Man, I hate it when I have to keep agreeing with the Mace-Man:
"It's now been more than a week since details of a secret $100-million loan by the city of Vancouver to help save the Olympic athletes village project were first made public. Yet, with a just a day to go before one of the most important civic elections in Vancouver in decades, there remain many more questions about the deal than answers.
But that, of course, is just how the politicians and bureaucrats who run this city want it. Instead of dealing with the serious issues that swirl around the loan, they have diverted the public's attention to the more mundane question of how the information got out.
Now the whole matter has descended into a farce to a degree rarely seen on a civic stage the size of a city like Vancouver. The police have been called in. Councillors have agreed to take lie-detector tests. One poor politician was, for all intents and purposes, outed on television as the likely perpetrator of the leak......
Gary Mason, the original 'Receiver-In-Leak', is absolutely right, of course.
However, in addition to the 'politicians' and 'bureaucrats' who want us to focus on the leak as a criminal act rather than as citizenry-protecting-whistleblowing, Mr. Mason fails to finger the third leg in the 'Leak Triangulation Conspiracy'.
Which is the extremely wooden Lotuslandian Pro-Media Monopoly.
Case in point, Wednesday night's egregious Global TeeVee story from Ron Bencze that inferred that a Vancouver City Councillor may have been the 'Leaker-In-Chief' based entirely on the fact that he was 'gasp!' at City Hall doing his job with a bunch of other staff members and at least one other council member when he was supposed to be doing it.
Which is nothing short of codswallop of the worst kind.
Worse, in fact, than just about anything you can find in the most overwrought Fever Swamps of the Interwebz.
OK?
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And now the CanWests of the Global are wantonly wallowing in their own codswallop as well.
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