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by Paul Wells on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:16pm - 35 Comments

Danny Williams is angry at a VOCM call-in host.

Tags: Danny Williams, playing to type

Chuck VS Macleans

LMAO…
http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

For the life of me, I can't understand how he and Harper ever had their moments of friction.

Orson Bean

I think Williams and Harper have quite different personalities and flaws. Lots of people would use lots of nasty adjectives/adjectivals to describe Harper, but "bombastic", "rabid" and "foaming at the mouth" wouldn't be among them. My own take on it is that Harper has a nasty streak in him, but Williams is full-on personality disordered (a la DSM IV).

http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

And so, another joke is senselessly slaughtered. Nevermind Harper's nasty streak: what is he doing to address quipicide in Canada?!

Dave

Irish curse?
Mulletaur

"Now you have a nice day, thank you very much … goodbye." and slams the phone down after berating Simms. Classic.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Dennis_Rice Dennis_Rice

If that's hospitality, what would me calling you a dick for saying that be?

http://intensedebate.com/people/hellomike hellomike

Well, that was bracing!

Too bad Simms didn't have anything to come back to Williams with, like, "why don't we slow down production so that we can take advantage of rising oil prices through the future?" I think that is actually what he meant by his criticism originally, he just seemed to fall apart under The Danny Rush.
http://nottawa.blogspot.com Mark

Newfoundland has a Supreme Leader – he's the "I a told'ya"
hosertohoosier

Maybe I'm a weirdo, but Danny Williams was pretty darn convincing.

Mickey

Not at all. Danny can be an idiot, but even more idiotic were the comments of that fool radio host. What a moron that guy is.

Dave

Yeah, imagine the gall and stupidity of asking a question about public policy over a period of decades.

AMartin

Yawn.

Danny's always angry. It's just someone else to add to a growing list: Paul Martin, Steve Harper, Oil Companies, Nurse Unions, Healthcare officials who should be shot, traitors, people who aren't "true Newfoundlanders and Labradorians" because they don't agree with him, CBC journalists who question, and now a talk show host who tried to start a discussion.
David

I wonder if he and Nixon both whipped it out, who's would be longer?

Their enemies lists, I mean.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

Oh. Silly me! For a moment, I thought you were talking about their schlongs.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

Beneath his prickly and pugnacious persona, Danny Williams is just a big teddy bear looking for love and affirmation.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Jack_Mitchell Jack_Mitchell

In a way, each of us has a Danny Williams to face. For some, shyness might be their Danny Williams. For others, a lack of education might be their Danny Williams. For us, Danny Williams is a big, blowhard megalomaniac who wants to insult us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador can conquer their own personal Danny Williams, who also happens to be the actual Danny Williams.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

LOL. Steve Martin couldn't have said it better.
scf

Very funny. Did Steve Martin say something like that? Gotta look it up.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

Three Amigos.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Jack_Mitchell Jack Mitchell

Thanks, sf! As CR says, it's Three Amigos (Lucky Day's motivational speech at the end).

dede

There is definitely some sort of personality disorder on evidence but it has proven to be just the sort of personality disorder you need to negotiate with big oil. Newfoundland and Labrador have a stake in their oil play, while the rest of Canada gets suckered. Take a look at the royalty regime for coal mined in Alberta and see if they couldn't use their very own barking mad Rhodes scholar.
JimboJones

I don't blame Williams for his outburst. Sure, reporters who cover politics will clutch their pearls and talk about what a pr disaster this is, but really, all those friendly phone calls, lunch dates, off-the-record interviews, the friendly nudge-nudge, wink-wink approach to information sharing, the press briefings, the news conferences, the backgrounders, the briefing notes…it all amounts to nothing when you get the kind of meaningless coverage Williams got from this radio show guy.

Williams was right to do it.

scf

Even if he was right, it's the part where he hangs up the phone that is questionable.

Sea Otter

I know that Williams bristles at the "Premier Chavez" tag, and rightly so. After all, he is far more effective than Hugo Chavez in his ability to bully his political enemies and intimidate the media.

scf

This behaviour is so "Chavez". Instead of arguing the point, shift the argument into an argument about character.

Orson Bean

Exactly. I'm surprised Danny didn't say that he smelled sulphur.

The other thing I find so tiresome about Danny W is his constant "I'm a victim/I'm oppressed" schtick. You wanna see victims? Go to Darfur. Those are victims. As a general rule, any upper-class-to-upper-middle-class white person in North America who constantly claims to be a "victim" is probably personality disordered.