Revulsion appears to have driven him personally, not only to make out the bank draft for Duffy but, before that, to try to make him see that whether or not what he’d done was illegal, it was improper, and that ordinary people would recognize it immediately: Duffy had been caught with his snout in the trough, and he needed to make it right.
Happily for Wright, his personal raison d’etre coincided with the needs of his job, to protect Harper and his government and to stifle scandal, wherever it bred.
He must have been as much of an anomaly in politics as he is in that courtroom, an honest witness sitting in a chair most often occupied by mooks, thugs and liars, this man with the great wide streak of hard-as-nails pragmatism and the almost ridiculous sense of propriety. christie blatchford, national post
As show trials go the Duffy trial is a bit of a damp squib. Duffy is an obvious scumball. Well, yes and it was idiotic to appoint him to the Senate. And he was a greedy scumball who got himself into a shitload of trouble for being greedy.
Nigel Wright bailed him out. In Wright’s world 90K to make a problem go away is nothing. It was his own money. He solved a problem. The media frenzy – and it seems pretty much the only people who give a rats ass about this are the media, jealous no doubt that one of their own hit the Senate – needs to prove some sort of conspiracy in the PMO/PCO to what? Bribe Duffy? (If it was a bribe it would be Wright, not Duffy, who would be charged.)
Wright wanted to make a nasty situation go away. Duffy had not done anything which was illegal (by the quaint rules of the Senate which assume, contrary to experience, that Senators can be counted upon to be gentlemen) but his troughing was extreme even for that august body. He needed to repay his crappy expenses and Nigel had the money to make it happen.
Did Wright structure the transaction to keep his name out of it? Er, no. His name was all over the thing. He did not hide the fact he gave a piece of shit 90 thousand dollars. All he asked in return was that Duffy fess up to his not terrifically major transgressions.
Losing Duffy is, all things considered, a bonus for Canada; losing Wright is a tragedy.
Jay Currie 
Apparently Jim Munson, a Liberal, has done no wrong.
Cheers
If you search Mike Duffy in Google you get about 26,000,000 hits. Search Mac Harb and you get about 300,000. But there is no bias in reporting Senate malfeasance.
Also saw the hit piece by Laurie Graham where she is accusing then PM Harper of not knowing what was going on in his office. So, from control freak to know nothing all in a single day of testimony? The media party is showing the bias they claim they don’t have.
Not to mention the journalist’s own union is registered as a third party campaigner, it makes any claim of “fair and balanced” look like pure BS.
Someone should ask Duffy if, as a CBC reporter, he ever faked taxi receipts, and if his supervisor, Elly Alboim, was aware of this practice.
If Nigel Wright is Dudley Do-Right, does that make Mike Duffy Snidely Whiplash?
Nope, Duffy is the horse’s ass.
I feel sorry for the horse then. 🙂
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/professor-says-wikipedia-unreliable-on-science-controversies/#more-22640 O/T Jay I don’t know any other way of getting this to you.I think you may be interested. Cheers!