Waaaaaaah

Boo friggin hoo.

OTTAWA -- Brian Mulroney feels "devastated" and "betrayed" and regrets talking candidly to Peter C. Newman, a spokesman said yesterday after the author's tale of the tapes showed the former prime minister savaging opponents and allies alike.

Luc Lavoie said that Mr. Mulroney was stunned to learn that The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister, based on his private and often R-rated reflections, would be on store shelves this week.

" 'I was reckless in talking with Peter C. Newman,' " Mr. Lavoie quoted Mr. Mulroney as saying. " 'This was my mistake and I'm going to have to live with it.' "

Mr. Lavoie said Mr. Mulroney did not know the conversations would end up in a book.

"Brian Mulroney is a very colourful, entertaining man in a conversation that says things . . . because they're entertaining," Mr. Lavoie said. "For a man like this to tape him without his knowledge and use it this way is nothing short of betrayal. . . . He's quite devastated."

Yes, Muldoon is shocked, shocked! to find that speaking with an author while a recording device is used is likely to find your words being printed. Holy crap!

The funny thing is, I always assumed Mulroney was a Nixonian bastard. Now I have proof.