Is this fair? Here is the Hair having a relaxed prorogation vacation and he is being harried by his supposedly tame news media. Damn it all, you give the television network owners everything they ask for and they still do not control those pesky news people who work for them. And to make matters worse, the pit bulls you hire as communications directors keep embarrassing you by not managing the news the way you tell them.
But what can the Hair expect? Nobody can match the Hair at managing the media. He is the confident Mr. Cool. After all, does he look like a marijuana user? With his up-tight suits and his perfect tie and never a hair on his head out of place, the Hair is the perfect Prime Minister. If things do not start running properly around him, the Hair is going to rethink his offer to be Prime Minister for Life.
And where the hell did that cameraman from his favourite CTV News get off? Here the Hair was busy impressing some business people in New York and this damn cameraman asks him a question about the legal troubles of his friend and former parliamentary secretary, Dean Del Mastro. “Off with his head!”
And the Hair is hardly finished with his former friends from CTV. After all, they still owe him for superannuating to the Senate their super stars Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin. How was the Hair to know that super stars at CTV seemed to be allowed unlimited expense accounts? When you come from one venue of privilege, you simply carry on in the new venue of privilege.
Not being from the lofty heights of talent such as Duffy or Wallin, the cameraman was just trying to do his job. He even checked with his boss in Toronto to see if he should ask the question about Del Mastro. He got the ‘go’ and the next thing he heard was from the new pit bull communications director in the Prime Minister’s Office that he was off the Hair’s plane for the trip to Kuala Lumpur. Boy that took some fixing. The Hair relented. The Hair’s A310 VIP flight with the Hair, hairdresser, communications director and CTV cameraman and sundry other lackeys left Thursday and if the cameraman and communications director behave as the Hair wants, they will not be left in Malaysia.
But that leaves the Hair with his on-going problem with communications directors. They seem to have a great deal of trouble running the news media the way the Hair wants. The problem is that a communication director has a responsibility to keep the boss from looking like a raving dictator. That means that sometimes there is the need for you to tell the politician that this is the way it works. It means doing your job.
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Copyright 2013 © Peter Lowry
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