SmearVille
OK.
Yesterday, after the StratCon Poll that helped reinforce the Superbowl Smear Aids was splattered all over the front page of the Globe And (NoLongerEmpire) Mail, I speculated that Little Stephen and The Imperial(ist)s would surely pooh-pooh all this 'call an election now' talk in an effort to build the Big Mo.
After all, why let reality intrude when the StratCon's 34/29 CCRAP over Lib numbers can be just as easily matched by the dead-heat from Decima.
But what I had missed at the time was the next 'Big Lie' that was slipped in like a shiv on the same day's OpEd page from that academic Neidermeyer of the Northern Neostraussians, Tom Flanagan, who went so far as to say:
"At bottom, the Liberal tactics amount to a kind of bastardized Americanism. They're trying to set up Parliament as a force contrary to the Prime Minister and cabinet. But the genius of the American system of separation of powers is to encourage compromise between the House of Representatives, an elected Senate, and an elected President armed with the power of veto. The Liberals, in contrast, while making common cause with separatists who want Canada to fail, are relying on an appointed Senate and a Governor-General who no longer has a veto power."
Can you believe that CCRAP?
A Con Party operative throws up some expedient garbage about private member's bills being an 'American' tactic and then he implies that a party led by Mr. Dion, one of the architects of the Clarity Act, is actually pro-separatist and our so-called paper of record prints it on the very same day that they also trumpet a poll that, to be frank, 'pushes' the very same Con-Op's candidate.
I mean, to quote a certain modern day (American) Eliott Ness this is:
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You know, back in the days when many of my good friends in the States began to really and truly despair at the fact that their entire country had been taken over by liars, swindlers and cheats (ie the Fall of 2004), I cautioned them against their urge to flight an evil Propogammon Machine with an even more powerful PropMachine of their own.
Because I always thought that, in the end, the truth would win out.
But now that the Libby trial has demonstrated how the Mainstream Media really works in America I'm not so sure this is possible.
And what really scares me is that Mess'rs Flanagan and Harper actually seem smarter than, say, the Rover and the Shooter*.
Not to mention the fact that the Canadian MSM has proven that it is not much better than the Yanks at dealing with journalism by smear (see: Arar, Maher).
Which is why I've come to the conclusion that we need a Stephen Colbert to call our own.
And, while he's great and all, unfortunately I don't think Rick Mercer is quite up to the job.
OK?
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*I left the Twig parallel out of it on purpose. After, all the CCRAPtacularists already tried that when they foisted the Stockboy on us, and we rejected him. So, I guess there are still some differences between the two cultures - although if Mr. Day had worn a codpiece over that wetsuit, well, who knows......
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