonder whether the entire Trudeau persona was carefully cultivated.

    It definitely was. Trudeau admitted as much himself in the Memoirs documentary, where he calls his Trudeaumania-era self a ham and a “bad actor”. He also refers several times to the “mask” he had to wear as a politician and how degrading he often felt it to be.

    There’s also a brief but fascinating scene in which Keith Davey and Jerry Grafstein talk about the way they used polling data to help craft a specific image for Trudeau (specifically the “Gunslinger” persona) for both the ’79 and ’80 elections.

  • madeyoulook

    It’s the federal political leadership’s job to “fulfill my dreams”? Go away, Justin. Leave my dreams bloody well alone!

  • madeyoulook

    Oh, Justin, before you go: nice video quality. Where were you when your previous leader needed you?

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