CTV.ca front page – Politics news items. Designed to confuse? Quite possibly.
I’ve had a couple of long-running trifling complaints. Stay with me because what follows is slightly confusing:
1. The liberals’ media constantly call the Conservative Party “the Tories”, while almost never calling the Liberal Party “the Grits”.
2. That “Tories” moniker reeks of “red Tories” to me, as it was the name we used in this country to describe the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which no longer exists in name, and soon, hopefully, in deed and policy platform as well.
And one can easily add a third trifle in the name of John Tory, he of the failing Ontario Progressive Conservatives, which is about to lose an election (as a result of his Liberal Party Too—code-named “Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario”—policy platforms, which couldn’t even beat that loser Liberal government).
John Tory can’t easily change his name, and even the liberals can’t redefine him as they did, say, marriage. But they could stop calling the federal Conservatives “the Tories” and call them what they are, which is “the Conservatives” (—even if they are in name only). And for the next 20 years or so, call the Liberals “Grits” only —just to balance things out.
In the craziness at the CTV web site today, (above right), they run nearly the whole gamut. And in their last item, they seem to use the confusion to their liberal media advantage—to imply that the noble Liberal Senators in the Liberals’ Senate is rightly urging the nasty Grits to stop sniping—without calling the nasty and petulant snipers Liberals.
Told you it was confusing. But it doesn’t have to be. It just depends on whether you’re trying to clarify the news of the day for Canadians, or pushing an agenda, I think.
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