This sad little mountain (2)
If the federal Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt actually were to resign – at least, if she were to quit over this particular baby – then all really is lost. No one with half a pea for a brain will ever run for Parliament again, not that from Ottawa yesterday there is much evidence anyone has done so.
On a day when Canadians learned of the death of a 20-year-old soldier in Afghanistan, most of their newspapers and a great chunk of the country’s airwaves were filled with agonizing analysis of the accidentally tape-recorded remarks of Ms. Raitt in conversation with her then-aide, the dropsy-afflicted Jasmine MacDonnell.
This tape, itself in large measure the accidental recording of the two women chatting in a car as they drove around Victoria earlier this year (Ms. MacDonnell, need I add, had turned the recorder on by mistake), was left in a Parliament Hill loo (Ms. MacDonnell strikes again) and ended up in the hands of Halifax Chronicle Herald reporter Stephen Maher.
In February, Mr. Maher listened to enough of it to realize it belonged to Ms. MacDonnell and alerted her that he had it.
Alas and alack for her, Ms. MacDonnell never quite roused herself to come and fetch the recorder from Mr. Maher’s office, and when, earlier this month, she resigned over some confidential papers she’d left behind in the CTV newsroom (she does have the knack, doesn’t she?), Mr. Maher with the approval of his superiors listened to the tape.
Alas and alack for them, it appears to have contained little of news value, which did not stop the Chronicle Herald from providing breathtaking amounts of coverage of its contents yesterday.
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Hebert: Lisa Raitt’s sins no worse than opponents’
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2:58 pm EDT, June 10th, 2009 — Raitt apologizes for cancer remarks
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Jema54 Says:
Jasmine (the assistant) is according to a source linked at SDA, the daughter of a big time Ignatieff fund raiser and supporter. Something smells fishy.
Lisa showed courage today and proved beyond a shadow of doubt that she is a very classy Lady (as well as being a very intelligent person). Cancer has caused her great heart break; she has earned our respect for facing that vicious batch of so called reporters with a subject that still breaks her heart to talk about. Jasmine is the lowest of the low; I am so glad that she is gone! Let her clean floors for iRuby for a few months, for her own good.
Posted on June 11th, 2009 at 1:47 am