Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Harper To The Rescue

Call it a photo-op, call it grandstanding, but Stephen Harper's kicking the media off the plane to pick up Canadians evacuated from Lebanon in Cyprus solves two problems at once.

It brings a few of our people home earlier out of a war zone than they might have expected, thus getting them out of harm's way in case the war zone expands throughout the rest of the Middle East.

And it also pre-empts the media criticism this action will invariably get. Because the media will sound like a bunch of spoiled whiners who care more for their free ride with the PM than the fate of Canadians stranded in the latest Middle East battlefield.

Read all about it here.

2 comments:

Jeff said...

Free ride? Actually, the media pay the full fare of their flights and other expenses on all Prime Ministerial trips.

Mark Dowling said...

I which Harper had sent his photographer home too. Canadian embassy in Cyprus could have organised an "official" photog if necessary. Bringing him means another evacuee is left behind.

That said, the criticisms of diverting the Airbus and of going to Cyprus rather than Lebanon itself (one particular headcase on the G&M comment area) are purely partisan. The blogosphere is a very depressing place this week.