Where are the Ghost Story Busters when you need them? Because it’s getting harder and harder to find the non-story that the media invented last week, and even the key characters in the non-story don’t know the plot very well. The main character said this week: “I don’t understand what the story is”. Bad story development and pretty bad writing if the main character doesn’t even understand what—or where—the story is!
As I said two days ago and alluded to yesterday, the non-story that the media is trying so very hard to turn into another great anti-Conservative non-story is… not a story. It’s really a ghost floating around in the ether. But they keep trying.
To catch up on this non-story for which the media are straining to write new chapters, read this blog entry first, then this one, then read this.
They in the liberal media do this quite often to the Conservative Party, especially when the Conservative Party is making gains in the polls, which the media hates because as a group they’re liberal-left and largely hate the conservative people of Canada and everything they stand for, including the party that fits them the best.
For example, all week long, the National Post has been running a daily lament about whether or not “Conservatism is dead” in Canada. You see, there is apparently a question about that. No, I did not know that. No, even as one of those conservatives, surprisingly even I didn’t know there was a question about it being “dead”—until of course they started posing the possibility and planted that in my mind. I imagine they blew off a lot of the conservative vote with that series. Good work liberals! And of course now we all know the answer: not dead …but nearly!
Another of the Canwest/Global papers ran a series over the summer. The Vancouver Sun ran a huge series of huge articles written by multiple staff writers and columnists about how the Conservative Party is being taken over by religious nut cases and scary dangerous moralists and zealots—many of them from scary America!—and other nefarious bonafide members of “The Religious Right ™” and by folks who dare to defend the rights of the bothersome unborn, and the thousands-year-old tradition and penis/vagina logic and family values associated with normal marriage between a man and a woman…. so people of Canada: BEWARE of those conservatives! They’re scary like a ghost! Boo! There goes another Christian spouting off!
They regularly pull shear nothingness out of the vacuum of space (otherwise known as the media cafeteria at Parliament hill, and Liberal rank and file and Liberal Cabinet lounge where Liberals are sitting around eating taxpayer-funded Pop Tarts and discussing the latest Will and Grace or Desperate Housewives); and then they massage it and churn it out as a negative (non-)story complete with quotes from “sources” and “unnamed sources” and “top officials” who have a habit of asking “not to be identified” about the Conservatives, and head them up with really negative headlines; they editorialize about it a whole bunch because there was no story to start with; they as a group ask more mindless leading tendentious questions of Conservative politicians in scrums; and they hope that it all ultimately throws a huge negative wrench into any gains the Conservatives are making in the polls. All based on a non-story. It usually works quite well. Meanwhile, Liberals are being criminally investigated under the cloud of the biggest political corruption scandal our great country has ever known in its history. That’s no story, you see.
This past week or two, the Conservatives have been gaining in polls. The heat is on!
So of course, dutifully, late in the week, they asked Mr. Harper (the key character in most of their villainous tales) about a non-story that they invented earlier last week, hoping they could jam some legs onto this non-story. I doubt this is the final chapter. They’re doing a lousy job as usual, but they seem to be having fun messing with your mind while also trying to mess with the prospects of the Conservative Party too. They’re professional journalists, and this is what we’ve come to expect of them!
MacKay said he was staying in Ottawa: Harper
Tory leader Stephen Harper says he does not understand why some are accusing him of not doing enough to keep his deputy Peter MacKay in Ottawa.
“I don’t understand what the story is,” said Harper in Kitchener, Ont. on Saturday. “I’ve discussed this issue with Peter. Peter told me he had no interest, whatsoever, in leaving federal politics.
“Obviously I have made Peter my deputy leader which is the highest position I could give to any member of my caucus.” […]
Perhaps they should have started with “Once upon a time…” to give their story more street cred amongst the asinine.
They closed their 8-paragraph story-ette with this curt little gem, which is, I think, supposed to read like a reminder of how stupid Mr. Harper is, but it in fact backfires—meaning the reporters are the stupid one.
Harper was criticized in the past for not trying to hold onto MP Belinda Stronach—now a cabinet minister under Prime Minister Paul Martin.
I certainly didn’t criticize Mr. Harper for “not trying to hold onto MP Belinda Stronach”. I praised him. I said then and I still say today: Mr. Harper should “not try to hold onto” any liberals within the Conservative Party. There’s still several more that need to leave. We see them occasionally throwing well-orchestrated little baby tantrums in front of the media hoping to make a name for themselves with the very appreciative media capturing every well-scripted moment. Liberals are lousy actors, and as we can see, they also make lousy reporters too. And governments.
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