Air Farce Dumps on Emerson

TONIGHT March 13: I’m told there’ll be an Emerson feature on tonight’s show – at 7:00pm Pacific. For other viewing times consult CBC‘s schedule

Past show online: On Friday March 3 the venerable Canadian comedic institution, Royal Canadian Air Farce, turned their guns on David Emerson. Nuggets within the clip for your cutting and pasting pleasure:

I’ve gotta tell you, I’m very proud to be a Liberal. David Emerson, on election day, January 23rd

We now know that Emerson was negotiating for a cabinet position with Harper’s middleman MP John Reynolds on January 24th. A very proud man indeed.

No one feels it as much as me, who saw this spring a determined attempt to lure various MP’s from our party with various offers of cabinet positions, ambassadorships – frankly outright bribes. Stephen Harper, during one of the English language leadership debates

Harper decried what he perceived as Liberal party attempts to steal MP’s, and then as one of his very first acts as PM, does exactly that.

Get to know your candidates. Get some sense of who they are and where they stand, whether they have integrity. Stephen Harper, during the debate

Sound advice Mr. Harper – but given your complicity in the Emerson affair, totally worthless. You’ve further undermined the integrity of the system, and your own credibility.

Air Farce concludes the clip, which is set in a garbage dump, with ”Now I know what that smell is – political hypocrisy.”