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Oh, one thinks, must be something about the Conservatives In and Out - ahem - financing scandal. But a closer look and it's two completely unrelated stories in one, tied nicely by a misleading headline clearly designed to prompt the casual reader, and studious one for that matter, to think of the Liberal Party talking point.

Stephen Harper moved to snuff out two potential fires yesterday by abandoning his opposition to include the Green party's Elizabeth May from the leaders debates and setting a firm deadline for pulling troops out of Afghanistan.

The Conservative leader's astonishing about-face on May in the debate came a mere 30 minutes after NDP Leader Jack Layton broke their common front by reversing his own opposition to Greens in the debate.

That's right, In & Out applies to Elizabeth May and the troops in Afghanistan respectively. But the story itself is no less biased as the lead paragraphs above show. It's just bad journalism, no different than if I named this post, say AdScam, even though it has nothing to do with adscam. 

Perhaps in the future I will run a nice story on Shawnigan, and Watergate, and call it Shawanigate.