Representing only a small minority segment of Canadian political opinion, our right-wing puindits are nevertheless disporportionately popular. Why is this?
Perhaps these pundits among us represent a small (miniscule) voice of solidarity in a world which is increasingly turning against the US in it's support of America's wars, sanctions, foreign policy and general boorish attitudes towards everyone else.
Perhaps these pundits allow the news networks to present an alternative point of view in newscasts, which are beginning to show nothing but a world which dislikes the current US administration. It gets boring to just hear how much everyone is angry with you, don't you know.
The latest of these pundits has been spawned (and apparently spurned) by my hometown of Vancouver, BC, rather than some Midwestern business-ville. The latest "arch-conservative in a miniskirt" (I stole that) is none other than Julia Roberts photo-imitator, blogger, public-access radio host and shameless self-promoterRachel Marsden.
In looking at the website blog entries that must be what got her the weekly National Post column (Marsden's CV seems without previous journalism experience), one has to wonder as a Canadian from a navel-gazing cultural backwater-and I agree with her definition of Vancouver in some respects, but it is still a great place to live- if she shouldn't just skip Toronto entirely and move straight to the US (do not pass "go") where her ruthless and intolerant opinions might find a more suitable home. Oh wait, they already have Anne Coulter, who makes Marsden look positively small-'l'-liberal. How many bigots in a miniskirt does one crowded pundit universe have room for?
Guess Canada is the next best place, despite all us raging commies who want to give basic human rights to all citizens. Besides, Rachel, you can join the impending conservative Church-goer takeover of the Conservative Party of Canada. Me, I'll be getting high on medical marijuana with some immigrants at a gay wedding at a church that ordains homosexual ministers somewhere back home. Good riddance.
Never been to Spain.
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Holy Jesus, what an idiot she is! I can't believe people will publish that! Not that The National Post is to be held up as a paragon of journalism, but for Pete's (& everybody else's) sake! What crap! I love the conclusion of her article, The World According to Linda McQuaig: 'Whether it comes to health care or human rights, the point isn't to protect the little guy. It's to make sure the rich and powerful get screwed.' Oh, yeah that's totally why the government is being cautious with opening up the health care system to private clinics. It's all about screwing rich people & making them wait in line for their new hips along with all the other proles.
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