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Obamathon: Okay, PMO. Now it’s a party.

I know it’s almost certainly horribly wrong, not to mention obtuse and unserious and spectacularly point-missing, but somehow, I just can’t not find this latest foray into hardball media management by the PM’s communicator general to be wonderfully amusing in its utter absurdity.

From the Canadian Press:

[…]Harper’s spokespeople threatened to cancel the press conference if, at any point in the day, a Canadian reporter shouts out a question without being invited to do so.

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So this is what it’s like to work in the eye of the Obamastorm, huh?

The transformation of Parliament Hill into a maximum security staging area is nearly complete