Warning: ranting ahead. Please use caution.
The sad media feeding frenzy continues to shred Gordon Campbell’s career. You know it’s out of control when a front page story on the Vancouver Sun is about the wave of anti-Campbell merchandise featuring the very mugshots that the media itself distributed. You can buy coffee mugs, lunch boxes, t-shirts, aprons, and beer steins all featuring Premier Campbell’s now-infamous DUI mugshot.
So tell me… why is this a front-page story? Anyone who’s heard of Cafe Press knows that you can pretty much buy a coffee mug with anything you like on it. Any minor event in pop culture or politics usually leads to a whole slough of Cafe Press merchandise (like a frisbee with Ellen Feiss on it, for example). It’s a non-story, inflated to front-page material. Kind of like Campbell’s arrest.
Don’t get me wrong — since Campbell got into office, his policies have been kind of loony. For the most part I vehemently oppose what he and his party stand for. Outside of his job, however, he appears to be an upstanding guy. And now he made a really dumb mistake.
Fine. Let the judge sentence him and after that, he’ll have learned his lesson, paid his debt to society, and it will be done. That’s what the courts are supposed to be for, aren’t they? So enough already.
If you want to remove the guy from office, do it legitimately. Vote him out in the next provincial election. Or better, catch him doing something really underhanded, like selling BC Hydro.