Alexander Panetta

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Confesses;

“I’m not sure it’s any good for anyone if we end up commenting on each other without actually understanding each other. In this case, I imagine that it would only have informed my story and gotten your points across to a wider audience if I’d we’d actually spoken before I wrote.”

Who’s this “we’d” Panetta speaks of? (Notice the word “I’d” is left orphan in the middle of that sentence – suggesting there was a bit of rewording before it was sent.)
The use of “we” suggests a shared responsibility – if only Kathy Shaidle had the presence of mind to discuss the “news brief” with the CP before the unresearched speculation appeared in print.
Kathy has the full email exchange. Unbelievable, but a useful insight into what goes on behind the scenes.
Just don’t expect to see any retraction or corrections from CP/CTV.
(My own email response to Panetta follows in the extended entry.)

Alex,
Kathy Shaidle has already addressed your accusation about the SOW and Court Challenges blogbursts. I can back her up on that – those initiatives were their own. You might do well to revisit the accusation and retract it.
And for all the admiration you express for the blogosphere, you apparently haven’t learned much about its speed. There’s nothing suspicious in multiple posts going up within minutes on the the same topic – especially when there are scores of writers on a blogroll receiving feeds from others.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
>> Shared political opinion can only account for so much, though. It
>> does not explain in any way how, for instance, Blogging Tories sites
>> (including stephentaylor.ca) managed to pinpoint and post, within
>> hours, identical paragraphs from cached and revised portions of
>> Garth Turner’s rather exhaustive writings which the Prime Minister’s
>> office was
>> circulating to reporters to justify his expulsion from caucus. Don’t
>> get me wrong — many of us enjoy Stephen’s blog, which is well
>> respected for the thoroughness of its legwork and the fairness to
>> its subjects. But unless a reporter forwarded him those snippets
>> after getting them from the PMO,
>> and barring the overwhelming mathematical improbability that Stephen
>> happened to zero in on the same exact paragraphs from Garth’s sea of
>> ramblings that the PMO did (including those that have been yanked
>> from his site),
>> it would seem pretty likely that the blogs and the government have
>> collaborated on messaging.
If you’re going to accuse people of collaborating with the government on messaging, then do so specifically. Stephen Taylor is not the “Blogging Tories”.
That said, it’s kind of rich, coming from someone in an industry where the talking heads share golf carts and dinner tables (or marital beds) with prominent members of the Liberal party, and then present their “news” to us under a charade that they’ve gathered it at arms length with “good ol’ fashioned legwork” …
As the BT “member” (for want of a better word) – with the most traffic, I used to receive the same press releases you do from the Conservatives. At least I assume you still get them. I haven’t seen one for months. They either took me off the list, or don’t send them anymore. I hardly ever used them, even during the election campaign.
And I’ve never received “talking points” from the PMO.
I certainly don’t “collaborate” with them, and anything another Blogging Tory sends me – including Stephen – is linked to at SDA because I think it will interest my readers.
>>Case in point, last Friday. Before shutting down for the evening,
someone in our office opened up www.bloggingtories.ca
and was
amazed that four or five consecutive posts on Belinda Stronach carried
the same message: She’s worse than a dog.
Case in point – last Friday, before shutting down for the weekend, we turned on our radios and televisions and were amazed that four or five consecutive reports on Belinda Stronach carried the same message: Peter MacKay is a liar.
—
Kate

57 Replies to “Alexander Panetta”

  1. Right about now I bet Panetta is wishing we had never given them the vote, never mind letting them learn to read and write.

  2. What a tempest in a teapot, Alexander Panetta. (And this is the first I’ve ever heard of him. I watch very little TV.)
    However, that the kurfuffle about the SOW and CCP was manufactured, as Mr. P. seems to think, is ludicrous: Many of us in the blogosphere have opposed these entitled, biased programs, on principle, for decades, which is why many could post authentic–from the heart and independent mind–responses in a trice.
    Mr. Panetta, just imagine the delight of many principled Canadians when we discovered we were no longer spitting into the wind, and “someone up there”–in Ottawa–was actually taking into account and agreeing with the opinions of grassroots Canadians, who’ve supported the scrapping of these elitist boondoggles for a very long time.
    Mr. Panetta, you’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope. What you see in Ottawa, you immediately translate into the usual Liberal, entitled, top-down, bagman story. It’s not like that at all.
    What you’ve lately seen in government policy and on the blogs, Mr. Panetta, is DEMOCRACY: Canadians now have a government which actually listens to ordinary Canadians and doesn’t count on graft and backroom cronyism.
    What a breath of fresh air! (Good news, don’t you think, Mr. Panetta?)

  3. What you’ve lately seen in government policy and on the blogs, Mr. Panetta, is DEMOCRACY
    Lookout, that’s exactly it. We’re just ordinary Canadians using blogs as our forum. For some reason, this is incredibly threatening to MSM.

  4. Funny, when I heard the word(color) brown it reminds me of shit.
    As for the Spector comment I heard it on CKNW this morning. Made my day. Then all day long all I heard from newscasters, radio announcers etc was “bitch” Its like somehow because Spector said this word that apparently shouldn’t be said on the radio the floodgates opened and this pent up urge to said “bitch” was released.
    What’s further interesting is radio broadcasters like Bill Good and John McComb(both on CKNW) are amazed that this Stronach dog story still has legs. Well hello, Good brought the subject up and Spector commented. And I’m sure it wasn’t Stronach who phoned McComb and said “why don’t you run this story on your program this afternoon. The hypocrisy of the MSM is staggering.
    Horny Toad

  5. Joanne, the bully’s always threatened by anyone who’ll stand up to his lies and intimidation. MSM = BULLY!
    And, speaking of democracy, a recent poll–see NP today–shows that Canadians want the court-imposed, Liberal sanctioned SSM to be revisited. Canadians also want the freedom of speech and association rights of religious Canadians and public servants to be protected.
    Now isn’t this kind of equality a novel idea to the Lieberals, our activist, left-wing judges, and the MSM? What bloody hypocrites they are!

  6. What I find entertaining is the tone – the first note is snide and patronizing as he explains his brilliance in deducing that BloggingTories are -well – tories. His clue? The simultaneous emergence of the ‘dog’ jokes and other topics.
    His insinuations about government control of blogs are hilarious – since Steve put the MSM in their place they must figure someone, somewhere, is getting the leaks and insider info they used to get. Not that it’s impossible or even unlikely that some blogs are mouthpieces – why should they be any different from the newspapers?
    Then in the second note he starts bootlicking, flattering and backpedalling because he knows he has been found out as a typical MSM simpleton who has done no research.
    Reading this exchange is creepy but fascinating – a peek at how these so-called ‘journalists’ fabricate their propaganda campaigns.
    The spineless hacks in the MSM are running scared and they are starting to lash out at bloggers. Should be fun to watch!

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