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Good carving: Best column outside of PTBC in a week — John Ivison on Helena Guergis

Could have been called “Kowtowing to Liberal Political Correctness is Stupid, Here’s Scientific Proof #8,014”, or “Why Affirmative Action is Ridiculous, Part 2,487”, or possibly, “Appoint People Based on Merit, It’s a Proven Concept, Hello, Is This Microphone On?”.  These are wordy examples. 

Instead he went with a Geppetto/Pinocchio theme, which, it turns out, is rather ironic since the liberal media itself is guilty of serial Geppettoism.  Maybe John Ivison doesn’t consider himself to be part of the mainstream media, and that’s fair enough (he’s too good for most of them quite honestly), but to the extent he is a part, I believe the National Post columnist may be guilty of unconscious psychological projection.

Harper cuts the strings on an unlikely cabinet puppet

…For reasons that had nothing to do with the good governance of Canada, and everything to do with political affirmative action, he chose Ms. Guergis to be Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at a time when her foreign policy experience was probably limited to a visit to Boston Pizza.  …

Great observation.  Not that either Stephen Harper or Barack Obama had much more experience, if any more.  But at least they could appoint experts.

Mr. Ivison did allow that for its own part, we all suffer as a result of the media’s lack of propriety, and responsibility, and perspective, but he stops at simply stating it rather than telling us the whole story behind the story.  For example, that Geppato lives — writ large — in the media, and has given life to political correctness run amok, and the fallout which results.  And so he doesn’t explain things people don’t know, but should understand —about the media:

…At the end of the day, when the political demise of Helena Guergis, the most junior minister in cabinet, eclipses the 93rd anniversary commemoration of Vimy Ridge, you know the media has lost its sense of responsibility to tell people things they don’t know, but should understand. …

Some of us knew that quite a while back, actually.  And if that’s the deepest foray into media corruption that can be mustered today by someone who isn’t part of the image media, we’re still in deep trouble.  (Luckily we have me and PTBC!)  Whole newspapers could be and should be filled with stories about things people don’t know but should, mostly about liberals and progressives and what they’re up to and the implications of their actions, but which have been kept under wraps by the complicit, like-minded liberal media.  It’s the story of the decade.  Yet that story itself is not being told by the news media, except possibly by Fox News Channel.  And the long-term ramifications of that scandal far outweigh anything Miss Guergis did, but there you go. The fox is guarding the hen house (by which I don’t mean Fox News Channel).  So who’s carving who?

As one shrewd column commenter said, “It would be a little hypocritical for mainstream media to hold anyone to a high standard.”  Bang on.  Both houses are puppet factories.  I expect that of government these days.  But the media should cut strings with the liberal-left progressives, and get real.

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