Don Cherry: You Messed Up

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Don Cherry disappointed me the other day.

Don, speaking as both a hockey fan and one of the "artsy people"? You blew it. Big time.

A confession I've already made to the Toronto Star's Facebook people: I got a lot of drawing practice as a kid in grade school - we're talking grades 1-3 level here - drawing people playing hockey. The figure work wasn't much improved over "stick figure" levels and their chins were almost nonexistent. But this is what inspired me as a kid to draw like a comics-artist-in-training fiend. NHL hockey.

Just sad, Don. Really...sad.

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“People are sick of the elites and artsy people running the show. It’s time for some lunch pail, blue-collar people.”

Lunch pail, blue collar people? Is he mad? Is he going to advocate having boy scouts with first aid kits replacing nurses in hospitals as well? Or bus drivers replacing pilots? I might be a crackerjack technician and good at what I do, but I seriously doubt I could handle the intricacies of public office. I'm sorry, but there are some jobs in which someone who can actually think beyond what they need to do to practice their trade...original thought versus applied thought, if you will. Of course, the skills needed to get elected are exactly the opposite to those needed to actually do the job.

BTW, Don Cherry is hardly lunch pail blue collar material himself, now, is he? Somehow, I don't think a hockey coach jock type is going to have my best interests at heart, probably the opposite.

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I hate to say, largely because I think it's true: Ford does speak to a large segment of what is disparagingly called the blue-collar class. And so does Don Cherry, so the latter's support for the former doesn't much surprise me.

I enjoy Cherry as a showman and respect him as a hockey commentator, but otherwise consider him a political neanderthal (know offense to our late European cousins). He is knee-jerk pro-cop and military, anti-government (except, of course, when it comes to cops and soldiers) and generally a reactionary buffoon, no matter that his money now means he hasn't technically been a part of the working class for several decades.

So I find myself once again appalled by Cherry's politics, but not in the least bit surprised.

Does it sully me to admit that I'll watch him on HNIC the next time I tune in for a game?