Christie Blatchford’s Take on the Debate

Ms. Blatchford wasn’t impressed:

Scheer pointed out that he’d broken ethics rules twice, interfered with an ongoing criminal investigation (SNC-Lavalin and the full-court press Trudeau, a few of his key henchmen and staffers in the PCO and PMO, put on former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould) and asked, “When did you decide the rules don’t apply to you?”

Trudeau first had the gall to repeat his mantra from the height of the SNC imbroglio: “The role of the PM is to stand up for Canadian jobs.”
Scheer snapped, reminded him “you said the allegations in the Globe and Mail were false,” and Trudeau seriously responded, “They were false.”

No, sir, they weren’t.

28 Replies to “Christie Blatchford’s Take on the Debate”

  1. Was anyone? A complete and utter charade.

    All Scheer had to do was demand Trudeau estimate how many rich schoolgirls he had screwed during his brief teaching career, and reveal what he had promised their fathers as prime minister in return for their help keeping it all out of the American newspapers.

    He might have also asked where Sophie was that night.

    He didn’t.

    Blatchford has written enough from the courtroom to be able to call a criminal a goddamn crook who needs to go to prison and stay there. Pity Scheer isn’t able to do that.

      1. Why is Sophie MIA? Isn’t she supposed to be giving her favourite stuffing recipe to Canadian Living and touring an immigration center for the photogs and commenting about the Indigenous person who created her earrings in a newspaper somewhere?

        1. I guess she has also heard the rumours and is not pleased. Remember when that goon Heather Makack was carrying on about what a wonderful coupke Justin and Sophie were? I think she had a whole column on it. This was one if her talking points in the last election and it was not true even then. Sophie has been used.

        2. Sophie has been MIA at lot recently. When Justin was first elected, she seemed to be everywhere – giving speeches, complaining that three taxpayer funded nannies and one secretary were not enough, singing at events, accompanying her husband on all of his trips, giving interviews and posing for magazine covers. Then came India; according to Liberal insiders, she was the one who came up with the idea of having the entire family prance around wearing colorful costumes. Since then, we have hardly ever seen or heard from her. She was at the G7 meeting, but I can’t think of any other public events, and Justin seems to be campaigning without her this election.

          1. That’s odd, usually the spouse is out there trying to score some points…and the media would have given her royalty status if she had shown up anywhere. It’s a head scratcher for sure.

  2. Followed the debates but didn’t watch them because people chaotically yelling at each other is painful to watch. Did the debate committe test run their format? Doesn’t sound like it. They should have picked 6 of the rudest, boorish and loudest people thet know to stand in for the party leaders and find out how to control the debate. I’m guessing they just went with “this looks great on paper” middle management method.

    Media reactions are always interesting. Before the debate someone on social media said that the only two outcomes for the media would be Trudeau wins or Nobody wins. I’d say that comment was pretty accurate.

    The chattering class’ preffered outcome for the election is 1)Trudeau majority 2) Trudeau minority. 3) A Scheer majority is simply unacceptable. Scenario 1 and 2 are interchangeable for of them most, I think. Which explains the daily talk about minority government. But, the chattering class is definitely worried about and preparing for scenario 3, a Scheer majority. There’s a noticeable increase in a “Scheer and the Conservatives must,…” talk. Scheer must prioritize the climate change emergency, for instance. I guess their thinking is to force Scheer and the Conservatives into being an acceptable Conservative government, aka, indistinguishable from liberals. Due to this new maneuver, I wonder if Scheer is doing better in key ridings than is being reported.

  3. Doug Ford Scheer just finished his press conference. Here were the themes from the Unifor journalists. Abortion! Abortion!, Gay Rights! Do you have Americans working for you on the election! Nice to see Blackie’s journalists asking questions that are important to Canadians. And my wife made a trip into town this morning to walk around. She stopped at the Elections Canada office to rest for a minute. The receptionist explained to her how awful Scheer treated Blackie last night.

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  4. the TURDoo 2.0 observes the rule that one covers a lie.
    with another lie.
    do not rinse, but repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat in an endless loop.
    I learned about endless loops programming mainframes decades ago.
    my autistic lilt towards hyper literal view came in real handy.
    as it does nowadays looking at the likes of the TURDoo 2.0

    and the concomitant question is why Canaduh insists on voting for this consummate LIAR.
    that’s the part where my ‘spock’ like literalism fails me.
    because to understand requires an understanding of humahns, like wimmin who vote for cute hair.

  5. Warren Kinsella’s twitter feed, wants to know why Canada is sending troops to China for some sort of army sports games, when that country is holding two Canadians hostage.

    1. China has always played to long game. This event sounds like an opportunity for China to try recruiting some spies in Canada’s military, and also the military of other participating nations …spies who may now be at a low rank but might rise to higher leadership levels (General?) in future years.

  6. Scheer did score one good shot right at the beginning when he said that Trudeau’s entire life was a facade so it was no wonder he couldn’t remember his blackface escapades.

    That should be obvious to everyone, even highly partisan Liberals,the man is a complete phony,and an absolute thug to anyone who doesn’t agree with him.

    btw,thanks for posting that Buffalo Chronicle article,Claude, hadn’t seen it, but holy shit!

  7. You know, with all the crazy schlitz going on with China and the rest of what’s going on with this country, you would think Maxime Bernier would have showed up like the only adult in the room. He could have thrown scandal after issue after crisis in their teeth and left them sitting there with egg on their faces. All he really needed to do was sit down and start bringing up TAXES. Every time one of these nonentities started in with the environment, he could have said TAX CUT.

    Instead what do we get? We get last night. So screw that guy.

    So I feel safe in voting for the lesser of the two weevils on offer. Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man has the twin advantages of not having been caught molesting women and not being an un-punished criminal/known lapdog of the Chicoms.

  8. I haven’t watched a single debate, or followed the campaign at all.

    It’s entirely unnecessary since I’ve known how I’m going to vote for quite some time.

    Should the person I intend to vote for in my riding somehow utterly and disgracefully screw up between now and 21 October, then I’ll simply spoil my ballot.

  9. Watched sports last night …already voted Conservative (the lesser of globalist evils) at an advanced poll a week ago. At my age and stage events like political debates (where Trump is not a participant) send my blood pressure spiking high enough to blow the ears off the sides of my head.

    However, in U.S. debates/events where Trump is participating it’s terrific entertainment!

  10. It would be very scary to think of the level of intellect that would be influenced enough to change their voting intentions based on such events. I, like many here won’t watch them mainly because I refuse to self-flagellate by enduring the lies, spin, interruptions, mindless posturing, softball questions, distractions and lack of discussion on real problems.

    1. ” I, like many here won’t watch them mainly because I refuse to self-flagellate by enduring the lies, spin, interruptions, mindless posturing, softball questions, distractions and lack of discussion on real problems.”

      Exactly.

  11. Trudeau: Dressed in black-on-black because he was expecting his own political funeral (see Buffalo Chronicle). Didn’t happen, yet. Was his usual slick and oleaginous self, but fewer and fewer normies are fooled.

    Scheer: Won the debate by not losing, and by going against character by showing a tiny bit of fire in his belly, even if only in his meek and mewling manner. Still not voting for him.

    Max: Made some good points re immigration, but also flubbed some lines. Why ask Scheer about balancing budget in 2 years? NOBODY CARES. And work on that terrible accent, please.

    Singh: Dopey and over-eager, but also earnest and likeable. Had a couple good zingers amidst the retarded NDP talking points.

    May: Actually said that “all white people have privilege,” and nobody calls her out for it. Casual anti-white bigotry is now *expected* from paleface “allies” like Liz May and her coven of lunatic eco-hippies.

    BQ guy: Dear monsieur, go heck yourself. Sincerely, English Canada.

  12. The Blackfaced Groping Point Grey Sex Scandal is going International. BJ’s for grades. Ha Ha Ha. Trudeau the Sex Pervert in Blackface. The new FACE of Canada the cesspool of corruption. Canada is lower than whaleshit right now. And that is in the bottom of the ocean. Where are the RCMP in all of this? Yah probably holding down his victims for him.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trudeau-rumored-be-talks-suppress-potentially-career-ending-sex-scandal

  13. I suppose from a non-ideological perspective, there are two different ways of looking at the JWR issue. There’s the camp saying, no pressure should have been applied, she was empowered and should have been totally free to act as she saw fit. But what other Cabinet minister ever had that privilege?

    The other perspective would be, has her case been treated differently because she’s an aboriginal woman, as opposed to a white male, treated roughly in Cabinet by a headstrong leader? It happens a lot in all parties that take power. Politics is a power game, the people who go into it know this going in, and could expect to be dealing with very strong oversight until they got to be the top dog themselves. All of this fake collaboration collegiality talk by leaders in campaigns is designed not as a plan of action but a ploy to get votes from people who think, “that’s very nice, very reasonable sounding.”

    Who in politics has ever actually been like that? Perhaps Joe Clark, Stockwell Day, Michael Ignatieff — guys who presented weakly to voters and never formed long-term effective leaderships.

    Not saying this as any sort of fan of Justin Trudeau, I think he’s been exposed as the real person he always was, a control freak but what else should we expect of political leaders, would you or I be able to run a political party just acting normally and giving people space? No, because all around you as a leader are other ambitious political sharks who will pounce when there’s blood in the water.

    That’s why we are internet pundits and they are political leaders. People don’t want nice guys in politics. It might even work too, I think that’s the essential theory of the Kingdom, a nice guy runs things and everyone gets along. But this world ain’t like that. JWR would have known this coming from the backgrounds of political activism and law. How many nice lawyers have you ever met? I would say maybe five out of a thousand.

  14. The Buffalo Chronicle article on Justin Trudeau may relate to why Trudeau hasn’t fired Sydney-Victoria Liberal candidate Jaime Battiste: as well as becoming famous this week for racist, sexist, homophobic diatribes, as well as foul language, Battiste is widely known to have dallied with one of his students at Cape Breton University, resulting in a pregnancy and ending his teaching career. To fire Battiste, he’d have to fire himself.

  15. The truth does not matter to the average liberal voter. They are too dumb to even consider an alternative. The remind of the African Americans in the USA, they have been voting democrat all their lives and remained in poverty. Now that the have voted for Trump they never had it so good. Given the intelligence of the average Canadian voter I do not expect the same thing to happen here, liberal voters have been duped and brainwashed and can never be brought to their senses.

  16. These so called “debates” are a joke… devised and planned by Gerald Butts and other Liberal Party operatives colluding with their Poutine Media pets… the whole format was designed to shelter and protect the white supremacist criminal dipshit, Justine (blackface) Turdhole and thats just what they did… a Media distraction away from reality… What a sham. The Liberals and their Media giving Canadians the middle finger, again and again. Anything to protect the pervert Blackie, anything for power.

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