Fake Newfoundlanders to the left... fake ones to the right

It’s been most interesting these past twenty-four hours to hear the outrage being manufactured, as if on cue, over the letter in Tuesday’s Telegram by Shirley Mullins of Kingston.
Among other ThoughtCrimes, Ms. Mullins said:

Danny should have taken his mind off himself and his own ego and put the Newfoundland people first for a change. Instead, he ridiculed Harper, whined and complained, wondering how come he wasn't contacted first, like a little spoiled child. Forget the people and their needs, it's about Danny. It's always about Danny.

The Union of Spontaneously Organized Outraged Ordinary People have gone so far as to not only question whether Mullins is really a Newfoundlander, but whether she even exists at all!

Which brings to mind the VOCM Questions of the Day for August 4th and 7th, and, in particular, the comments on those questions.

What would the Union of Spontaneously Organized Outraged Ordinary People have to say about the people who had the temerity to say things like these?

Are they real Newfoundlanders? Do they even exist?

Date:8/3/2007
Name:KAREN
Comments:
What i think is danny rushed because of elections, and wanted to show up the feds. The feds yes they acted on it quickly. When are the people going to realize when they are taking for a ride. Its their money not governments no matter who they are. They are the ones paying for this not feds or our provinicial government. Learn people, educate yourselves as to how things work. Dont let CANADA think were stupid all the time. Show them not only feds our own government that we are not stupid people. Its no more than they should do. Thats why we pay them.

Date:8/4/2007
Name:Ted
Comments:
I was very pleased to have the Prime Minister, Fabian Manning and Loyola Hearn visit devastated areas. I hope that the provincial government will cooperate with the feds for the sake of the people.

Date:8/4/2007
Name:Marg
Comments:
Danny needs to stop the rhetoric and get on with getting things done for the people affected by the disaster. I was very happy to have the Prime Minister of Canada, Fabian Manning and Loyola Hearn visit the hardest hit areas. I hope that Danny will stop with the election campaign and politics and cooperate with the federal government; to get things moving in the right direction in the flood affected areas and the province.

Date:8/4/2007
Name:JCP
Comments:
Danny says he's the elected Premier, well Fabian is the elected MP too and has every right to bring the federal leaders and his party leader and the Prime Minister of CANADA into the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, CANADA. If Danny is so offended he can separate, that's what he wants anyway. That and lots more money from the country he wants to separate from.

Date:8/5/2007
Name:To the point
Comments:
Will somebody please tell "Danny" that he is not the only "important" person in the country. For heaven's sake, he wasn't invited to tour the affected region by our Prime Minister. Williams, get a grip. You didn't need two trips to the region, or did you? My question would be: How many times before this disaster have you been to these areas? Give me a break. PM Harper was here to show his support and offer money (through the right channels of course) to rebuild the area. Unlike some, he is not just going to give the money away and then have to deal with some internal audit afterward because it wasn't done properly. I guess, if you make enemies with the PM of the country, you don't get invited to these sorts of things. Anyway, it doesn't bother "Danny" anyway, or so he says (he wouldn't have mentioned it if it didn't bother him). At least PM Harper is not turning his back on the people of the province. "Danny" should get back to burying the rest of rural NL like he has been doing for the past while. Good luck there "Danny boy." Maybe if you manage to separate us from Canada you will sink us in the Mid-Atlantic, we'll probably be better off at that point.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Drunk ank Drunk with power.
Comments:
Both the Prime Minister and Premier are drunk with power. Both have promised things - both have failed to live up to them. Both could care less what we think. We have minimal choice in Ottawa - and less choice here. Danny Williams should not be the Premier - he is only the best of a dismal lot.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:LAG
Comments:
Danny got what he deserved. He acted just like a spoiled child who had his toys taken away. Grow up Danny and hopefully Harper will be gone after the next election.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:SANDYtheMAN
Comments:
I think when you represent people of a province and the people of Canada, you should NOT act like you are a "STEVE" or a "DANNY"; act like the PRIME MINISTER and PREMIER. I'm paying you to act in an official capacity, not as street boys.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Jethro B.
Comments:
NO; ABC & ABD : Get rid of both of them.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Retired
Comments:
The two bullies are at it again. If you had 2 kids acting like those two you would send them to their rooms and discipline them. Wake up Steve and Dan you are acting like children and its time to get on with running this province and country or ours.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:atb
Comments:
I am an old man now but when I was a child I remember my Grandmother and another old neighbour (woman) always in the most horrible angry confrontations, almost to the point of a knife fight. One day there was a tragedy in the small community. These two adversaries (enemies) put down their knives and joined in support for their grief stricken community. They worked together like real human beings for a common cause. Those two old warriors had more common sense than Harper and Williams and a hundred more like them all put together.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:tom
Comments:
If I had a relative who was avoiding me (like Danny Boy) I would not want to inform him either of my visit! Here we go again with Danny wanting to rule! Grow up!

Date:8/6/2007
Name:okay
Comments:
No, I did not care and if the shoe was on the other foot Danny would not have informed him either. Sorry to say this but I now feel the so called "power" has gone to our top guys heads. Too bad they are only people like the rest of us but are acting like the Paris Hilton's and Britney Spears from the Holywood scene, get on with our affairs

Date:8/6/2007
Name:ls
Comments:
To be honest, I don't think any leaders, political, business, or otherwise want to deal with Danny. He behaves like a rich spoiled brat. I find it ironic, that in a province with so many low income earners, he gets so much support. How's he fooling us, I wonder.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Just my Opinion
Comments:
No, it doesn't bother me one bit. I would be surprised if he had informed. I think we have a case here of two spoiled brats and one is not going to give the other an inch. It is time to kiss and make up and by that I do not mean give everything away. But you cannot solve things if you are not talking. He is not dealing with the Provinical government employees now where he pounds his fist and says go back to work. I think you have two bull headed people here and either will give an inch. Stop playing around and do what you are being paid to do and don't say Danny is not getting paid for what he is doing, this giving back his salary is a farce, it is a tax right off we are not all fools

Date:8/6/2007
Name:frustrated taxpaxer
Comments:
Williams again tries to deflect from his own inadequacies by directing attention to the big bad mainlanders out to screw Newfoundland. Get on with your job Williams and do something for the province other than whine about why you can't.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Graham
Comments:
As long as Danny Williams continues his childish behavoiur who in their right mind would want to talk with him. His "MY WAY OR NO WAY" attitude is enough to make you sick, his arrogance is eveident in every move he makes even to his phoney smile. Get a life Danny when your own affairs are in order then complain about other people. The world really dosen't revolve around you believe it or not.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Lp
Comments:
No, don't care. And what would be the point? I didn't hear the mayor of Placentia complain, just Williams. Isn't the issue to help PEOPLE out by getting their municipalities back in order. The whole thing in both their cases, but especially Williams was politicking and photo ops. Time for them to get over themselves and concentrate on people and their problems. The picture of Williams in his goat boots is no more confidence inspiring than Harper dropping by in a chopper. Neither of them are experts in these problems than the other. Leave it to to the engineers both provincial and municipal and let those 'leaders' concentrate on working out the compensation packages. For God's sake, just get on with it!

Date:8/6/2007
Name:newfie!
Comments:
THis is foolishn ess time for Danny to smarten up and run the province in a mature matter!! at least the PM was man enough to go look at the damage! was Danny out looking??? Dannys mad cause he never got a ride on the Helicopter!

Date:8/6/2007
Name:pak
Comments:
When you create war conditions Premier, don't expect the enemy to come garbbed in diplomacy. This was hardly about you - as you think everything is - this was about a PM supporting his MP - and those two people you have declared war on. You do know Relationships are a two-way street right?!! No? ...Oh, so now that you are enlightened, perhaps you can try harder to create a better fed-prov cooperation for the betterment of this province.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Fred
Comments:
No, the Prime Minister of CANADA can visit any part of CANADA at any time. I am so sick of Danny's drama queen hissy fits.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:A Po Litical
Comments:
YES is right on the money. Danny is too much like Harper that's why they don't get along. Both egomanic control freaks with spitey tempers like two-year-olds. GROW UP BOTH OF YOU.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:JD
Comments:
Danny Williams seems to forget that Fabian Manning and Loyola Hearn are Newfoundlanders. Fabian Manning got as many votes in Avalon as Danny's little trained seal MHAs ever did, and he has every right to represent his people and that includes bringing the leader of the federal government. Danny isn't running a dictatorship, not yet, he just wants to be.

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Beg to differ :
Comments:
I beg to differ that Danny is the best thing to happen to us in a long time . With all due respect to the Premier I believe he is the worst thing that has happened and untill and unless he learns that to negotate is a two way street we will be in trouble . You people that vote for him in October will be in denial for a long long time to come , sorry .

Date:8/6/2007
Name:Codger
Comments:
No, not after Danny Williams with his childish antics of calling Prime Minister Harper "Steve". How childish can Danny get?

As to Codger's question... The answer is, pretty darn childish. Keep watching.