Even with a bevy of expensive image consultants, politicians just don't seem able to get it right.
My latest National Post column reminds people that freedom can't just mean the right to do what you're told, even by the majority.
My latest Rebel piece celebrates an eccentric for having the courage of her (often mistaken) convictions. https://youtu.be/5TtibWMFg4w
For Rebel Media I say if you don't like the way public affairs are going, maybe you should write a novel. Harriet Beecher Stowe did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHZSAtNyvHQ
Well this is odd. I was reading all these stories about "Israel Elections: Meet Isaac Herzog, Who Could Defeat Netanyahu" and "Israeli Elections: How the Left Could Win". And then this morning I read "Israel election: Netanyahu's Likud storms to victory". Say, could the legacy media have been reporting their desires as the news before it even happened? Arguably so, given that Britain's Guardian headlined a story about the actual outcome "Israel election: Bibi the magician pulls off a victory – but at what cost?" All the opinion that's fit to print, I guess.
**Update**
I notice that the top headline in today's Globe and Mail was "With Netanyahu, Herzog tied, the coalition building begins". In fact Likud won 30 seats, the Zionist Union 24. Some tie. The story has of course now been updated to explain that "Scrapping like a street fighter, the veteran Mr. Netanyahu used every trick in the book to overcome a four-seat deficit in public opinion surveys published just last Friday. His gentlemanly opponent, Mr. Herzog, waging his first campaign as party leader, didn’t stand a chance."
Thanks for clarifying that last point. From what you said earlier I... oh, never mind.
You can listen to my conversation with Andrew Lawton on AM980 about the Magna Carta project below; it starts at 39:47. https://soundcloud.com/am980/andrew-lawton-show-march-16th-2015
A discussion of the Magna Carta documentary and other matters with my friend "Nick @ Night!" Vandergragt on 580 CFRA News Talk Radio in Ottawa on March 15. [embed]http://www.thejohnrobson.com/podcast/John2015/March/Nick@Night_March15.mp3[/embed]
Barely a week after the latest bizarre Clinton scandal erupted, this time Hillary's inexplicable decision to use a private personal system for all her email while Secretary of State without telling anyone, a company in Connecticut has created a Hillary Clinton action figure complete with Blackberry. Some people find the general rowdiness of the United States, including its political system, off-putting. They prefer genteel stuffiness in which establishment boats are not rocked and pundits and statespersons are not mocked.
The U.S. political system certainly has its failings, some shared with other Western democracies including Canada and some unique to itself. But I think we need more of the wide-open, lively, dynamic American tone. Their political culture reacts faster, more pointedly and more frankly, letting in more air and making more room for honest expressions of public sentiment.