Political media commentary in Canada is usually funny.
Lately, commentary on federal politics is even funnier.
Example The First: Winston Smith makes several cogent observations which should - among other things - put to death that always laughable Connie excuse that the news media are biased in favour of the Liberals. Read Winston. He’s always sharp as a tack. he’s not the funny stuff; the people he’s writing about are funny, albeit not meaning to be laughable.
Example The Second: the bevy of comment in many quarters prompted by the Prime Minister’s recent tickling of the ivories at the National Arts Centre. Again, unintentionally risible.
You got your American bloggers of the conservative variety.
You got your locals of the something variety, including the line “I am growing more and more impressed with Stephen Harper.” Now just note that for what it’s worth. If that comment is coming from that source, be sure that there will be no ABC campaign in the next federal election.
But anyway…
There are news stories and columns all over the place.
Only one journalist so far has nailed the point about the whole NAC thing and she did so this morning with a pithy line to the effect that the piano is the latest version of the sweater vest.
In other words, it’s a contrivance. Sure the guy plays the piano but the entire episode was designed to create exactly the commentary it is generating.
As great as that is, it is a sure sign of just how vacuous is the political landscape that the biggest national story is that the PM can bash out a Beatles tune on the nearest Yamaha.
It’s as irrelevant to the universe as the claim the Liberals are on a campaign to bring the government down or any protest that Jack Layton and his Dippers propped up Stephen Harper just recently because they could score some dough for their peeps.
All three federal political parties are suffering from a gross leadership problem the proof of which is the fact that the big news out of Ottawa is about Denis Coderre, a non-election scare and a guy who took music lessons.
In the meantime, just think about the stuff that none of them are actually talking about.
Anyone been following economic news lately, for example?
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