Christie Blatchford seems never to have met a Canadian soldier of the male persuasion on whom she didn't have a school girl's crush. Her dispatches from Afghanistan have read like a groupy's diary because that is what they were. Now she has purloined a bunch of documents leaked from the federal government but denied to Parliament into a defence of the troops and an attack on one of Canada's diplomats. She does herself no harm - her objectivity on the war having long since been cast aside - but she does embarrass The Globe and Mail.
Parker Donham's blog succinctly deconstructs Blatchford's Saturday diatribe and is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand how the Harper PMO operates.
"In the PMO War Room, columnist Christie Blatchford must have seemed an inspired choice. She can turn a purple phrase with the best of them. She stands foursquare for troops, widows, and orphans. She’s against plummies, toffs, and pointyheads. She’s long on guts and glory, short on assay. She has an ego as big as the Ritz, and fragile as a Gruyère Soufflé. To receive a document drop on a Matter of National Importance would be sweet validation. So the Harper Government—someone in the Harper Government—got the brilliant idea of handing Blatchford a trove of Richard Colvin’s long-sought emails from Kandahar, the same documents Harper has thus far refused to surrender to Parliament."
link: Blatchford makes herself useful : Contrarian
No doubt Christie finds the PM big, strong, warm and cuddly too; they share a love for hockey and hockey players as well.
