Marci MacDonald
is making some waves doing the usual uber-liberal "we are the gatekeepers and you're not" shtick.
I'd never heard of this woman before, but in the last few days all we've heard about on the radio and on some blogs is her new book about - wait for it - gasp!!! (spoken in deep, scary tones) THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT!!! (screech! screech! screech!!).
According to her statements on these CTV interviews the religious right:
Ezra Levant and Joseph Ben Ami tear her apart. Well done gentlemen. The CTV journos, on the other hand, skirt around her bigotry oh so gently.
I'd never heard of this woman before, but in the last few days all we've heard about on the radio and on some blogs is her new book about - wait for it - gasp!!! (spoken in deep, scary tones) THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT!!! (screech! screech! screech!!).
According to her statements on these CTV interviews the religious right:
- should be denied access to the "corridors of power" in Ottawa;
- because they are to be considered too "dangerous", "divisive" and "vitriolic"
Ezra Levant and Joseph Ben Ami tear her apart. Well done gentlemen. The CTV journos, on the other hand, skirt around her bigotry oh so gently.
Labels: Canada, Canuckistanis, elites, leftards, leftards and leftards
posted by Louise at 10:37 pm
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Marci MacDonald used to write for McLean's Magazine. Years ago, when James Richardson (of the filthy rich Winnipeg Richardsons) was in the federal Cabinet, she interviewed him. In the published interview, he came across as rather dismissive of the technological contributions of Canada's aboriginal people; specifically, he remarked that they "hauled things around on two sticks [ref. to the travois]". Furore ensued. He denied he'd said it; she stuck by her story. He acquired the nickname "Jimmy Two-Sticks", but after a short while the uproar faded, and so did James Richardson's political career --- not that that was a bad thing.
That was then. This is now. I think political correctness has just about run its course. The left still uses it. Indeed, they use it as if it's going out of style. Desperately, in other words. Because it isn't working so well any more and they haven't got anything else.
Richardson, of course, was 100% correct. Most of Canada's aboriginal people were in the stone age when Cabot and Cartier landed on our Eastern shores. We used to hear a lot about how Europeans were welcomed by the aboriginal people and of course this was always stated in a context in which the implications were that that behavior made them morally superior to the Whiteman, who subsequently pushed them aside.
Of course, missing from that narrative was the real reason the because he had advanced tools, made of steel (!!!), among other things, like gun powder later on. Imagine the power of steel axes, steel knives, iron kettles etc. for people who hadn't ever seen them before and had had to manufacture their own sharp tools out of specific types of rock with hours of labour and considerable skill, while here's a bunch of pale faced fools who will take their cast off clothes in exchange for steel implements.
One of the things we rarely hear about the Beothuk of Newfoundland, who eventually became extinct, was the fact that their relations with the early European fishermen who used to set up summer camps on the shores of the Grand Banks. The Indians kept pilfering the camps, taking the steel and other advanced (by the standards of the day) technology. So the fishermen soon learned to shoot back.
Not arguing, Louise; just telling you something about someone you've never heard of before. What made the story particularly interesting was that the major media, then as now, was pro-Liberal, and Richardson was one of the few Western Liberals in the Trudeau cabinet.
I used to live in Manitoba. The Richardson name is a household word there, whether or accompanied with some cuss words. I believe they made their money in the grain industry, didn't they? Very unpopular with Saskatchewan farmers, I've been told.
"whether or *not* accompanied with cuss words"
As did I, Louise. Yes, they were grain traders. I used to cuss a bit myself when I had to walk to work past the Richardson Building at Lombard Ave., because it made the Portage and Main wind-tunnel effect so much worse.
LOL!! Some of my favourite places were in the Exchange District. Lots of wonderful old buildings and antique stores.
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