I’m heading out for a couple of days – blogging will resume Sunday at some point, I’d think. (Unless I”m very lucky at the show and finish my dog, and get to come home early.)
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Just an additional note – I’m getting rather tired of people who should know better claiming that “more people voted” in American Idol than in the US presidential elections. This is absurd. While there were more votes cast – viewers could vote as often they wished, so with some casting dozens of votes each week, the number of votes was exponentially higher than the number of people actually voting. (Though admittedly, the American Idol example does invite comparison to voting patterns in some urban “Democratic strongholds”).
Have a good weekend, and be polite to each other, please.
Is it not disturbing that as the big red machine falters badly in it’s war against the right,the MSM in this country steps forward to continue the battle on their behalf?
It seems the hardcore lefties cannot even mount more than feeble attempts in defense of the MSM’s blatant partisanship,although even I have winced at some conservatives’ claims of a vast MSM conspiracy,it sounds so paranoid and bizarre.Yet,in fact,as each day passes we are inundated with more and more clear examples of this bias.I am not talking editorials expressing an individual’s partisan biases,I am pointing at NEWS items being purposely manipulated to represent an inaccurate impression of the conservatives.Some are no more than partisan attacks veiled as news…a black SUV anyone?
What mental malady would cause so many so-called professionals to act in this manner?Also,not even the most extreme rightie could believe that EVERY single journalist in this country is anti-conservative and is setting aside all integrity to purposely mislead their fellow Canadians.So then,I must ask where the honest journalists are and why do they not speak out against those who defile their chosen profession?
As Harper soars along in the polls,in spite of the MSM’s continued subversion,I am left to wonder if the press in general are destined for a shake-up,and ultimately a makeover as they seemed to have painted themselves into a very mean-spirited little corner.
Fred @ 6:28, Excellent post! I was about to post the exact same story! Elie Betito was involved in a Liberal campaign and got caught using some mean-spirited language (IIRC). Now the Libs are getting their supporters kids to donate $5,400 each? And they expect us to believe that a 15 yr old really cares that deeply for Volpe? Yeah, right.
In re: sooz @ 10:27 A.M.
Mary Jo Kopeckne was unavailable for commment.
http://www.ytedk.com/chapter1.htm
Democracy watchdog files complaints against Harper government
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/25/democracy-watch.html
An excellent Blog Site and I think Kate is tops. But, I wish some of the posts were gone over for spelling and grammer. , Its sometimes very hard to pick a salient point out of mangled lines
CO
You should pray for more MSM bias against the Right. So far its working for the Right. Who knows what would happen if they started telling the truth!
Not civil war? Uncivil war? “fresh, violent clashes…”. Not civil war?
Rule of thumb: When it’s denied; it’s true. It’s civil war. …
Not civil war
Al-Ahram Weekly – 9 hours ago
Fresh violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip relegated the financial crisis crippling the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Hamas-led government to a position of secondary importance, at least for a brief period. … via google news
That would be after the success of their complaint against the Ontario Libs massive lies to get elected. Followed by one of the biggest tax grabs in Canadian history. DEMOCRACY WATCHDOG. Its not Orwellian. Yet.
Remember the giant screaming headlines in the Slop and Pail about how Harper and Ambrose were planning to shank Kyoto? All based on a “leaked secret memo” Guess what(!):
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060526/canada_kyoto_060626/20060526?hub=Canada
Another auto-generated media story goes pffftt!!!
OK ronrob,I’ll take the bait….You make an excellent point,but sorry buddy,you need to clean your own back yard before you advise others on how to clean theirs!
the over “the hill” gang, ppg, greg weston et al, don’t get it about the internet. they still think they control the news, they control nothing and are looking at losing their jobs!! because they’re hand fed lib left monkeys
steve d.,
“Who knows what would happen if they started telling the truth!”
What is this horrible truth! that they would telling? You (and maybe the CIA) are the only ones who seem to know it.
NDP Seeking Evil American Political Advice??
THIS is hilarious – Jack Layton – the mustache pot that calls the Conservative kettle black:
http://soapbox22.blogspot.com/2006/05/seeking-evil-american-political-advice.html
Evidence that Osama and Saddam worked together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqVY04JVqiA&search=osama%20and%20saddam
Interesting video:
The Great Conspiracy.
http://video.google.com/videopla…reat+conspiracy
Did I really read where thugs held a Canadian community hostage, and taxpayers paid the ransom? If so, that is pathetic. I’m sure nutjob anarchists and everyone with a minority agenda in Canada learned something this week about effective tactics. I do hope I misunderstood.
Regarding Kate’s aside about American Idol voting, I’d like to add that real elections require people to pre-register, leave their homes and jobs to travel to their polling place, and the under 18 crowd can’t participate (repeatedly, as Kate pointed out).
Lorraine,thanks,that WAS worth a chuckle,especially when you consider this demonstrates that they believe they can actually form the federal government within their lifetimes.Poor,delusional,hypocritical souls.
“Did I really read where thugs held a Canadian community hostage, and taxpayers paid the ransom?”
Posted by: Tom Penn at May 27, 2006 12:36 AM
Yup!
Is this guy King or is this guy King? LOLOL
Harper’s ploy works. Media comes back crawling
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Fri, May 26, 2006
Media feud heats up on Hill
By KATHLEEN HARRIS, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU
National news organizations met yesterday in an attempt to calm the escalating war with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office, but the feud continues to fester on Parliament Hill.
Bureau chiefs from about 30 news organizations agreed to extend an invitation to the PMO to open talks aimed at settling the dispute.
In Vancouver yesterday, Harper dismissed the spat as “inside Ottawa stuff” and said Canadians as a whole don’t care about political infighting.
“I don’t think it matters to people,” he said.
http://www.voy.com/178771/15770.html
Red Star says Harper wants to stay in power until 2009. They is kidding, of course.
Harper wants out of power.
The Star is fibbing again. Those MSM types are such liars. …
Tories want fixed voting dates
Toronto Star – 4 hours ago
VICTORIA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to keep his minority Conservatives in power until the fall of 2009 as his government moves ahead with fixed dates for federal elections. At the same time, Harper … googlenews
“Did I really read where thugs held a Canadian community hostage, and taxpayers paid the ransom?”
Posted by: Tom Penn at May 27, 2006 12:36 AM
Yup also! Scroll down on Kate’s blog to “Caledonia Escalates as Power Brought Down by Vandals,” and read all about it. Pathetic, isn’t it? And this is the “kinder, gentler” Canada the moonbats like to bleat on about.
Same old, same old. But did anyone else watch “Mike Puffy Live” last night? Lawrence Martin and Jane Taber seemed to have been a little sobered by what people were saying about them last week, but it didn’t tarnish their basic message: that PMSH is treating the press abominably.
But Jane Taber needs to go back to school. Her main thesis was to concede that under both Chretien and Martin there was a “list” of sorts for journalists to ask questions. She admitted that there was a protocol around the press asking questions of the Prime Minister during the Liberal tenure and that this wasn’t exactly a revolutionary idea BUT, she continued, eyes bulging, there’s absolutely no bias in the press and how could PMSH say such a thing.
I wonder how come Puffy has only Taber and Martin on? Where’s a conservative rep from the press? This alone reveals the bias of the MSM and, as I said, Jane Taber needs to go back to school: Connecting the Dots 101.
That to philosophize is to learn to die
One of my outstanding college teachers was English professor and Renaissance scholar Dain Trafton. Professor Trafton had devoted his dissertation to Shakespeare; the only Renaissance writer he ranked in the pantheon with Shakespeare, just a notch below him, was Montaigne.
In Professor Trafton’s course on the literature of the Renaissance we read Montaigne’s essay “That to philosophize is to learn to die.” Talking about it outside of class, Professor Trafton remarked that he thought participation in sports taught the wisdom of Montaigne. He recalled watching a Dartmouth team being mercilessly trounced on the field, yet continuing to perform with a kind of stoicism and detachment reflected in Montaigne’s teaching. Professor Trafton thought that the athletes had learned something important about life from their sport.
On Friday evenings Jonathan Last and Michael Goldfarb preview the new issue of the Weekly Standard in their Weekly Standard Newsletter. In last night’s Newsletter, Jonathan Last writes in the spirit of Professor Trafton’s observation:
I’d like to direct your attention to this amazing story on the AP sports wire. It seems that the sensitive folks in the great state of Connecticut have decided that they need to look after the feelings and self-esteem of high school football players:
The football committee of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs high school sports, is adopting a “score management” policy that will suspend coaches whose teams win by more than 50 points.
A rout is considered an unsportsmanlike infraction and the coach of the offending team will be disqualified from coaching the next game, said Tony Mosa, assistant executive director of the Cheshire, Conn.-based conference.
“We were concerned with any coach running up the game. There’s no need for it,” Mosa said. “This is something that we really have been discussing for the last couple of years. There were a number of games that were played where the difference of scores were 60 points or more. It’s not focused on any one particular person.”
Some have dubbed it the “Jack Cochran rule,” after the New London High football coach, who logged four wins of more than 50 points last year. ….. more
powerlineblog
Re: PMO vs. the PPG
Coyne calls them lazy.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=b981b03c-9e15-416e-b907-e46c0efbb019&p=1
I call them lazy and biased.
Either way, they need to smarten up or find new jobs.
Journalism isn’t sitting on your ass waiting for your blackberry to go off and then putting a Liberal spin on it. Those days are done.
I love the stories about the press having conferences about how to resolve the crisis between them and the PMO. What a joke. I don’t think the PM is losing a minute’s sleep.
After years of damaging the Tories, the Librano press has outed itself as the Liberal foot soldiers they are. And in doing so, they’re cutting their own throats.
From Harper’s perspective… where’s the crisis? In four months, he’s undermined the Liberals’ most effective tool. Or to be more correct, he’s goaded them into making themselves irrelevant.
Sweet.
Maz2–the same whining was heard when Team Canada trounced some hockey team recently. What do these idiots not understand about ‘may the best team win’? What is the point of even practicing if the score is pre-determined? Here we again thave that bogus statement self-esteem raising it’s ugly head–it is this mentality that has devolved Canada into a third world state. Education has practiced this for years–no one dare be a rose–we will only churn out petunias–(with apologies to petunias)
Addiction? A myth promoted in 1822 by De Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater. In fact, says Theodore Dalrymple, heroin doesn’t hook people: people hook heroin… more»
http://www.aldaily.com/ (Link).
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VANCOUVER (CP) – Proponents of Canada’s first safe-injection site for heroin addicts say they don’t understand why Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn’t committed to the facility that appears to have saved lives and slowed the spread of diseases such as HIV.
Harper told a news conference Thursday the Conservative government is still deciding on the fate of the site where addicts are allowed to shoot heroin or use other injection drugs under the supervision of health-care workers.
“I’m not committed to it,” he said in Vancouver. cnews
I think a deeper problem with the MSM and PPG and our Conservative government, is that the ‘fuss’ is revealing that the Canadian MSM have moved, over the past Liberal era, very far from providing us with valid information. Instead, they have moved out of the Information Field and into biased gossip.
We do NOT receive information from the MSM. We received heavily edited, editorialized bits and pieces.
However, the electronic media era is now with us. Many of us find our information, the valid information, outside of the MSM. We see, by this comparison, how very little information the MSM provides us with.
For example, as I keep ranting on about – does the MSM provide us with the truth about the gun registry? It repeats endlessly the registry’s value, informing us that it is accessed (hit) over 5,000 times a day. THINK. That means 35,000 times a week. That means 35,000 long gun related crimes per week. But there are only 15,000 gun related crimes PER YEAR in Canada and these are primarily handguns, which have been registered for OVER 70 years. So? Why isn’t the MSM informing us?
The ‘hits’ are automatic. All data bases are computer networked. If a cop checks out the licence plate of a double-parked car, the ‘gun registry’ is also, irrelevantly, ‘hit’.
Why doesn’t the MSM inform us?
Why doesn’t the MSM inform us that Kyoto is about wealth transference and not about pollution control?
Why doesn’t the MSM inform us about the Asia-Pacific agreement which China, a BIG polluter is a member of (it isn’t a member of Kyoto).
Why doesn’t the MSM inform us that the real argument in the softwood dispute was about our low stumpage fees? Why is it that the majority of Canadians know only that the Evil USA Stole Our Money but doesn’t know a thing about ‘stumpage fees’.
The real issue is that the MSM focuses on gossip, on trivia, on anti-Americanism, anti-Conservativism and more gossip. Not information. So, it tells us about Harper’s weight, clothes, shaking hands with children, it calls him names, it asserts ‘what he might do’ without proof.
But, it doesn’t provide us with any information.
That’s the real problem. That ‘hissy fit’ of the MSM and the PPG is their realizing that they have lost their relevance, not simply with the PMO, but with Canadians.
Why do the MSM not inform us that, even if the UN Security Council authorizes a force for Darfur (unlikely given Khartoum’s opposition, supported by China and Russia with their UNSC vetoes), nobody wants significant numbers of Canadian “boots on the ground”? (full text not online)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20060517.DARFUR17%2FTPStory%2FTPInternational%2FAfrica%2F&ord=8553786&brand=theglobeandmail&redirect_reason=2&denial_reasons=none&force_login=false
“UN diplomats say the force [if it is ever sent] is expected to be largely drawn from African, South Asian and Islamic nations so as to reduce opposition to the move in Khartoum, while the United States and NATO would provide logistical support behind the scenes.”
So why do the MSM keep quoting Sen. Dallaire’s cries that Canada must send lots of troops, without at the same time mentioning the above reality?
Maybe they don’t even know it–yet another reflection on their worth.
And why do the MSM keep linking Afstan with Darfur?
Mark
Ottawa
Heil Harper!
Coyne calls his peers lazy in today’s column.
He left out biased, but it’s a start.
It’s time for these guys to take a look at themselves and the way the way they’ve been doing their jobs.
They’re all screaming that Harper is a threat to democracy, and that they’re defending what is in peril.
Poppycock.
These people are the ones who are guilty of betraying their responsibility to us. Harper has nothing to do with it.
They acted like Liberals. They’re the ones who sat on their thumbs while the Liberals were robbing us blind.
To hear Coyne say it, these people are screaming blue murder because Harper is threating their couch potato existence.
If these people care about the role of a vital, fair media as it pertains to keeping politicians honest, that’s great.
But forgive most of us for wondering where you were BEFORE the Tories were elected.
ET, regarding your continued concern regarding the falsely reported 5,000 hits per day on the gun registry, how’s about this for an approach…send e-mails to the editors of the major media outlets and inform them of the facts.
If they continue spreading the falsehood, their actions prove either: 1) they don’t read their e-mails; 2) they don’t believe the facts; or 3) they are blatantly lying.
I’m sure it should be fairly easy for someone who has the time to track down a list of e-mail addresses for editor’s…then, each and every lie that is dissembled by their organization can be identified and fed back to them. The only trick is how to expose them after they ignore the facts. Perhaps that’s where we advise government officials and give them the ammunition.
Am I the only one who is offended that Captain Nichola Goddard’s father chose to criticize the policy of not allowing the media at the homecoming of military coffins during his eulogy to his fallen daughter?
That my heart goes out to Dr. Goddard and his family at this intense time of grieving is not in dispute, but to use his daughter’s funeral as an opportunity to diss the government was, IMHO, in very poor taste. (In the same vein, so was Princess Di’s brother’s diatribe against the Royal Family during his eulogy to his sister.)
I guess some people will say that it’s his daughter’s funeral so he can diss PMSH and the CPC government if he wants to but, honestly, wouldn’t it have been better to have held a press conference after the funeral, sometime this week, at which to criticize the homecoming arrangements?
Apparently, Dr. Goddard spoke by phone to PMSH earlier in the week and did not discuss this issue with him, which tells you something, doesn’t it, about his motives? I find it distressing that he would use his eulogy as a bully pulpit to make a political point and, frankly, punching below the belt.
I repeat, I deeply sympathize with the Goddard family because of the loss of their daughter. I just wish Dr. Goddard had not used her funeral to make a cheap political point. There would have been lots of other opportunities at which to bring up his concerns.
Hassle said:”the falsely reported 5,000 hits per day on the gun registry”.
Ms. Guay says the 5,000 hits per day is false; the true number of hits per day is 6,500. In fact,”Police forces consult the registry over 6,500 times a day,”.
These are consultations: that raises the hits to a higher level of importance/gravity, and more.
Believe her. …
Friday, May 19, 2006
Hansard excerpts – Question Period- May 19,2006
Foreign Affairs
Ms. Monique Guay (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ): Mr. Speaker, the registry helps saves lives, and that is what matters.
Police forces consult the registry over 6,500 times a day, and they were the first to say that the registry is an essential tool for ensuring public safety.
The minister says he wants to improve safety on city streets, so why is he so dead set against a registry that, as everyone knows, helps meet this goal? …
http://newsbeat1.com/2006/05/hansard-excerpts-question-_114809655090468118.html
Here is the true tribute to Capt. Goddard.
Long live Capt. Goddard.
Long live the PPCLI.
God bless Prime Minister Harper.
God bless Canada.
Canadian soldiers root out Taliban following 2 days of heavy fighting
The soldiers of 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry swept through the series of intermittent compounds that make up this Old Testament village Wednesday evening.
via nealenews
”Volpe campaign gets big bucks from teen kids of drug company executives”
The York University Foundation: The tail that wags the dog
…the recent decision to locate the Argonaut football stadium at YU was engineered by Argonaut owner and YUF director Howard Sokolowski together with his partner David Cynamon, likely with help from his former business partner Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara (whose brother Joseph is also on the YUF board, chairs the York University Development Corporation and sits ex officio on the Land Use Committee of the Board of Governors), and MP Joe Volpe, whose riding constitutes the center of the UJA community. The direct taxpayer contribution to the stadium ($27 million from the federal government and $ million from the provincial) will flow through the YUF. Another $15 million will come from YU and, thus, indirectly from the taxpayer….
https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/project-x/2004-December/008361.html
UJA Federation
May 7, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/66fa2
CNN Lies About Iraq Minister’s Iran Support
Yesterday CNN ran a story titled: Iraqi minister defends Iranian nuclear program.
Iran has a right to develop nuclear technology and the international community should drop its demands that Tehran prove it’s not trying to build a nuclear weapon, Iraq’s foreign minister said Friday. …
“Iran doesn’t claim that they want to obtain a nuclear weapon or a nuclear bomb, so there is no need that we ask them for any guarantee now,” Hoshyar Zebari said after meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.
But according to Iraq the Model, CNN is perpetrating an outrageous distortion:
I wasn’t there at the press conference but I was able to find an audio clip of the same part of minister Zibari’s statement through Radio Sawa, and what he said here is so much different from what the CNN claimed he did (my translation):
We respect Iran’s and every other nation’s right to pursue nuclear technology for research purposes and peaceful use given they accept [giving] the internationally required guarantees that this will not lead to an armament race in the region…
Audio clip available here (Arabic)
Listening to the 2nd version of the story (in Zibari’s own voice) it is clear that Iraq recognizes Iran’s right to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes exclusively and is moreover asking Iran for guarantees, not the other way.
via lgf
hassle – I’ve emailed quite enough editors and journalists about the gun registry fallacy. Nothing.
But, there’s something more than just their ‘reliance’ on someone emailing them. It’s their sheer simple lack of reasoning about the situation.
After all, my questions didn’t arise because I KNEW that the data bases were all linked. My question about the 5,000 ‘hits’ a day grew out of simple basic reasoning.
1) Are there really 5,000 long gun related crimes per day in Canada? Good heavens!
2) That would mean 35,000 per week!! Is that really the case/
And almost two million per year!!
3) Check Canada Stats. Their gun-related crimes are about 15,000 PER YEAR. Hmmm.
And most of those are handguns.
4) Handguns have been registered for over 70 years, since 1934. Hmm.
The above is ALL that any medium-sized brain with an average reasoning power, requires to figure out that ‘something’s wrong with that ‘5,000 hits a day’. But, we get it repeated on and on and on. But THINK! 35,000 gun crimes per week????
And so, I found out the truth. The computer data based are all linked. Check in for a driver’s licence, a car registration, a building permit, a tenancy violation – any trivia whatsoever. And the ‘gun registry’ is ‘hit’.
So, it’s a blatant lie. My question is, how could any simple reasoning individual accept that 5,000 hits a day?? Just think for one minute..and it doesn’t make sense!
But, I have written editors, columnists..and nothing happens. Why?
Even the Toronto Sun must be feeling left out of the “perceived” influential status these days. Adler’s column is another wringing of his hands about how PMSH is ignoring the media and the cartoon on the editorial page shows the absolute disrespect they have for the Prime Minister. I have been a faithful Sun reader for years but will not longer pay $.50 for a paper they could not give away when they were priced at $.75.
Hansard excerpts – Question Period- May 19,2006
Ms. Monique Guay (Rivière-du-Nord, BQ): Mr. Speaker, the registry helps saves lives, and that is what matters.
Police forces consult the registry over 6,500 times a day, and they were the first to say that the registry is an essential tool for ensuring public safety.
The minister says he wants to improve safety on city streets, so why is he so dead set against a registry that, as everyone knows, helps meet this goal?…
Hansard via newsbeat1
You know the answer to your own rhetorical question, ET, as do I. Sending an e-mail to the reporter who makes the claim will be a wasted effort IMO, but for an editor to ignore the facts, that points to their complicity in the act of lying. I had read your repeated comments regarding your anger over this issue, but had not read that you had already acted.
Determining the most effective next step is the tough part…who polices the media? The Canadian Association of Journalists has bylaws, guidelines and a code of ethics…but they are so porous as to make them useless. As an example, in their preamble to their statement of principles they state “It is our privilege and duty to seek and report the truth AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, defend free speech …”.
Gosh, that’s a good principle…as an example, as I understand the truth, I am the Greatest Canadian that has ever lived!
Maybe PMSH has something up his sleeve…it seemed foolish for him to actually come out and say that he felt the media to be biased against the Conservatives. Maybe he is setting something up…giving the journalists enough rope to hang themselves and then knocking the chair out from under them. That would be too good to be true.
Some astute observations on the founder of Trudeaupia
“The ultimate conformist
– he drifted with the intellectual tide. Ultramontane Catholic in 1930s Quebec; anti-British pacifist in early 1940s Quebec; radical semi-Communist in the late 1940s; Quiet Revolutionary in the 1950s; hippie in the 1960s; multiculturalist economic nationalist Castro fan in the 1970s; peacenik in the early 1980s. Talk about a walk on the tame side.
… His most famous statement is: “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” .
……… His crack about bedrooms came just as the state was invading our private lives in force through a variety of social engineering schemes. ………
….Many Liberals think they are Trudeau’s heirs. The problem isn’t that they might be wrong. It’s that they might be right, and lead us into another era of bold conformity and deep silliness. “
John Robson
http://www.thejohnrobson.com/columns/2006/060425%20NP.htm
Business as usual in Librano Land. I wonder if Jane Taber will have any hard hitting questions for Joe Volpe on this weeks edition of Question Period??
I bet not!!! I’m sure this is merely an example of civic participation by a politically astute group of teens.
I really have to raise my kids better.
Syncro
Professor Dr. Goddard: from his tenured seat in academe. His 15 minutes of fame; a politically charged, partisan smear against Prime Minister Harper, belied by his daughter’s sacrifice. Is the “Treason of the Intellectuals”* on his reading list?
…
“I find it troubling that the privacy decision means that we are keeping the press outside the wire, where the bad guys are. I would like to think that Nichola died to protect our freedoms, not to restrict them.”
torontostar
*Julien Benda, 1928
Further to how irrelevant the MSM have become, the Guite trial has been left hanging in the ether by the MSM on the West coast. This trial is only the tip of the iceberg, if Guite is proven guilty of massive fraud and theft, as charged, then why aren’t the media reporting on the trial. Could it be that by not reporting it then they are guilty of ‘aiding and abbetting’. They have set themselves up in the last few months as the opposition to the Harper government. Yet they were not even on the radar screen when the Liberal government was allowing the massive rip-offs and fraud perpetrated by Radwanski, Stewart, Shawinigate, Adscam, relocation, gun registry, deployment, etc, etc, etc,. The MSM have filtered the Canadian News for too long. They have entered the 21st. century and are now redundant.
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I didn’t say anything about “horrible” truth. Do you know something I don’t?
I was just responding to CO and about a hundred others who think the MSM is smearing Harper. I was just saying that if smearing is causing his polling numbers to rise then maybe that is better than the truth? After all politics is all about keeping the polling numbers up. You can’t wield power if you can’t get elected so positive poll numbers are the life blood of politicians.
steve d: you just outed yourself: “After all politics is all about keeping the polling numbers up.”
And that’s where you and the Librano$ are ALL WRONG. Politics with integrity is all about doing the right thing and hoping that enough of the Canadian population recognizes what you’re doing to re-elect you. Politics with integrity is all about policies that benefit all Canadians, not just the entitled few in your party, your friends, your family, and assorted hangers-on, many of whom are in the media and benefit by cozying up to the party in power.
That’s the essential difference between PMSH and the Librano$ and their so-called leadership. And that is the essential fact that the members of the MSM/PPG just don’t get. They CAN’T get it because their brains, their raison d’etre, their modus operandi, are all geared to power, entitlement, perks, lifestyle, no altruistic principles beyond these indicators. They are men and women without chests, as C.S. Lewis would describe them: no hearts. Men and women who care only for their own petty and myopic well-being and to H___ with “ordinary” Canadians.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has never been anything other than an “ordinary” Candadian (with, albeit, extraordinary political prowess) is a reproach to all of these power brokers. Their hypocrisy is legion as they cheer on the Librano$ and Dippers holding/wanting power, as they do everything they know how to grab power for themselves, and yet diss PMSH and his party now that they actually have power. And let’s not forget that the CPC’s power is only at the behest of the electorate.
I’m clear that PMSH is aware of this and that is why he is going directly to the electorate rather then k___ a__ with the MSM. He’s got a mandate from the Canadian public to turn around the culture of entitlement and fraud, and he intends to give it his best shot.
Of course he’s being attacked at every turn. Too many people stand to lose a whole lot of money grabs, perks, and patronage appointments to want to see him succeed.
Keep well the road, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and all of the members of the CPC. As my dad used to say to me when I was a discouraged, “Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
Amen to that.
NKOTB; No you’re not. Global Nat. reported last night that PMSH said he spoke to him and said he was not aware of any problems. Seems neither media, who created this mountain, nor those who believe their spin are willing to concede that these policies were set to protect families. No-one is saying they can’t hold public funerals.
Also reminds me of the the family whose parents were murdered in Mexico and their Lawyer Eddie Greenspan, a faithful Liberal Party supporter, who haven’t missed an opportunity to knock the Conservatives. It really underscores how divided this country is and how the media has created that animosity and fed it, plays it. What a shame that such a small country can’t get along and be at peace with one another, what will it take to unite Canadians?
Toronto a hard sell to U.S. visitors
American tourists visiting the city are in decline and the Ministry of Tourism is predicting a 16 per cent decrease — 520,000 fewer U.S. residents — will come to Toronto this summer. …
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How is shadenfreude spelled/spelt??
Schadenfreude. Coined by Dr. Schaden and Freude in their infamous black comedy of 2006, in a co-production with the Jamestown Players : “How To Die Laughing at Black Humour”, now playing at the Holetown Playhouse, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Free admission.
Rated: PG
“Filtering the news” is an apt way of putting it. Maybe that should be the new slogan for a certain taxpayer-funded network: “The source Canadians trust to filter the news”.
Reports about Harper’s belly-fat pass right through this filter, obviously, while the testimony about LPC mismanagement coming out of an ongoing fraud trial gets caught. Last spring/summer, baseless allegations and reporterly innuendo that Harper was a scheming danger to Canadian values passed easily through the filter, while the actual contents of the Murphy/Dosanjh tapes were caught up.
BTW, Andrew Coyne is on form again, he has an excellent column in today’s National Post (or go to Neale news) on the current dispute between the OPG and Harper. Make sure you read it. When reporters had their guns pointing the wrong way on the contents of what the media dubbed “The Grewal Tape”, Coyne was the only one to examine not only the actual contents of the tape — an affront which put him under legal fire from the PMO — but also at the curious abdication of responsibility of his fellow journalists.
NKOTB: after reading a Nealenews link to a T.O. Star story and a Calgary Sun editorial (criitcal of the Gov.) on this issue, I am more of the opinion that this is a classic he-said/they said situation. Designed to make Harper and O’Connor look like idiots and the poor media as reporters of crossed wires.
I think the press is not informing us, the public, about the Guite trial, because Guite implicates Chretien. The Liberal MSM are protecting Chretien – and the Liberals.
Thanks, new kid, for pointing out steve d’s crass and unethical opportunism i.e, ‘politics is all about keeping the poll numbers up”. No steve, politics is the responsibility to govern a country. Politicians are elected, by the people, to govern.
Governance is a responsibility. That’s all it is. It isn’t about power – which is what you are talking about. Power has nothing to do with responsibility. It has a great deal to do with corruptness. That’s what the Liberals were about. Power and corruptness. Not politics. The Liberal agenda was to maintain their power.
Period. That gave them endless personal wealth and endless ‘entitlements’, including having the taxpayer purchase the travel tickets for their ‘chauffeur-boyfriend’, their expensive lunches, oh – and even their chewing gum. That was the Mode of Versailles Life of the Liberals.
Therefore, their interest was in manipulation to ‘keep the poll numbers up’. That’s why we have: SSM, the gun registry, Quebec, Quebec and Quebec, a reduced military, and, that’s also why we have anti-Americanism. You see, focusing only on poll numbers means that you are also completely and totally bereft of policies. They had no policies to apply to Canada. None. So, it was all propaganda (we aren’t Americans; we are the greatest country, we are tolerant, we signed Kyoto, we are blah blah…ignoring that we are none of this).
Again, my view is that the MSM have somehow, silently, sunk into irrelevance. They don’t provide us with information. Just gossip. The PMO was acknowledging this. The MSM and PPG are fighting to prevent the public from seeing the truth: Hey – they have no clothes!