Oh my—it’s another busy awards weekend, what with the fabulous liberals in Hollowood undeservedly awarding themselves shiny trinkets this weekend for the 89th time this year (for utterly no reason at all whatsoever) at the big “Emmys” telecast, and then this: the truly meaningful.
Just when I though there wouldn’t be a much-coveted ProudToBeCanadian.ca Quote Of The Week Award this week, I found a goodie. (In actual fact there are dozens of goodies from among our columnists but I forgot about the weekly Award until just this moment. That’s how our famous Awards program often works here. We simply skip some weeks.)
It’s from Michael Coren’s latest column in the Toronto Sun, which was about the stupid Peter C. Newman book on former PM Brian Mulroney, yawn.
Here’s the leadup to the Award-winning sentence. This is what got the judges’ attention. OK mine.
[…] What the book does reveal and even symbolize, however, is the incestuous relationship that exists in Canada between the media and the establishment. Mulroney trusted Newman because that is how the game works.
Too many journalists clamour for Orders of Canada and political appointments from a ruling class with which they should barely be on speaking terms. We saw this only recently when a journalist was made governor general by a PM clouded in allegations of backroom deals and incompetence.
… because I’ve said such things so many times. I only award people who think or say things like me, see.
Then he pumped this line out—which by the way due to my editing ability being vastly superior to that of the Toronto Sun and my eagle eyes and the fact that I’m perfect in e-ver-y way, I corrected because there was a typo (they had “county” when it should have been “country”. Nah.)
When politicians come to see journalists not as a threat but as another wing of government, who can we trust to tell us what really goes on behind closed doors and how this country has effectively lost its democratic governance?
For further reference, see my Lexicon entries under “The CBC Division of the Liberal Party”, and “liberal*vision”.
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