In this post it is subtly noted that the senator fails to identify her own partisan affiliation whilst criticizing the media for failing to give such affiliations for others:
The major media, the Rideau Institute and, e.g., Steve Staples, Michael Wallace and Michael Byers/F-35 Update
Sen. Wallin now has her letter published in the Toronto Star (’twas first in the National Post). She has made some progress in fuller self-identification but has yet to give the whole Tory:
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Pamela Wallin [her website], Senator, member of government caucus in the Senate, chair of Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, Ottawa
Mark
Ottawa
do any senators sign with their affiliation? i don’t know if I have seen that before.
Senators are not assumed to be partisan but we know they are, didn’t liberals start this trend? Either way, most people who follow politics know who Pamela is and what she stands for but I had not heard about those three so-called military experts. More games, lies and cheating by the media. Yawn, epidemic it appears.
The “so-called military experts” are exactly that. The media love to trot out “experts” when they’re trying to show they’re serious journalists. The reality is that they have a handful of people who can be trotted out to offer an opinion on complex issues to reporters who have very lttle expertise on whatever it is being discussed.
The reality is that there are all sorts of issues that’d have to be looked at before determining whether or not the F35 is an appropriate choice or not and just about nobody in the media, nor their “experts” have even broke the surface in articulating them, much less offering thoughtful analysis.