“Harper snubbed by ‘progressive’ summit”?
Oh dear. Sorry liberal-left media —nice try though.
Liberal media in Canada are so liberal that they no longer even know they’re liberal. They just think they’re normal.
When you’re a Conservative Party of Canada leader, not being invited to a global liberal-left-wing summit of mainly socialist political parties (suddenly they’re all about the globalization), is not, by definition, being “snubbed” in any negative sense. It’s an endorsement. A good thing, as the progressive Martha Stewart would say about, oh, not being invited back to jail for example. It’s confirmation that you’re on the right track. In juxtaposition to the wrong track. Good news. Positive. Actually, progressive in the most positive sense.
As I’ve tried to educate the liberal-left media, the word “progressive”, as used by Paul Martin et al, is code for political, global, liberal-left fundamentalism —it’s not “actively favoring or striving for progress toward better conditions, as in society or government”, which is what pops up on their Blackberries when they look it up.
By definition, the liberal-left fundamentalists (like the Liberal Party of Canada, which nobody wants to lead; and the you’ve got to be kidding party of Jack Layton) quietly favor the more pathological definition, which is “tending to become more severe or wider in scope: progressive paralysis.” To this they secretly add Fabian socialism to their hidden agenda political cocktail as the means to their ends.
The Communist Party of Canada, if you follow my blog (see this entry), also calls itself “progressive”, for example. So you see, NOT being associated with the same kind of thinking as the Communist Party is (all together now) …a damn fine thing. Not a “snub”.
Yet unwittingly, the authors of the article in the National Post made me laugh over my coffee and oatmeal this morning. So kudos to them for that. Liberals are funny.
Headline:
Harper snubbed by ‘progressive’ summit
Blair, Clintons invited
They say it like it’s a negative. Laugh with me.
Then the ominous report:
Canada has been dropped from a global club of “progressive” nations because of the election of a new federal government headed by Stephen Harper.
[…] “I think it’s fair to say the Conservative party as a whole now operates from a centre-right position. This is a movement designed to bring the centre and left together.”
[I find it funny that there’s a global “movement” designed to bring global socialism, which loathes globalization …to the whole world —Joel]
Mr. Browne noted that a country’s affiliation is not permanent, as with the G8 group of nations. He added that although Mr. Clinton was a driving force behind the movement, U.S. President George W. Bush has never been asked to attend the summits, “and I’m sure George Bush wasn’t offended that he wasn’t invited.”
Mr. Harper’s office declined comment on the matter.
[…] This year’s session, which follows an October, 2004, gathering of leaders in Hungary—where Mr. Martin gave a speech lauding the “progressive philosophy” of Canada and other centre-left nations—will be hosted by Mr. Mbeki and attended by Mr. Blair, Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-Chan, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, Sweden’s Goeran Persson and several other current and former government leaders from five continents.
Then Mr. Beer & Popcorn spoke.
Mr. Martin’s spokesman, Scott Reid, told CanWest News Service yesterday that “the Prime Minister
[the one whose butt is about to be hit by a door on the way out —Joel]
is seriously considering accepting the invitation. The summit is an outstanding forum for centre-left leaders to exchange ideas concerning the development of progressive policies both at home and internationally.”
Mr. Reid added that: “Canadians made a choice. They elected Stephen Harper fair and square. And this simply is not a forum for conservative leaders.”
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