So far Danny Williams’ parting finger to the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador is going over like a fart in church.
People are showering something but it isn’t the love Danny wanted.
For some reason, normal people don’t like the idea of the guy taking a war memorial and using it as the backdrop for his political Christmas cards for a job he just vacated.
And by all the signs people in the province are genuinely fracked off about it. In this corner, the post from Monday rocketed to wind up as the top post of the past 24 hours by a two-to-one margin. Over at CBC’s online story, the two negative-for-Danny options - “It’s inappropriate” or “It’s disrespectful” - are together getting about 2,000 of the 4453 votes that were cast up until about 1845 hours local time. More people have actually chosen the supposedly neutral choice – “It doesn’t matter to me” – than have selected the Danny-loving choice.
Danny’s fanboys are more than a bit peeved that this story is out there and that people aren’t loving the Old Man as much as they are supposedly supposed to. They are trying every line from “it’s no biggie” to blaming the media. There’s some original stuff for ya.
The poor little darlings are clearly in a lather.
And well they should be.
Their hero, the fellow for whom they have embarrassed themselves in public for almost a decade, frigged off on them with hardly any notice. One minute he was there; the next he was in Florida soaking up the rays. One minute they were happily clicking away at the VOCM question of the day, the next thing the talking points are gone and he’s buggered off leaving them to deal with this little embarrassing piece of egotistical excess. You’d be fried too is suddenly you were the guy at his high school reunion sporting at mullet at age 50. That’s what the fanboys are looking like these days.
But truthfully there’s really no surprise at the tacky choice for Christmas cards.
Really.
Anyone on the Premier Danny Christmas card list got at least one other Yule-turd greeting besides the one they got this year. In 2009, the card was a piss-poorly photoshopped shot of Hisself near Churchill Falls.
Remember the big Atlantic Premier’s meeting there last fall? Danny waging war against the evil foreigners? Invoking the spectre of Churchill Falls?
If you didn’t know better, you might be fooled into believing this shot was taken at the same time. Take a closer look at the shot, the lighting and the edges of the Danny-figure and you can see he was cropped and dropped. The effect winds up looking like John Wayne walking into the sunset on a Vietnamese beach at the end of The Green Berets.
The fanboys can only hope this is the least embarrassing little mess the Old Man left behind.
- srbp -