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Indeed, the funniest part of the Star’s account is that Wynne and Co. were confused that the media thought a police bribery investigation was such a big deal. Wynne “lash(es) out at the press for being ‘out to get’ her,” apparently, and “complains the media ‘just seem obsessed’ with the story. ‘That’s what makes me so mad,’ she fumes.”

“There are certain people in the press gallery who I just know are out to get me,” Wynne reportedly says. “I mean they just want to — not ‘they’ personally but their organization — just wants to bring me down. They can’t stand what I stand for and they are going to look for any way to make me look bad.

“And then there are others who are just more neutral, but there’s nobody who is standing in that press scrum who is there to make us look good or make us look like we’re doing the right thing.”

One hopes it’s true there’s no one in your average Queen’s Park press scrum “who is there to make (the Liberals) look good,” but I can think of one newspaper’s editorial page that performs that function about as well as any political party in a free society could hope for.

If anything, they should have an invincibility complex, not a persecution complex.

That the leader of the Ontario Liberals could think this way at this point in the party’s astonishing 12-year run of power — having regained a majority after the no-taxes pledge, the millions of dollars to ethnic groups with Liberal connections, the OLG fiasco, the e-Health debacle, the ORNGE catastrophe, the Caledonia sell-out, the skyrocketing energy bills and green energy shambles, Dalton McGuinty’s disgraceful exit and the $1 billion gas plant cancellations and subsequent cover-up and police investigation — is amazing. If anything, they should have an invincibility complex, not a persecution complex.

But I suppose the two aren’t mutually exclusive. If you’re constantly rewarded for doing the wrong thing, perhaps it’s difficult to appreciate the distinction between “what’s right” and “what we’re doing right now.” And then all those reporters really would start to look a bit crazed. It’s the sort of mindset that eventually brought down McGuinty, if not the Liberals. Even at this early point in Wynne’s tenure, it’s not hard to see her era ending in similar fashion.

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