Shelly Glover: It just has to be plausible

So, Shelly Glover, Conservative MP, doesn't know who Tom Flanagan is? The outspoken professor from the Calgary School? You know, Harper's former chief of staff? Really?

C'mon! Of course she does!

If you haven't seen it, check out the clip:



Host Evan Solomon clearly can't believe what he's hearing.

Neither did I.

The other day, Flanagan appeared on the show and pronounced that Harper's excuses for prorogation were obviously false and childish. To have such a famous Conservative partisan denounce Harper's false reasons for prorogation made for a short-term shockwave that Harper wanted to rebut.

It's gotta be a deliberate attempt to play to the audience. She lied about not knowing who Flanagan is in order to accentuate that what he says is just one man's opinion, and that he is not on the inside any more and doesn't speak with inside knowledge. It's the most blatant route to take to de-emphasize the strength of his opinion.

Solomon's audience is somewhat narrowcasted to people like... us. So we know better.

I suspect if Flanagan is ever asked he'd say something like "Well, I've never heard of her either."

If asked if he thought she was telling the truth, I suppose Flanagan might say something like "It doesn't have to be true. It just has to be plausible." LOL!

Minor spectacles like this confirm that Harper and the Conservatives continue to burn bridges. With some luck, the next bridge they burn after crossing over will be similar to a certain one in Alaska.

Conservative Arrogance 6

"...the government's talking points really don't have much credibility. Everyone knows that the Parliament was prorogued in order to shut down the Afghan inquiry." -- Prof. Tom Flanagan, former Harper mentor, CBC Power Panel Jan 11, 2010.

Tom Flanagan says he looks up to Iggy

A must read. Lots of nuggets in this interview: Ignatieff 'quality guy,' Flanagan says

Read this first, then move on

I love watching theory be put into practice.

"It doesn't have to be true, it just has to be plausible." -- Prof. Tom Flanagan

Now go read Impolitical.

Johnny Banananuck: Tom Flanagan is God

Well, I discovered that Conservative Johnny Banananuck is back, this time on YouTube. He has a channel, and a video, and there's more to come, I'm told.

For insight into the conservative mind, and critiques of Canadian politics in general, I guess he's worth watching.

I think it's clear he's a satirist, but at times he seems earnest in his support for Harper.

This video is about applying a principle recently raised by Calgary political scientist Tom Flanagan. Johnny introduces the video with this:

"It doesn't have to be true. It just has to be plausible." I swear, this defines Conservatism. The facts don't have to be on our side, we just need one fact to support what we believe. And if we have that, well then, we have the truth and the islamofacists liberal socialists don't.