Tapes....its all about the tapes, man...

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that the Canadian media has completely lost focus with this whole "altered tapes" controversy? Whatever "tampering" there has been to the tapes (and I have yet to hear anything resembling conclusive proof that there has been extensive tampering of these recordings) - does not invalidate the fact there are four f*n hours of conversations on these tapes. Four hours! Has there been a massive case of collective amnesia?? Has everyone forgotten that just a week ago Paul Martin stood up in the House and stridently claimed - in his most idignant voice - that it was Grewal who approached them and that he had been met with an unequivocal "NO!"...well, in all those hours (4 hours!) the word "No" is one that is not heard...So you have the PM's chief of staff & a senior minister talking to a member of the opposition about at the very least jumping ship, or possibly accepting a position - say, perhaps a Senate appointment *wink, wink* - and not, as Honest Paul would suggest saying "No"...and eveyone is in a great kerfluffle that some small snippets of the tapes appear to have perhaps been tampered with? Why is no one hammering Martin about the fact that over the course of the week his story changed day by day? That he and the truth are rarely in the same room together?

Instead...its all about Grewal...sure I realize that attacking the source is a tried and true strategy to distract people from the real issues...but does our collective media have to follow the script so blindly? Is it impossible to ignore the man pointing across the street yelling "fire!" and ask questions about what he actually said just a moment ago?

Apparently not. Instead, its all about Grewal and the "doctored tapes" (although, no one, of course, is alleging that all the many hours of recordings have somehow been falsified).

Sadly, Mr. Grewal has provided the Lieberal spin-meisters with plenty of ammunition. And the Liberal friendly media are certainly sticking to the script. Too bad for the Conservatives that they attempt to shine a light onto incrontrovertable Liberal sleaze, and somehow they are the ones who come out looking dirty...

Ah well...