Sorry David But The Media Was On Her Case First

And she would have had ample opportunity to tell her side during question period IF you voters in the London area had elected her to office. Let's look at the trend....



Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Ségolène Royal, Elizabeth May, Farhan Chak -- They demonize the opponent and we live with the consequences

Ségolène Royal, Elizabeth May, and Farhan Chak have all recently engaged in vicious attacks on their opponents, likening them to dictators of the worst possible kind. When violence erupts because well-meaning fools decide that history ought not to repeat itself, and that these budding Hitlers must be stopped by any means possible, they insist they've been misinterpreted. That is, of course, nonsense.

May hung out to dry
May 03, 2007

Nazi remark denounced
May 2.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May has become the latest target in the Conservative government's ongoing experiment in the sleazy art form of the "hit and run" sound bite. They drop an out-of-context bomb in question period, and then engage their selective, top-down relationship with the media to spin the fallout.

As someone who was sitting in the London church last weekend when May made her comments, I want to share what I heard. She was not likening Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Nazis. She was making the following point: When the world was confronted with the threat posed by Nazi Germany, countries overlooked their differences and short-term economic and political agendas, rolled up their sleeves, made sacrifices and addressed the threat. She was saying that Harper is like Neville Chamberlain in that he is ignoring a threat that is obvious to most of the world, and in doing so is embarrassing Canada.

And shame on the Liberals and NDP for abandoning May. By cowardly clinging to safe territory in the narrow window of political discourse approved by lobbyist and campaign contributors, they only reinforce why people are embracing the Greens as the party willing to get off the fence and take hard positions on issues.

Dave McLaughlin, London, Ont.