If what he wrote on his blog is any indication, his sense of humour is still intact:
As many of you know, in early December I went into a coma and was being treated for a number of related issues at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario . . . There was no brain damage. In other words, I’m still a conservative.

A comment in this earlier thread is well worth repeating here:

The other night I was watching Connect with Mark Kelley on CBC.
They pulled out the old Sarah Palin target map and talked about the
heightened rhetoric…days after the shooting. I thought it was too much
so I e-mailed the show with my concerns…
To his credit he replied back to me directly…
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Thanks for the email. Blaming us for politicising the shooting is rich.
Have you followed anything that has happened in Arizona in the past
year? I don’t blame anyone but Loughner for the shooting. And no one has
said he is a Tea Partier on our show. But the Republicans own candidate-
a Tea Partier- was abandoned by the GOP because of his views. There’s a
context worth mining in Arizona- and to discuss it makes me a lefty?
Have we met?
As for your snide remarks about the technical problems, our system
crashed. Stuff happens. We don’t practice, nor preach perfection. We
just try our best. Maybe that approach reflects my own naivete.
Cheers
MKelley
Posted by: Jeff at January 13, 2011 2:22 PM

A huge problem for folks on the Left, even the Centre Left where Mark Kelley arguably sits politically, is their complete lack of self-awareness of the bias in their own views. Combine this predilection with someone who is a “journalist” and you have an individual who is convinced that they have no bias whatsoever. It’s a delusion, of course, because each & every one of us is chock full of different biases.
I have little doubt that Kelley writes off commenter Jeff and probably most every SDA regular as “right wing extremists”. But just imagine for a moment how he would view a situation if a conservative had been killed in Tucson and someone had pointed out that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) had displayed a map with bullseyes across it. Oh wait, a conservative judge was killed and the DNC did display such a map! But drawing a connection there would be much too ridiculous according to the “enlightened” mind that is Mark Kelley.
And lest we forget, your tax dollars are paying his salary. 🙁
Update: Some have suggested that it’s unfair to publish Mark Kelley’s response without also posting the initial e-mail from Jeff. He has kindly sent it to me and here it is in full:

Dear Connect Folks,
Three days after a horrible shooting you’re still going on about the conservative rhetoric stuff?
Sarah Palin’s map? Feel free to read this link…http://www.verumserum.com/?p=13647
The jury is pretty much in about Jared as well.
Communist Manifesto…favourite YouTube video is a guy in a mask burning an American flag…backyard skull ceremony…friends indentify him as liberal (http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2011/01/friend-of-loughner-confirms-he-is.html)
This is hardly a Tea Party type dude.
I thought it was in poor taste to go down the road of politicizing a shooting rampage, but I suppose that’s a reflection of my naivete.
I don’t remember the same level of journalistic political investigation during the Fort Hood shootings and I doubt I have to get into explanations for why.
Anyway, we all have a bias, but the leftward bent is starting to be a bit much. Especially when it comes to horrible incidents like this shooting.
Best,
Jeff
P.S- The technical difficulties are pretty amateur hour for a national show. I worked on a local cable talk show in Regina that was mostly staffed with volunteers and we could make a show run smoother.

There may be a reason that the Star Phoenix’s Jeanette Stewart’s report on Saskatchewan support for the oilsands from last week reads less like a polling result than it does a math quiz. Readers who tried to decipher the numbers provided would have noticed a glaring omission – the complete polling results.
Well, now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jan. 4, 2011;

Despite alarm bells raised recently over toxins spewed from Alberta’s oilsands into Saskatchewan, results of a recent survey indicate one-quarter of the province’s residents support oilsands development.
The results of a survey performed by Sigma Analytics for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and the Regina Leader-Post show 24.9 per cent of respondents “strongly support” oilsands development in the province. But those who caution against this type of development see a different picture in the survey numbers.
“If you didn’t really know much about the issue, sure, why wouldn’t you support it?” said Ann Coxworth, research adviser for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES) and author of a report titled Carbon Copy: Preventing Oilsands Fever in Saskatchewan.
“I think the fact that 23 per cent of people are opposed or strongly opposed is a fairly high level of opposition,” she added. “Over 50 per cent of the respondents have some reservations about it . . . which I think is significant.”

From the now-released Sigma Analytics poll, January 11th;

That’s quite the “split”. But no matter – Stewart’s misleading report was regurgitated, unquestioned, by news outlets across the country. Mission accomplished.

“What is it about progressive journalists inventing imaginary poor black people?”

We’ll start with the introductory paragraph;

It is the kind of thing that drives taxpayers crazy — a senator charged with fraud in 2007 is barred from the upper chamber, but today continues to charge over $10,000 a month in expenses on top of his $132,000 annual salary.

Well, it’s early yet. Let’s wait for names.

Almost four years ago, RCMP charged Senator Raymond Lavigne with fraudulently misusing his government expense account.

Hmmm….

That prompted the Senate to bar him from voting or even setting foot in the upper house, but left him with his salary and expense accounts intact.
With his case remarkably still crawling through the courts, the senator has so far cost taxpayers over $700,000 for work that remains a bit of a mystery even among his Senate colleagues.
Judging by Lavigne’s website, his expense-enhanced life in the service […]

In Greg Weston’s 740 word “analysis” the words “Chretien appointed Liberal” appear exactly zero times.
h/t Ron in Kelowna

“Math is hard!”

Scientists and physicists estimate the number of atoms in the universe at 10 to the power of 80 — 10 followed by 80 zeros.
During the worst of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown and hyperinflation, Zimbabwe’s highest money denominations were logged at 10 to the power of 25 — 10 followed by 25 zeros — or the equivalent of nearly one third of the number of atoms estimated in the universe.

h/t Ward

Now you see it… now you don’t.
Instead of taking editorial responsibility by informing Globe readers that former editorial board member Warren Clements had based an opinion piece critical of the intelligence of Tea Party members on an email hoax – the Globe and Mail quietly removed the incriminating seven year old photograph 12 days after publication and hoped nobody would notice.
Well, here’s where you can tell them you’ve noticed.
John Stackhouse, Editor-in-Chief
Sylvia Stead, Associate Editor
Neil A. Campbell, Executive Editor
Get a brain, Morans!

An oil pipeline explodes in Mexico, killing 27. The story is reported on the CBC. Whose fault was it?
Go here for your answer (at the 3:45 mark).

(Nice catch by Stan!)
Warren Clements – a former member of The Globe and Mail’s editorial board. Beauty.

(Screenshot)
h/t

Via Hotair

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Howard Kurtz, Dec.9, 2010;

Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama’s preferred term for a key provision.
“If you call it a public option, the American people are split,” he explained. “If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it.”
“A great point,” Hannity declared. “And from now on, I’m going to call it the government option, because that’s what it is.”

Columbia Journalism Review, Dec. 10, 2010;

Now we learn that Frank Luntz, the Republican wordsmith extraordinaire, was at work behind the scenes to craft the language that public plan opponents could exploit.

“Crickets”.

It’s why they pay him the big bucks. ABC News Senior Washington Editor Rick Klein…

The party soul-searching lingers — did Democrats suffer setbacks for doing too little, or not doing enough?

h/t Taylor

h/t

Update: Looks like he got the mercy sentence.

“As a 20-something unknown, my first weekly column (at the Toronto Star) had paid $200. Having since written a book and developed a national profile I’d replied that I couldn’t accept less money a decade later. Advised that Quebecor was unable to afford my counteroffer of $500, I’d smiled and said ‘thanks, but no thanks.’
Looking uncomfortable, Kory assured me that those were the bad old days. Matters were different now.
I told him I’d think about it.“

h/t Fred

Politico – MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after POLITICO reported that he made three campaign contributions to Democratic candidates.

It reminds me of the sense of excitement and possibility I felt in November 2008, as if in electing Obama, we Americans were acting as our best, smartest, least racist selves, as if there really was change we could believe in. And, OK, so it’s been a long two years since then, and for a lot of people it’s been an undeniably hard two years. But I’m just not convinced that’s Obama’s fault.

Via Drudge
Don’t be too tough on him her. It’s a lonely time for America’s intellectual minority.