Ah, 'Issues'

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

It was probably hard to top the last scandal so they gotta pump the news up to something, take polls with the typical error margin, interview child psychologists and of course the man in the street interviews over this. Gotta sell those papers and get those ratings.
My kid asked me to give him a high five instead of a hug when he's around his friends. I was a little sad but understood.

[Kamog]

My Dad never hugged me, even when I was a little kid! Some dads are like that. It's not that unusual.

[dogscoff]

Had the man hugged or kissed his children at the school gates, the same newspapers would probably be screaming "PAEDOPHILE!!" and making even more meaningless noise.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Don't you just hate it when the DJ on the radio starts talking after the song starts/before it's over? And other important issues of the day.

[Intimidator]

dogscoff said:
Had the man hugged or kissed his children at the school gates, the same newspapers would probably be screaming "PAEDOPHILE!!" and making even more meaningless noise.

Indeed Dogscoff, I was thinking the same,,,,,
And don't even imagine what could have happened when he kissed his kid goodbye, Canada would be in an political crisis by now. And the US would have gathered his military forces at their Northern border to free those Canadian kids from that maniac.........

[Cipher7071]

It all makes perfect sense to me.
Tomorrow's headline:

MAN BITES DOG


(in front of hotdog stand)
Sensational!

[CapnMorgan]

I've read that typically media seems to be controlled by corporate interests and will generally try to depict the government in a negative light.

This is, supposedly, because it is in corporate interests to keep government small and out of the way.

So it would make sense that they would feed us nonsense like this business with Harper and his son rather than target actual numbers that truly affect Canada.