The Untouchables
As argued before in this space, usually Don Cherry can at least be
counted on for consistency. Consistently batshit maybe, but consistent.
So Saturday's edition of DRUNCLE YELLS AT NATION (w Ronnie Sycophant) was notable for a couple of reasons. First, Grapes actually crafted a semi-coherent argument. Seemingly responding to DC Talk's Friday salvo- that it's hypocritical to call for no touch icing and not mandate other safety measures like visor rules and the full removal of fighting - Grapes held that no touch icing was different.
Unlike fighting, wearing full visors, or burning up the blacktop in a NASCAR race, no one has a choice but to go into the glass hard to try and confirm the icing or beat it out. If they don't, they're called cowards and could lose their job. The other issues are personal choice (though try telling that to Bobby Nadeau). No-touch icing is different. Point made, Cherry moved on to his weekly citizen funded war propaganda. As he lamented the latest loss of a Canadian life, one thought crossed my mind: When exactly did Canada bring back conscription?
So Saturday's edition of DRUNCLE YELLS AT NATION (w Ronnie Sycophant) was notable for a couple of reasons. First, Grapes actually crafted a semi-coherent argument. Seemingly responding to DC Talk's Friday salvo- that it's hypocritical to call for no touch icing and not mandate other safety measures like visor rules and the full removal of fighting - Grapes held that no touch icing was different.
Unlike fighting, wearing full visors, or burning up the blacktop in a NASCAR race, no one has a choice but to go into the glass hard to try and confirm the icing or beat it out. If they don't, they're called cowards and could lose their job. The other issues are personal choice (though try telling that to Bobby Nadeau). No-touch icing is different. Point made, Cherry moved on to his weekly citizen funded war propaganda. As he lamented the latest loss of a Canadian life, one thought crossed my mind: When exactly did Canada bring back conscription?
Easy now, honouring the soldiers who died in our service is not propogandic. It would be different if Don was calling the Afgani's evil bastards and that we should all volunteer to shit haul them or we are cowards. That is not the case at all. The least we can do for our soldiers is honour their deaths with 20 seconds of public air time.
I'm still sour at Cherry for his rip on Mats a few weeks ago.