Hey media - about that “spouse who stays in a dysfunctional relationship under the misguided notion” he can change...

I was such a spouse, so you can fuck right off when you whine and use that as an excuse for having backed harper.  Sure, now that his atrocities are so in everyone’s face that you can’t hide his bestiality or your own black eyes, you seek to gather your shredded slef-esteem by pointing out how utterly vile his actions are since being elected, but your garments are so threadbare from years and years of defending him it’s ludicrous.

And you dare blame us for adding to your beatings.  Us, the ones who have been trying to shake some sense of responsibility into you for years.

   T hose who are now beating up the media, including the media themselves, for their supposedly off-base and out-of-touch coverage of the federal election campaign are missing a key element.  It's how good Stephen Harper truly is at ruthless, calculating politics.

   If the media made any mistake, it wasn't to focus on Harper's cynical calculations leading up to and during the campaign.   But if media made a mistake, it's the same one made by the spouse who stays in a dysfunctional relationship under the misguided notion that "Everyone else thinks he's a great guy," and "Somehow I can change him."

We never missed that key element, fuckwads.  How dare you?  How often have we written about that very thing.  Warned, pleaded, sought whatever means we could to expose what was never really concealed?  Wrote lengthy pieces supported with a great deal of research and careful links to information going back years?  How often did we on the Net challenges harper’s claims and bring out his ruthlessness when you failed to do so?

You made the monster.  And you can’t claim the abuse spouse excuse.  With knowledge comes responsibility, for one thing.  You had greater access to information than we had, and we figured it out and acted accordingly.  You are an industry that is supposed to look at and report things objectively, not get all involved like a wife struggling to hold together the fantasy of a marriage.

And “everyone else thinks he’s a great guy?”  Excuse me?  Hello?  Hell-fucking-o?  How many years has steve been barely holding 33% in the polls?  How many articles did your soret write about people just not trusting him or warming to him?  How many of us - you know, the ones who make up the rest of “everybody” shouted how utterly dangerous the man was then and how much worse he’d be with a majority?

And finally, you claim you thought that “somehow you can change him?”  Are you really so unprofessional?  Of course you are, and you prove it again with this whiny piece where you claim it isn’t your fault you sucked up to the tyrant, endorsed him, played not into his hands but right along with him, willingly.

How can a spineless bunch like you change your master?  You bowed and crawled and bobbed in his dust for a few crumbs, grumbling now and then but still parroting the lines he fed you.

You were his creatures, and from this article and other recent ones, it appears many of you still are.

One could bemoan the promotion of the thuggish John Baird to Foreign Affairs or Tony Clement as Treasury Board chair, but it should be noted that these two are at least among Harper's most politically talented ministers.

Really?  Talented? 

Ministers of modest competence -say a Gerry Ritz in Agriculture -can remain in cabinet as long as they are willing to be partisan pit bulls who savagely defend Harper's policy that bump up against the interests even of stakeholders in their portfolio.        

Modest competence?  Ritz? 

Excuse me for not linking to the proof of the absurdities of your statements, but really, what’s the point?  You have no respect for truth anyway.

Back to that abused spouse who is far, far better than you guys can ever be.  Once she realizes the douchebag was playing her as he abused her, she pulls it together, if not for herself, then for those she’s responsible for.  She gets informed, gets help, gets the hell out of there.  And having done that, she assesses the past relationship and looks at her role in it, determined never to make the same mistakes.  She doesn’t whine and blame others for her part in the bad marriage or in propping up the douchebag.

She doesn’t claim all men women are as dysfunctional as she was around the douchebag.  Rather, she looks to them to understand how they could see through the prick while she failed to in order that she learn a better approach in sizing up people in her life.

As someone who lived through a dysfunctional, abusive relationship, I learned many things.  One of them is that the douchebag is not the only tyrant out there.  You learn to watch for signs.  You may think I’m talking about the master strategist whose butt you have your noses up, but I’m talking about you, the media.  You are useless, opportunistic sycophants, lazy on top of all the rest, pompous, self-righteous, and far to quick to blame others while doing little to reform your own behaviour.

So don’t expect me, or the many like me who are so very angry in the role you played and continue to play in propping up and excusing harper to have any belief in what you write, to think you play a role of any value to the building of our nation, that you have any respect for truth, and that you are likely to change.

We have dealt with the abuse and know that types like harper, and types like you don’t change.  You don’t have the emotional or psychological equipment for that.