Hammer attack

VOCM reported Sunday:

Maclean's magazine hammered the newly elected St. John's South Mount Pearl MP in a recent article. The article looks at some questionable comments made by Ryan Cleary when he was involved in journalism. It points out that Cleary stated the NDP were a bunch of "losers," and "a small pocket of aging granolas and artsy-fartsies" that "Wouldn't win an election if they were given a 100-seat head start." The Maclean's article also attacks the separatist comments made by Cleary in the past, but Cleary says that he no longer feels that way. Cleary maintains that his personal mission in Ottawa is to seek a national energy policy that would liberalize electricity transmission, and to demand a judicial inquiry into the cod fishery. The Article cites a St. John's blogger who says Cleary may be an accident waiting to happen.

For the record, Macleans' Richard Foot's "attack" "hammering" Ryan Cleary is posted here.

Three guesses who the un-named (in the VOCM piece) "St. John's blogger" is. First two don't count.

UP-DE-DATE: The wording of the VOCM report was changed later in the day, removing the word "attacks":

Maclean's magazine hammered the newly elected St. John's South Mount Pearl MP in a recent article. The article looks at some questionable comments made by Ryan Cleary when he was a working journalist. It points out that Cleary stated the NDP were a bunch of "losers," and "a small pocket of aging granolas and artsy-fartsies" that "wouldn't win an election if they were given a 100-seat head start." The Maclean's article also brings up the separatist comments made by Cleary in the past.

Cleary says that he no longer feels that way. Cleary maintains that his personal mission in Ottawa is to seek out a national energy policy that would liberalize electricity transmission, and to demand a judicial inquiry into the cod fishery.

The Maclean's article cites a St. John's blogger who says Cleary may be an accident waiting to happen.

Cleary said to Maclean' that: "I don't think I have a big mouth. I just have something to say and I'm going to say it."