Newsquips? They’re my shorter version. Too much news, not enough time to devote to it all.
1. Well this is a positive headline:
PM appoints five judges with Conservative party ties
Great! Now if they just keep doing that for the next 20 or 25 years, the courts will begin to have some balance. I’ve said this before. The conservatives —in fact Liberals too when they next get elected —should appoint conservatives and only conservatives to all federal offices and positions in the entire bureaucracy for the next twenty years, in order to regain even a little balance. That’s how long it will take. And that’s what’s necessary for our country to regain balance. Anything less would be pure partisan politics.
Yet the National Post frames it as though it’s nefarious, scurrilous partisan politics at play, and an abominable act of utter hypocrisy. Or at least they try. They fail because every one of us in the smart set (possibly not their core market) knows they in the media are simply aping the hypocritical liberal-left talking points du jour, almost word-for-word. For example read this (with my notes in red):
David Akin, Canwest News Service; with a file from Janice Tibbetts
Published: Thursday, October 08, 2009Less than a week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper railed against “left-wing ideologues” in Canada’s court system, Mr. Harper appointed five judges with ties to the Conservative Party of Canada, Canwest News Service has learned. [Laugh with me at the tendentious language used in this “news” report —Joel]
In early September, in a partisan speech in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Mr. Harper said the Liberals, had they won the government last fall, would be putting “left-wing ideologues … in the courts, federal institutions, agencies, and the Senate.” [And your problem with this spot-on statement was…?]
But just a few days later, on Sept. 9, Mr. Harper and his Cabinet signed off on five judicial appointments, one of whom was a Mulroney-era Cabinet minister, and four others who contributed thousands of dollars to the Conservatives since 2004. [Hey! That ain’t liberal! There ought to be a law!]
So what exactly is Akin having a problem with? The idea that conservatives were appointed? Sounds like it. And therefore he has more than one problem.
2. Aw. Poor David Letterman. It’s so hard to say sorry for pulling a Bill Clinton with young interns and other women on his staff, while married. Boo hoo whoo. Poor Dave. Where can a liberal guy who hates conservatives and gratuitously bashes Sarah Palin for being good, and who slanders her children, and arrogantly winks through an apology, and who obviously actually doesn’t give a crap about family values, cut a break these days? Film at eleven on CT….V —possibly written by David Akin, Canwest News Service (see above)! (But start crying now.)
3. RESERVE, NOT MINISTRY, ORDERED 100 BODY BAGS. I didn’t need an inquiry to know this was what happened. What I need is for the media to spend the next week mocking Liberals and the you’ve got to be kidding party and the reserve officials who obviously covered up the truth, and of course themselves, for at least the next week, because that’s how long they spent wrongly accusing the Harper Conservative government (by political name) for what they called an egregious, callous, insensitive, act. Failure to do this would prove for the eight millionth time that the media is hideously biased and out to get the Conservatives.
…And just as I suspected, this is not happening (though I offer a small nod to the NatPo for their coverage on the front page).
3. National Post continues its liberal agenda-driving today, just two days after writing a lead editorial endorsing prostitution and demanding that Canada become a prostitution-friendly country (thereby also telling us way more than we wanted to know about them). This is a familiar technique used in all terrible news journals: Make a huge tendentious headline out of a quote from an agreeable liberal, even if it’s in a news headline rather than an editorial, in order to make it appear as though it’s the zeitgeist.
Like this: “National Post: thinks prostitution is what this country really needs to attract the best and brightest to our country and to help beleaguered Canadian families, says a conservative guy we agree with.”
4. … looking…
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