I was hoping it wouldn’t happen, but it has happened. Earlier in the week Stephen Harper gave an interview, in which he said that the Dalai Lama was not a call girl. Brian Mulroney may have a yen for corruption but Stephen Harper apparently has a different kind of yen…and not the kind you spend in Japan.
Mulroney met a man in hotel rooms for the purpose of receiving envelopes stuffed with cash.
Stephen Harper, on the other hand would not meet a man in a hotel room; instead, he invited the Dalai Lama to his office. After all, Harper said, the Dalai Kama is not a "call girl". Evidently Harper is familiar with the idea that you meet call girls in hotels.
I expected this idiotic bit of crap would die a natural death and go away. But this morning my inbox contained an email from the American website "Crooks and Liars". The top story was our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.
Harper has gone from being just a national embrassment, to being an international embarrassment. An oaf and an inarticulate buffoon with a penchant for gnomic turns of phrase.
You can read the story here at Crooks and Liars. Some of the comments are astounding.
A troubling dilemma for your readers everywhere…. nauseous differentiations between baboons, buffoons, crooks, liars, backstabbers and paranoid egomaniacs in Canada.
I accept your definition of “Hotel” Harper at the head of the race internationally. But surely Rambo Mackay is very close behind?
And on the homefront surely no-one comes close to Stockwell Homeland Securi-Day. I picture him drifting off to sleep at night with a smile knowing that a lot of Americans wish a lot more Canadians were just like him.
It’s only a matter of time till he wears sunglasses when talking to the media.
I think Stockwell Day already did the sunglasses thing. Remember the jet ski? He should have been wearing a bag over his head. He’s definitely the best reason I can think of for not living in the Okanagan!
A cynic might think that Harper was using the Dalai Lama for political purposes a few months ago when they met in the Prime Minister’s office rather than privately, as has been done by past leaders. The same cynic might suppose that Harper was following the lead of George W. Bush, who also met the Dalai Lama on a semi-official basis.
A true cyncic, however would be openly skeptical about the precious Dalai Lama himself. I have never thought very highl;y of him and his twittering and ineffectual sideways nods to the “peace process”, whatever that means today.
The Buddhist faith, like the others, can be as self-serving, as grasping and as greedy as the human imagination might be able to conjure.
Just look at Sri Lanka where a Buddhist regime behaves as murderously and as viciously as any other.
The true cynic would advocate the melting down of all three of the above-mentioned individuals, mix their remains together and invoke a coven of experienced witches to perform the necessary invocations.
Thanks for your comments at my Quaker blog, and for the Crooks and Liars mention (I wrote the Harper piece there, too).
…and also with you. You’re a good writer, and you’re now blogrolled at BG.