Western Standard - October 12, 2023


'GI Joly', Canada's foreign affairs minister plays dress up for a press conference


Episode Stats


Length

58 seconds

Words per minute

176.29076

Word count

173

Sentence count

16

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Summary

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Melanie Jolie tries to look like the President of Ukraine at a news conference, and it doesn t go well. She wears a military uniform and cuts her hair short, and she wears a blazer. How vacuous can you get?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 We have our foreign affairs minister, Melanie Jolie, popping up at a news conference.
00:00:05.020 And she's decked out, she's cut her hair short, and she's wearing a military-style blazer.
00:00:09.740 She's following the liberal tradition of playing dress-up. She's now a wartime leader.
00:00:15.120 She wants to look like the president of Ukraine and sit there in her nice green uniform with the 0.98
00:00:21.040 new pretty haircut. And you've lost every bit of ground where you started to sound like serious
00:00:25.840 leaders you clown in one stupid move. How vacuous can you get? Let's not pretend that was an error
00:00:32.540 in fashion. I mean, I don't expect her to come out dressed poorly, but you don't sit there and act 0.99
00:00:38.620 as if you may come under assault in Ottawa at some point. You don't need to wear camouflage, Ms. Jolie.
00:00:46.080 You just need to come across as a competent minister. And again, Canada starts looking just
00:00:52.080 not serious. That's the problem we have. People don't take us seriously. How can you?
00:00:57.360 All right. Thanks, Melanie.