Rock and Roll Conservative

Sigh

As experienced media watchers know, it's not usually until August that the media begins reporting every idiotic story as vitally important. As every conservative politician knows, it's not long before someone gins up a fake controversy to attack you.

Stephen Harper has learned the hard way that silly season has begun early by being the center of a "controversy" over communion wafers. The prime minister was at the funeral of Romeo Leblanc last week and may -- or may not -- have eaten a communion wafer offered by the priest conducting the service.

The big deal? Harper is a Protestant and apparently if you're a doctrinaire Catholic it's A Bad Thing for him to have eaten the wafer.

Or did he? No one can figure out if he actually ate the damned thing. Harper says he ate it, others say he just stuck it in his pocket (Youtube video here). I for one can't wait to see how Wafergate turns out.

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