“Somebody’s back there shooting their own video, I guess.”
(h/t to Paul W.)
Question – If the Conservatives are doing all of the astroturfing, how come the “Coalition” has all of the printed signs?
Related: Dion finally provokes his members to open their wallets. “Card carrying Liberal Party members. incensed at what their Party leadership have pulled, are calling Conservative Party HQ and donating… BIG TIME.”
And also related – 74percentmajority.ca
Speaking of Lost Confidence: Heh.
A staffer said Mr. Dion and his team have lost the confidence not only of the Liberal caucus but also of Liberal staff.
“I am a f—ing Liberal and I don’t think they’re competent enough to run the government,” the staffer said.
From the Chroncile Herald.
Re the biased coverage from the MSM. We had exactly the same experience here in Nanaimo.
CHEK TV had literally zero footage of our rally full of enthusiastic and cheerful families, kids and grandparents – 100+ with tons of signs and large Canadian flags.
But they did take pains to feature the rag-tag 30 or so ‘pro-coalition’ NDP crowd across the street. Apparently one of our group who was passing them by on the way to our side of the street got into some words with an NDP’er and that did make the news – with a negative slant of course.
Really, really disgusting. Is it that most of the cameramen/editors are union members?
I wish these F’ing IDIOTS could come with another song…”hey, hey! Ho ho!” is moronic and irritating to the extreme. But I guess maybe that’s all their tiny brains can cope with?
Its now time for patriotic Liberal & NDP MP’s to cross the floor & join Harper’s “Canadian” Party. Everybody was something else before they became a Conservative. (The Sask electorate is mostly ex-NDP).
Canada has the rare opportunity to become the Rock of stability. It’s all about “Confidence” and the USA is stuck on stupid. The economy of Ontario & Quebec would also be in a Win/Win situation. Cherry-Pick industry, build Trucks for Western Canada, the sky is the limit.
Step up to the Plate!
“IDIOTS could come with another song”
Oh come on now do you realize how many years those people had to go to skool to larn that song????
Do you tink it is izzy to make new music?
Rick in BC @8:46
No, it’s awfully Bob the Builder.
Having finally seen the local TV coverage of our Nanaimo rally, I was truly P.O.’d
It was pretty apparent that the cameraman, while interviewing one of the ‘coalition’ supporters – all of whom were NDP members – he deliberately framed the shot to exclude our large crowd of flag waving, sign carrying and very enthusiastic supporters.
The only shot of our group was of two people on the edge, showing only a shopping plaza behind them. Rather than the 100+ crowd of proud Canadians, it looked like two forlorn dissidents.
My disgust caused me to send this off to the news editor – we simply can’t let these MSM poobahs continue to control the public perception.
To: News Editor
CHEK TV
Re: Balance in News
Dear Mr. or Ms. News Editor
I’m writing to express my concern regarding patently slanted and incomplete news reporting, as regards the Rally for Canada in support of the current government held in Nanaimo on Saturday morning. As the organizer of the event, I had a count taken showing more than 100 people in attendance, with people of all ages, including families with children, grandparents and young men and women. There were plenty of Canadian flags, lots of signs, a number of speakers, multiple renditions of O’ Canada and in general, an upbeat, proud and happy crowd.
On the other side of the street were no more than about 20-25 ‘coalition supporters’. And I can virtually guarantee none of these were Liberal supporters. Your cameraman chose only to highlight the ‘coalition’ group, going so far as to exclude our large and colourful contingent from his framing as he interviewed the ‘coalition’ supporter. By the way, this particular proud Canadian coalition supporter is the same person who shouted out “Bring home the troops, they’re being slaughtered by George Bush” – this after the sad and unfortunate deaths of three dedicated and brave Canadian soldiers just days ago.
Other than the exchange between the two individuals the only shot from our group was of two people carrying signs, with nothing but commercial space behind them. As for an inquiring mind, your camera man – Gary, I believe his name was – walked up to me and his sole question was “Can you spell your name for the camera”. This in my estimation, is shabby and inaccurate news reporting. I am attaching a few photographs which illustrate just a portion of the crowd that attended our event and would ask you why these concerned and patriotic people are undeserving of fair and balanced reporting.
The so-called main stream media is getting a lot of negative press lately. Readers, viewers and advertising revenue is dropping for most. You really need to consider the value of credibility.
It may sound corny but I think the way to hurt ctv, besides a cluster bomb, is to boycott anyone who advertises on their stations. If enough people on blogs get the word out, it can become reality. Even the socialist aholes need money. Hit them where it hurts. My two cents.
Very good letter, No Guff. I admire your civility: I know I’d have been a little more tough on these propagandists! The same thing happened at the rally I attended: all kinds of coverage of pro-coalitionists and NONE of the enthusiastic, anti-coalition crowd and its speakers.
The MSM are truly a fifth column: their consistent collaboration with the enemies of freedom and truth is a[n inter]national disgrace. (Check out Mark Steyn’s column for today, “After Bombay: Who’s Vulnerable?” where he indicts the media for its duplicity in covering for the Muslim terrorists—whoops, I mean “practitioners”.) In Canada, CBC, of course, is the worst because it actually has a written mandate to serve all Canadians, who are forced to pay its bills. I’ve witnessed the CBC ignore this mandate and aggressively promote left-wing causes for 30 years.
Yes, the sleeping giant of ordinary, up-until-now-not-political Canadians, is finally stirring. The lefties aren’t too swift and will be taken by surprise: they’re not used to either having to justify their dirty tricks or to losing, and are going to become even more nasty than they already are. I’ve spent a lot of time in their company and, believe me, these people are dangerous—like a pit bull who’s had its bone taken away. ’All the more reason for decent Canadians, who play by the rules and put the country and the good of others before themselves, to give them a run for their—well, it’s usually OUR!—money.
The Liberals’ Ponzi scheme was rudely interrupted by the Conservatives—how DARE they?—and the latest coup is the left’s desperate attempt to get their grubby hands back on taxpayer money, which they use as a personal bank account in order to promote their pet socialist causes. These corrupt leeches must be stopped!
Stupid me. I was kind of hoping that the whole coalition thing would go away after seeing the latest polls. WRONG!
The morons are going to take this axis of idiocy all the way to the end, or so it appears.
Looks like we have quite the battle shaping up in the months ahead.
The worst thing is that the likes of Mary Walsh and the rest of her whackjob far left ilk live off of our tax dollars; i.e. glorified welfare bums. It would not surprise me if the funding for those fancy tailor made signs were traced back to our tax dollars through PSAC and CUPE.
Not only do we have to work for our own resources, we have to fund the same far left that opposses us. No wonder they fear us. Unles the far left can turn us into socialist serfs, they risk losing the funding that they couldn’t be bothered to earn honestly.
Worst of all is PSAC supporting the coalition and asking its members to as well. Where has civil service neutrality gone?
kingstonlad, I reckon they shoo in B-Ray as leader or fix on a semi-permament “interim” and vote down the budget at first opportunity. Look for a February election … brrrr. I’m moving my annual vacation up a week.
not much in the news about the anti-coalition rallies
lots of coverage of the pro-coalition rallies with the signs which were likely printed and distributed weeks or even months ago
Dion and Rae were dreaming up this coup with their fascist separatist friends months ago
force another election on Canadians in early 2009 – lets give Harper the majority he deserves
Hi RW. The PSAC may officially support the coalition but don’t assume that public servants do. Most public servants put up with the PSAC but don’t subscribe to its politics. The turnout at the Ottawa pro-coalition rally at noon on Thursday was proof. Thousands of civil servants work within an easy walk of Parliament Hill yet the turnout at the rally, held during lunch hour, was in the hundreds, many bused in from who knows where.
Saturday’s anti-coalition rally, featuring home-made signs, which I attended easily outnumbered the unionist demo with its factory-made signs. To me, the best estimate for numbers at the Saturday rally on the Hill was about the 3,500, which was reported by Global TV and the Ottawa Citizen. The crowd shots I saw on TV made that number look pretty accurate.
Hi JMD, I agree with you about the PSAC members; I am appauled by the gaul of the leaders.
Yes, the Thursday rally in Ottawa was preetty small. I too noticed they had plenty iof time to orgabnize this sponatneous rally and print signs.
I was at the anti-collusion rally on Saturday. All home made signs. This demosntrates that the left doesn’t have popular support and the right does.
BTW At the rally, I was the guy in the crowd wearing a hat 🙂
I am deeply offended by all the talking heads of the msm and other interested parties flinging their mindless poo at PMSH hoping that some will stick.
The more calm and rational the prime minister is the more berzerk the opposition seems to get.
If they keep it up the old media may end up as irrealavant as the liberal party is becoming.
Heard at pro-coalition rally:
Hey Hey, Ho Ho,, Stephen Harper’s gotta go!
Heard at anti-coalition rally (and in living rooms across the nation):
Eh? Eh? Uh Oh! The coalition is a no go.
Actually, my wife thought of this one.
Any mole in any of the printing shops to let us know when those signs were ordered, printed and paid for. Could be very interesting.
I also think that this coup was planned long before the last election was called. The stooges were positive, along with their media cohorts, that the PM would stick with his set election date. He fooled them called their bluff and outed them all. I have e-mailed every cbc show with-
Who is the culprit in all this, whose fault is it, the media talking heads and the PPG. PMSH is not at fault and just called you traitors out.
I doubt if this will make their comments section when reviewing responses. But, I feel better.
‘No Guff’ and ‘A Storm is Coming’ hit the nail on the head; sure, write your local TV/Radio/Newspaper, but more to the point, write their larger advertisers and tell THEM how you feel! Then write the offenders letting them know you’ve declared war on THEIR disinformation campaign.
Don’t forget to cc the actual station owner(s).
No need to make it complicated; something like
“I didn’t vote for a separatist backed coalition six weeks ago, but I’m assuming from your advertising financially supporting (fill in the news media) that YOU do. If my intent is unclear, please feel free to contact me.
sighed, etc”
RW; “…the gaul of the leaders.”
ROFL, Good one! Great pun!!
MaryT,
Relax , I’m sure the MSM is all over that excellent question .
Lookout wrote: “CBC, of course, is the worst because it actually has a written mandate to serve all Canadians, who are forced to pay its bills.”
Exactly so. And as I was the organizer/speaker at our rally, I took the opportunity to illustrate where our government can rein in their spending (just like families do in tough economic times). #1 was the CBC and I first pointed out that we spend one thousand million dollars (since a billion sounds like chump change these days) every year. I went on to point out some of the nefarious ways in which the CBC has actively undermined Canada’s interests.
Example: Peter Mansbridge saying “Canadians are BEING TOLD that Canadian troops are rebuilding Afghanistan”. My response: Mansbridge, the facts are that our troops ARE rebuilding Afghan.
Example: Tony Burman, Avi Lewis, Brendon Conner and other CBC high muck-a-mucks selling out Canada by tsking higher paying jobs with Al Jazeera.
Anyway, I also brought up the long gun registry and HRC’s as places to cut spending, and not surprisingly everyone in our crowd seemed to agree.
Let’s keep people aware and talking about where our money is really going.
The most interesting thing about all the hoopla in this blog is:
the backbone of the west (oil and gas and the industry that supplies the spin off elements)is almost dead this winter. Here in Provost very few people have gone to work. Tempco has 2 rigs out. Gray the water and vacuum hauler have very few trucks out, the companies requiring medics are desperate trying to get one contract. Thinks are slow almost stopping. So if you have such a great following and Harper’s ear, please plead with him to help us put some food on te table and some shelter over our heads.
It is a very difficult time on oil/gas country.
All this retoric is fine and dandy but we are all suffering with the price of a barrel being so low.
The de-leveraging of the infamous financial banksters is getting the dollar high and the price of oil to the dumps.
I don’t care who is in power, they are all against us and in favour of the rich, which is fine by me. I have no control over anything, but after 30 years working on the oil and gas, the only other time was this bad was around the NEP times.
So people need to live and cannot survive winter without heat and food.