Fuschi’s Canadian Forum

Beware of Liberals sermonizing about conservative anger/accusations/bullying. It means you have found the mark and are competing on soil they presume to own. That is, anger, accusations and bullying are part and parcel of their superior humanist presumptions, and how dare you use these against them?

For a quick example, see the comment by Sam regarding my post "Wanted, Terrorists…" (see below). In a typical display of that superior humanist presumption, he lectures me with the descriptions, "juvenile, tiresome, and sick", making no intelligent effort to defend the position I attacked. 

A meatier example of the same occurred during my 2004 federal campaign. Candidates were invited to a labour-sponsored debate, to which I took the bait, (I should have known better) along with, notably, an incumbent Liberal from the adjacent riding. Since we were at the height of the adscam furore, I took aim at the juicy Liberal target with my opening address, and lambasted her with a lecture about abusing the trust of Canadians for personal party gain. I remained tactful and impersonal at all times, but gave no quarter on a topic which I thought was the quintessence of importance to voters. Her defense, (surprise) consisted of a lecture about the collapse of civility from the opposition and their candidates, at a time when we should all be working together. (I prefer Tony Soprano.) To cap that charade, I was personally beset, after the debate, by young partisans who were appalled at the anger in my speech. I should have been more graceful with liars and thieves.

And now here is a current example of a liberal journalist displaying her superior humanism and civility. Susan Riley www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html of the Ottawa Citizen, wearing her journalistic impartiality clearly on her sleeve, said the following:

Progressives need to dismiss the yapping dogs…                                                                   In this appraisal of parliamentary activity, it is obvious that she has never bothered to look at the other side, where blowhard puffery and raucous fingering was brought to a fine art.

Harper’s hit-men are framing the carbon tax as another burden on over-taxed consumers.                                                                                                                                 Only a Liberal can see this as a dastardly ploy to fool the public. Taking the public’s tax money and using it as their own, to disperse in brown envelopes, as campaign strategy dictated, was merely business as ususal. Now, anyone who does not trust the existence of honest intention in a scam to rake billions out of those same pockets, is a hit-man.

Harper is …suggesting that criticism of Isreal’s government…amounts to "good, old-fashioned anti-Semitism,"                                                                                                     Quoting Bob Rae, Riley calls this a smear, because the Israelis themselves are often critical of their government, and is this not simply democracy? Smooth, but too clever. The real topic is a whole different story. Liberals have consistently failed to support Israel in most UN motions which criticized its actions - whether justified or not. And, in so doing, emboldened the pack of hostile accusers which regularly pre-empt the logical thought processes of the general assembly.

Remember that the radical right requires a shouting war…                                                  Imagine that assessment coming from the left, where balaclavas, bricks and bottles, have often been the instruments of diplomacy. 

But he (Harper) will keep pounding away, fuelled by his inexhaustible anger…             Need I say more? It’s enough to make you "lose it".

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