Pure Comedy Gold

[Montgomery Burns]

I found this op-ed at the Toronto Star written by the progressive (code for extreme leftwinger) Linda McQuaig.

It's titled We should speak truth to power more often.

She starts off complaining about the rogue Bush administration and its lawless "war on terror" (her sneer quotes, not mine).

Then she complains that many thought that Martin's comment (the "global conscience" remark) was out of line when he criticized the US on its refusal to sign Kyoto.

Then she claims "a poll found 61 per cent supported Martin for criticizing Washington on this." She offers no proof or anything about this poll. Rather odd, since the CTV online poll (which had over 28,000 votes) had 30% supporting Martin's remarks, and 70% voting that PMPM should "shut up".

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Remember how foolish Martin ended up looking when it was revealed that the US's greenhouse has emissions had risen 13% since 1990, while Canada's had risen 24.4%?

McQuaig then serves up this hilarity:

Of course, Martin would have more credibility if Canada's own record on climate change weren't so bad. We've failed drastically in cutting our own emissions. Still, we did sign Kyoto

Sure, our record is nearly twice as bad as the USA, but damnit, WE DID SIGN KYOTO so we are the good guys and the US are the bad guys.

Speak truth to the power!