From a Paul Martin-loving editorialist in a liberal-loving political blog this morning:
Speaking in his Parliament Hill office overlooking the Outaouais River, one of the first interviews he has granted since leaving office, Martin appeared relaxed, at peace with himself and looking towards the future rather than dwelling on the past. The same passion with which he undertook the Herculean task of balancing Canada’s books as finance minister and then applied to running the country as prime minister will now be focused on things he cares deeply about, like setting up a new L-20 League of Nations or bringing equity to Canada’s aboriginal peoples.
OOPS—no sorry! This was from the National Post and it’s a “news article”. Again: a “news article”. No, not an editorial. It was written by Canwest News Service’s Elizabeth Thompson () for the Montreal Gazette on Friday, June 02, 2006.
Apparently doing the bidding (as some would say) for the now poor down-and-out failed Liberal leader Paul Martin, the “reporter” dutifully quotes all the Liberal’s liberal-left talking points and then repeats everything Martin says, news article-style. Because if he said it, it’s true! Don’t question him! Just type it out! Save your questions for Stephen Harper—OOPS AGAIN! You’re protesting against that now!
Here’s a “reporter”-written paragraph which informs us that the Conservatives failed us all—which forgets the words “Martin said”:
It was clear when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled the Conservative government’s maiden budget that the money necessary to implement the Kelowna Accord was nowhere to be found.
That was the paragraph. That’s information! Paul Martin had said (and they quoted him):
“We provided the money for it in the first five years and the government did not in its budget confirm that spending”
Paul Martin then said, and naturally they quoted him:
“My goal was pretty clear,” he explained. “I said, `If I could as finance minister set the goals by which we eliminated the deficit, surely the Government of Canada can set the goals by which we can eliminate this gap between aboriginal Canadians and other Canadians in terms of health care and education.’ “
And then the “reporter” writes a paragraph, news-article-style, informing us of this—this time at least remembering the words “Martin said”:
Martin said starting work on redressing the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians was the first thing he did when he became prime minister.
OK that oughta stick! But just to be sure, they repeated it in various different ways:
—“The gaps in health care and in education, in housing, in drinking water between aboriginal Canadians and the rest of Canadians is simply unacceptable,” Martin said Thursday as he began the fight to defend one of the key accomplishments of his administration.
—However, Martin’s more immediate priority is his concern Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is planning to scrap the Kelowna Accord, a $5-billion deal signed last November to close the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians in a variety of areas including health care, education, housing, clean water and employment.
—“Kelowna is essentially about narrowing and eliminating gaps in health care and education, housing and clean water. You’re either for that or you’re against it and if you’re against it …
It goes on and on like that. Of course they opened the “news article” with this:
OTTAWA – It would be “immoral” for the Conservative government to scrap the Kelowna Accord designed to close the gap between aboriginal Canadians and the rest of the population, former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin said Thursday.
Laughingly, the article starts to wind down thusly, transparently providing us with the real agenda here:
Where once Martin had all the levers of government at his disposal, now, as Member of Parliament for the southwest Montreal riding of LaSalle-Emard, Martin’s formal levers are now those of a backbencher—private member’s bills, committee hearings, publicity and his own powers of persuasion.
Oh yes that’s it—that’s all he has now —“private member’s bills, committee hearings, publicity and his own powers of persuasion.” No liberal media to do his bidding as some would say they did here, and to advertise and promote his point of view (and only his) in a huge “news” article in a nationally-distributed “news” paper.
They did get one quote from a Conservative, but forgot to get their side of the “news”:
Deidra McCracken, press secretary to Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice, referred to Kelowna as the “so-called accord”.
This is the epitome of “fair and balanced” to a liberal media.
Nope. No liberal media here. They sure are fair to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his side, as we can see in this “news” article.
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