More on Harper…
I linked to some comments re Harper earlier, here’s some more from Dawg’s Blog (with links to support the statements – the kind I unfortunately don’t have the time to look up myself):
The reality is, of course, that Harper is a micromanaging, intolerant bully and control freak, nasty, anti-intellectual and contemptuous of the arts, a man for whom government is a one-man show and for whom opposition is treason.
But his flacks redefine those harsh realities thus: Harper, they say, is a real leader, a take-charge guy, a man who can face down the leftist media, a fierce Canadian patriot. You can guarantee that he’ll be careful with your tax dollars, which won’t go to artists who can’t make it on their own, and leftist pointy-heads with their hands out (but will, on the other hand, be dished out with abandon for an organ music festival and a cultural centre in a key province just before an election).
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