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TORONTO -- A kinder, gentler Carolyn Parrish appeared on CNN as the US president visited Ottawa. The outspoken MP, who was turfed from the Liberal caucus two weeks ago, has attracted attention for her anti-American comments. But she softened her stance yesterday during an interview with news anchor Wolf Blitzer. When asked if she thought George W. Bush was an idiot, Parrish told Blitzer "the coalition of idiots I was referring to, I think, were mostly the politicians in my own government." She said "how could he rise to the top job in the country by being an idiot?" But...

She is Canada’s leftist queen of anti-American mean. Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish, a backbench member of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, outdid her usual crude and boorish self last week when she appeared on a comedy show televised by the leftist, taxpayer-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and stomped on a George Bush doll with her boot. The ‘Honorable’ member from Mississauga, a city just outside Toronto, continued with her vile behavior by performing voodoo on the doll’s head, where, she said, “it would do the least damage.”   The Liberal MP’s latest anti-American diatribe comes just days before President Bush’s...

Newly minted independent MP Carolyn Parrish began her career as a teacher. And between her numerous juvenile attacks on Americans and George W. Bush, she did manage to teach Canadians a few things about how the country is run. And it’s not good. Hidden away in her obnoxious rants towards Americans (and yes, Carolyn, "Americans" despite your weak after-the-fact efforts to limit your attacks to Bush and the U.S. government), Parrish has exposed Prime Minister Paul Martin for what he is--undoubtedly the weakest man (or woman) to ever hold the office of Prime Minister of Canada. Martin, much like John...

For the first time, a government official may have lost her position because of comedy. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin removed Carolyn Parrish, a member of Parliament from suburban Toronto, after he saw video of her stomping on a George W. Bush action figure in a segment of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular satirical news program, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes." The episode also sparked some trouble within the government-owned CBC, because the news service broadcast the sketch as a news story before it was even aired on "22 Minutes." According to Ruth-Ellen Soles, a spokeswoman for the...

INDEPENDENT MP Carolyn Parrish inspired Conservative MP Brian Pallister to write this ditty: Winter is coming, Christmas is near, The anti-American carollers cheer, Damning those Yankees with all that they've got, Carolin', carolin'; Perish the thought. The carollers sing out the simplest of tunes, All Yankees are brutish, warmongering loons, Never thinking that they're the best friends that they've got, Carolin', carolin'; Perish the thought. Their soldiers, their firemen, had husbands and wives, They stood up for freedom, they paid with their lives, But the anti-Americans have already forgot, Carolin', carolin'; Perish the thought. Canadian farmers cannot sell their beef,...

TORONTO (CP) - A defiant Carolyn Parrish was making no apologies Friday, a day after the maverick MP was kicked out of the Liberal caucus by Prime Minister Paul Martin. "I don't regret it," Parrish told a crush of reporters who greeted her at her Toronto constituency office. She said she was poised to resign from the Liberal caucus when she met Thursday with the prime minister. "I went in to resign, Mr. Martin was charming, as he always is; I got weak knees again," Parrish said. "This is good; it's made me do what I want to do." Parrish...

J.C. WATTS, former Ottawa Rough Riders quarterback-turned U.S. politician, yesterday threw a bomb at newly independent MP Carolyn Parrish. "I think she would make a good chairman of the 'Coalition of the Idiots.' It's pretty stunning some of the things she says," said Watts, reacting to recent anti-American comments made by Parrish. When asked about the upcoming visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, the former Republic congressman from Oklahoma noted, "He's coming up, but there's some lady who's not very happy about it. She seems to be losing a little sleep over there." "Regardless of what elected officials in...

Ottawa, ON,(UPI) -- Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin expelled a parliament member from his party because of her criticism of U.S. President George W. Bush. Carolyn Parrish was removed from the ruling Liberal Party following her appearance on a television comedy show in which she stamped on an effigy of Bush, the BBC reported. Martin acknowledged Parrish's right to express her views frankly, but he said he could not tolerate a behavior that demeaned and disrespected others. Parrish will now sit as an independent in the Canadian parliament.

PRIME MINISTER Paul Martin finally demonstrated yesterday that he understands the wisdom of his fellow millionaire Donald Trump: Sometimes you just have to say "You're fired." Especially when one of your underlings is openly attacking you, embarassing herself and your entire operation. But make no mistake. Martin's long-overdue ejection of Carolyn Parrish from the Liberal caucus yesterday is not really about her disgraceful dissing of U.S. President George Bush or her childish anti-American antics. After all, she has been getting away with that stuff for nearly two years now, with little more than a slap on the wrist and a...

OTTAWA - Carolyn Parrish says she deserved to be fired for criticizing Prime Minister Paul Martin and his inner circle, but continued the attack Friday by condemning the "guerilla-war type occupation of the prime minister's office." The MP for Mississauga-Erindale was dumped from the caucus on Thursday after saying Martin and his advisers could "go to hell," declaring that she had no loyalty to the Liberal party. She told CBC News on Friday that the prime minister had no choice but to sack her. "When he phoned me, he said, 'I'm sorry.' I said, 'Don't be sorry, I'd do the...

OUTSPOKEN LIBERAL MP Carolyn Parrish got the boot from caucus yesterday after publicly criticizing Prime Minister Paul Martin, saying he and his closest advisers "can all go to hell." Martin said yesterday the final straw came when Parrish did an interview with Canadian Press Wednesday in which the Mississauga MP went on a rant about her lack of respect for him, saying she wouldn't "shed a tear" if he lost the next election.

Carolyn Parrish was accorded a free ride for her anti-American tirades--until the Drudge Report checked in. Drudge prominently displayed the infamous picture of Parrish’s expensively booted foot crushing a George W. Bush doll over the story of her upcoming Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) foot-stomping stunt. Today the Liberal MP’s debut on CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes foot-stomping antics takes the backseat as a marginalized Parrish rendered her swan song from the abysmal ranks of the Canadian independent. Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin finally got around to firing his mean-mouthed backbencher yesterday–and that story is up on Drudge too. The...

Canadian PM expels anti-Bush MP The Canadian prime minister has expelled an MP from the ruling Liberal Party because of her outspoken criticism of US President George Bush. On Wednesday the MP, Carolyn Parrish, appeared on a TV comedy show, in which she stamped on an effigy of Mr Bush. Paul Martin acknowledged Ms Parrish's right to express her views frankly, but he said he could not tolerate behaviour that demeaned and disrespected others. Ms Parrish will now sit as an independent in the Canadian parliament. Correspondents say her dismissal further weakens the position of the Liberal Party, which returned...

<p>Prime Minister Paul Martin has just ejected her from the liberal party due to her childish anti-bush antic. Woo Hoo!</p>

The Prime Minister Paul Martin-led Canadian Liberal Government is about to have a good laugh on the rest of us. With the help of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stooges, they’ve got it nailed down to a fine science. The controversy over their backbench MP Carolyn Parrish grinding her boot on a George W. Bush doll on CBC’s satirical This Hour Has 22 Minutes tomorrow, could not have been carried off without Liberal government approval. CBC is a Crown Corporation–bought, paid for and sustained with millions of tax dollars by the Liberal Government in Ottawa. The outrage of the government over...

It’s too bad Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn’t get to read the legions of letters that pour into Canada Free Press from angry Americans, fed up with the barrage of anti-American sentiment emanating from that heckling country next door. But it’s unlikely Martin even gets to read his meeting agendas, surrounded as he is by minions more interested in seeing that he always tows the politically correct line on which his nation has come to lean so heavily. You can depend that Martin reads every line that comes out of the prolific, politically correct United Nations. UN Secretary General Kofi...

THE RE-ELECTION of a "war-like" president shows Americans are "out of step" with the rest of the world, says a Liberal MP infamous for her attacks on George W. Bush. Mississauga-Erindale MP Carolyn Parrish said in Ottawa yesterday she's "dumbfounded" by Bush's victory. "He has been reconfirmed as their commander-in-chief, and he is a war-like man." American voters showed that they are "completely out of step with most of the free world," Parrish said. "I guess it's a reflection of the profound psychological damage of 9/11." The comments came just hours after Prime Minister Paul Martin warned his MPs in...

Parrish: U.S. voters 'out of step' American voters showed that they are "completely out of step with most of the free world," Carolyn Parrish said. (CP archive) OTTAWA (CP) - The re-election of a war-mongering president shows Americans are "out of step" with the rest of the world, says a Liberal MP infamous for her blistering attacks on George W. Bush. Carolyn Parrish said Wednesday that she's "dumbfounded" by Bush's victory. "He has been reconfirmed as their commander-in-chief, and he is a war-like man." American voters showed that they are "completely out of step with most of the free world,"...

I won't apologize, Parrish says MP referred to U.S. 'coalition of idiots' in speech yesterday SUE BAILEY CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Prime Minister Paul Martin didn't ask Carolyn Parrish to retract her latest anti-American slur, and the maverick MP has no plans to back down, she says. Martin phoned soon after Parrish lobbed her latest verbal grenade but didn't ask her to apologize, she said today. "I believe in free speech and I am a colourful speaker," she said in an interview. "I occasionally will use terms that other people find bold. "That's me, and I'm going to stop trying...

OTTAWA (CP) - Paul Martin supporters are targeting some Liberal MPs in a bid to purge the party of any pockets of dissent against his leadership, insiders say. Martin denied the charge Thursday. Party sources and MPs said numerous Liberals are being targeted in their home ridings by challengers vying for local nominations at pre-election meetings expected early next year. The movement took stride after Martin's very first day as Liberal leader last month when he announced he would halt the current practice of protecting sitting MPs. He said it is an attempt to make the process more democratic. Critics...