What, You Needed Me To Tell You That?
It’s a classic bully maneuver: taking the victims arm and punching the victim with his own hand, meanwhile saying, “why are you punching yourself?” As the middle boy of 3, I’ve been both victim and aggressor in this classic game of making you feel bad about yourself, all the while being able to legitimately say, “I never touched him.”
Last week I used the “punching yourself” motif to describe NDP leader Thomas Muclair, because it seemed apt. Why wasn’t that bully Stephen Harper beating up on Muclair, Warren Kinsella asked, so I answered.
Never beat on someone who’s beating on himself I suggested:
Perhaps they feel it’s better to let Muclair define himself his own image…
Just a few days later, that same Warren Kinsella has read, digested and seemingly agreed with me:
A few days ago, this writer questioned the whereabouts of the Conservative party’s anti-Mulcair attack ads…
Stephen Harper, looking down at his opponent as he hollers away on an Ottawa street corner, knows the answer.
“We don’t need any ads to scare voters away from this guy,” you can picture Harper musing. “He’s doing that all on his own.”
You don’t have to be Stephen Harper to know the answer, you just have to read the same people Stephen Harper reads.
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