According to Bob Hepburn of the Toronto Star, Lord Crossthepond calls people such as us “the haters.” And yet 500 people came out to hear Black speak last week according to Bob’s report. While there was some thinly veiled innuendo about his ‘troubles,’ they came mainly to hear about his latest book. It is a book on American history that Lord Connie wrote while in an American prison. As you can imagine, that can draw some interest—probably akin to the interest people used to have in public floggings.
Mind you, a public flogging of someone who has so outrageously reviled our country as has Lord Connie would need a much larger venue. This guy not only, more or less, told us to take our citizenship and shove it but he continues to wear his Order of Canada pin when most Canadians want to tear it from him. Lord Connie does not seem to appreciate how polite Canadians can be and he needs to tone down his rhetoric about us.
Hepburn put a lot of ink into the Toronto Star story telling us how the media are fawning over Black. This is no surprise when you realize how much ink and video tape was used to welcome Karla Homolka back when she got out of prison. Hell, she did not even want the attention. Lord Connie seems to revel in it.
Would we really care if Black was less pompous? This guy seems to think he has more entitlement than Senator Mike Duffy. At least Duffy is doing something useful for Canadians: he is making Prime Minister Stephen Harper look like an idiot for appointing him to the Senate. He has already destroyed the credibility of the Prime Minister’s Office in his accepting an illegal $90,000 present from Harper’s chief of staff.
Somebody should take the trouble to find out when Conrad Black’s temporary visa expires. We could send him home to England. People are more tolerant of pomposity there. He might enjoy the chicken feed that his speaking engagements earn him while he is here, but this is a guy who sees himself as a big-time wheeler-dealer. His books might meet with some scholarly approval but they will soon be remaindered in bins for people who like the look of them on their bookshelves—and will never read them. He needs bigger fish to fry and he is not going to get them while entrapped in his Canadian halfway house. The only good thing if Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives him his citizenship back will be then Canadians would want to lynch them both.
Lord Connie’s only hope is to quietly blend into his Bridle Path community in Toronto and stay out of trouble. He has to become the common man—if there have ever been any in that community.
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