Our Rachel Mendleson consults the experts on Stephen Harper’s Starr-turn. Former Rheostatic Dave Bidini proves suspicious.
The drug of choice among political journalists is the gaffe. It is either a trivial slip of the tongue — especially, in Michael Kinsley’s immortal definition, when a politician tells the truth — or some trifling but embarrassing incident: a dropped football here, a silly hairnet there, indicative of nothing in particular but invested with all manner of spurious significance by the media herd.
But never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
Granted, “ordinary people” may not see much in this, but here’s the Prime Minister making like Ringo Starr with Yo-Yo Ma.