Following his victory speech Monday night at the Columbus Club, MP-elect Andrew Lawton faced his first media scrum.

An opportunity for David Menzies, the chapeau-festooned reporter with Rebel News, to trot out the victim card in characterizing Lawton’s successful campaign.

“Look at some of the mainstream media coverage, which was perhaps unfair at best, vicious at worst,” suggested Menzies.

” You had demonstrators picketing outside your campaign office. So in other words, it wasn’t just you going up against the Liberal, NDP and PPC candidates, it was the media, special vested interest groups, and yet you still won.

“What do you say, reflecting back on that?”