MP blames 'media vultures' for trouble

[Aviyah]

Friday » March 28 » 2003

http://www.nationalpost.ca/national/story.html?id={C52C39D6-37A1-4939-B323-99BC04A28371}

Claims emotional stress

Sheldon Alberts, Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief
National Post

Friday, March 28, 2003

CREDIT: The Canadian Press

"Media vultures and political jackals should not be selecting chairs of committees," Carolyn Parrish wrote to her replacement on the NATO committee.


OTTAWA - Carolyn Parrish, the Liberal MP who last month called Americans "*******s," says she has suffered extreme emotional stress because of the controversy caused by her remarks and blames "media vultures and political jackals" for the impact on her career.

Ms. Parrish, who later joked about the anti-U.S. statement on a national TV talk show, last week wrote a parliamentary colleague complaining she was a victim of people who sought to turn her comments into a media event.



The recent 'disaster' was a terrible blow to me and my family. The relentless, extreme emotional pressure was, at times, intolerable," Ms. Parrish wrote in a March 20 letter to David Price, the Quebec Liberal MP who this week replaced her as chairman of NATOCanadian Parliamentary Association.




she is refering to this comment made
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http://www.christianforums.com/threads/38332.html

oh please here we go with the poor me vitim syndrome

well if it was such a terrible blow to her and her famliy she should have been watching what she was saying,

why is it everyone has to play the poor me you bully game? i dont feel sorry for her one bit

and i whould feel the same way if someone in my goverment say something like she did:

 

[Wolseley]

"Don't do the crime

if you can't do the time

oh no---don't do it."

 

[cenimo]

One ounce of keeping your mouth shut beats two tons of explanation

 

[seebs]

I have a lot of sympathy for her. I have said any number of stupid or ill-advised things when under stress; I would hate to be judged on everything I've said in a moment of anger or frustration, without any credence given to my apologies.

 

[loribee59]

Today at 12:54 AM seebs said this in Post #4

....I would hate to be judged on everything I've said in a moment of anger or frustration, without any credence given to my apologies.

that had happened to me before, with an online friend. I lost my cool once again, said something absolutely stupid in the moment of anger, and she have had enough...saying that she can't trust me anymore. Although I did apologize, she chose not to have anything to do with me after that. Quite painful to go through and it's a HARD lesson to learn!

I'd hate to be judged for being angry, rather that I'd be asked WHY I'm angry; I'm more apt to stop and think, and give a better explaination. To be condemned for the wrongs I did would make me wanna hide, and keep quiet.

Sowwy, just one of those things, to bring up sad memories of broken friendship/trust.

~loribee59