Canadian musical legend Stompin’ Tom Connors is furious at the CBC, accusing the broadcaster of snubbing his new musical special.
Stompin’ Tom Connors estimates that he’s out $200,000 after producing a musical special he said CBC wanted.

“If this is not a complete snub to Stompin’ Tom Connors by Canada’s own television network, then I’d like to know what is,” Connors wrote in an open letter.

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Now he’s asking Federal Heritage Minister Bev Oda to appeal to the CBC to air the show.

CBC spokeswoman Ruth Ellen Soles said there have been discussions over the years about running a Stompin’ Tom Connors special on the CBC, but that the network did not commission this program. —CBC

Kavinay is confused. Kavinay wonders if people who refer to themselves in the third person understand how stupid and pompous they sound? Obviously, if Stompin’ Tom was an athlete or rapper, he would probably be given a little leeway on the account of ebonics. How does an aged country and folk singer learn such a pretentious way of talking about himself? Worse, Stompin’ Tom has chosen to invoke the third person at a time when his argument is already suspect—the show wasn’t commissioned and no contract means no payment. Even worse than that, the CBC’s news service is publicizing this story on Stompin’ Tom’s outrage and further making the legend look a bit like a half wit.

When will people learn that only a man who has been irradiated with gamma-rays and has the ability to fling tanks like toothpicks has the credibility required to refer to himself in the third person?

Oh and while we’re on the subject:

Dear Federal Heritage Minister Bev Oda

Could you please also air reruns of Prisoners of Gravity, Forever Knight and Street Legal too. Kavinay will feel snubbed if the national broadcaster fails to provide the Canadian programming that Kavinay asks for.

Thanks,

Kavinay

p.s. if no air rerun, Kavinay smash!

¹ Stompin’ Tom has always seemed an entertainer who Canadians feel mildly patriotic about merely because of the collective private joke we share while observing his quirky act.