Liberals Aghast! Not Speechless.

A manufactured contraversy is emerging over Monte Solberg’s satirical post directed at the “discovery” of new charter “rights” by “Paul Martin Luther King”. Not surprisingly, the rhetoric reads like parody – “Liberals aghast. Liberal MP Marlene Jennings said she was “left speechless after reading it.”
We should be so lucky.
Monte fires back;

there are those joyless people who spend their lives looking for reasons to be outraged. These are the people who are offended by everything. What an awful way to pass your days. I really do feel sorry for them.
Finally there are those who feign outrage. This is the camp that my friends Scott Reid and Marlene Jenning fall into. They are real pro’s at the outrage game. They actually get the joke but pretend that they don’t. They are outraged for the cameras and then they go back to their desk, eat a muffin and read the paper.

And, in what I only hope was the outcome of a planned strategy – every Liberal sympathetic journalist on the outrage beat is sending readers directly to his blog – where his response is there to read, without the media filters.
The gatekeepers have just stepped aside to let the hordes into the castle.
This is the power of the blogosphere, writ large.
Monte should be spending the next few days writing and linking like a maniac, to capitalize on the curiousity seeking traffic.
A flashback to remind us all of the double standard in the national media that makes it so important to remove them from the communication loop: Scott Brison, Liberal MP on June 28, 2004:

“There’s not a lot of room for Red Tories in a party with a lot of rednecks.”

This was not satire. This was not the fond self-deprecation so often used here in the west, when referring to our own.
This was Liberal MP Scott Brison, revealing the bigotry of the Liberal Party towards the very people who pay his expense account. A rhetorical club swung by a faux-elitist to drive home the point that, in Canada, there are some segments of society who are unworthy of a voice in the political process because they have committed the crime of being “unsophisticated”, hardworking, and rural.
And nobody raised an eyebrow.
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