Scratch a Green you find other darker agendas from collectivist statism to luddite fascism to Malthusian eugenics. All the dark orthodoxies too repugnant to even the devolved Dippers.

Obviously a free press and internet are not in their agenda either.

And sadly for Bennett—just to throw another spanner into his spin-works—the show is presumably also on videotape, since the audio is from a taping of The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Were May’s lips moving when she spoke?

It’s funny: I assumed after I’d heard the whole show in context that she meant to say “All politicians are scared to mention the word ‘tax’, and they think all Canadians are stupid,” but Bennett’s reaction makes me wonder—pure, idle speculation here—if maybe he panicked because he was entirely familiar with such utterances behind the scenes; maybe what HE saw wasn’t a slip up in his own mind but rather a slip-up, an inadvertent and entirely unwelcome public peek behind the curtain. At least, that’s a plausible explanation of why he’s threatening people for something SHE said on-air: he was just trying to stop the tape from “going viral.”

Whoops.