Scandal?

A small scandal has erupted in the US over these comments Hillary Clinton made about President Johnson's role in Martin Luther King's equality movement.

Watch the video here.

As you'll see, the comments are completely inoffensive and absolutely true. This only became a scandal because journalists were running out of new things to say about the Democratic race and wanted a fresh new scandal to sell some papers. Had Clinton made her remark on another day, we would never had heard of it again.

In another part of the world (a few miles north), Stéphane Dion's appointment of NDP MLA Joan Beatty as liberal candidate in the northern Saskatchewan Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River has angered the very influent David Orchard, who was planning on running himself for nomination, and caused a mini-crisis in the riding and party. It's been on Don Newman for the last two days: first Ralph Goodale yesterday, then, today, David Orchard.

In a riding that was only won by about 100 votes by the Liberals in the last election, this is hardly what you would call smart campaigning.