Toronto, ON-- When it comes to the game of hockey, Rudy Giuliani and Maurice Strong make top-notch water dowsers.
The former New York mayor and United Nations diplomat recently came out of Opportunists' Land, teaming up together to save for all rubes forever--NHL hockey.
The boys, both of them granddaddies say they'll rely on Giuliani's New York Consulting company to help raise as much as $5-billion in seed money.
Is anyone surprised that the new league with which they'll replace the NHL will be called the International Hockey association?
Yes, Virginia when you get by shilling for one-world government, "international" and "sustainability" apply to every thing--even your granny's bloomers.
When Uncle Rudy and Chairman Mo were ready to spring their $5-billion hockey plan on unsuspecting fans, they launched via the Liberal-loving Toronto Star.
It's coming on to summer in long winters-Canada and the only real news coming out is on the Drudge Report.
The bearer of International Hockey association news is the same Toronto Star that when it was on its "everybody's-a-racist" kick published a Saturday, June 28, 2003 banner story claiming that the Blue Jays, Toronto's beloved, hometown baseball team was a racist organization. This left room for canadafreepress.com to come out with its White Jay's Brigade, picked up and carried by Fox News.
In Toronto's 2003 Summer of Sars, the Jays were hit with the racist tag all because of the lack of ethnic diversity displayed on that year's opening day roster.
On its front page, CFP posted The White Star Brigade, 97 pictures of Star editors and columnist–the majority of them white, anglo Saxons.
Dedicated Canadian sports fans have been going a little crazy without Hockey Night in Canada. Fans would have to be a little crazier to allow political opportunists like Rudy and Mo to replace the labour-beleaguered NHL.
The NHL went down in history last February as the first major North american sports league to have an entire season cancelled due to labour disputes.
In Toronto, this year's winter seemed even longer and colder without the Maple Leafs.
The NHL and Player's association are set to resume negotiations on Wednesday.
Lucky that NHL Player's senior director Ted Saskin is keeping a grip. "Our primary focus has always been to reach an agreement with the NHL on a new CBa," Saskin told the Star.
any leader of the sports world could see that Giuliani and Strong are anything but team players.
We don't know where Rudy's coming from, unless earning the nickname, "america's Mayor" in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, went to his head.
In this latest bold move, Strong has managed to skate right off the Oil-for-Food investigation pond with aWOLs like "Koreagate Man" Tongsun Park.
Strong's protégé Prime Minister Paul Martin could use a little diversion with the adscam scandal still out there while his Liberal government hangs on the thread of minority status. Strong, Martin's senior adviser, could be trying to endear hockey-deprived fans to the no confidence vote-destined Liberals.
The late Foster Hewitt, "Mr. Hockey Night" in Canada must be rolling in his grave. Hewitt, who took generations of Canadians through play-by-play games during the 1920s, through the Depression, the Second World War and into the television era with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the man who coined that adrenalin-pumping phrase, "He shoots, he scores!"
The game of hockey belongs to fans and athletes. The game of politics belongs to politicians and money proffering opportunists.
Strange bedfellows that they are, Giuliani and Strong should stick to what they do best: Conning themselves that they're really saving Mother Earth.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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