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Today, the National Post’s columnist Don Martin helpfully sets up an exercise for those of us who, like Rosie O’Donnell, like to hang upside down like a moonbat every day in order to make sense of things.
Thanks Mr. Martin. Let us review, appropriately hanging upside down like a moonbat, such that it makes a lick of sense:
He sets up an example of an “antic” used by the Conservatives which he claims is “precisely” the same “antic” as the one used by the liberals’ state-owned CBC, when they actually fed juicy anti-Conservative or anti-Mulroney questions to their brethren (bosses?) in the Liberal Party so the Liberal Party could embarrass people—during in official hearings—who are somewhat, remotely, maybe, hopefully!, connected to the present-day Conservatives. This during the still ongoing (it’s Liberals!) Schreiber/Mulroney “Ethics Committee” circus of insanity, as shown on the state-owned media.
…After the former Liberal Cabinet minister [Raymond Chan] called a news conference to explain himself, an official with Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day’s office slipped local Asian media a list of embarrassing questions on Mr. Chan’s behavior (with the correct answers helpfully included in brackets). Some of the less-than-diligent newshounds obliged by firing a few of the government-scripted questions at Mr. Chan.
Of course, this is precisely the sort of antic the Conservatives angrily condemned when a CBC reporter was caught feeding a Liberal MP questions to ask former prime minister Brian Mulroney. But because the tactic was helpful to the government in no-rules pre-writ warfare, it was deemed just dandy with the Prime Minister’s Office…
Yes. It’s “precisely” the same in that weird “it’s totally the opposite”—kind of way, i.e., while hanging like a moonbat.
Once you’re upright again, you can see where he’s, I don’t know, confused.
In the case of the Liberals and the CBC (and it wasn’t “antics” at all… I’d use “perfidy” and “collusion” and perhaps “abject state-owned media bias”), a supposedly objective (pausing for laughter) state-employed reporter for the liberal-left’s state-owned media, supplied potentially embarrassing questions to Liberal Party MPs sitting on the Committee, during official hearings, for the apparent express purpose of getting dirt on their nemeses, former Progressive Conservative PM Mulroney (and by extension I suppose, current “Conservatives”, despite the distant relationship).
Thanks to bloggers like me (you’re welcome! | Send money!), the CBC was aggressively called on it and subsequently launched an investigation and admitted they were clearly wrong.
In the “precisely” same example offered by Mr. Martin, which was actually precisely the exact opposite example, the Conservative MP’s staffer simply told its side of the story to the media in question-answer form, something it is entirely, precisely, entitled to do, without question.
As a matter of fact, ironically, media whiners like Mr. Martin constantly caterwaul about the Conservatives never chatting with them about anything and expressing their point of view. “Bunker mentality!” “Hidden agenda!” “MPs muted!” “Cabinet hushed, silenced, hidden from media…!”
So that was fun.
Try the same technique reading anything at the state-owned CBC.ca web site.
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