The New! Improved! Conservative "Miss" Spokesperson, 2008

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In case you missed it we're talking about the Harpoons' chief obfuscator.

And we're not joking around here; these are Rethug tactics served Raw, wherein the object is to game everything in a concerted effort to turn your political opponent's greatest strengths into his greatest weaknesses.

And the result of this wretched gaming is that, in the end, all public discourse is turned to crap.

Such that, for example, real war heroes are become lily-livered pansies while effective draft dodgers emerge, newly forged as aircraft carrier codpieces.

Ms. O'Malley has this particular, and particularly Canadian, story of obfucatory gamesmanship nailed down from top to bottom, and it is she who has done us the honour of bestowing the glittering crown of "MissSpokesperson" on Mr. Ryan Sparrow.

And, of course, as is to be expected when the game you run is ultimately designed to fling crap into the Wurlitzer so that it can be sprayed on everyone concerned, the NaPo has picked up the fake story in all it's fecal matter of (anti)factness.

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This is a very, very dangerous Rovian Road we are heading down here folks.

After all, if we continue in this direction, what's next?

Will Ken Dryden, when he next stands up in the House to question the direction of our Foreign Policy, be pelted by the guano of an entire flock of MissSpokespersons all alluding to the (anti)fact that he didn't really win the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1971 because he was actually thrown in a secret jail by Alexander Haig for repeatedly desecrating the flag while he tripped on Kool-Aid (the real thing) and watched old Groucho Marxist propaganda films at Cornell?

And will all that crap get picked up by the NaPo late on a Friday afternoon so that it can be spun out as Fool's Gold on the front pages of newspapers all over North America by Monday?

Of course, that kind of stuff is just crazy talk, right?

Maybe.

But now might be the time to remind you of the Harpoon-assisted NaPo-driven News Zombie that kept on giving?

Or that funny little slip that wasn't really a controlled leak about a certain U.S. Democratic candidate and NAFTA that hit the broadsheets just before the bloom suddenly came off that candidate's Primary Rose.

Or the fact that we have had to spend months and months defending a successful harm reduction program/public health success with real scientific backing from the repeated attacks of a single source of anti-scientific codswallop that was first 'published' in a Rovian-funded 'journal' and jumped at by much of the MSM because of the Wurlitzer's cheap date love affair with false equivalencies.

If you get my drift.

OK?

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All snarkolepsy aside, if you are interested in good journalism that counts, go and read Ms. O'Malley's entire account of this thing, post-by-post, at her place. She cloaks it all in the relaxed breezy language of the Wolcott's of this World, but the story itself is really quite chilling.

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