While you're at it, you should register your displeasure with National Review and Captain's Quarters. They both use the same phrase for the Liberals.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/gamble200601240825.asp
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004220.php

I checked the date -- it was written after January 23 all right. Did I miss something between January 23 and now?

"While you're at it, you should register your displeasure with National Review and Captain's Quarters. "

Notice the breathtaking moral equivilency so typical of the Liberal sockpuppet. Comparing Canadian Press to an American blog and American magazine within this context is childish to a comical degree; really, these apples and oranges comparisons never get tiresome, lol!

Disgusting!

Yeah, the Lib's are the natural party. What a joke, there is no one with any brains left in that party that wants anything to do with leading that party. Maybe its more scandals, maybe its because the party is so in debit. It's like watching everyone through a hot potato around, I don't want it, me neither......To bad for these editor's, it seem like they are a bit behind the times, Canada doen't want the Liberal's either.
The biggest joke of all will be when Ms.BS and Mr.SB have a cat fight over which one will be leader. This will be the fall of the Liberal's for good!

followed the url - looks like they fixed their brainfart

Yes, they have fixed the article. Someone was asleep at the wheel.

No, just brainwashed by years of publicity.

Willy Graham as "interim" lede, er leader. Wee Willy? Willy of the Hans-off expedition?

Best of Willy: Yesterday, Willy Graham introduced Lucienne Robillard to the press as Lucien Bouchard. A tip of the slonge?
H/T: Don Martin, Nat. Post.

But, have no fear. AdScam Martin controls the Party. Will there be a coup by Martin & his cabal? Or has the coup already been done?

The Natural Law Party of Canada,the political arm of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation movement must have merged with the Liberal Party.

That would certainly explain why the word "Natural" appears next to the Liberals

Since Doug Henning is dead... perhaps Criss Angel(mindfreak) would like to run for the Liberals!

Maz2- Best of Willy: Yesterday, Willy Graham introduced Lucienne Robillard to the press as Lucien Bouchard. A tip of the slonge?

I hate giving props to Willy but he did have a rather amusing comeback to this.."That's not a Freaudian slip, it's a career ending slip."

The London Free Press link, from 02/02 still has the original lead paragraph. Go and get a screenshot of it as I just did.

And let's see, conservative opinion blogs (you left out Mark Steyn) use the phrase sarcastically, and a "straight" news story by the wire news service CP uses it as a statement of fact, and those are the same things? Yeah, right.

That's OK,pretty soon they will be "Canada's natural opposition party".
Hopefully for a long,long time.

Without knowing how the reporter has framed (so to speak) previous news stories he's written is it possible that the phrase "natural governing party" was placed there as a "placeholder" or perhaps sarcastic comment by the reporter that was never intended to be printed?
I posit this due to a friend who reported on the municipal elections in 2001 and had a photo of two candidates in conversation and had written "John & Bill shoot the shit while waiting for election results." Somehow the statement made it past the editor and was placed in the paper.

BTW. Anyone who wants a copy of this I have the original in my possession. Just email me at ianiiixvi@yahoo.ca. It's hilarious.

sincerely,

een

Ahem. Pssst. Willy, your slip is showing?

More: from John Ivison, National Post, re Pettigrew:

PP's quote: "I made contacts around the world, which should prove useful in the next few months," he gushed."

Pettigrew's epitaph.

CP bias? What bias?
If memory serves correctly the reporter Cheadle was nurtured at the London Free press in his cub days.
Therefore that lede that remains at the FP would be a natural for the FP editors as scratching an itchy arse.
Is it any wonder that the Libs could run a corrupt shop in Ottawa as long as they had an enabling CP and mainstream media giving them the 'Natural governing party' mantle?

CBC can't wait for Stern? Qualm down, CBC. It said jock shock, like goalies wear, sometimes, right, Don. Right, Bobby.>>

Thursday, February 2, 2006 Posted at 2:35 PM EST

Canadian Press

Toronto — The CBC and Howard Stern?

Not exactly a conventional media marriage. And the public broadcaster, part owner of the new satellite radio service that will bring the shock jock back to Canadian airwaves next week, admitted Thursday it has qualms about the move.

"It's no secret that Howard Stern's programming is not consistent with the kind of programming you would find on CBC/Radio Canada's airwaves, but this is a Sirius Canada decision," said CBC spokesman Jason MacDonald. >>> via google news

I think that CBC should refuse to participate in any broadcast system that has Howard Stern on it somewhere.

Like the airwaves.

Historians, political scientists and others with slow social lives have often referred to the Liberals as Canada's "natural governing party." I have no idea who invented the phrase -- does anyone else?

Like most cliches, the expression has an element of truth: the Liberal Party was in power for most of the twentieth century. Even when the Tories got in, once a generation, they seemed unable to reverse much that the Liberals had done. The Ottawa state has, historically, shown a structural predisposition towards a party that presents an unpleasant combination of sanctimonious leftism and self-seeking corruption. It is a predisposition that makes rule from the centre-left seem "natural," and our leftist intelligentsia has written entire books not merely to observe but to praise this structural bent.

I do not know if Cheadle and his editors were consciously alluding to this cliche, or how much irony they intended. Perhaps they meant to emphasize the current leaderless and confused state of the Liberals by constrast with the apparent ease with which it maintained its "natural governing" status in the past.

Mark Proudman

Thank you, Mark.
Of course I was alluding to the cliche. Why on earth would I write such a thing otherwise? I thought this lede was self-evidently ironic, as did my editors in Ottawa. Perhaps we're just too close to situation.
I've become a real devotee of political blogs recently and think they perform a great service, but really folks, get over the paranoia about the MSM. It's way over the top.
Bruce

No, Bruce, it's hardly "over the top" to be suspicious of media. We've been given cause.

For just one quick example:

Try a little experiment sometime - when reading AP or CP accounts of political events, watch for the "drive by negative" tagged to the bottom of unrelated news items. ie: Coverage of a speech given by George Bush before corn farmers in Iowa during the presidential campaign ... complete with a tacked on mention of Abu Graihb as the final sentence.

Same stunt was pulled on Stephen Harper in the last campaign.

Bill Goode from radio station CKWX in Vancouver PRIDES himeself in being VERY balanced in his coments and takes great exception to anyone accusing him of being biased. Yet during the election campaign on EVERY single program involving the campaign (that I listened to-which was most of them) he brought up the "abortion issue" because thats what "people were asking him about". No matter what the topic he always managed to ask "why did people think Harper would address abortion and why was Harper scary"

One day he had a professor of journalism on discussing the press and the media and a caller mentioned that approx. 70% of media were left wing. Goode scoffed at the statement and looked to the professor to refute that claim. Goode almost shit his pants when the professor agreed with the caller.

Of course the media is liberal biased.Unfortunately they are so good at it and so subtle that the vast majority don't recognize it.Its only when you get involved and KNOW what to look for that it becomes so evident.

Horny Toad