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Prime Minister Hulk Hogan

by Aaron Wherry on Friday, May 29, 2009 4:26pm - 21 Comments

While everyone’s contemplating the etymology of various Br’er Rabbit references, note the phrase Pierre Poilievre used immediately before.

Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we have a leader, a real Canadian leader.

This, you might not realize, is a sly reference to one of the more effective American campaign ads of the 1980s. Clip after the jump.

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  • WDM

    If so, then when prey tell, does he double cross Team Canada, and side with those dastardly nWo Liberals. I’m picturing a black and white montage of him, Goodale and Mark Holland.

    I really am kind of a loser for being able to hit on this reference, aren’t I?

    • JP

      Would be interesting to hear Poilievre describe who a “real” Canadian is (as opposed to those fake ones).

    • Michael T

      yeah I thought you were giving yourself away a tad too much….shameless!

  • Wayne

    I love it … Watcha gonna do when the Hulkster rolls over you huh Iggy? This works Aaron : I can see my boy Stevie now standing up in the house cupping his ear and listening to the roaring adulation of all of his fans some booing some applauding then sayong Mr. Speaker I thionk the leader of the oppopstion needs more vitamins and fibre in his diet – QP as a Wrestlemania match – Why DIdn’t I think of this .. you get 2 political cookies Aaron :

  • Bailey

    I always saw Poilievre as more of a Jesse Ventura kind of guy.

  • http://deleted Sandi

    But, is Poilievre a “real Ontarionian”?

  • Jason

    Nope.

    Mr. Life-behind-the-desk-as-a-career-pundit/politician is no Hulk Hogan.

    More like a Hogan wannabe or this tricky fellow.

  • Critical Reasoning

    Heh. Obviously Poilievre wasn’t making a sly reference to this obscure bit of 80′s memorabilia, but it was still fun to watch the Hulkster strutting his stuff in a goofy music video.

  • Eva

    I remember today watching QP and wanting to PUNCH Polievre in the face when he said that. wtf is his problem, Michael Ignatieff is a real canadian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just because someone studies and/or works outside the country does not mean they are not canadian!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • DR

    Heh. I thought you were gonna go for the GI Joe theme song.

  • http://www.savedarfur.org Sophia Geffros

    Are we sure that this isn’t what Pollievre was referencing? ;-)

  • Michael

    Read Canadian indeed.

    • Critical Reasoning

      The author of this clip, “thirstygrit”, appears to be a Kinsella wannabe with rudimentary video editing skills. If he keeps plugging away, he may one day achieve more than 400 views. Keep up the good work, thirstygrit!

  • dan in van

    He must be a real Canadian. That’s exactly how John Howard wrote it, and the American duo of PR work have billed him on their resumes. Only a real Canadian would call us a “northern European welfare state of the worst sense of the term” and still get face time on Fox News…

    • Ted

      It is very patriotic to call an entire region of the country “defeatist” and to say they live in a “culture of defeatism”.

    • Ted

      It is very patriotic to try to build firewalls around a province and start a provincial separatist movement.

  • http://deleted Sandi

    “In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don’t feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

    - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

    - yup, he worries about the “Canadian” unemployed.

  • http://deleted Sandi

    Oh, and his American envy:

    “[Y]our country [the USA], and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.”

    - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

  • http://deleted Sandi

    Oh, and he supposedly doesn’t believe in witch hunts – really?

    “I’m not doing witch-hunts on people’s pasts… If someone does something wrong, there will be action taken. But if somebody doesn’t do anything wrong, we’re not going to take any action… I don’t make volunteer field decisions… but Betty Granger is a riding president, a member in good standing. She’s somebody that other members I’ve talked to think very highly of, and quite frankly, she was the victim of an unfair slur story in the last election campaign.”

    - Stephen Harper on Betty Granger, one of three Harper leadership organizers in Manitoba. Granger is a candidate from the 2000 election whose remarks about an ‘Asian invasion’ created controversy. Calgary Herald, January 15th 2002.

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