Re: Grewal
(Regarding this Grewal nonsense, something interesting from Don Hauka at
The Tyee, found through
MBLOG)
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“The next day, Grewal rang and asked how could I possibly say he was politically inexperienced?
“That doesn't reflect my personality or experience at all,'†complained Grewal.
He had plenty of political experience. I patiently explained that the party staff who wrote the report were, apparently, unaware of this vast experience. What sort of expertise was Grewal referring to?
"Well, for a start, I advised
Samuel Doe of Liberia", said Grewal.
Sometimes when you’re a political reporter in B.C. you believe you’ve heard it all – that this province couldn’t possibly throw anything more weird or wonderful at you (premiers who lived in castles, Gordon and Judi, etc.). But this topped everything. Doe had seized power in Liberia after a bloody coup in 1980 and been murdered in 1990 after an equally bloody civil war.
Picking myself up off the floor and scribbling notes furiously, I asked if Grewal meant the Sam Doe. Yes, yes, Grewal insisted, the Liberian head of state. He had advised Doe on a “green revolution†for Liberia.
Flabbergasted, I asked if he could prove this. Grewal cheerfully offered to send me his resume and with a decent show of hesitation (perhaps a millisecond), I accepted. The newsroom fax machine spat it out moments later. There in black and white, under the heading “Community Involvement,†Grewal wrote: "Recommended to and then helped the president of Liberia (Doe) to launch Green Revolution in the country."
