62 Replies to “Zing”

  2. I was impressed with the emotion he showed when addressing the Syrian issue and the pictures of the little boy. Can you post a clip of that segment too.

  6. It’s a great response, and he comes off wonderfully, but of course the media won’t give it any play.
    Any interview where the PM looks prime ministerial, sober and calm, the kind of leader all citizen want, will be seen once only, and no clips will ever make it into greater circulation.
    As in the US, it’s looking like the media are going to determine the outcome of this election.

  8. I can hardly wait to see the look on Mansbridge’s face when the Conservatives win another majority.

  10. Ok ok ok – now I get it – Watched the full interview on Y-tube and Harper’s gotcha moment with Mansbridge was edited out of the final CBC release of the interview – dirty belly-crawling journo scum.

  12. Who can convince HARPER to set aside any and ALL distractions, go to the NORTHERN EXTREMITIES OF CANADA, make his presence known there by planting OUR CANADIAN FLAGS for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!
    take control of our CANADIAN LANDS, MR. PRIME MINISTER, HARPER
    …..NOW!
    PRIOR TO OUR CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTION!

  13. You people have Harper, and we have Obama?
    It really sucks to be an American right now..
    –
    Donald Trump is leading because he tells the Politically Correct crowd to go to hell..

  14. “…..Jian Ghomeshi, Evan Sullivan you don’t go around firing everybody that worked for them, that’s not really fair” – Stephan Harper
    ROFL – Gotcha! Look at Mansbridge bite his lip when he said it, too funny.

  16. Wow, followed the utube link for the full interview and what do I get. A Mulcair add. That stings man.

  21. It wasn’t in the final video they posted for download – you really have too high an opinion of these creepy journo demagogues.

  23. Hey I was just as surprised as you! No need to worry about me putting CBC on a pedestal, I just thought you may be interested in the truth.
    Cheers,
    Warren

  24. This morning, the local CBC outlet in Halifax ran the following piece with its “federal election voters panel” — selected Lord knows how.
    http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Maritimes/ID/2675077635/
    Historically, these panels usually included adherents (usually not official spokes-folks or other party officials)of the three major parties to comment on the election from time to time. If you listen to this interview, you will hear three people introduced as “voters” who are uniformly and strongly opposed to our government and everything that it is doing. The nearest we see to an honest portrayal of the situation occurs when one of the panelists indicates that she is not quite certain whether to support Mr Trudeau or Mr Mulcair.
    Of most of the local CBC programs, Information Morning for Mainland Nova Scotia has set a higher standard of fairness and decency than most others. The long-time host, Don Connolly, has generally made his views pretty clear, tends to cite articles he’s read in the left-wing Guardian newspaper, and conducts pretty soft interviews with other members of his tribe [e.g. former local news presenter Jim Nunn, who in retirement has succumbed fully to Harper Derangement Syndrome]. Today, however, they have provided a brief but telling display of the extent to which the Media Party is all-in against the Conservative government.

  26. “As in the US, it’s looking like the media are going to determine the outcome of this election”
    The media is dependent on Political revenue…Trump is their worst nightmare…..A “blowout” does not attract much MONEY, or eye balls…Expect those Networks that sell crap to experience total failure….Bagdad Bob & Brian Williams will both be in California chasing dogs. (Even Fox will lose money)
    They MUST cover Trump as news… or they lose Eyeballs

  27. That was a good riposte, but the best is still Peter Mansbridge’s interview with Margaret Thatcher when she wrote her autobiography The Downing Years. He asked her why she had not tried to avoid going to war with Argentina over the Falklands. She responded, “But you haven’t read my book at all! I have a whole chapter on the efforts we made, through the Americans and others, to get the Argentine generals to back off their aggression.” Mansbridge said, “I have read it” and she responded, “well, not all of it or not very well.” He was red-faced and fumbled his way through the rest of the interview.

  29. It seemed to me that Mansbridge dropped the ball when he failed to ask about C-51. That’s probably because he would then have to ask Justin Trudeau about it too.
    Harper may seem brilliant to some, but surely a really brilliant conservative would almost instantly realize the dangers in C-51 and the stupidity of our foreign policy.
    Anyway, luckily for me, there is a libertarian running in my riding, so I won’t have to spoil my ballot.
    Now, back to the luvfest … oh Steve, oh Steve, oh Steve (this will only be funny if you live in BC and have seen the ad where the formerly hot young lady is asking her husband to junk the car they used to make out in, and really, yes it is a metaphor).

  30. Good interview by the PM. I’m surprised MotherCorp. didn’t have anti-Conservative editorializing continually scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Have never seen the MSM so openly hostile to the CPC. They don’t even try to hide it.

  31. You will never see any of the other wannabe leaders handle themselves as well as Harper. He is real. The Pony and the red eyed devil winge and squirm.

  32. The entire interview was excellent and a good use of 20 minutes if you want to see a cogent vision for this country, based on reality, not platitudes and false narratives. I look for the same difficult questions for the other leaders. On ethics, Mr Mulcair can try to explain away the $2.7m the NDP got called on for misusing constituency funds and ordered to pay back. Both of them hopefully will go into great length on the need for federal carbon “pricing,” where their plans don’t “trickle down” to consumers. I most look forward to each of their answers to the first thing they would do as PM.
    Harper is not at all concerned at the polling, nor should he be when we see a three way split, as in Ted’s chimps, though according to Nanos 10% of the chimps are undecided. My point is the unengaged polled are way more excited about Timmies getting poutine that who they want as PM. Most people haven’t even heard of Mulcair, and they’re going to vote for him? I mentioned to a friend Mulcair was so “moderate” he planned to introduce a federal carbon tax. The profanity laced response confirmed a no vote for the NDP. That political transaction, on a range of issues will continue to change votes leading to election day, imho.
    Will Mansbridge show some professionalism by conducting difficult interviews, or will he give the Grit and Dipper leaders a pass on their expensive promises with surety of even greater spending going forward, along with incoherent foreign policy calculations?
    Why would any uncommitted voter go with anyone other than PMSH after his surely polished, confident and calm performance we will see. We would have to be dumber than chimps I guess.

  34. The reality today is most voters will not see this interview or any other interviews nor do they watch CBC news for any insights.

  35. The CBC knowingly propagated a fabricated tale about Syrian refugees they knew was bs for hours after it was planted by an NDP candidate/fantasist.
    Disingenuously editing an interview would hardly make a ripple.

  36. The LPC rarely ever uses anyone from outside their Party in “spontaneous” interviews. My sister and her husband are often trotted out as an ordinary couple of voters who are just thrilled to death with Justin or some other Liberal candidate.
    What you aren’t told is that they are former officials of the LPC,though now retired from the executive, but hardly representative of “ordinary voters”.
    It’s all about optics and the LPC is expert at illusion.

  38. Jamie MacMaster: “Do you think that was the first time Mansbridge ever got a kick there?”
    TheTooner: “No, he used to be married to Wendy Mesley”
    Rimshot!

  39. I do hope you are right in your prediction of a Prime Minister Harper victory in October. It might be me but the absolute drumbeat, just like a great juggernaut is happening even now. It is heralding a Mulcair or Trudeau win. I have never seen anything like it before. Almost drooling by the press.4593

  40. I do hope you are right in your prediction of a Prime Minister Harper victory in October. It might be me but the absolute drumbeat, just like a great juggernaut is happening even now. It is heralding a Mulcair or Trudeau win. I have never seen anything like it before. Almost drooling by the press.

  41. I differ with some of the opinions here in that I thought it was a fair and balanced interview. The underlying hatred the CBC has for Harper was well concealed and Mansbridge acted in a professional and rather neutral manner. Not often I can find anything good to say about the CBC but I thought it was handled rather well by both sides.

  42. It’s true. Nobody who worked with or under Ghomeshi was fired. But two managers were. So to be clear, CBC staff were in fact held responsible, and rightly so.
    Harper on the other hand… shirking responsibility right, left, and centre.

  43. I’ll agree with you only after I see how he handles (or gladhandles) the other two candidates.

  45. Hey John
    I call bullshit.
    Are these the managers you say were “fired”?
    Not!
    Read the weasel words.
    We’re probably paying for their huge pension and severance packages.
    “Around the time the report was released Thursday, CBC announced that two senior managers — radio executive Chris Boyce and human resources executive Todd Spencer — have left the corporation.
    Former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi did not speak with lawyer Janice Rubin, who prepared the ‘CBC workplace investigation regarding Jian Ghomeshi’ report. (Reuters) (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)
    Boyce and Spencer had been placed on leave in early January. Boyce had featured prominently in a investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate that looked into what CBC managers knew about the Ghomeshi scandal, and how they responded to it.
    Conway declined to offer specifics around the departures.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/cbc-inquiry-concludes-management-mishandled-jian-ghomeshi-1.3035574
    Paid leave and retired with big gubment hush money severance and gold plated pension is my guess.
    On the other hand Canada was paid back all the money Senator Duffy allegedly padded his expense account with.
    ‘It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.’
    IRonald Reagan

  46. The last four polls show the conservatives in third place.
    Understand that your average Canadian voter is not the brightest bulb in the bunch.
    They’re usually led more by emotion or what their friends are doing than logic.
    Unless something spectacular happens it may be that the NDP will form the next government and the Liberals will form the next official opposition.
    God help us all.

  47. Who are the people they are asking? The only people I know who are Liberal supporters are Catholics, teachers, union members and welfare recipients. In my area there are a couple of Liberal signs, far fewer than I’ve seen in 6 yrs, and one NDP. Always used to be a couple of greens but none so far.
    In the case of my neighbour, add to those: current and retired civil servants. military officers,and University and College staff.
    That’s why no one other than a Liberal should bother running in Frontenac Co. When you’re outnumbered, there’s nothing that will change. Promise or don’t promise, it doesn’t matter.

  48. And that’s a fair point. But to be equally fair, take a stab at these questions for me, if you would:
    1. Who was the chief manager of the PMO during the time in question, and did that person lose his job over the Duffy repayment kerfuffle? (Hint: Nigel Wright).
    2. How much taxpayer money is still missing from the following “scandals”:
    a) Senate expense “scandal”, principally, but not exclusively associated with the Conservatives? (Hint: $0, or there about)
    b) Misuse of constituency funds, associated with the NDP? (Hint: $2.7 million, or there about)
    c) Sponsorship scandal, associated with the Liberal Party? (Hint: $40 million, according to best estimates)
    Now, I thought the “Zing” was pretty good, but I thought Mr. Harper’s set-up for the “Zing” was even better: he made the point that I have wanted him to make for months, namely, that everybody in the PMO had only one boss, and that he (Mr. Harper) had only one report.
    Whether anybody likes it or not, that’s just the way it works in the real world. Mr. Wright knew that, and everybody in the PMO knew that. In fact, everybody who has ever worked in an organization knows that — it’s an essential element of corporate governance (and by corporate, I don’t just mean corporations). Staff can talk about stuff, develop scenarios, options, blah, blah, blah, but at the end of the day, there is only one chief manager, and that’s who carries the can.
    I am reminded of the prorogation “crisis” of 2008, wherein Mr. Dion and Mr. Layton proposed, together, to visit the Governor General, which is the moment when the whole “coalition” initiative fell apart: the Governor General has only one report, namely the PM. There was quite a bit of talk at the time about how this was the “second” “King-Byng affair”. Far from it, actually.
    Happy to take your questions.

  49. “Who are the people they are asking?”
    Good question. As we all know, the only legitimate poll will be on Oct. 19. All the others are simply exercises in attempting to influence voters.
    As for lawn signs … I live in a riding where the boundaries changed dramatically from urban/rural to strictly urban, supposedly to the detriment of the Conservatives. I have seen more blue lawn signs in the riding than I can ever recall in previous elections. There are very few red ones visible and a few of the ugly orange ones usually situated near a derelict vehicle or an old couch on the unkempt lawn of an equally unkempt duplex. The orange sign is undoubtedly the result of the NDP candidate dropping in and promising lots of free stuff.
    Of course I will admit that counting lawn signs is about as scientific as polling.

  50. Not only will most voters not see this interview, they will be assaulted with the Media’s “view” of this interview… Den Taint over at the NP says that it was the PM who looked “embattled” and “defensive” and it was the PM who “kept interrupting” Mansbridge… The Media Party are winning the election with lies, hysteria and constant negativity surrounding the Conservatives, while the Media covers for their preferred candidate Trutardo, and they completely ignore the citizen of france beady eyed beardo Mulcair… It looks like at this point the Media and the big Unions are going to become the next Government of Canadastan… oh well, it was only a matter of time.

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