Cat-astrophe!

I see that Catscam has broken into the mainstream English-language press, big-time.

Here's a sampling:

The National Post (online); The Globe and Mail (not hot!); Ottawa Citizen (and Nanaimo News); Calgary Herald (Chinese population of Calgary: approx. 100,000); and Saskatoon (with a photo of Kinsella, with a Cheshire cat smile!).

But my favourite has to be the Liberal party's pundit, Robert Silver, who wrote about Catscam in the Globe thusly:

...his post was in no ways racist or even offensive -- at all.

Um, war room, call your office.

After days of dithering, Kinsella finally issued a half-apology. And now his fellow Liberal war-roomers are saying that there was nothing to apologize for? That it wasn't even offensive "at all"?

This is helping things?

What is the Liberal view on this? What is Ignatieff's view? Hell, what is Kinsella's view?

Was the comment completely innocuous -- nothing to be ashamed about? Or was it offensive? Or was the only thing wrong with it that it caused some political flak? In other words, the insult wasn't the problem, it's all the fault of thin-skinned, hyper-sensitive Chinese Canadians who should be cool with Kinsella's insults and learn to know their place?

Methinks the war room needs to get its story straight, as Catscam enters its second week.