I just know so many wonderful, remarkable, amazing, beautiful people."
Up goes the scolding, pedantic, obnoxious waving extended index finger.
Don't say anything until I'm finished please.Don't say what I think you're going to say. Don't interrupt me.
"Eye, eye, I find that the implication that every single imam in this country is, is, eh, is, is inciting people to do violence, which in a sense is what you said, because the first prayer... "
"No! Don't put words in my mouth, Senator."
"So my first question is have you been to every mosque in the country? That you say is preaching on Friday a prayer that starts, a prayer that, that, talks about a battle with non-Muslim people?"
Boom! Tarek Fatah lets Grant Mitchell have it. He too is afflicted with the scolding, pedantic, obnoxious waving extended index finger syndrome.
Index fingers dueling as swords.
In a brief two minutes Fatah exposes Mitchell as sniveling quisling, or perhaps just another person well out of his depth.
This is in Canada. Where Canadians fancy themselves lovelier than we, more knowledgeable than we, more agreeable, more free of our internal strife, and in many ways they are. I suppose.
Canadian senators are appointed by their prime minister. As you know, in the U.S. senators were elected by state representatives until mid eighteenth century rumbling led eventually to progressive William Jennings Bryan to agitate for change during the decades at the turn of the century resulting in the seventeenth amendment to U.S. constitution that finally passed by Congress in 1913 (the same year the Federal Reserve Bank was established).
