The emails just keep on coming about Stephen Harper's Saturday night at the National Arts Centre. This was no average night at the opera for Stephen Ringo Harper. Ringo was the original prominent vocalist in the original song that the PM belted out on Saturday night. He played the piano and sang "I get High with a little help from My Friends." And received a standing Oh from a NON Conservative Crowd.
The mainstream media culture has tried over the years with a great deal of success to portray supporters of the Prime Minister as Too Religious, Too White and Too Male--Yes Too religious -Religious Nutbars. I am using the language media people use when they are blackberrying each other as opposed to the code they use on websites, newspapers, tv and radio. Religious Nutbars, Wack Jobs, Bible Belt Bozos - the core of the core of the Stephen Harper base vote as far as the mainstream media types are concerned, meaning the media folks in Downtown Toronto, Downtown Ottawa and Downtown Montreal...Let's call them the Downtowners.
The Downtowners think Harper's base is comprised of people who are cultural illiterates, people who paint their faces Friday night at the football game, take their fat arses to Walmart on Saturdays and to Church on Sundays where they pray for a Canada that will put the bible back in the classroom, the homosexual back in the closet or mental hospital, the strap back in the hand of the school principal and the power of God back in the hand of every man who is a man to put the fear of God into his wife, his kids and his workers.
This is how the neurotic, Nervous Nelly downtowners, who are always frightened that the future will resemble the darkest episodes of the past - this is how they see the foundation of the Stephen Harper Conservative Party of Canada phenomenon…VERY SCARY--
But On Saturday night at the National Arts Centre, the Downtowners were blinded by the light, the news flash that Stephen Harper isn't scary at all. He’s just a human being and a pretty talented one, one comfortable enough in his own skin that he was ready to take a risk and do what 99 percent of them would never do, take a risk of being laughed at or booed. And he triumphed. And after he did so, he didn't make a big deal about it. It wasn't like some players who score a touch down and feel compelled to do a bird dance. There was no bird dancing on the stage of the National Arts Centre. Stephen Ringo Harper just took the Standing Ovation gracefully. He was just a humble guy being affirmed by 23 hundred people, many of whom had never even considered soiling their pedigrees by voting for him. But the downtowners had to admit that this Stephen Harper was not scary. Just a Real human being - the kind you bump into at Canadian Tire on Saturday morning. Michael Ignatieff is the kind of guy you bump into at the Royal Ontario Museum at the Dinosaur exhibit. When the dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum starts attracting as many visitors as Canadian Tire, Michael Ignatieff will be prime minister. In the meantime, the downtowners resign themselves to defeat. Defeated by Stephen Ringo Harper.
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I'm Charles Adler and this is the Corus Radio Network.
