Really, Maclean’s? Habemus hyperbole, Batman.
And the correct response is: Bunkum. Not on my watch.
Then, conservative Canadians—many millions strong—should dump their Maclean’s magazines and subscriptions, to prove it.
Take this and everything the liberal media—and nearly all of their self-esteemed columnists—say with a huge grain of salt. Or to put it more accurately: assume everything you see in the liberal media is actually rabidly ANTI-CONSERVATIVE AND FULL OF BULL. Because it generally is. The media has a political, economic, and social agenda. And it’s liberal, and left.
Last week’s Maclean’s “special” issue seemed to insinuate that America—the greatest power the world has ever known—is all but collapsed; but now, thanks to the election one single guy, their (Maclean’s) new Messiah—a barely qualified nobody three years ago—the 
same America that had totally reached its fateful “end” (like conservatism in Canada —wink!), is about to be totally “remade”. Fixed up completely. Just like that. Raised from the dead. And by the way it’s apparently as simple as this, as it says on the cover, quoting the new papam Obama: “We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America”. There ya go. Go grab a Hot Pocket.
This week’s Maclean’s cover tells everyone in the supermarket line that “conservativism is dead” in our country. Period. That’s it. Dead. No hope. No future. Nothing, nada, zip, finished. Truth be known, the author of the main “death” article, Andrew Coyne (one of Canada’s best columnists) ends his penultimate “conservatism is dead” — and here’s my death-bed column full of dyslogistic terms —with this hopeful note: “…perhaps a new political philosophy will arise, and a new party to give voice to it. We might call it conservatism.” So, a sort of “pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off”, as it were? I see.
So nice try with that cover, Maclean’s. See ya.
EXTRA:
• Maclean’s is owned by Rogers. Huh.
• Mark Twain: “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
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