Oh ouch
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 10 Oct 2008 at 05:23 pm | Tagged as: Current Events, Humour
Quotation of the Day for October 9, 2008
“They were waiting for a translation from the original Australian.”
- Bob Rae, Liberal Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre, jokingly explaining why the governing Conservative Party took so long to release their federal election campaign platform. He was referring to a scandal earlier in the campaign in which it was revealed that a 2003 speech delivered by Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper (now Canadian Prime Minister) in favour of the Iraq War was largely plagarized from a speech given two days prior by Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
[http://www.torontoobserver.ca/2008/10/08/tories-roasted-at-cbc-debate/]
It’s funny the first time you hear it — at the big event I was at last week, a keynote speaker and then a moderator of a subsequent panel made similar jokes, each without realizing the other had. Surprised, uproarious laughter at the first one, since it was the day after the plagiarism news… polite chuckles at the second one… and I see it still hasn’t died on the circuit.