My experience is that Canadians are among the world’s most heavily indoctrinated and misinformed people on earth, not including the Canadians on this site, of course. The media’s attacks on the people on the right are much more subtle here, and therefore insidious and harder to overcome. They don’t resort to the obvious ridicule and outlandish characterization and accusations that we see on the network news in the US. They insert demeaning adjectives into their nuanced “analysis” that obliquely criticize the subject (e.g. PDJT), and the non-discerning or single source news consumers walk away with the same opinion as the talking head.
This Penny woman is just another one of the ignorant ones so her opinions and writings hold no attraction for me. On the contrary, that she’s friends with HRC fills me with such disdain that I’d openly snub her if we met.
The lasting thing the past 5 years have taught me is that there are very few people in the public eye who deserve our high regard. The majority of them have been co-opted as mouthpieces for the left’s propaganda. Ms Penny is one of them.
A few years ago, the NYT wrote a flattering profile of Miss Penny focusing on the imaginary town featured in her mysteries and the legions of fans who attempt to visit it.
I gather her “collaboration” with Her Crustiness has been in the works for a while.
Re The lasting thing the past 5 years have taught me is that there are very few people in the public eye who deserve our high regard. The majority of them have been co-opted as mouthpieces for the left’s propaganda.:
Very perceptive.
I only trust those who haven’t lied to us.
President Trump’s about the only one who’s kept his promises and given us the truth.
All others are suspect.
But I have trust issues...
I think you missed the point of that post. :)
One of my cousins in the Vancouver area has a successful specialty lumber business, with most of his customers in the U.S. He's pretty conservative and generally pro-American. He was initially pro-Trump -- until Trump raised tariffs on lumber. Ironically, under Trump the U.S. economy improved so much that he ended up selling even more lumber. This didn't flip his Trump opinion back to favorable. In fact he now seems to have turned completely to the Biden camp.
I blame the Canadian media, especially CBC TV, where most Canadians get their news every night of the week. I think their goal is to outdo CNN and MSNBC on the anti-Trump scale.