Now that he’s safely latched on the public tit in Ottawa, Noob Bloc-NDP MP Ryan Cleary says that everything he ever wrote was just to stir debate.
Well, that’s what he says now when a journalist confronts him with some of past comments, like bashing the crap out of Quebec, the seal hunt, the European Union, the New Democrats, the Lower Churchill or any of the other tubs Cleary’s thumped over the years.
The accident waiting to happen now tells the Globe and Mail that you gotta look at “the context”.
Before he went to Ottawa at public expense, Cleary used to bash “Quebec” as the bane of Newfoundland’s existence. More recently, he was lovin’ Thomas Mulcair to be the Bloc-NDP leader.
These days he may believe something else. It’s hard to know. Maybe the context has changed. The context for Newfoundland, one wonders, or the context for Cleary?
Even that isn’t clear.
The context of the context depends on the context, at least in the slippery world of the classic Newfoundland blow-hard politician’s most recent incarnation: Ryan Cleary.
Ready for a better tomorrow, or maybe ready for a better tomorrow now? They are truly all the same creature.
So in the end, does Cleary believe anything he says? Should Cleary’s constituents believe him? And should they believe what he said then or what he says now?
That’s the thing, you see, you can never be sure if the guy really believes what he is saying at any one moment, anymore. After all, by his own admission, he wrote it or said just to stir up debate and it all depends on the context.
No wonder people are starting to call him Climb-down Cleary.
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