Why BC holds the record for "World's Weirdest Politicians"

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

Whenever political pundits get together, they all start the competition for "our 
politicians are more corrupt/venal/just plain weird than yours."  Whenever anyone 
from BC enters the fray, everyone else concedes.

Herewith our latest saga:
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Liberals+refuse+remove+YouTube+vide
o+attacking+Adrian+with+video/8355209/story.html

The ruling "Today's BC Liberal Party" is finding itself polling behind the NDP.  
(Do not let the word "liberal" in the party name fool you.  Whereas pretty much 
every other liberal party would be centre-left, the BC Liberals are, politically, 
somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun.)  The liberals are runing attack ads 
stating that, twelve years ago, the leader of the NDP backdated a memo.

(No, I'm not making this up.)

The Liberals have just released another version of the same attack ad, this time 
using a snippet of footage from the recent leaders debate.  Trouble is, the media 
consortium that ran the debate has copyright on the video of the debate, and all 
parties agreed that none of the material would be used for political purposes.

The Liberals, called on their use of the video, have refused to take it down.

(How old do you have to be to understand the meaning of "copyright 
infringement?")

(I am eagerly awaiting the next installment of this story.  I assume the lawyers 
paid for by Today's BC Liberals [or possibly by public money: that's happened 
before] will argue the provisions of "fair use," [1] claim that the attack ads are 
commentary, or even educational ...)


[1] - http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2007/03/fairy-use-tale

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