Weakness

I've always liked Kate McMillan. Which is a statement, sure to cast me as a bigot, racist or whatever attribution suits Kinsella or Murphy's fancy. Her blog is a mainstay, powerhouse of the Canadian blogosphere, a fact that clearly bestows much frustration upon the not-so-right-of-center bloggers out there.

The irony of Kate McMillan’s impregnable stature, and her detractor’s failure to disarm her with constant character assassination is that, like Jean Chretien, she amusingly fails to acknowledge the existence of her critics, except to toy with them. And like with Chretien, it drives her opponents batty. But the irony of course, is that her most vocal opponent is Chretienite, Warren Kinsella.

Warren has dedicated much of his blogging time to going after Kate, and others, like Jay Currie, whom he baselessly labels a bigot and has threatened to sue for calling him a “liar”. He’s threatened to sue me too, by the way.

It seems though that Warren’s pet project of falsely exposing bigots in our midst has only served to lower his stature even further.

Given that Warren seems reasonably intelligent, one is forced to question the character of such a man, who so liberally lifts quotes out of context to fit his premise that McMillan and Shaidle are racist bigots. And he just doesn’t take them out of context, he provides proof for his assertions in the form of unsourced sentence fragments. By unsourced I mean, he doesn’t bother providing links, so that his readers can judge for themselves, the nature in which certain phrases were used.

I have never seen Kate say anything to suggest that she is bigoted. Although I do admit she is crass, and her tongue-and-cheek ways of expressing herself are not for everyone. By the way, I’m not criticizing her; I’ve done worse.

Even when Warren was threatening to sue me for calling him a Nazi, he was certainly going out of his way to avoid the fact that the title of the post was Reductio ad Nazium, and that the post clearly expressed it’s satirical nature in no uncertain terms.

The tail never stops wagging the dog with Warren.

There are moments where Warren goes out of his spin-doctor mode and provides a cogent analysis, such as his panel appearances on Your Opinion Counts on CFRB 1010 AM in Toronto, or some of his earlier National Post columns. But for the most part, he’s still holding up that children’s stuffed animal, in every rhetorical sense.

The difference today, is nobody is buying it anymore. He’s firing blanks. Without a provincial election, and without the federal Liberal’s interested in him, his penchant for political maneuvering has been relegated to obsessing over Kathy Shaidle and Kate McMillan. I don’t know about you, but given the political history here, I’d say that’s a victory for the aforementioned.