We're not making this up. We're not allowed to make this up.

"'Stephen Harper has no conviction,' Dion said."

Nope, it's Liberals who have those.

H/T National Newswatch.

From CTV today and the Rutherford Show on January 12 of this year

"Since the election I came in Alberta seven times."

No comment necessary.

"he should have invited us since a long time"

I've addressed this; so should he. But interestingly, this time, CTV didn't clean up his mangling of the language.

H/T to Joel.

At 2:05

Video.

"I think I am the most influential leader of the opposition since a generation."

2 Things:

1. It's in a generation, Stephane. Stop translating directly from French; it makes you sound like a tool.
   
2. Most influential? Are you kidding me? Are you on some kind of crack?
   

I'm still trying to decipher this one

"We wanted both. Economic prosperity and social justice. Not only we wanted both. But we thought and we were so right, that the best way to have a strong economy is to put all the barriers down, to help all the people to give their talents and their skills, to help them with sound social policy, to be more, to be healthier, better educated, more confidence in life, and because of that, stronger players in the economy, and once you are a stronger player in the economy, the economy is stronger, and you have more room for social justice, and you do a stronger economy with it..."

Yikes.

Video.

Can this ever be topped?

I know, it's not Dion, but it's got to be one of the silliest things ever said:

"I don't know, a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof, it's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof it's because it's proven."

Take a guess as to who it is. As if you didn't know.

Dion vs. Harper: second language

Hardly surprising, Harper speaks better French than Dion does English.

I can vouch for this, as je suis bilingue. Actually, 2 and a half languages, but that's beside the point.

Harper's French is hardly perfect, but he certainly is comfortable using it. I don't know that I could say the same about Dion with respect to English.

I haven't seen much recently in the way of Dion mangling the language, though. Either a) he's spending more time with his tutor, b) he's saying less whilst in the spotlight, or c) the media are doing a better job of cleaning up his speech. I suspect it's a combination of all three.

A headline

Hoo, boy, I know it's a typo, but doesn't it just sound like him?



H/T Steve Janke.