Comments | therealjae: No-confidence vote amusement

therealjae

No-confidence vote amusement

May 19, 2005 08:07

It's becoming clear that there are a bunch of closet political fiction writers over at the Globe and Mail, and it's frankly looking more like John Wells' "West Wing" than Aaron Sorkin's. This morning's second-tier headline: "MacKay pleaded with lover Stronach into wee hours". The article--i.e., NOT an editorial--also unironically and without ( Read more... )

the election that wasn't

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hobbitbabe May 19 2005, 14:35:40 UTC

I liked the fashion notes in that article. "The handsome, ruddy-cheeked 39-year-old wore an off-white work shirt layered over a dark T-shirt, his khaki pants tucked into orange rubber boots."

therealjae May 19 2005, 14:53:08 UTC

I know! That made me laugh out loud.

-J

starfishchick May 19 2005, 14:49:23 UTC

That is hilarious! I had no idea the G&M writers were so ... Harlequin.

therealjae May 19 2005, 14:57:00 UTC

I can't tell whether they're serious, or just having a bit of fun with the insanity in Ottawa these days!

-J

starfishchick May 19 2005, 15:00:14 UTC

It's all very soap opera, isn't it? I mean, if you posted this in some soap-opera-digest-type column, I'd believe it.

em_h May 19 2005, 14:52:25 UTC

"She came back after midnight on Monday night ... She'd been at the Prime Minister's residence. I had no idea. . . ." he said softly. "I knew she'd been troubled and had a lot on her mind, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't see it coming."

See, if you made this stuff up, people would just laugh.

Well, I suppose some of us coldhearted people are laughing in any case.

therealjae May 19 2005, 14:55:28 UTC

If you or I were to write a novel about the last two months on the Hill, our editor would shoot it back at us and tell us that it was too unrealistic. And yet, it seems it's not.

Makes me feel a little better about the occasional farfetched element in my actual fiction!

-J

buhrger May 19 2005, 17:00:14 UTC

Well, I suppose some of us coldhearted people are laughing in any case.
you betcha

rivka May 19 2005, 17:05:42 UTC

I told you, I told you. Canadian politics have been taken over by fanfiction writers.

purplepaisley May 19 2005, 17:10:36 UTC

It was about ten years ago that I first saw a grammatical error on the front page of the Globe and Mail. I knew it was only a matter of time before things deteriorated completely. It seems we have arrived at a state of total abandonment of standards.

I'm Shocked and Appalled.