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1. They've kicked the story, big time. People are talking about it, again, all over. Wafergate had been dead for a month; now it's back, on steroids.
2. Journalists - who aren't exactly in a pro-owner mood, these days, and understandably so - are pissed off. What do they see? Two respected colleagues getting kicked to the curb. What do they see? The faint outlines of a link between the shipbuilding announcement and, hours later, the mincing, shit-eating apology. The media will protect their own - and they will ensure not even a tin fishing trawler is built anytime soon by you-know-who.
3. The Opposition - and, ironically enough, the Harper thugees - now can't go along with a penny being spent in that ship yard, even if they wanted to, because the whole file is tainted and/or too damned politically hot. In an era of minority governments, hot files = dead files. This one's dead. Good work, media magnates!
4. The apology is fundamentally false. The Roman Catholic establishment were upset that (a) Harper took communion when he should not have done so, and (b) speedily deposited the relevant host in a place other than his mouth. That's a fact, and it's a documented fact - see for yourself. Apologies, when warranted, are the right thing to do; when forced, they're not.
5. The geniuses at the T-J and PMO (Kory, come back!) have now persuaded thousands of people to again seek out the YouTube footage to see for themselves. And what they see there, with their own eyes, is what the Telegraph Journal originally reported: a Prime Minister taking a host (when he should not have done so), and tucking it in his pocket or a booklet (which is even worse).
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Good thing these guys aren't running the country or anything.
2. Journalists - who aren't exactly in a pro-owner mood, these days, and understandably so - are pissed off. What do they see? Two respected colleagues getting kicked to the curb. What do they see? The faint outlines of a link between the shipbuilding announcement and, hours later, the mincing, shit-eating apology. The media will protect their own - and they will ensure not even a tin fishing trawler is built anytime soon by you-know-who.
3. The Opposition - and, ironically enough, the Harper thugees - now can't go along with a penny being spent in that ship yard, even if they wanted to, because the whole file is tainted and/or too damned politically hot. In an era of minority governments, hot files = dead files. This one's dead. Good work, media magnates!
4. The apology is fundamentally false. The Roman Catholic establishment were upset that (a) Harper took communion when he should not have done so, and (b) speedily deposited the relevant host in a place other than his mouth. That's a fact, and it's a documented fact - see for yourself. Apologies, when warranted, are the right thing to do; when forced, they're not.
5. The geniuses at the T-J and PMO (Kory, come back!) have now persuaded thousands of people to again seek out the YouTube footage to see for themselves. And what they see there, with their own eyes, is what the Telegraph Journal originally reported: a Prime Minister taking a host (when he should not have done so), and tucking it in his pocket or a booklet (which is even worse).
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Good thing these guys aren't running the country or anything.
Stephen Harper puts the host (communion wafer) in his pocket from Karol Ramet on Vimeo.