In Salem, there were no witches (cont'd)

PoliticsWatch updates the emerging Liberal talking point: it's all nothing more than a witch hunt. House leader Jacques Saada, perhaps inspired by John Ibbitson's overheated Friday column, actually made the Salem comparison in the Commons today. I predict this will become the government's all-purpose answer to everything, in hopes that the public will simply tune out the whole controversy. So I will just repeat a point made here earlier: There were no witches in Salem, but someone did steal $100 million here. And they did so, by the Prime Minister's own admission, with political direction. PLUS: PoliticsWatch also points out how late in the day it was that the Liberals discovered it was a witch hunt. It was Miriam B�dard's accusations, recall, and the uncritical reception they received, that set the meme loose. Yet who were among the leading uncritical receptors? The Liberal members of the committee, who had not a word of criticism for her after her testimony, or even followed up on the remarkable things she said she had heard. Indeed, both Dennis Mills, quoted earlier here, and Shawn Murphy praised her to the skies immediately after her appearance. What do you suppose turned them against her?