Scott Feschuk is delighted to have the opportunity to have his photo taken with the prime minister. He’s overjoyed:
What a moment.
I never thought that I — a regular, ordinary Canadian — would get the chance to have my photo taken with the Prime Minister of Canada.
But as luck and crass political calculation would have it, he’s eager to be seen with me! All I have to do is attire myself in such a manner as to flamboyantly display my heritage, thereby rendering me a subhuman prop that Stephen Harper can exploit to woo more of my kind.
Needless to say, I’m in.
As is true of much national folklore garb, it can take quite a while to get into my ethnic costume. Each item has been carefully selected to represent a historic and sacred element relating to my suitably exotic but non-threatening culture.
Join me, won’t you, as I get dressed.
I think I can speak for all of us about our deep gratitude that this blog post is not illustrated.
It’s also nice to see that the Conservatives have not yet figured out how to avoid handing their opponents such wonderful opportunities for mockery.
Original tempest-in-an-ethnic-teapot here. 680News reported yesterday that the staffer who wrote the letter is no longer working for the candidate.
What is sad is that if there was an honest bone in the body of the media they would report that this is exactly what every politician wants, a visual representation of how accepting and multi-culti they are. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
Comment by Dwayne — April 14, 2011 @ 19:15
But how can you expect the media to pass up the opportunity to point and shame someone who clearly transgresses against the most sacred of multicultural beliefs? Explaining that this is what every political candidate wants, but is generally too careful to spell out in this level of detail, would be a waste of time and effort. No headlines in it, and few would read past the first paragraph of the explanation.
Comment by Nicholas — April 14, 2011 @ 20:56
The transgression is specifically CPC and therefore an easy target. The msm has been running interference for the opposition for so long a news report is barely indistinguishable from a campaign ad. Remember all the stories about the CPC negative ad campaign, and now the complete lack of stories of the NDP and Liberal negative ad?
Comment by Dwayne — April 14, 2011 @ 21:27
Oh, puh-lease! Everyone knows that it’s only the fascists and their jackbooted assistants who would ever commit this kind of sin. Even if it happened to a Liberal or NDP candidate, it’d clearly have to be the result of a dirty tricks campaign by the Tories.
In the same way that the newspapers always use special subliminal HTML coding whenever they’re discussing the PM: <scary crowdnoise=”Boo”>Stephen Harper</scary>. You can’t see it, but you know it’s there (and we have surveys to prove it).
Comment by Nicholas — April 14, 2011 @ 22:06