When Life Imitates Humor

Ahh, silly me, I thought the boneheaded remark made today by a Peter Goldring was a joke by Peter Oldring, aka @poldring of @CBCThisIsThat.

— Philip Turner (@philipsturner) November 27, 2014

MP from Edmonton Peter Goldring (not the comic Oldring) apparently thinks that people, especially women, are so eager to accuse him of bad conduct that he thinks every encounter should be taped to avoid what he called “besmirchment.” He later retracted his press release, with its headline, “Consorting Without Protection is Risky,” but the Twitter mockery was already well underway. My Twitter comment was kicked off when I confused Goldring with Oldring, and the Onion-like CBC Radio One program, This is That.