Angelo Perischilli, Time To Buy New Glasses And/Or Change That Mood Enhancing Prescription

Oh, where to start?  A question.  Why does the Toronto Star keep very lost whack jobs like Angelo Perischilli on their payroll? To compete with Natty Po and Kory Klan over at Sun Media for Harpercon subscribers? If that’s the case; forget it, it ain’t worth it; you don’t need ‘em. Perischilli, I’m sure would fit nicely over with Klan Kory given the lucid writers they fired as of late. Let ‘em have him! I mean, really! Having him write for the same paper as an award winning class act like Jim Travers. Read Travers column from yesterday here. A must read!

What’s even more backward about him as a columnist is that he is so out of range amongst other columnists, including his Toronto Star colleague, Travers.

Yes, Perischilli (yes, his column is dated today) is all excited because he says that Stevie spiteful’s biggest problem is, well, I’ll let him explain it in his own words.

In the eyes of Canadians, Harper’s image is still blurry — and, after more than four years in government, he risks being defined by that blurry image.

Blurry? Mr Perischilli, time to get new glasses or change those meds of your’s because the side effects are so obviously not suitable for you. That column is even incoherent by your standards.

Have you been under a rock the past summer or even before then?

Master Steve’s agenda has never been more clear. His never so hidden agenda is now completely out in the open. Even the Harpercon shills over at the Natty PO and Sun Media and the rest of  Harpercon cheerleaders aren’t even bothering to hide his far right agenda anymore. Stephen Taylor confirmed Master Steve’s agenda earlier this week.

Perhaps you should take lessons from a pro like, say,  The Ottawa Citizen’s Susan Riley when she says the Harpercon government’s problem is Master Steve, hisself.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the vast literature of management studies will recognize the prime ministerial style: bossy, bullying, cold -or, in academic jargon, “exploitative-authoritative.”

This kind of leader, say the experts, “has low concern for people and uses threats and other fear-based methods to achieve conformity.”

Perhaps when selecting a leader of the newly merged Reform & Progressive Conservatives, they should have headed Steve’s then boss, Deborah Grey’s assesment of Steve.

“People skills? He was more fond of policy. Constituency work seemed like a grind for him.”
- Long-time Reform and Alliance MP Deborah Grey on Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

And what about things Steve said that were comparable to such dictators as Joseph Stalin? Or how, as a young politico, attempted to intimidate an author, simply because he didn’t like a book she wrote? Wow! It’s one thing to tell the author he respectfully disagreed with what she wrote or if he wanted to be crass, I couldn’t stomach that drivel; but to sternly say, she shouldn’t have been “allowed” to write that book speaks volumes of how he viewed what Canadian leadership should be.

Yes, there are still things hidden in Steve’s agenda.  The census debacle has a lot more to it than meets the eye. After all, why else would Master Steve hold fast to abolishing it, in spite of a growing list of people and groups, many of whom are part of his base; many of whom who no doubt fund Harpercon coffers. A master tactician like Steve would surely know that, like the National Anthem circus last March, all he would have to do is reinstate the mandatory long form census and all would be well in his world again.  On the surface, the chess player would know that he could lose an election if he holds on to this; or at the very least, win a reduced minority, thus needing the support of two parties to pass motions and legislation instead of just one. Someone or some group is pulling some much bigger strings or Steve has something much bigger up his sleeve. But that doesn’t make him blurry, it just shows there is more to his hideous agenda that we have yet to find out, but we know it’s just more programs to shove Canada even further to the right and we know that nothing good will come of it.

The point is, everyone knows who and what Steve is all about.  Some embrace it and are pushing it like the Natty Po, Sun Media and the Blogging SupposiTories. Others deplor it like Travers, Riley and many others. And others still, in addition to deploring it, are downright terrified of it.

So, Mr Perischilli, it’s just you who is behind the times and just doesn’t see it. Perhaps you’re simply not following your colleagues as closely as you should.   Perhaps you simply need new glasses and/or  a new prescription for mood enhancing medication.