Master of Sanctimony
Really, aren't politicians something? They'll go to any lengths to assure the great voting public that they share their concerns, and not only their concerns but their adulation of public figures. Not public figures representing those elected to public office. No, not that kind, the kind of public figures that become such as a result of notoriety of some kind. Wait, there's another word for what I mean: celebrities.
Yes, if the public is ga-ga about popular cultural icons, enraptured by the public-private lives of singers, actors, dancers, and even just publicity hounds who by their inherited wealth make public and often lurid displays of themselves to capture the imagination of an adoring public, then the politicians too have to sit up and take notice. After all, celebrities of one genre or another are going out of their way to demonstrate that they may not be elected at the ballot box but popular acclaim has elected - nay, elevated - them to a status enabling them to pontificate and pronounce knowingly on many topics of great purport.
So we've got chanteuses and actresses and actors (oops, I guess that should be just actors, strike the former) in the adoring public eye who adopt unfortunate orphans from disadvantaged backgrounds and foreign countries, and others who inveigh upon the public to give charitable donations toward the upkeep of primary schools, health clinics or orphanages that they've established and eponymously-named for the betterment of mankind's offspring.
And others, like British rockers with high-profile professional reputations as great crowd pleasers who have developed a conscience which enables them to store their great earnings safely away from government's taxation-sticky mechanisms, while taking any and every high-profile opportunity to harangue the elected politicians of countries to hand over tax-payer enriched finances to developing countries.
As a Canadian, it pleases me no end to note that our current prime minister, unlike his predecessor, had the common sense to turn down the opportunity to have a little private tete-a-tete with the likes of Bono, during the G8 summit just concluded in Germany. And for his temerity in stating it just isn't his schtick to hobnob with celebrities rather than with his political peers when discussing matters of world moment, earned Canada Bono's opprobrium.
Good on you, Stephen Harper.
Yes, if the public is ga-ga about popular cultural icons, enraptured by the public-private lives of singers, actors, dancers, and even just publicity hounds who by their inherited wealth make public and often lurid displays of themselves to capture the imagination of an adoring public, then the politicians too have to sit up and take notice. After all, celebrities of one genre or another are going out of their way to demonstrate that they may not be elected at the ballot box but popular acclaim has elected - nay, elevated - them to a status enabling them to pontificate and pronounce knowingly on many topics of great purport.
So we've got chanteuses and actresses and actors (oops, I guess that should be just actors, strike the former) in the adoring public eye who adopt unfortunate orphans from disadvantaged backgrounds and foreign countries, and others who inveigh upon the public to give charitable donations toward the upkeep of primary schools, health clinics or orphanages that they've established and eponymously-named for the betterment of mankind's offspring.
And others, like British rockers with high-profile professional reputations as great crowd pleasers who have developed a conscience which enables them to store their great earnings safely away from government's taxation-sticky mechanisms, while taking any and every high-profile opportunity to harangue the elected politicians of countries to hand over tax-payer enriched finances to developing countries.
As a Canadian, it pleases me no end to note that our current prime minister, unlike his predecessor, had the common sense to turn down the opportunity to have a little private tete-a-tete with the likes of Bono, during the G8 summit just concluded in Germany. And for his temerity in stating it just isn't his schtick to hobnob with celebrities rather than with his political peers when discussing matters of world moment, earned Canada Bono's opprobrium.
Good on you, Stephen Harper.
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