Hysterical Bloggers Mimic Their Media Cousins

Do you remember all of the hype after the federal election that Stephen Harper's Conservatives were shut out of the three large urban centers; Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver? It was non-stop hysterical media at its shrieking best until, suddenly, Prime Minister Harper announced that he had closed the urban gap by appointing liberal David Emerson and tory businessman Michael Fortier to the federal cabinet. Well, well, that did it. Nope. For several days the mega b-stars of the modern blogging world went into a tizzy.

Perhaps this fresh look at Harper's choices might hold a kernel of wisdom - um truth?

The newspaper editorial that never was:

"Following the election a couple of weeks ago, we, like most other media outlets, made much of the fact that the Conservative government had not won any seats from Canada's "major urban centres,"” namely, Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. In unveiling his cabinet this week, the prime minister took decisive and unorthodox steps to correct this situation. Both Vancouver and Montreal are now represented not just in the Conservative government, but in the cabinet as a whole. Given our previous preoccupation with the government'’s lack of representation from these urban centres, we applaud the prime minister'’s leadership on this file.

Oh wait, that was yesterday. We no longer care about representation from urban centres; we now care solely about the the circumventing of the democratic process represented by appointing a non-elected minister and a member elected by another party. We call on the prime minister to address this egregious problem.

Of course, we also called on the prime minister to address the egregious problem of lack of representation from urban centres, which he just has. But that was yesterday. And rest assured that if the prime minister addresses the problem that we are currently dissatisfied with, we will find a whole new problem with him to bitch about the next day. That is, as the Canadian media, our sacred trust, that is our solemn promise to you. "

I have said it before, and I will say it again; Harper's cabinet is a genius of work.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

- Oscar Wilde