A retiring Conservative MP committing the crime of calling the environment minister “Climate Barbie” on Twitter, and the world is suddenly on fire.

The Media Party is losing its mind. Catherine McKenna wasted no time monetizing her victimhood narrative in Liberal fundraising emails.

Conservative politicians are folding like cheap suits.

And normal people couldn’t care less.

“Barbiegate” only matters in the self-congratulatory Ottawa bubble.

From Catherine McKenna’s strange press conference in New York where she didn't have time to talk about her work, and instead spoke exclusively about how she was wronged, to a really weird CBC video about the Minister “shaking her ass,” I’ve had it with the phoney outrage, gender martyrdom and double standards.

“Elbowgate,” anyone?

The Liberals need to change the channel on their disastrous attempt at corporate tax reform. The media is all too happy to help them. The Conservatives are, too.

And a good man and his reputation are just the sacrifice that has to be made for that to happen.