“Former MP Jim Pankiw had two messages for reporters who accepted his invitation to a press conference Thursday morning.
“Yeah, I’m running in the next federal election in Saskatoon-Humboldt as an independent,” the 43-year-old chiropractor told a roomful of journalists after a series of introductory remarks about his personal background and views on what he considers to be “race-based privileges” for aboriginal Canadians.
“And I will win,” he said. “And I don’t need the media.”
No federal election has been called.
Pankiw announced the launch of his new, “state-of-the-art” interactive website — jimpankiw.ca — saying it would be up and running at noon Thursday.
“You know, it used to be the media was the way that you got your message out, but now I’ve got a very powerful tool, and that’s the Internet,” he said.
“And I’m gonna use the Internet. And my website is how I’m gonna communicate with people and do an end run right around the media. So, the media can misrepresent me all they want, but what I want is equality and that’s what I’m gonna get.”
When asked why he would call a press conference if he wants to avoid the media, Pankiw said, “I don’t know, to rub it in your face. Because I don’t need you.”
Pankiw went on to say he considers aboriginal people to be racists.
He called attention to a picture of FSIN Chief Guy Lonechild in a traditional headdress on the front page of Thursday’s StarPhoenix, calling him “a guy with a big headband thing on, like feathers and stuff. Like, if there was a guy with a white sheet with holes in the eyes, wouldn’t you say that guy’s a racist?” he asked.”
I know I was on a rant about Aboriginal racism, but this is clearly the most ignorant person I have ever heard of: Jim Pankiw. First off, does he understand that the internet is media? Secondly does he not understand the difference between a cultural headpiece and a racist headpiece. thirdly, calling a press conference to say you don’t need the media, what a moron, if he didn’t need the media, he wouldn’t have called them in the first place. What he did was a huge publicity stunt. He needs the media more than they need him.
What is sadder is that this man is not afraid to run for office? this scares me. Maybe he should be evicted from Saskatoon
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