Sillygism

In 2007, Dear Leader ever-so-modestly opined, in a puff-piece on The National that CBC has committed a crime against posterity by pulling from its web archive:

I think I represent, in my heart and soul, the hearts and souls of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

Less than two and a half years later, one Dean Williams MacDonald, who according to malicious gossip is not even a member of The Party, totally unsycophantically posits:

“I think he’s looking after his health and his best interests,” said Dean MacDonald, a St. John’s venture capitalist and old friend of the premier. “And clearly his best interests are the province’s best interests.”

So we’re on the same page here:

What’s good for Danny’s heart is in the province’s best interest.

And what’s good for Danny’s heart is none of your interest:

It's none of your freakin business, people.

It is none of your business what his personal medical conditions are.

(In today’s installment of Talking Pointers Gone Wild... count the permutations of “none of your business”.)

Ergo, per Mr. MacDonald and other FoD’s, what’s the province’s best interest is none of your business.

Which, come to think of it — given the secrecy over the Hebron deal, the Menihek power plant, the renewed GWAC, and the clampdown on Access to Information — is pretty much the way that The Party has been operating for the past six years anyway.






(The "Dean Williams" Freudian slip — honest! — was funny enough to leave in.)