Shameful NDP Hypocrisy

NDP MP Irene Mathyssen displayed earlier today some of the most disgusting and unscrupulous behaviour that I have ever seen in the House:
Rising on a point of order after Question Period, she informed her colleagues and thousands of Canadians watching her on TV that she had seen pictures of "scantly clad women" appear on the laptop of Conservative MP James Moore. She carried on to state in her carefully rehearsed indignant tone of voice that: “I feel very strongly that this is not only disrespectful of women, but it's disrespectful of this House. It reflects an attitude of objectifying women, and we know that when women and other human beings are objectified and dehumanized, they become the objects of violence and abuse.”

James Moore, visibly stunned, immediately denied these allegations, but his reputation and dignity had already been stained.

A few hours later, once it became clear that the allegations were false and it was revealed that the pictures where actually of Mr. Moore's girlfriend and dog, the NDP had to issue a news release stating that Ms. Mathyssen accepted the explanation and would make a formal statement in the Commons at the earliest opportunity. But regardless of the content of her apology, Mr. Moore's dignity is left severely stained.

If Irene Mathyssen had really seen pictures of "scantly clad women" on James Moore's laptop, she could simply have walked over to his bench (which is only a few feet away from hers) and asked him to remove the images from her line of sight. If that wasn't possible, she could have voiced her concerns to him later in private, or even to the government Whip who would no doubt have been very troubled by the allegation.
But instead, she chose to make her unproven allegation immediately public in the House, knowing full well that it would be seen by thousands of Canadians and hurt the reputation of a hard-working MP.

Coming from a prominent member of the NDP -a party that poses as a defender of morality- I'm totally and utterly disgusted.