Be Proud - Rex Murphy Video

[Rifleman62]

Via Small Dead Animals

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/be-proud.html#comments

Rex Murphy at his best. Watch the video at link. Recommend that you watch it all.

 

[Edward Campbell]

Thanks for that ... and  :cdnsalute:  to Rex Murphy for saying it.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Yes, thanks.  Love Rex.  A great salve against the BS of the idiot left out there that are baying the propaganda of Neil Young et al.

 

[CombatDoc]

I'm looking forward to the day that Rex is admitted to the Order of a Canada. He is excellent.

 

[my72jeep]

Wow..... Growing up in Newfoundland I remember when Rex was the Radical Right......

 

[Infanteer]

Great speech!

 

[dimsum]

Amazing.  I want to see the reaction (and Rex's subsequent tearing down of said reaction) to this.

 

[slayer/raptor]

Lets not forget what he said here:

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/war-conflict/peacekeeping/the-somalia-affair/its-coming-in-waves-now.html

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Lets not forget what he said here:

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/war-conflict/peacekeeping/the-somalia-affair/its-coming-in-waves-now.html

Really? What's your point? Is he wrong, in your mind?

Or are you just trolling cause it's snowing out?

 

[DBA]

He picks a topic / theme and gives a speech or monologue on it.

Any semblance of a reasoned position on the topic is an illusion based on the listeners' own views.

It is after all rhetoric not reason on display.


Not really unexpected or out of the ordinary for somebody who opines on a wide range of topics on a regular basis. Given the time constraints we are lucky to get more than one decent argument in support of a position let alone any indication the person is cognizant of the subject or can produce an exposition of a well reasoned position including pro and con.

 

[ModlrMike]

Rex carries his observations over to CBC. The comments were predictable:

Neil Young's oilsands stance is unfair: Rex Murphy

 

[a_majoor]

I was particularly struck by his comment on "Confederation being renewed in the worksites of the oilsands" (paraphrase). The act of bringing large numbers of Canadians together with common interests and sharing common goals is indeed a great driver of cultural change happening outside of the political arena. This large number of Canadians may do far more to bring about the "Big Shift" in Eastern and Central Canada than any amount of machinization by the CPC, and because they are operating outside of the political, economic and cultural environment of the "Laurentian Consensus", they will be mostly immune to the chattering class or the various programs of the other political parties as well.

The idea that *we* have nothing to apologize for is also refreshing, and I hope that, more than anything else, gets into the mainstream of Canada and powers how we think and act.