Cynicism

“How cynical can you get, really?”

Dunno, Bill.

But certainly not much more cynical than a radio host praising up the RCMP as “one of the best police forces in the world”, today, anyway, having spent the past number of months denouncing the Royal Canadian – the second word is always said with a sarcastic, anti-Confederate, sneer – Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whenever the force gets some convenient-for-fed-bashing-purposes bad publicity.

That’s about as cynical as you can get.

And as for the Globe masthead’s assertion that the arrest of the Farley Mowat is “an easy way for a federal government to impress Newfoundlanders and improve its popularity in Atlantic Canada following its battles with Premier Danny Williams” – that sounds a lot like an argument that Danny Williams himself, or his surrogates, or his talking pointers, would make themselves.

Maybe the surrogates and talking points are just sore that the Globe and Mail made that line of argument publicly first, thereby depriving them of it.