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The U.S. Has Glitz and Glamour...We Have Tainted Meat

Posted: 10/11/2012 8:01 am
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As Canadians, we can all agree that American politics are way better than our own, right?

I mean, yah yah health care whatever, but in terms of the actual vigour of ideological debate, the sheer breadth and width of issues openly discussed, the unapologetically divergent solutions offered, and the abundance of pomp, pageantry, and tradition, it's hard to argue Canadian politics are anything but soggy carrots beside a Yankee mignon.

Oh, it's just a "form of entertainment," we say sheepishly, but this uncomfortable defense carries about as much believability as "I just visit PornTube for the articles." We love American politics not simply because the Canadian system would never permit the emergence of a Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, or (for that matter) Barack Obama, but because its debates and stories are cleaner and more compelling than our own, its policy consequences more significant, and its either/or two-party system a welcome change from the intentionally muddled vagaries of our own parliamentary governance (where a determined minority persists that even winning an election is not sufficient to assume power).

Long story short, Canadian editorial pages have devoted a lot more column space to American affairs than our own as of late. But I mean, given the choice between covering a ferocious battle between two men vying for leadership of the free world and a vague conspiracy theory that some guy named Gary Ritz may have not done enough to monitor Albertan beef processing -- well, what would you choose?

Let's begin with Postmedia superstar Michael Den Tandt, who looks at the state of the American race and scratches his head. "Obama and Biden should be walking away with it," he puzzles. I mean, the Prez killed bin Laden, passed universal health care, fixed the economy (more or less), and taught the world to love again. "It's a solid record, when history is placed right side up," agrees the Globe and Mail editorial board.

But alas, says Mike, these days it's a candidate's media image that truly matters, and last week's debate clearly proved that presidential races basically come down to who "appears more confident and upbeat" and has "the better one-liners." It's kinda "stupid," he says, but whatcha gonna do? That's democracy!

Bah, responds Erza Levant, if Obama's losing it's just because he's a whiny lazy loser! America's a third-world basket case of debt and despair, U.S. foreign policy is a "disaster," and you know why? It's cause ol' less-than-one-term-in-the-Senate-Barry has never actually run anything before -- "other than running his mouth."

Ho ho, you are quite a load of laughs, Ezra, rejoins Douglas Saunders at the Globe. If you actually look at the numbers, you can see that Obama is "still overwhelming" Mitt in the polls even after the President's crappy post-debate plunge. So no one should be "throwing their hands in the air and shrieking" just yet -- except maybe the Right.

And so stands the consensus of the Canadian punditocracy: Obama's record is controversial, debates are important, and the presidential race remains tight. Hey, I said Canadians were obsessed with American political commentary -- I never said we were any good at it.

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Of course, the other reason we Canucks love U.S. politics so much is because it can offer a useful window into the motives of our own politicians. Our two nations share broadly similar philosophical traditions, after all -- an American progressive isn't that much different than a Canadian one, nor a Republican that different from a Tory.

But it's still possible to go too far with such analogies, especially if you're some manner of liberal journalist specializing in the fine art of guilt-by-association.

This week, for instance, both the Globe's Jeffrey Simpson and the Toronto Star's Heather Mallick wheeled out one of the laziest tropes in the ongoing Americanization of Canadian discourse -- the claim that the Harper government is chin-deep in the pocket of Big Evangelical.

Now, the Evangelical Right's supposed dominance of mainstream conservatism is a questionable premise even in America (what religion is Mitt Romney again?) but to suggest it's an accurate description of the Harper Conservatives requires a mind capable of spectacular intellectual convolutions. And lookie here!

Heather is very concerned that a few back-bench Cons have been making noises about wanting to regulate abortion -- which clearly reveals their deep-seeded Handmaid's Tale "fantasies about controlling women's bodies and lives" -- while Jeff knows that such pro-life squawking shows "how powerful religion remains as a force in the Conservative Party."

I would proceed with my sassy summary, but neither actually goes much further than that. Heather and Jeff simply assert that reactionary views are on the march within Tory ranks, then pad their columns with filler about the United Nations, David Cameron, and SCTV. As opposed to, say, evidence.

In his opener, Jeff notes that the ability of Canadian journalists to report accurately on religious matters is significantly handicapped by the fact that so many are "secularists" who often "have no religious faith at all." He thinks this leads to an underestimation of Evangelical strength, 'cause it's not like ignorance about this-or-that out-group ever breeds exaggerated fears about their power.

But then again, maybe it's just good ol' Canadian jealously. I mean, American liberals get to write about the oppressive stranglehold of Evangelicals over their glamorous political process all the time.

How's tainted meat supposed to compete with that?

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As Canadians, we can all agree that American politics are way better than our own, right? I mean, yah yah health care whatever, but in terms of the actual vigour of ideological debate, the sheer bre...
As Canadians, we can all agree that American politics are way better than our own, right? I mean, yah yah health care whatever, but in terms of the actual vigour of ideological debate, the sheer bre...
 
 
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11:05 AM on 10/12/2012
Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more with your assertion that we all agree American politics is better. The ONLY value american politics has, even in the US lately it would seem, is entertainment. Hell, the US media start covering elections more than a year in advance, giving it 24/7 coverage and yet NEVER seems to have any time to fact check political claims, provide their audience with truth and facts about policies, etc. The media does everything it can to avoid truth and honesty and fact in order to make two extremes seem as similar as possible. They want the horse race. They want it close to the very end so that

Look at the presidential debate as an example. "Romney wins!" the media cheered. Sure he won....but according to fact checkers he had to lie 27 times in the first 30 minutes to do it. The media has still not bothered to address this fact or to enlighten their viewers about all the misinformation that has gone around. Paul Ryan continued to lie during the VP debate and again, the media has not once corrected the record for their viewers despite having the facts for months now.

How is this "good" for anyone? There is a reason the US is in such dire straights politically and economically and it's because their political system is a joke. Mostly thanks to their media.
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06:27 PM on 10/14/2012
The media giving politicians a by on fact checking is a large part of the problem. Afraid of losing their coveted access, or the advertising dollars associated with it, they have become bobblehead journalists.

Ask a question, be told an outright lie, nod your head, ask an unrelated question, rinse and repeat.
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07:52 PM on 10/11/2012
This is a good example particularly on this website of why the media are effectively gone. They started picking stories they liked not stories they should be running, as say, from a sense of responsibility to a country first (Canada NOT the USA).

Everyday if an American story is more important to them they will lead with it. Not the XL Foods scandal which will actually affect more Canadians than a vote south of the border that no Canadian can vote for. American news is always second billing. I don't live there.

Are the American debates really that important or is it that you only show reports about American debates?

It comes a time to understand that you are supposedly running a Canadian news portal. American news we can get anywhere, even *gasp* on the American version of this site. Quit soiling this pool and stick to serving Canadian viewers.

Or is the goal to spam American news to Canadian eyes like other "Canadian" news? Is important news only American? Your answer is apparently yes and that's pretty sad to read
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Brady Postma
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06:02 PM on 10/11/2012
The theory that conservative men have "deep-seeded Handmaid's Tale 'fantasies about controlling women's bodies and lives'" is a theory that just boggles my mind. In my experience, the same religious-right motivations that generate anti-abortion sentiment also tend to generate an attitude of respect of women as naturally endowed with authority by virtue of moral insight. Maybe my experience is atypical, but maybe Heather's is, too, by that same argument. Is there anything like empirical evidence of this theory?
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11:00 AM on 10/12/2012
I'm not sure how you equate your two observations. Religious-right motivations lead one to believe that woman should be respected with whatever you said....but as property of the man. The woman should be respected in her role as mother and getting pregnant but should stay at home and be subserviant to men and what men consider their "world".

THis attitude seems very obvious to me. Look at all those right-wing politicians who respect their wives and daughters so very much, while simultaneously vote time and time again to strip away the rights of those very same women. Look at those right wing politicians who believe men should have access to all kinds of birth control but not women. Or who accuse women of "raping easy" to quote even more recent headlines. If that isn't their deep-seated political views, then why aren't right wingers coming out in droves to condemn these statments and to support women's rights?

Yes, they respect women the same way people used to "respect" their slaves.
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01:18 PM on 10/12/2012
The evidence that I would submit to you is from south of the border, where conservative men tabled over 1,100 pieces of legislation designed to control reproductive options for women, and zero pieces of legislation addressing fair pay or any other issue that respects the equality of women or improves their lives. 1,100 to zero.... pretty indicative of Handmaid's Tale fantasy. Maybe your experience is atypical...
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