[goldstategop]

Canadian Stephen Harper flipped off the Canadian MSM. The explosions of impotent, sputtering outrage from the Ottawa media are a pleasure to behold. As far as one-fingered salutes to a hostile media is concerned, Harper has demonstrated he can strategerize over the heads of the Canadian MSM as well as President Bush does in the States. A Conservative knows he is going to be maligned and the Prime Minister has taken another significant step to show he is not beholden to any one but the people of Canada who elected him and his party to lead the country.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[ferri]

ping

[CowboyJay]

I'm sorry, but this just smacks of Soviet-style 'Ministry of Information' tactics that will sanitize the reports rather than calling for honesty in the media. Not good.

[backhoe]

It's too much to copy & paste here, but our friend Kate at SDA:

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/

has a variety of posts regarding this.

Be sure to read the "comments" sections- wit, sarcasm, fact-checking, useful URLs to follow, and a few trolls, shills, and disruptors.

You'll feel right at home...

[listenhillary]

This meant that reporters could no longer waylay ministers as they left Cabinet meetings for on-the-spot televised "scrums," which occasionally result in unbecoming and often-incoherent shouting matches between reporters and Cabinet ministers.

Who's fault is that?

[leprechaun9]

I wish President Bush would shut off the daily press sessions that are nothing more than a prop for the pimps of the election industry, THE MSM!

I also wish he would appoint General Honore as his Press Secretary.

[1rudeboy]

bttt [chuckle]

[RouxStir]

He probably got word that Helen Thomas was being assigned to Canada.

[CaptainCanada]

"This implicit one-finger salute to the Ottawa media must, of course, have been a carefully considered decision, probably reached, like many of Harper's decisions, long before he took office. He knows that he owes journalists no thanks whatever for his election, and that during the remarkable five years when he gained the leadership of the right, and unified it into a force capable of forming a minority government, the media in general jeered and deplored him at every step."

EXACTLY, SO FU OTTAWA PRESS CORP..

[Peter Libra]

Perhaps the Prime Minister had heard the first rule when attaining power. This is a Rush Limbaugh rule. Herewith.

Do not try to make those whom you have defeated, like you

Like as in, think kindly of.