Brian Lilley Podcast

BTN Bites - How politicians should never handle an interview

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Synopsis

So the night before a young man was about to be acclaimed a candidate in a provincial nomination race I invited him on my radio show. I had never met the man but I had stuck up for him before. In fact, if you were to ask Jeremy Roberts, no single person in the media did more to raise the issue of voting irregularities in the Ottawa West-Nepean PC nomination than me. So I invited him in to speak with me about the old nomination being overturned and him being acclaimed. I felt it was important to at least remind listeners why the party re-opened the nomination and allowed Jeremy to run again. He disagreed. Like so many young politicians with no life experience he decided that being on message track and not acting like a human being was the way to go. It wasn't. I wanted to re-cap the past and move on to the future. I've been an ardent critic of the Ontario Liberals and the Liberal MP that Jeremy will be up against in particular. I cut the interview short and showed Jeremy the door because I am tired of politici