Thomas Mulcair's plot to take over the NDP exposed! Madness ensues.

Transcript

Brian Lilley: Tom, are you trying to kneecap your leader while he's recovering from a bad hip? Tim Powers is out there saying it looks like you're trying to replace your leader by beating the drums for an election?
Thomas Mulcair: Well Brian, since I have so much respect for you as a journalist, why don't you tell me what you heard me say that would make you say that and not something that a Conservative spin-meister would say?

Mulcair: "You tell me something that you've heard me say that would lead you to say that? You're the journalist who asked me the question. Tim Powers isn't a journalist, he's a Conservative spinner."

Lilley: "Fine. If you went to an election now, the polls say that you would lose seats. Would that be an opportunity for you? Are you angling for leadership? He raises an interesting question and that's what I'm putting to you. You would lose seats.

Mulcair: "You, you're a journalist, I'm a Member of Parliament. You have the obligation, if you're going to make a statement like that to point to something that I've said that you can ask your question based on. I'm not going to answer a pure hypothetical from you Brian. I have too much respect for you and you should have a little bit more respect for your own function and ours than to ask questions like that.

"So tell me something that I've said that allows you to ask that question, Brian Lilley.

Lilley: "Well I can ask whatever question I feel like Tom Mulcair."

Mulcair: "Tell me something that I've said that leads to that question. Something that I've done or said. You're a pure, you're asking a purely hypothetical question based on something that comes from a Conservative spinmeister."

Lilley: "We ask them all the time."

Mulcair: "Tell me something I've said."

Lilley: "You've said that an election is likely. You've called for an election."

Mulcair: "Show me where I've said that."

Lilley: "Well I don't have them in..."

Another reporter chimed in, "You can't decide which questions we ask."

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Thomas Mulcair
• NDP

[gundamWWW]

I like Mulclair's style.

He's not in it for the 20 seconds soundbytes or zingers.

This guy all business, no bullshit.

Brian Lilley got his ass ripped by Muclair.

Jack Layton was a nice, honest and good man but he only got us soo far...

God Rest his soul.

It's time to let Muclair become leader and show them how it's really done.

[ammarios]

haha

loser-reporter owned

[Insanekid95]

Peggy Nash and Nathan Cullen are the only ones who I can see as being Prime Minister.

[JohnnyRock2000]

He's learned his lessons well, from his Jewish handlers.

[JohnnyRock2000]

Mulcair is Canada's most pro Zionist NDP. He's helping to promote the Canadian Zionist Lobby restriction on free speech, and making ANY criticism of Israel anti-semitic under new laws created. With Irish and French Canadian background, he's married to a Jew. Are his children being raised Jewish?

[memberndp]

Go Mulcair! Part of being a great leader is to not succumb to the dirty tricks that some reporters play. This video is making me seriously consider Mulcair as my # 1 choice in the leadership race.

[alegrace]

Mulcair is the real deal

[556Storm]

Get ready for the communism and the 911 truthing.

[ammarios]

@ammarios ..my point is that Mulcair is extremely intelligent, but we haven't planted our roots firmly enough like the Liberals did back then to run a risky candidate..However, if there was a sure-fire way to know that Mulcair would be electable, Id support him 100% because I DO think he'd make an excellent PM with his ideals..but right now, I would rather see Paul Dewar from Ottawa-Centre because he also is a TOTAL NDP-er ,AND given more publicity, would be more 'public-friendly'..any thoughts?

[ammarios]

@ammarios Again, don;t get me wrong... I actually really raeally like Mulcair... I find him extremely intelligent and on the intellectual level of great men like Pierre Trudeau (and Trudau himself wrote in his memoirs that he initially wanted to join the NDP and he started off campaigning for social-democratic ideals,but went to the Liberals instead as the fastest way to bring change to Canada, and he pulled the Liberals towards the NDP and moved the whole discourse to the left)..but I digress

[ammarios]

I think Mulcair was absolutely right here...

I have to admit though, I think he's too much of a loose-canon to be electable as Prime Minister which is why I'm not really that big on him taking the NDP leadership... Based on performances (public) and especially a very recent long interview he gave in an article, I would much prefer seeing Ottawa-Centre's Paul Dewar as NDP leader and Prime Minister of Canada...

[skuzabut]

First he has to explain to a journalist how an interview works, then point out he's being misquoted, then has to explain what journalistic ethics are. I'm so happy all of that was caught on tape!