There's a well-known family dynamic that says that no matter how annoying or irritating your siblings might be, the instant there's an assault from outside the family circle, you immediately band together. You might torture your younger brother mercilessly but, if someone else tried it, you would instantly jump to the defense and kick the living crap out of said abuser. The rule is simple: internal squabbling always takes a back seat to defending one's own social structure.
This is a lesson that is sadly lost on one of Canada's most vile human beings: one Kate McMillan who, somehow having been selected to share her narrow-minded, right-wing philosophy through the CBC, refers to the current dust-up involving U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins in which McMillan, to her everlasting shame (although one doubts McMillan is capable of actual shame) writes:
The opening volleys from the Liberal-left body politic in this election are, as usual, being directed south. If there is a glimmer of hope to be sighted, it is that for the first time, the south is beginning to fire back - and good on them.
That's right -- the United States' official representative to this country has seen fit to stick his nose into our electoral process and McMillan, in a delightful demonstration of classlessness, thinks that's just a terrific idea.
Most of us who actually like Canada (warts and all) prefer to fight this battle amongst ourselves. We'll yell at each other across the ideological divide, and call each other names on our blogs and deride the opposition but, in the end, we'll go to the polls and we'll live with the result. Maybe not happily, but we'll live with it.
McMillan, sadly, has made it clear where her loyalties lie. (What else can you say about a Canadian who titles her column "The UnCanadian" and proudly brags that she is a "group member of the well-known U.S./politics news blog OutsideTheBeltway.com?)
McMillan does, of course, have the right to blog whatever she wants, which includes the right to announce that she clearly prefers the United States to Canada and that she has no problem whatever with foreign meddling in our upcoming elections. But it's a total mystery as to why the CBC decided that someone with that attitude should be granted prime real estate at the CBC web site to pontificate to Canadians when it's clear she doesn't even like the country compared to the U.S.
As I count, the CBC offered blogging space on their site to exactly five people. What a shame that one of those choices was utterly wasted on someone as nationally irrelevant and offensive as McMillan.
3 comments:
It's a CBC conspiracy CC,
They know how vile she is. They picked her - so that Canadians could get a really good TASTE of what to expect from the Conservative party!
I think it's working splendidly!
Don't you? :)
I concur with meaghan. Kate is the absolute best choice to represent the clownservatives.
I think they jump the shark when they take $ from the big 6.
It reminds me that a fad or movement is long dead when you see it in a McDonalds commercial. John of Americablog too...it just sad to see him excited about being on CNN et al.
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