Kim Campbell, a Model for Playboy Model

April 16, 2006 · By

Phylis Syd, the McGill student who recently made a splash on the pages of Playboy, has claimed to be Edmontonian and a political science student. She now claims inspiration from Kim Campbell, as evidence for her own Albertan-ness.

If my “scandalous� streak wasn’t a good enough representation of a signature Albertan spirit, let me invoke a more “politically-conservative� comparison: As I am indeed politically interested, may I point to the footsteps that mark my political path. Correct me if I’m wrong but our country’s most historically significant female political leader was in fact a Tory, an interim PM and no stranger to posing in her birthday suit (albeit tastefully shielded). “Shamelessly� Yours, Phylis.

To my recollection, that is the first time I ever hear someone wanting to emulate Kim Campbell. That Campbell is cited as an inspiration for young ladies who like to strip or pose in the nude should not be a surprise.

Kim Campbell went to the London School of Economics for her Masters in Political Science. I am not sure whether she finished it or not, but when I met her in Calgary during the Tory leadership race in 1993, one of my friends asked her if she had studied with political scientist Michael Oakeshott, LSEs most renowned scholar at the time and of one the 20th century’s greatest minds. Campbell, after trying to figure out what to say for a few seconds, said that she had never had the time. All the way to London, but could not make the time. In short, Campbell is no example for young ladies, whether in politics or in political science

Kim Campbell, most historically significant? I don’t think so, unless footnotes are the most significant thing there is in history. A real Albertan would know that the most significant females in this country were conservative Albertans; one would have mentioned Nelly McClung, for example.

I am yet to meet one Albertan that thought that Kim Campbell was a Conservative or even conservative. It sure sounds like Syd Phylis is also posing as an Albertan and as a political science student.

Crossposted from Civitatensis.ca

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21 Responses to “Kim Campbell, a Model for Playboy Model”

  1. The Objective Collective on September 16th, 2006 8:14 am [#]

    path. Correct me if I’m wrong but our country’s most historically significant female political leader was in fact a Tory, an interim PM and no stranger to posing in her birthday suit (albeit tastefully shielded). “Shamelessly” Yours, Phylis. From this site.

  2. Winston on April 16th, 2006 2:26 pm [#]

    Good Post!

  3. Peter Rempel on April 16th, 2006 3:29 pm [#]

    I love that you’re not cutting this bimbo any slack. She’s probably used to having men fall all over themselves to tell her how smart she is.

    Most people don’t know that Kim Campbell was also a a Socred member of the B.C. Legislature before she was recruited by Mulroney as a star B.C. candidate. If she had hung around, she would have been in a good position to have become leader and premier when Bill vander Zalm left. I tend to think she would have been a good premier.

  4. Jarrett on April 16th, 2006 9:38 pm [#]

    “I tend to think she would have been a good premier.”

    Just like Rita Johnston was a “good premier” in the last days of the Socreds?

    Heh. Even if she had taken over after Vander Zalm had kicked off, the resurrection of the BC Liberal Party ensured a split vote (and therefore, Mike Harcourt’s lovely reign of error).

    Kim would’ve been fucked there, too.

  5. kaqchikel on April 16th, 2006 10:27 pm [#]

    A good premier, indeed.

    Syd Phylis, with a respectable pseudonym like that, has claimed representation for McGill and for Alberta. That in itself is quite the claim since no authority has been granted to her for that or any other purpose. To claim representation in that manner over taking her clothes off (tastefully!) in front of a camera requires an ego the size of the Alberta surplus.

    No one understood better than Kim Campbell that “Charisma without substance is a dangerous thing!” Syd has chosen her idol well.

  6. kaqchikel on April 17th, 2006 12:52 pm [#]

    Sorry, Lyndon. Too many erroneous generalisations.

    GST and FT mistakes? Lest we are accused of perpetuating a myth, the assertion requires evidence. Even Libs have come to accept that both policies were/are good things.

    Sinking ship? When Campbell called the election she was riding high in the polls. The debacle during the election and the ensuing humiliation was not Mulroney’s doing.

    I don’t think that there was ONE Canadian public when it came to Mulroney. The Bloc pulled its way, Reform went another, and Ontario just went Lib. All for different reasons. The one group among these three almost solely motivated by GST and FT would have been Ontario –and that’s excusable. Nationally, they have not been on the right side of things since 1984.

  7. Jarrett on April 17th, 2006 11:10 pm [#]

    “We should not forget, however, that Kim Campbell was pretty handed a sinking ship.” I’m not actually sure about that.

    Take a look at the poll numbers, and – if you want anecdotal evidence, talk to someone like Damian Penny, who has a pretty concise debunking for you.

  8. Phylis on April 20th, 2006 7:43 am [#]

    I never did support the woman’s policies, but she did have a penchant for brutal honesty�??even if her own leadership suffered under boulder of her straight talk, you have to respect one who’d rather sink with honesty than rise up on lies. Her character will always leave a mark on the Canadian political canvas�??and I respect her for her guts and determination. As for the failure that became the Tories’ fate, let’s not forget the debacle caused by the stupid campaign ad put forth by Tory spin doctors, without Campbell’s knowledge and/consent, mocking Chretien’s physical defect. That made little guy Jean into little baby Jesus in the public’s eyes. Even idiot Manning never slipped up this bad in offensive campaigning. Campbell was never the sore loser and she’ll always have my deepest respect for that.

    Kimmy never lacked in substance, her party did�??turning her own tag phrase against her, is a poorly delivered cheap shot, but regarding “charisma� you are perfectly right, we do share that charming trait�??and in response to Rempel, men do find this “bimbo’s� smarts irresistible. To have wits and tits and to claim all rights for both is to live up to one’s fullest God-given potential: a girl can’t be just high-heels and thong panties, it’s best to be all and have an ego that refuses to apologize for either. Maybe you can push for legislation to criminalize sexxxxy bimbo smartssss�??when the tory glory gets a majority in the House, though I think hell will freeze over long before that happens. Cheers,
    Cheekily Yours,
    “Bimbo� Syd, Phylis

  9. Jarrett on April 28th, 2006 10:39 am [#]

    Phylis, gimmie a break.

    The cheeky ad was just one of a number of gaffes. It proved to be a nail in the coffin to a ship which was already leaking pretty badly. It wasn’t just due to Kim’s (correct) declaration that the country would take until about 1997 to recover. Things like her inability to hold her own in the (French) debates can’t be pinned on John Tory.

    Face it. Someone drove them to those ads.

    You can turn this into a battle of the sexes or some kind of female empowerment argument if you want, but it just shows you’re dodging the issue. Don’t pretend that this is about female potential or anything of the sort. I think we’d be mocking you even more severely if you had compared yourself to John Turner. Especially after his “I touch the children” thing.

    I don’t think you should be trying to excuse the fact that Kim Campbell was simply not a good leader. And it’s not as though there’s any kind of shortage of kickass female politicians (Margaret Thatcher, anyone?). It’s that you chose to idolize the John Turner of them all.

  10. biller on May 6th, 2006 5:29 pm [#]

    Did you all know that Phylis Syd used to be known as DEJA at livecamnetwork.com

    Its a website where canadian women masturbate on camera for money.

    They are all talking about her now.

  11. Dingo on May 7th, 2006 7:27 pm [#]
  12. PUNCHCARD on May 7th, 2006 7:31 pm [#]
  13. kaqchikel on May 7th, 2006 8:37 pm [#]

    Phylis Syd, Miss Polonia 2002, DEJA? For someone so young, that’s a lot of names, titles and pseudonyms. Who can keep track?

    I wonder if she is using the university’s (McGill) broadband while on duty at livecam.

  14. Glavin on May 19th, 2006 5:52 pm [#]

    Actually, it’s LiveCamNetwork.com. The URL is http://www.livecamnetwork.com. You can find lots of pictures of her there. Apperently they’re quite upset with her since she was paid for photoshoots and then told them they could not use the pictures. Oh well. No wonder she has so many psudonyms.

  15. Punchcard on May 27th, 2006 7:13 pm [#]

    I never posted to this rag; did you have my permission to use a quote made on another site without my consent? I do believe I will have to see if you have violated any rights afforded to me ,and if you have overstepped you boundaries in your zealous and misguided attempt to denigrate a woman you know nothing about.

  16. James Bowie on July 17th, 2006 9:59 am [#]

    Perhaps if we’re going to write about another person’s understanding of women in politics, we could also spell “Nellie McClung” correctly.

    http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0003.htm

    I know many young women who look up to Ms. Campbell as a symbol. It is possible for a woman to be Prime Minister of Canada. It is not necessary to argue that she was Prime Minister for a long time, or that she was historically significant. She was the Prime Minister.

  17. RAVEN on September 16th, 2006 11:23 am [#]

    http://www.onemodelplace.com/m.....?ID=169051

    DEJA, also know as PHYLIS SYD and real name, Patricia Stasiak used to work for an adult webcam site called LCN and then she did Playboy and now she is in a few movies.

    Here is her IMDB page.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2244180/

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  18. David on February 18th, 2007 10:56 am [#]

    In what sense could any mildly informed person think Nelly McClung was “conservative”?? This is revisionist history at its most ridiculous…

  19. ..... on February 25th, 2007 10:10 pm [#]

    how would you contact kim cambell the Former Prime Minister of Canada (1993)

  20. moe! on May 6th, 2007 10:13 am [#]

    ummmm hmmmm i dont know ??♥

  21. KerPlonka!: April 2006 on November 5th, 2007 1:57 am [#]

    [...] for Technology (and others) had students who were featured. And I’m pretty sure none of them compared themselves to Kim Campbell. Maybe that’s why none of the other Canadian schools raised the holy [...]

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