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Recent Comments
- EBD: For an example of the sort of "reporting" that Ezra read more
- Rose: Las go back to your progressive dolly dipper, you are read more
- LAS: My 'beef' Phantom is that you are simply not seeing read more
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- Rose: Liberal media has been once again been slimed and hoisted read more
- cal2: cbcpravda katy omalice spins it the other way. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/08/will-the-government-keep-its-promise-to-tighten-up-the-rules-on-election-robocalls.html read more
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I watched this earlier in the day, Ezra is on a veritable roll. I can't stop laughing...
Robocalls result in Liberal political abortion…
Spin doctors brain sprained by their own boomerang! Too funny….
Cheers
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Army Group “True North”
I fear these roboocalls will all end with HAL...
And Ezra was right, the story was buried in the back pages. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along now.
There's a reason these sort of findings of guilt are announced on a friday afternoon.
I believe some of us at SDA had this discussion months ago, regarding the "what if..." of who might actually be guilty of this deed. And I still don't think it's a big deal, not as much of a big deal as the established media in Canada burying it when the results don't fit their agenda.
Good on you Ezra.
I think we knew the Liberals were guilty when the leaks stopped coming out of Elections Canada and Bob Rae shut up with the feigned outrage.
Now that was well done. Probably drew in a lot of moonbats who tuned to Sun TV by accident who watched only because they were hoping to be proved right and then Ezra destroyed their weltanschauung by pointing out that it was actually the lieberals who were doing the robocalling.
Why this is such a big deal I have no idea. Due to phone spam, I stopped answering my landline years ago unless I first get a page from someone that they're going to call me on that number. Also, texting or emailing people is a lot more efficient than calling them. Hard as I try, I can't put myself in the position of someone who would be influenced by an unsolicited phonecall.
That a Liberal was conducting Robocalls does not preclude the Cons doing robocalls. They were in one riding for sure.
Levant is perfectly correct (as usual) until he starts mocking Layton. Yes, it would have been important to know about his health, but to who and why? I don't think - appropriate or not - it's necessary to use Layton's death as an example of why Sun News Network is great - they have many, many other examples to choose from.
R2D2 is damned hilarious. I'm surprised I never saw that earlier.
It sure as hell would have been important for *anyone considering voting NDP* (the who) to know about Jack's health, because they were voting for Jack, *not this*.
To deceive voters with the idea that you are going to be there to represent them, all the while knowing that you were going to die. It's deceit, pure and simple. That having been said, Jack was no slouch at deception.
Thank you Ezra for telling us just to what level the formerly liberal democratic Liberal Party of Canada has sunk to.
Patsplace, Marxists are all about deceit. They are past masters at this.
I'm amazed by how good Ezra is on TV.
It was almost like watching a cat playing with a live mouse with Ezra dragging it out. It was worth the wait however..
Donald Blair, I disagree with you over Velvet Glove Jack.. if he knew he was terminally ill, he should have fessed up prior to the election because technically he's supposed to be the PM in waiting. Personally I think the reasons for the disinformation and hiding is because he was in the last stages of something like Karposie Sarcoma, or another AIDS related illness. That would explain the reticence of providing the truth.
I had the opportunity to sit with Ezra at a dinner in Clagary about 5 years ago.....I knew the man was a rising star at that time..
Keep up the good work Ezra.....of course when you hold to the truth you will always be set free.
Thank you, for your dedication honest journalism. I have a name for these liberal, lefties, liars, power at any cost.
Bobble head Vichy Collaborators. You can see them standing behind Obama, Rae, etc...bobbing their little heads up and down....if Obama said the earth was flat....they would bob.....do you think they would have sold you out to the Nazis? These are the people who turn against righteous people when all heck breaks lose.
We are definitely in a fight or good over evil, especially in the USA....
LAS:
Give it up, for God's sake - you lose!
When the CRTC issues a penalty to a Conservative candidate, come back and we'll talk...
LAS Robocalls are perfectly legal if done legally. The difference is when you make a robocall you identify yourself. The Conservatives did make robocalls and did it legally. The Liberals made robocalls and did it illegally.
Quite by accident I caught a bit of The House on CBC radio yesterday where they interviewed the liberal from Guelph (may his name never cross my keyboard). He was still trying to blame the Conservatives because they shut down an illegal poll and tried to get rid of the illegal ballots!
Amen Ezra, the sun news is indeed indispensable!
I think from the very start we all suspected the lie-brals were behind the robo call's.
and sure enough... we were right again!....
ain't nothin crookeder than a liberal!
Whenever the Librano$ are guilty of something, they and their media collaborators jump in and accuse the Conservatives of the same thing, with no evidence, hoping to divert attention from themselves.
They are total scumbags: Just think of the resources wasted in governing this country when the Conservatives are forced to answer to and defend themselves from bogus accusations.
Librano$ and their media cronies: scam artists of the first order. No wonder Justice Gomery said that the Liberals operate "within a culture of corruption." That's all they know. Their stables need a complete cleaning out, not a spread of new hay over old manure.
Remember that list of 101 Liberal sins?
I hope someone is STILL keeping track.
Was there ever any doubt? Where there is a balloting fraud system, you'll find Liberal apparatchiks behind it - cheating, lying, ballot subterfuge are genetic Librano traits.
Guelph? Think of it as a small Montreal enclave in Ontario - è il modo in famiglia librano
LAS said: "That a Liberal was conducting Robocalls does not preclude the Cons doing robocalls."
True. And the fact that there is no EVIDENCE showing Conservatives did illegal robocalls does not preclude the retard media from accusing them of it, while remaining utterly silent on the tried-and-convicted Liberal who was caught doing it.
Doofus.
Libertarians are Stupid....and to add to the others,the Lieberals and their MSM a%% kissers said EC had received over 10,000 complaints about Conservative robocalls.Guess what? The real #'s were 1400,and most of them lying Lieberals themselves.Neville Chamberlain had nothing on you when it comes to brown nosing apologys and excuses.
So where are the heads the left has been demanding over robocalls?
Filthy frothing at the mouth from the lunatic asylum for a full year, now crickets.
Next day - "Hey did you hear Harper may have walked by a message parlor once, let’s throw the feaken Nazi out of office".
McGregor/Maher aka the Hardly boys get a raging clue...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcHy8xEt2QI
William John MOORE was right about the liberanos.
the fact that there is no EVIDENCE showing Conservatives did illegal robocalls
Except in the riding where the elected Con was ousted. It happened there. The evidence that it was more widespread than that is very scant however. It would appear the Liberals and Cons are equally guilty. Which makes sense since they are basically the same party now.
Wrong again Ezra, as in the opinion of the 'present' President down south and his ilk, you cannot take the blame for your mistake; 'you did not make up those stories, someone else did that' Heh.
I can't wait to read the daily outrage on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen for the next 100+ days!
LAS he wasn't ousted for robocalls, but for dubious votes. Allegation ain't proof, even if the lying homosexual liberal elite say so. Cower under your federal civil service desk in your federal civil service wastepaoper basket.
Excellent tirade by Ezra! And the most important item comes at toward the end,where he nails the Media Party for their complicity in the Layton coverup.
This is glossed over due to the nauseating adulation given a handsome,charismatic teat-sucker,who was born with the proverbial "silver spoon" and rose to exactly the station in he life he was meant to,second place,for a second-rate politician and human being.
To any medical person, doctor or nurse,it was obvious Layton was in the final stages of a fatal disease,whether cancer or something else. The NDP conspired with the Media Party to lie to Canadians that their candidate was fit to be Prime Minister of Canada.
This was one of the most shameful,deceitful episodes in Canadian political history,and the bastards got away with it!
As the media love to say," NOTHING was further from the truth"!
Instead of making fictional love-fest movies about the the great teat-sucker,CBC should be doing it's job and investigating Layton's medical records,but I'm sure they won't because they don't want to reveal the truth to the Great Unwashed.
But this episode is typical of what one can expect from communists/socialists,they will use any LIE that suits their agenda,and Canadians had better NEVER forget that fact.
Good work Ezra.
The media dogs caught the parked car-and it ran over them!
So, now it's becoming clear -- why the left-libtards and Islamists are in bed together: They're no strangers to lies.
In the case of the jihadists, it's called taquia (sp?) and in the case of the Librano$ and the Media Party -- connected at the hip -- it's called business as usual.
A joke isn't as funny when you already know the punch line, but Ezra's hoisting of the Libs on their own petard was enjoyable.
I wonder if Pat Martin is having a bad weekend as he mounts his defamation defense? I wonder if the Council of Canadians is reconsidering their ludicrous law suit?
LAS- just because dogs and cats have four legs doesn't mean all dogs are cats. You need to get over it.
Oldfart: "the lying homosexual liberal elite"
Classing up the joint, or meeting the expected standard of discourse?
A wee bit theatrical in an Ezra sort of way but you just have to love how the Big "EZ" says "I told you so."
btw, working in a strip club was still as legal as selling cigarettes last time I checked. Just a point.
LAS said: "Except in the riding where the elected Con was ousted. It happened there."
But there is no -evidence- that the Conservative Party or the elected Conservative MP did any illegal robocalls in the riding you're talking about. They have not been convicted and fined for illegal robocalls.
"They all do it" won't wash here. The LIBERALS did it. And having done it, they falsely accused their political opponents. Their water-carriers in the extra-chromosome press wrote a new story every freakin' week keeping the false accusation alive.
Now they've been caught like a roach when the kitchen light goes on, so they're sitting really still hoping we won't notice them. But hey hey, somebody noticed!
Final score, Liberals convicted and fined. Conservatives, -not-, because NO EVIDENCE. Egg-On-Face Award goes to the Hardy Boys, it looks good on them.
It is possible that the Conservatives did it and were just too clever for the CRTC to catch them... in the same way that its possible Bob Rae is an evil alien reptiloid kitten eater from Alpha Centauri out for world domination. As in, while I can't prove it is false, there's nothing to indicate it might be true.
So really, what's your beef here?
cbcpravda katy omalice spins it the other way.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2012/08/will-the-government-keep-its-promise-to-tighten-up-the-rules-on-election-robocalls.html
Liberal media has been once again been slimed and hoisted on their own retard I mean per?
I find it hilarious they have hung themselves by their own accusation's. Don't expect the MSM to mention that fact. Always ready to cover up the liberals sins.
My 'beef' Phantom is that you are simply not seeing reality. There is evidence the cons did robocalling. Like, you know, the robocalls people got. That evidence can be said to be insufficient but it exists.
Further, posters here are making a dangerous equivocation. The Liberals got a CRTC fine related to minor misinformation (did not ID the source of the calls as Liberal). The Cons are being investigated by Elections Canada for deceiving voters on the whereabouts of voting stations.
I highly doubt anything will come of this and the media has overblown it. On the other hand, the Cons lack of ethics makes it possible somebody did something really bad.
Las go back to your progressive dolly dipper, you are nothing more than a babble lather and slather troll. Oh look a Hamas flag and a Jew
For an example of the sort of "reporting" that Ezra is handsomely excoriating, check out this August 24 Postmedia News report, published in the Montreal Gazette, by Maher and McGregor. It's dressed up as *reporting* -- it's got a headline under a newspaper banner, and an assertive, knowing tone - and looks like a news report until you actually read it, at which point you realize that it's functionally no different than if you "reported" on what your friends and drinking buddies say -- assuming you weren't too embarrassed to pass that sort of thing off as national news.
That's the *lede*. Essentially, "some fellow anti-conservatives I palaver with told me that they have assembled counterarguments against what the Conservatives are saying…"
Goody. Keep us posted, Maher.