Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
January, 2013; How Obama Won the Social Media Battle in the 2012 Presidential Campaign
November, 2014: 60% of Obamacare Facebook comments posted by fewer than 100 profiles
It doesn’t matter if you “win” the social media battle. What matters is that you convince an incurious, supportive media that you’ve won. That’s why they spend so much effort on faking it.
I’m afraid you’ve written “3013” for “2013.”
Proud to say our Prime Minister is taking up the slack on the World stage since Obama of the empty chair has become nothing more than a bag of hot air.
And as Obungler has proven up until VERY recently, once you can fake ‘sincerity’ and ‘truthiness’ you’ve got it made.
Its funny how Facebook “likes” carry less weight than illegally allowing half a million undocumented foreigners into the country, and then flying them all over on public transport without screening them for disease.
Plus flying in people with Ebola direct from Africa and forbidding the states from quarantining them. Also, inexplicably, more important than Facebook “likes”.
Front-page headline on National Post this a.m., with a smiling Stephen J. Harper, holding a Kuala bear: “Warning: appears friendly; be careful of bite.”
I’d say that the country has changed quite a lot these last few weeks, to the point of asking my friends in the RCL to produce a T-shirt with a poppy emblazoned over the heart. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of people still wearing their poppies, as am I.
Agreed, Liz. It is nice to see our guy stepping up.
It would be nicer if we had some boats and airplanes to back up his rhetoric with serious @ss-kicking potential. In case somebody might get lippy, y’know.
We should probably pick up those Mistral class helicopter carriers/amphibious assault ships the French are witholding from the Russkies at the moment. Word has it they’d be more than happy to accomodate an alternate buyer.
I’d wager that more than 60% of the comments on SDA are from fewer than 100 people, too. Same goes for Instapundit. Each online group has its vocal loudmouths (like me) and a long tail of lurkers.
Well, not according to OBlahBlah’s fawning press…..the press that claims that now President Obola has solved the climate “crisis” and has made “commitments”. Nothing could be further from the truth, but either the press (TV, radio, web and dinosaur) is being deliberately obtuse and cheerleading (yes, we know), or are completely ignorant as to how the government system works.
To listen to them, Obama is Emporer of all, never lies, and is sitting next to God in his purity.
The ‘Social Media’ battle is an echo chamber – it’s mostly media people obsessing about what some other media numbskull said on Twitter. It’s ephemeral and vapid. It’s actually embarrassing to watch otherwise intelligent people getting exercised by 140 characters of bumper-sticker wisdom (and hosannahs to Beyonce, eulogies to the dead, and so on and so forth).
I defy anybody to tell me a single Tweet or Facebook post they recall, specifically, having any meaningful or lasting impact during the election campaign. The closest thing I can recall is that tool in the tartan onesie and I think he/she featured during the Obamascam rollout, rather than the election.
Kate’s blog has far, far, far more weight and significance.
Snapchat has as much longevity as anything ever said on Twitter – because tomorrow another 8 gazillion Twitter Tweets will be Tweeted, and yesterday was 300 selfies ago for most social media users.
p,ease don’t get me wrong, I adore Twitter, but only for trying to bait and get a response from famous liberals it’s pure sport. (I’ve managed to upset Toure, Cher and Roseanne Barr via Tweet so far in my life, which is a gratifying 10 seconds work).
Only a few Facebook sources creating a media “buzz”? Reminds one of the buzz over the grassroots funding surge of the Dems during the last presidential election. Proof that it was grassroots??? Thousands of donations pouring in, all for less than $50. The image the media gave us was one of small people donating to the cause – they omitted the part where any donations of less than $50 did not require the donor to give their identity. Whether it truly be mom and pop, or an offshore source, or a union rep, no ID needed. And nobody in the media blinked or even asked a contrary question as they told us of the populist surge.
That’s true — but we gotta have them helicopters, also, which is a bridge too far, apparently, for the left in this country.
Choose your kind of freedom — we gotta have “Cormorants” (EH101s), Sikorskis, etc. Everybody knows in every naval-based city in this country, and them some, that each helicopter can control at least 1500 sq. miles. of ocean. At what point, really, are we going to get on with the job?
I actually wrote to PM Harper on that very subject DrD, got a response from PMO and from Minister of Defense Rob Nicholson, no plans to make an offer at that time, but didn’t rule it out either.
Canada should offer the French an option for two Mistral class carriers;
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-may-claim-damages-france-doesnt-deliver-mistral-100436834.html
Those two ships with a complement of helicopters mentioned by David Southam would be great addition to Canada’s armed forces.
Defense, search and rescue and disaster relief, base one at Halifax and one at Esquimalt.
Mistral
BPC Dixmude (L9015) in Jounieh bay, Lebanon 2012.
Class overview
Name: Mistral
Builders: STX Europe[1]
DCNS[1]
Admiralty Shipyard
Operators: Marine Nationale
Russian Navy
Preceded by: Foudre-class
Cost: €451.6m[2] (FY 2012) (~US$600m)
In commission: December 2005 – present
Building: 2: Vladivostok, laid down for Russia in February 2012, Undergoing sea trials; Sevastopol, laid down for Russia in June 2013
Planned: 5–7
Completed: 4
Active: Mistral, Tonnerre, Dixmude
General characteristics
Type: Landing helicopter dock
Displacement: 16,500 tonnes (empty)
21,300 tonnes (full load)
Length: 199 m (653 ft)
Beam: 32 m (105 ft)
Draught: 6.3 m (21 ft)
Installed power: 3 Wärtsilä diesel-alternators 16 V32 (6.2 MW) + 1 Wärtsilä Vaasa auxiliary diesel-alternator 18V200 (3 MW)
Propulsion: 2 Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuth thrusters (2 × 7 MW), 2 five-bladed propellers
Speed: 18.8 knots (35 km/h)
Range: 10,800 km (5,800 nmi) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
19,800 kilometres (10,700 nmi) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried: 4 CTM (chaland de transport de matériel)
alternatively, 2 LCAC (Landing Craft, Air Cushion)
Capacity: 59 vehicles (including 13 AMX-56 Leclerc tanks) or a 40-strong Leclerc tank battalion
Troops: 900 (short duration)
450 (long durations)
150 (serving as operational headquarters)
Complement: 20 officers, 80 petty officers, 60 quarter-masters
Sensors and
processing systems: DRBN-38A Decca Bridgemaster E250 navigation radar
MRR3D-NG air/surface sentry radar
2 optronic fire control systems
Armament: 2 × Simbad systems
4 × 12.7 mm M2-HB Browning machine guns
Aircraft carried: 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters
Aviation facilities: 6 helicopter landing spots
I had to comment on how this reminded me that most of the “hate Harper” comments on the Globe and Mail or National Post websites share remarkable identical syntax and grammar; but then the same posters all assure me that it is “the Cons” who pay for comments. Good thing then that “the Cons” can afford to hire people with better English and more time to compose thoughtful comments. Otherwise I might get confused and think I was reading through the dribble on rabble.ca.
But then I was aroused by the comments here re: French ships built for Russian sailors. Sorry, but not what Canada needs; not what Canada could ever use efficiently; and then there are the problems with a. and b. at the start that would have everyone up in arms as soon as they were delivered and manned. Canada lost the home-grown ability to design and build its own warships in the 70s(the last batch of frigates were, in the end, sub-contracted to Bath in Maine albeit assembled in St John); regaining the capability to design and build our own first-class ships (however desirable) would be cost a fortune and take decades including several iterations of ships that would only be the learning curve. We are going to end up buying good, cheap (relatively) ships from foreign yards; but let’s start at the start: what do we propose to do with them and how much are we prepared to pay to do it? Hillier’s “Big Honk’n ship concept was a junior major’s staff college pipe dream; it has been gone into time and time again and fails both for lack of real utility and a monumental waste of people and equipment for anything but one role (one Canada will never undertake). And the Navy is more than partly to blame for its predicament: it put decades of service on its ships over the last few years for no real reason than to show the Army and Air Force that it was a player too.
Hey, he only heard of this yesterday at the G20 in Australia!
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/17/gruber-obama-personally-asked-me-to-help-disguise-unhelpful-obamacare-facts/
If it ain’t in the newspaper, it never happened.
I had to comment on how this reminded me that most of the “hate Harper” comments on the Globe and Mail or National Post websites share remarkable identical syntax and grammar; but then the same posters all assure me that it is “the Cons” who pay for comments. Good thing then that “the Cons” can afford to hire people with better English and more time to compose thoughtful comments; otherwise I might get confused and think I was reading through the dribble on rabble.ca.
But then I was aroused by the comments here re: French ships built for Russian sailors. Sorry, but not what Canada needs; not what Canada could ever use efficiently; and then there are the problems with a. and b. at the start that would have everyone up in arms as soon as they were delivered and we attempted to man them. Canada lost the home-grown ability to design and build its own warships in the 1970s (the last batch of frigates were, in the end, sub-contracted to Bath in Maine albeit assembled in St John). Regaining the capability to design and build our own first-class ships (however desirable) would be cost a fortune and take decades including several iterations of ships that would only be the learning curve. We are going to end up buying good, cheap (relatively) ships from foreign yards; but let’s start at the start: what do we propose to do with them and how much are we prepared to pay to do it? Hillier’s “Big Honk’n ship concept was a junior major’s staff college paper pipe dream; it has been gone into time and time again and fails both for lack of real utility and as a monumental waste of people and equipment for anything but one role (one Canada will never undertake). Anti-submarine warfare on the North Atlantic run may still be a potential task, but it is not what the very expensive ships we have focused on for so long have been doing since 1990. Submarines?; well someone who can articulate the need and how we might meet it better than I can address that one. And the Navy is more than partly to blame for its current predicament: it put decades of service on its ships over the last few years; some of this for good reason, but often for internal reasons that all concerned knew would ultimately bring on refitting and replacement dilemmas. You might excuse this by talking about wartime priorities impacting on a peacetime Navy, but the professionals in charge (all now retired) have something to answer for.
Good pick up on the syntax an grammar. I also noticed the similarities on the “hate Harper” comments. Any CBC, or Globe story with that mentions Harper however tangentially falls victim to the deluge of Harper hating comments.
I have also notice that the hateful comments come in waves. There are times when I see a fresh story with only 10 – 12 comments and notice they are on-topic, reasonable and fair. Then an hour later … bam, 500 comments, mostly off-topic and slamming Harper.
I imagine an astro-turf war-room somewhere, all with good Liberals (union members? CBC employees?) with a boss delivering the day’s talking points to their loyal conscripts. My guess is union money, paying the traveling occupy protest crowd. Their high priced university education would explain the impeccable grammar and punctuation.
Please define Canadian naval strategy, as you understand it.
State-of-the-art chopper will be part of military operations from 2014
Wildcat will replace Lynx fleet, which has served the Fleet Air Arm loyally since the mid-70s
New aircraft has more powerful engines so it operates well in extreme ‘high and hot’ conditions such as in Afghanistan
Bristling with a fearsome armoury of weapons, this is the latest scourge of Britain’s enemies.
The £26million Wildcat combat helicopter, unveiled today, will be deployed to crush Taliban fighters, pirates, drug-smugglers and terrorists.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2171993/Army-unveils-fleet-26m-Wildcat-combat-helicopters.html#ixzz3JNI8klAB
JAB reminds one of a Liberal hack bean counter who was once employed at DND headquarters but was rendered surplus(useless) when common sense kicked in.
Next to God in purity
Funny how his frequenting ddof Chicago g ay bath houses doesn’t make the MSM
Was one of the profiles from a fellow liar named Gruber?
I agree about purchasing these two Mistrals. There seem to be many hot spots around this world these days that could blow up and Canada needs to be counted to help defend western democracy and freedoms off shore and as you suggest defend our shores to the east, west, and north.
Back to the topic at hand. We all must continually try to remember that the left have been masters at media manipulation since the Bolsheviks used mass media to hoodwink the proletariat and peasants after 1917. They have had decades to practice taking over first print media, then the television media, and now social media. Having only a few profiles and publishing thousands of digital, twitter, and blog comments gives the impression that the masses are behind their propaganda.
It would not surprise me at all if there were leftist organizations that had paid staff employed at nothing but commenting at every opportunity that presents itself.
Ontario Liberals paid PR firm to setup fake Twitter accounts to support Liberal narrative on twitter. It is not to far of a stretch to imagine the federal NDP and Liberals utilizing this same technique to punch above their weight, control the narrative by flooding media drowning out alternative viewpoints and to create the illusion of grassroots support to bring in the gullible. It is no different then those leftists punks shouting and disrupting political speech events.
Yes, while it appears that so many people support the Liberals or NDP (via social media comments) it is often hard to find someone to admit as much in person or when their actual name is out there in the public sphere.
I find that many of the people I associate with don’t espouse their political persuasion. I know some are Liberal or NDP supporters, but they aren’t the rabid believers you see in many comment forums – far from it. But, like the commenters on social media they mainly shoot from the hip and spout touchy-feely drivel on every topic that comes up. Few facts….lots of emotion.
Kate, Mark Steyn referenced you!!