Way To Go CBC and The Conservatives

As a public broadcasting company the CBC is required to provide a platform for certain political updates. This is not the minister of this or that, the prime minister, or the leader of the defense having a frank if somewhat careful chat with Michael Enright, but rather a one minute spot on why we're great and the other side sucks, in words that are not much more eloquent than that, but much less to the point -- painfully so.

I shook my head, as I do, at most political commercials, or any commercials for that matter, as Tony Clement delivered a monotone message for the Conservatives their economic reforms, which "are working." The only actual detail of proof of a plan that I heard was that two people could now split one job and have the difference covered by e.i. if that company needs to cut back. That is something I suppose, and might be very good, I don't really know, but it doesn't seem to tell me enough at all to justify the repetitions of "a plan that is working" "a plan that is working" "we want to see it through, because it's working" that cropped up throughout the minute long add. Oh, and Michael Ignatieff is the only man in Canada who wants there to be an election and though he says he doesn't, he is doing his utmost to make it happen, and we must fight tooth and nail, gumming him if necessary, to prevent his nefarious plan. And he said thank you of course.

This was followed by the CBC news, with an opening report about Michael Ignatieff who had come to an agreement with Stephen Harper to keep the government in power and avoid an election for the time being. Oh...... so that ad.... was just.... oooo.

I know and you know, the political powers that be feel compelled to err on the side of potential stupidity rather than risk not putting out an ad and finding themselves booted out of power. This just happens to be a moment where the larger stupidity of politics, which denies any chance that anything honest be said, was wonderfully highlighted in a small, visible, form of itself, and gave me, and I hope some others, a good laugh.