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Warren Kinsella, celebrated Canadian ass-kicker, is also a friend of Richard (Lucy, choo got some splainin' to do) Warman. On Tuesday, Warren advised yours truly to "retain counsel". On Wednesday, he upped the ante and declared "the damages aren't just general, anymore - they might even end up being punitive". So I naturally assumed that this morning he'd be predicting a ten-year jail term, and that tomorrow he'd have me found guilty in absentia, taken out and shot in absentia, and shoveled into an unmarked grave in absentia.
Instead, the Smoke Blower seems to have given up the stakes-raising and is reliving ancient grievances. Anyone interested in the "bizarre apologies" I extracted from CanWest can find one of them here. It's since been put in a bunch of anthologies, dictionaries of quotations, and read out on "The Tonight Show" by Jay Leno:
The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News wish to apologize for our apology to Mark Steyn, published Oct. 22. In correcting the incorrect statements about Mr. Steyn published Oct. 15, we incorrectly published the incorrect correction. We accept and regret that our original regrets were unacceptable and we apologize to Mr. Steyn for any distress caused by our previous apology.
I leave it for others to judge whether that's the sound of me "popping a head valve" or just having a laugh at the expense of Warren's then employers.
As to his latest line - "It's not that Messrs. Levant and Steyn are for free speech. It's just that they are against human rights" - that's ingenious: Were you up all night in front of the mirror practising getting the italics right?
On the matter of "human rights", by the way, Kathy Shaidle makes a sharp point here:
Paul Revere didn't shout, "Some of the British are coming"
Funny thing:
The same sort of people whose idea of a brilliant rhetorical retort is reflexively yelling, "Not ALL Muslims are terrorists", are currently claiming that ALL Muslims are insulted by Mark Steyn's book excerpt in Maclean's.
Quite so. And demonstrably false - unlike my offending Maclean's article. Happily for the plaintiffs, at the Human Rights Commission, where all that matters is whether Princess Fluffy Bunny's feelings were hurt, truth is no defence.
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