Hang a nude painting of Harper OK, just don’t ever make a naked comment about a Liberal female premier

We’ve all seen the wall-to-wall media coverage of the nude painting of PM Stephen Harper and those that follow Canadian journos on Twitter have read their snide snickering comments like this one from Stephen Lautens of the Calgary Sun:

Hardy har har right? For more of these ‘hilarious’ Tweets see here but when gazillionaire Richard Branson made a lewd post about taking Liberal premier Christy Clark naked sail-surfing, the media went ape:

Branson is obviously out of line but why the double standard from the Canadian media who were all over Twitter condemning Branson like this one by the Globe’s Arts Correspondent Marsha Lederman:

You know darn well Lederman and all the other female reporters who thought the Harper nude was funny or poignant didn’t stop for a blessed second to think what the effect of it would have been on Harper’s 13-year-old daughter Rachel.

I’m sure she enjoyed a good chuckle over it huh?

NDP calls Mulcair’s mortgage story “trash can reporting” but not Con MP’s divorce doc ones

There’s no doubt the story by Glen McGregor of the Ottawa Citizen on NDP leader Thomas Mulcair mortgages is garbage journalism (see here) but where was this concern about privacy when their NDP provincial counterparts obtained Conservative minister Vic Toews’ divorce documents? (see here)

I certainly don’t remember anyone from the NDP calling the Ottawa Press Gallery members who ran that story ad nauseum, dumpster divers .