Lies and Insults Reflect Justin Trudeau's Wiley E. Coyote Election Moment

"Erin O’Toole is so bad he makes Doug Ford look good," said Justin Trudeau yesterday, thus insulting not only his main opponent in the election he called for no stated reason two years earlier than necessary, but also the man the people of Ontario only recently elected as their Premier. 

Insults are a perennial and potentially effective ingredient of political discourse, but they work only when they're either funny or in some way illuminating to those who may be inclined to back your side. For example, Winston Churchill's remark during an election contest that his opponent, Clement Atlee, "is a modest man with much to be modest about." But Trudeau's ill-humored comment is revealing not only of a low IQ, bully boy mentality, but of a man who's lost his cool.

Liberal campaign video featuring O’Toole labeled by Twitter as ‘manipulated media,’ was released on Sunday by Trudeau's deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland. And in Twitter-speak, ‘manipulated media,’  is what ordinary folk understand to be a lie. 

Unlike Trudeau, Freeland is no dope. That she's been caught in a lie confirms that the Liberals are desperate, spooked no doubt by polls showing them now neck and neck with the PC's after starting the race with a ten point lead.

Bravo. The sooner we're shot of these inept and untrustworthy megalomaniacs the better.