Headline Everyone Is Missing: Reid (OLO?) Open To Coalitions

I don't get the fuss. Reid uses straw men to slip through a message from OLO to Liberals that they won't rule out a coalition pre-election, as everyone has been asking, and he gets slated. I thought he was quite clever. His own words, the crucial paragraph:

It’s important to clarify these terms. Typically in Canadian experience, a coalition between parties is understood to mean a parliamentary alliance established in the aftermath of a general election – usually a minority circumstance. This is in keeping with accepted traditions of both the country and the party. Post-electoral coalitions of a formal and informal nature have populated minority parliaments frequently over the past century and Liberals have often taken part. CONSIDERATION OF SUCH COALITIONS SHOULD DEFINITELY BE MAINTAINED IN FUTURE.

Maybe my reading understanding is useless, but seems exactly what everyone was asking for.

PS. You know, this isn't bad advice, Totter though it is: talk up the value of cooperative politics.