OMG Prime Minister Harper singing and playing piano at the National Arts Centre Gala last night. He does a great job of the Beatle hit "I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends." He sounds at least as good as Ringo on the original version.
I thought the PM was opposed to these taxpayer subsidized limousine liberal artys-fartys galas. Now he cavorts with the socialites and the separatists and sings at galas. Good for him!
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media_gallery.asp?media_category_id=20&media_id=3796
There is an election coming and this is much better than the pastel sweater image makeover of Mr. Harper in the last election. This performance rings true even if it is somewhat surprising given his well known negative attitude towards arts and culture generally.
Bottom line - I really appreciate this glimpse at the humanity of Stephen Harper. This is much better than the past tactics of slagging his opponents in nasty and negative television advertising campaigns.
H/T to AllieW on Twitter for the link
You know that Ken needs a vacation when he actually says, in a backhand way, something nice about the PM.
ReplyDeleteWhat Ken is referring to about not liking the arts, is the Canadian Government's decision last year to increase overall funding to the Arts by 8%, but shifted $45 million from the likes of PromArt that sends poor people like Gwynne Dyer to Cuba, and funds travel expenses for the Rock band Holy—F***and left wing radicals like Avi Lewis.
The films like Young People F****ing will just have to find funding from someone other than us taxpayers. Funny movie but actually could have made it without tax bucks.
Good on you Ken. Actually not spinning as hard the Liberal and Bloc baloney about Arts grants that actually increased that the Libs say decreased is a good start toward the truth, and your much needed fiscal Conservative rehab.
Have a great vacation my friend. I respect your energy and dedication to free speech and public policy development.
Now let's all sing Iggy's appropriate Beatles' song "Help"..... or is it "Nowhere Man"?
Actually arts and culture funding is not larger under Harper. He just redefined it and put lots of stuff within the definition that was not there before, like the Olympics?
ReplyDeleteIt will be very interesting to hear what all the Harper Haters will find wrong with what he did. I liked it
ReplyDeleteHow nice. Mr. Harper has done one 'human' thing. Too bad this is all part of a grand strategy and not something that he would ever have done on his own.
ReplyDeleteI take it you don't have perfect pitch, Kenny Boy. He's out of tune. Waaaay put of tune. Better than Ringo? Well, I'll give you this - Ringo wasn't very good. But ... NOT. In normal circumstances, this would be one for the "don't give up your day job" file, but... hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteThe secret is out, I only pitch ideas. I can't hold a tune to save my soul but I know most of the words...does that count?
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Bill Clinton playing a sax in 1992. Only difference is that Harper's a principled leader.
ReplyDeleteHarper surprised me by this performance so much. I never expected him to do this. And he performed very well, which kinda shocked me too. Good job. I guess he won some new voters.
ReplyDeleteElli