KornKob Kory runs to the MotherCorp for cover UPDATE! May be a hoax. UPDATE 2! Original article vanishes.

A noodly appendage dropped this on my plate.

CBC News will feature Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former director of communications as a political commentator across all of its platforms.

According to a CBC news release, Kory Teneycke will appear on The National, Power & Politics, and The House, as well as on CBCNews.ca’s political portal.

Why? He's exposed his hand. His original objective was to build a cable network that would slime the CBC. He failed, personally, but the initiative is still alive.

Is the CBC trying to wave a flag in front of Harper? Hi there. We can contribute to your wingnut welfare program.

“Kory’s intimate, first-hand knowledge of government and public policy will bring a fresh perspective to the roster of opinion at CBC News,” Jennifer McGuire, CBC News general manager and editor-in-chief, said in the news release. “We look forward to Kory’s views enriching our coverage of the many issues that matter to all Canadians.”

He might even be able to provide live coverage when his computer gets seized.

Just musing here to myself about nothing in particular, but Jennifer, do you keep him on if he gets charged with an indictable offence? Just wondering about the retention policy of Mother Corp.

Hat tip West End Bob

Graphic stolen from our own Alison

BIG UPDATE! Via Holly Stick in comments, Kady on Twitter is suggesting that this might all be a hoax and that CBC has NOT hired Teneycke. (I'm guessing they are still trying to hose down from the last time he occupied a chair there.)

EVEN BIGGER UPDATE! The article to which the original post was linked is now... dead.

Kory resigns . . .

Living with the monsters they created...

Karl Rove, you created this monster, you live with it. You'll have to decide how many limbs you're willing to sacrifice to the likes of Michelle Malkin.

G'Bye Kory. I'm speculating there's a raid and a search warrant somewhere in your future. Oh well, if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. Oh yeah, I guess Margaret wins.

And yes, both of you will find sympathy somewhere between "shit" and "syphilis" in a cheap dictionary.

Now why does Ryan Sparrow keep showing up in the crystal ball? Thing must be defective.

H/T Pogge and Jymn

Korycon . . .

The Kory and Steve show

Coming soon to every television in the country.

Now go read Impolitical, Sister Sage and Montreal Simon.

Red Alert! The Russians still have planes!

Frankly I don't think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time DefMin Flying Ace "Airshow MacKay" and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we're just going with what David Pugliese reported last time 18 months ago (h/t Maclean's) :

"The military officers I was talking to yesterday were full of kudos for Defence Minister Peter MacKay for a move that one described as “playing the media like a finely-tuned fiddle.”
The officer was referring to the breathless Canadian news media coverage of the flight of two Russian bombers that were “intercepted” by Canadian CF-18s …
Yesterday’s incident prompted some amusement at NDHQ about how gullible some in the news media can be and how easily some journalists swallowed the government’s bait hook, line and sinker."

We would just like to add in the media's defence that this time they didn't actually swallow, opting instead to spit it out quietly into a hankie afterwards.

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Update : Ok, here we go - the new government talking points from conservative.ca :
Info-Alert
Subject: Ignatieff Liberals Embarrassed by Russian Bomber Flights Over Arctic

"Mere days ago Michael Ignatieff pledged to cancel the new fighter jets the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces urgently need.
Embarrassingly for him, Russian bomber flights over the Arctic -- just two days ago -- underscore why our men and women in uniform need modern equipment to do their jobs. Perhaps because he wasn't in Canada at the time, Mr. Ignatieff is unaware of how past Liberal governments gutted our military. More proof that Michael Ignatieff isn't in it for Canadians. He's just in it for himself."

etc ... etc ...

Kornkob Kory's election prediction.

Isn't it funny how they always put it on "The Family".

If I may project...

Little Kory sees an election being triggered this Fall. He's looked at the polling numbers and the "best scenario" stuff. He's been the front-man for a series of attack ads which have put this country into an endless election campaign. Canadians see the Conservatives as a pack of mean-spirited, lying, pricks who are unable to restrain themselves - even on the international stage.

Kory figures, one way or the other, he's going to lose his job before Christmas.

Better to tell lies for the ethanol producers and the oil industry.

Attack of the Clones - introducing Stephen Harper

CP : "Harper speech lifted from Aussie PM makes worldwide headlines"

Gosh, world stage again.

UK Press : "Harper spokesman Kory Teneycke said the speech was five years old and they were not going to be drawn into a discussion of issues that have no relevance to Canadians. "

Election debate today, buddy.

A timely reminder, I'd say. 'Coalition of the willing' and all that.

Goodbye Ryan...

Lesson to Sparrow. It doesn't matter who the families of slain members of the Canadian Forces support. It doesn't matter who the families of live members of the Canadian Forces support. In fact, it doesn't matter who the individual members of the Canadian Forces support.

Senior Conservative Party spokesman Ryan Sparrow has been suspended from the campaign after suggesting the father of a slain soldier who criticized Stephen Harper today was a Liberal.

Mr. Sparrow sent an email to CTV News today suggesting that Jim Davis, the soldier's dad, is a supporter of Liberal Michael Ignatieff.

He has also been ordered to call Mr. Davis and apologize for his comments.

Do that publicly for us, would you, Ryan?

Steve V points out that the media have been treating these events as butter-side up landings, when in fact they are indicative of a campaign team made up of juveniles and nasty partisans.

Kady laments that it may be the last time she gets to use her Ryan Sparrow tag. Fear not Ms. O'Malley, something Sparrow's boss said makes me think you'll be seeing him again somewhere, sometime in the future.

Another Harper spokesman Kory Teneycke said Mr. Sparrow has been suspended and ordered to apologize to Mr. Davis.

“Obviously, that's not appropriate. And he will be contacting the father directly to apologize and is being suspended immediately from the campaign, (for) the duration of the campaign.”

In short, he's been sent to the penalty box. He hasn't been pulled from the game.

And while we're hearing from Kory Teneycke about "inappropriate", let's take a look at this. Would it be at all surprizing if Sparrow had a "temporary duty" assignment at The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association for the duration?

Just askin'

Update: Ha! You Dawg.

Steve and Kory and their box of hammers crowd

G&M : "Administered by the Department of Heritage, Trade Routes, valued at about $9-million annually, helps cultural groups such as Hot Docs and the Canadian Independent Record Production Association export and sell products abroad."

A program to promote Canadian culture abroad. The Cons have axed it, naturally, with KornKobKory muttering something about docs being "ideological" - Take that, Avi Lewis! - and thus saving every taxpayer less than .30¢!

Woo woo. .30¢ The Con base must be just ecstatic.
Let's have a quick look at the comments under that G&M article to see how they're doing ....

Bluer than You from Canada : "Exactly, we need a majority to re-educate these sinners. Just wait until the CPC has a majority and then we'll see some real fundamental changes...."

Bluer than You from Canada again : "We are embarking upon a new age....
A new crusade led by great men like George Bush and Stephen Harper. They share the same values and ideas with the majority of Canadians."

Bluer than You from Canada again again ! : "It's about time! I urge all readers to save yourselves and follow the real Conservative values, learn what you must do and thank S.Harper.
I urge you to view our site which has the support of many CPC politicians including S.Harper.
Hopefully he will begin funding our efforts as promised by the CPC.
http://www.familyaction.org/index.htm "

Family Action Coalition ? Our site? Oh. Wow. I. mean. just. lol.
Note to Bluer than You : Actually, Harper is kinda trying to keep any CPC association with anti-choice anti-gay anti-immigrant religious nutbar groups on the qt, otherwise he'll never get a shot at that moral majority of yours. Just sayin'.

Now I'm guessing that Blue just might be a satirical troll and is foolin with us.

Who else we got over there?

Green Konstantin from Canada : "When you lefty parasites scream and moan like this, it proves we're doing the right thing. Go soothe yourself with a nice round of gay sex with a piece of furniture or whatever you're into."

Tom Robinson from Not from muslim Toronto : "Real Canadians hate Toronto... How do you know that Native Canadians were not immmigrants at one time in this country. No-one knows for sure, so I could be right. How many muslims, asians, pakistanis, indians, or any other Torontonians serve in the military?"

Yup, that's them alright : Steve's box of hammers crowd - anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-FN, plus the obligatory reference to something or other military .... in a discussion about the arts.

Not exactly "happy as ..." though, are they?

Cross-posted at Creekside

Shorter Korn Kob Kory

on repatriating Omar Khadr:

"Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah

The Libs did it fir-rst and so

we're just following the-em

Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah"

A rousing display of independent foreign policy analysis from "the genius behind Corn Cob Bob, the ethanol lobby's mascot with the corncob head"