Sun News TV - Richard Zussman - What Did They Saw?

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. 
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV,4

Now the Oracle of Ottawa is no grammarian by any means. But I do make every attempt to craft each word, phrase and blog post into a work of art, as yet unfunded by the Canadian Arts Council or Heritage Canada. And it is quite flattering to the personage of the Oracle of Ottawa, that he is more gifted at the turn of a word and the music and rhythm of a phrase and passage then some professional media hacks now at large.And in the case of one Richard Zussman the Oracle of Ottawa is even a more popular media personality, as measured by page view stats on Wikipedia! This is all quite extraordinary since the Oracle of Ottawa is blue collar and has not had one tenth of the education that my grammatically perplexed friend claims to have!

Paulis St. Gallen

But the great Mr. Zussman should not despair, Hunter S. Thompson didn't even finish high school and by Wikipedia page views he is more popular and thence, more important then F. Scott Fitzgerald! Oh my, indeed! Also, and this should be of great interest to the neo-conservative right, Karl Marx is three to four times more important than Adam Smith!  But I digress...

This faux-pas happened last week while the breathless Mr. Zussman was trying to regal the philistine Krista Erickson with his best Vancouver Cannuck "Green Man" imitation. Which truth be told was a total disaster! (also Mr. Zussman, I don't think Krista even likes guys...) The part where the microphone got caught in his shirt sleeve while striping to his green spandex was a total hoot! The next day the famous grammatical blooper "What did they saw?" slipped out... Oy vey! You want I should write you a cheque Mr. Zussman?

Still I'm Sad - Yard Birds 1965 - The Jeff Beck Version..... And no screw - ups!!