February 3, 2007
Surprisingly. Impressed.
I’ve always got a good laugh watching Rick Mercer, although I’ve never been terribly comfortable with his anti-Americanism.
But I have to admit, he’s really been impressing me lately. Not as a comic per se, but as a spokesperson for the rank-and-file Canadian military who are serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. I had already heard about his Christmas visit to the troops in Khandahar and his tank-driving exploits. (On the latter, if you don’t get the jokes about the holes and the best way to mount a tank, it’s probably because you don’t know that Rick is openly gay.)
But this editorial he wrote, really sealed the deal for me.
As Yoda would say: Funny and smart, Rick Mercer is.
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