Kathy Shaidle Does TVO
There's an Interent storm raging right now that has to do with Kathy Shaidle's appearance on a TVO panel. On one side are a whole big bunch of Progressive Bloggers (i.e. people who think progressive means politically correct and bloggers means political correcters), mostly Liberal insiders/lobbyists, white, male, yaddayaddablahblah. You know - the guys who tend to be on TVO panels when it's not Kathy Shaidle or somesuch non-Progressive Blogger type who posts on the Internet the sorts of things one's Scottish grandmother didn't think to say out loud because if she'd ever thought that one day Muslims would walk amongst us, she'd have spontaneously combusted.
Anyway, I don't much care for mobs, which, I admit, is a word I normally associate with groups with names like "Blogging Tories" and "Pro Lifers" but I can't say I find the reaction by so many Progressive Bloggers to Ms. Shaidle's appearance on TVO, a publicly funded broadcaster (and since when is public opinion reserved for political insiders - oh yeah - since forever and a day in the Great White North) either progressive-like or blogger-like.
Whatever. The important thing, as I understand it from the Progressive Blogger point of view, is that the standard in publicly-funded Canadian television panels - white male political insiders/professional lobbyists with businesses to promote - continue to hold forth, uninterrupted by the likes of one Kathy Shaidle (who, in case you were wondering, Progressive Bloggers do not think is very pretty), on the taxpayers' dime.
Indeed. As you were, everybody. In your living rooms watching your betters promote themselves, their politics, and their careers on public television.
