Posted on 09/07/2009 8:44:44 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
.... Apparently, Michael Ignatieff messed up his talking points. He says William Hutt's performance in King Lear in 1972 was a life-changing experience. But wouldn't you know it? He got the year wrong -- by nearly a decade! ....
.... I'm sorry, but who gets it wrong by eight years? Especially something that was life-shaping experience that he has referred to over and over and over again through the years.
In 1964, Michael Ignatieff was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, working part-time as a reporter for The Globe and Mail.
In 1972, he was at Harvard working towards his PhD, earning money as a teaching fellow.
Ignatieff's circumstances were so radically different between 1964 and 1972 that to suggest that he had merely confused the dates seems absurd. I mean, presumably he has a clear recollection of sitting in the audience and thinking to himself, "I must change my life!" and considering in great detail what his life was like at that moment.
It is possible Ignatieff has been mistaken about who he had seen playing King Lear all this time. In fact, it's plausible that he had no idea who was playing King Lear and looked it up much later, messing up his research. That might be the mistake Ignatieff will own up to, though it would be pretty silly thing for a history professor to screw up....
(Excerpt) Read more at network.nationalpost.com ...
Some of the comments by irate leftists at the NP website are pretty funny too!
You guys will get a laugh out of this.
Iggy is craving power, which is why he’s talking about pulling the plug on Harper’s minority government.
Surprise time for Iggy: Jack Layton is going to come through at the last minute and prop up the Tories, not because Jack has become their friend but because Jack is going to realize that if Iggy becomes PM, the NDP will NOT share in any of the leftist glory of ‘retaking’ their birthright to rule Canada.
It was only through the grace of God and some shrewd politics by Harper that Canadians were able to rescue themselves from the Little Dictator Jean Chretien and his abominable successor Mr Dithers (Paul Martin), if Canadians go back to the old (read ‘Liberal’) ways, shame on them.
Iggy prattles on about a ‘50 billion dollar deficit’ and I can’t help but thinkg ‘50 billion? that’s chump change down here!’ LOL
I maintain that the finest Prime Minister that Canada never had was Preston Manning, quite frankly he was too nice a guy for that kind of cutthroat politics.
But he would have made a damn fine PM.
HOST: “ Let`s welcome the author, Count Michael Ignatieff.
It doesn`t bother you Michael, that I call you Count?
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IGNATIEFF: “ No, not at all. I`m flattered.”
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HOST: “ In England, with all the peers...it has got to be useful?”
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IGNATIEFF: “ Yes. Sometimes”
Radio Canada/L`heure G January 9 1991
” If I`m not elected (PM), I imagine I`ll ask Harvard to let me back in.” Harvard Crimson 2005
“You have to choose what kind of America you want, right? YOU have to decide. It’s your country, just as much as it is MINE”
I can think of one very plausable reason he might have “forgotten when,” in terms of the cultural actualities of the period and places in question.
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