Just a vulgar rag for the commoners, huh?

Apparently, uber-Liberal Ian Davey isn't afraid to crap all over the peasants...

Michael Ignatieff's former chief of staff went on television Sunday and took a shot at Toronto Sun readers... "It's a newspaper for people who can't read and I think that probably applies to the whole chain."

Yeah... every time I see your fearless leader I get that very same "let them eat cake" vibe.

So Ian, tell us... how are things going out in the land of Gray Poupon, anyway?

"It was right for me to support the Iraq war when I was an academic, because academics live in outer space on Planet Zinfandel, and play with ideas all day."

"But now, as a politician in a country that opposed the war, I'll admit I screwed up, because politicians must deign to harness the wild mares of whimsy to the ox-cart of cold, calculated reality."

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RELATED: Yes Ian, if only Sun Media...

...could be as fair and balanced as the CBC.

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Oh nonny, you are "special"

The compassionate, intellectual left replies...

"Scratch a Conservative and find an anti-Semite. Not to mention the fact that you're shitting on Canadian mustard seed growers."

The always cryptic but never uncertain Nonny also supplies circulation numbers for the Toronto Sun... which begs the question... "How often do you get a chance to call 180,000 people 'illiterate hillbillies' in one fell swoop?"

And that's only one paper in the Sun Media chain.

May the poli-sci gawds bless you, Ian Davey.

UBER WEALTHY BANKER WITH BRITISH AND IRISH CITIZENSHIP SPOUTS OFF ABOUT CANADA...

JUST 'PASS THE GREY POUPON', YOU ELITIST DICK...

-- "‘America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form,’ Carney said in his speech Sunday." --

Same old, same old...

-- "Carney has been ushered in to continue on with more of Trudeau’s signature economic policies, the ones Carney has been advising Trudeau on since 2020." --

And what Trudeau policies are those, you ask?

More G&M (cough, cough) journalism

Liberal war room finally manages to get Ignatieff to put down the Gray Poupon...Oh gawd... I hear the flesh on his fingertips sizzling.My guess is... Iggy's still puzzling over why his headgear doesn't have any jewels set into it.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Harper in hiding?? Only the G&M would make such a crude comment. When was the last time PMSH and family had a quiet, time alone vacation??"

"Compare that to the number of times Mrs. and Mr. Ziggy have escaped to France."

Hang on a sec...

...are we talking about Michael Ignatieff's dream demographic here? --

I am hardly the first pundit to bemoan the lack of Western feminists who’ve shown any interest in this gendered genocide.

Most are too busy denouncing the phallocentricity of free trade and unregistered guns to mourn the killing of 20,000 women every year for the crime of falling in love, having boyfriends, bearing children — which is to say, being human.

That 20,000 figure, by the way, exceeds the total number of Palestinians killed in both Intifadas and the 2008 Gaza conflict combined — a useful factoid to keep in your holster the next time Judy Rebick or Diana Ralph garbs their anti-Israeli bigotry in feminist pink.

Meanwhile... in other "pass the Gray Poupon" news...

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RELATED: Ask a professional "Spin Assassin"

"We don' need no steenkin' facts!!!"

Of course, switching to Hot-Air Balloons...

...would be both more ecologically AND aesthetically pleasing...

Ignatieff says the public is questioning whether the country needs stealth fighters to defend its airspace -- especially given the huge deficit run up by the Tories.

He says Liberals will get Canadians better value for money.

Seriously, Professor Poupon... you really wanna die on this particular hill?

On his first day in office in 1993, prime minister Jean Chrétien had ripped up a signed contract to purchase 28 navy helicopters and 15 search-and-rescue versions from E.H. Industries.

Left unsaid was an uncomfortable truth. Killing the project triggered more than $1 billion in cancellation penalties, write-offs, and extra maintenance costs for the existing fleet of Sea King helicopters.

And they say Iggy is the smart one.

I'm just not seeing it.

Now over to Peter Mansbridge...

...for an exclusive report... on gravity holding shit down...

Anybody remember the CBC using the cropped image of Stephen Harper (popularly referred to as "Heil Harper") as a teaser on their web page?
Of course... unless you decided to click on that particular link... you didn't get the actual context...
Funny how that works, huh?

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BONUS RIFF: Pass the Grey Poupon

"Come join us as we and other members of the political class celebrate the birthdays of Count Michael Ignatieff and Czar Nicholas II."

Anybody spot the satire here?

HINT: Actual humour doesn't involve comparisons with the instigator of one of the most infamous incidences of mass-murder in recorded history.

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LAST WORD: Our "billion dollar" media baby

"This all sounds about as reliable as shipping lettuce by rabbit."

Spend, baby, spend.