Liberals so “get” Canada.
For those of you who are totally clueless, TV “prime time” is roughly between 7:30 and 11 PM, wherever you are on Earth. It is not 3:30, and it is not 5:30. And 5:00 isn’t “into the night”.
Check out how the various Toronto/Ottawa-centric liberals (in and out of the media) all totally ignore Canada’s west as if it doesn’t exist.
And as if on the same reporting theme that the Toronto Star and CTV and others devised out of bunkum this week, they lament a so-called “government control” of the media—this time by their supposedly (and nefariously!) “manipulating” the time at which the Throne Speech is to be read and therefore broadcast. Note that it was never “manipulated” before.
Note also that the media apparently didn’t call-out anybody on this, and ask them to answer for their ignorance. As we see all day long it’s best to let accusations fly, unquestioned, when they’re against Conservatives!
[My notes in red]
Harper breaks tradition with late delivery of throne speech
Tim Naumetz, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2007OTTAWA – Opposition MPs are accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of manipulating Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean and her speech from the throne next week to maximize government control over news at the expense of opposition parties.
Jean’s formal “command” for MPs and senators to convene Tuesday for the next session of Parliament was published by the government during the weekend.
It reveals Harper has broken long-standing convention by scheduling the speech to be delivered at 6:35 p.m.
[Joel notes: that’s EASTERN—which is 3:35 PACIFIC, when everyone on the coast and even in Alberta is at work —except maybe liberal voters who might well be sitting on the couch]
, at least three hours later than tradition
[suddenly they care about “tradition”? Since when?]
.
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion may have the most to lose. The late start means his Commons response to the speech outlining the government’s intentions for the new session will be pushed into the night.
[Joel notes: that’s what ignorant liberals who have no comprehension of the West call “5:00 PM”. I’ll try to stay up!]
[…]
And this article was printed in the Victoria Times-Colonist. Sure it was written for the Ottawa Citizen. Whatever. What’s good for them is good for Victoria.
Please note that nobody I know of in British Columbia is able to watch the Throne speech at 3:35 PM Pacific time, unless their boss at work thinks it’s a fine idea to set up a TV and allow all their workers to stop all work and crowd around the TV set. But they may in fact be home just in time to watch the various liberal-leftists and their media’s predictably disgusted reaction to it, which renders nearly all of what was said and written in this article —this half-baked “news reporting”—a total farce. That is unless you think Canada is all and only about their voter-base in Ontario—which liberals all seem to do. (Part of the irony here is that Westerners are in fact more likely—not less—to see and hear the liberal-left hair-on-fire reaction and the negative anti-Harper media spin, now that the Harper administration has “manipulated” the thing.)
“It’s all about spin,” said Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale
[well that’s ironic, since you’re all about spin, Mr. Goodale]
. “It’s all about trying to enhance the government’s message by focusing on prime time and then minimizing the opportunity for response and reaction. It’s bending parliamentary convention and protocol to suit the government’s convenience.”
[This indignation over “bending conventions” from a Party that changed the definition of “family” and “marriage” to suit the Liberal Party’s convenience]
Nary a mention of time zones in the whole article.
As I said: liberals so “get” Canada. Vote liberal.
Liberals so “get” Canada.
For those of you who are totally clueless, TV “prime time” is roughly between 7:30 and 11 PM, wherever you are on Earth. It is not 3:30, and it is not 5:30. And 5:00 isn’t “into the night”.
Check out how the various Toronto/Ottawa-centric liberals (in and out of the media) all totally ignore Canada’s west as if it doesn’t exist.
And as if on the same reporting theme that the Toronto Star and CTV and others devised out of bunkum this week, they lament a so-called “government control” of the media—this time by their supposedly (and nefariously!) “manipulating” the time at which the Throne Speech is to be read and therefore broadcast. Note that it was never “manipulated” before.
Note also that the media apparently didn’t call-out anybody on this, and ask them to answer for their ignorance. As we see all day long it’s best to let accusations fly, unquestioned, when they’re against Conservatives!
[My notes in red]
Harper breaks tradition with late delivery of throne speech
Tim Naumetz, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2007OTTAWA – Opposition MPs are accusing Prime Minister Stephen Harper of manipulating Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean and her speech from the throne next week to maximize government control over news at the expense of opposition parties.
Jean’s formal “command” for MPs and senators to convene Tuesday for the next session of Parliament was published by the government during the weekend.
It reveals Harper has broken long-standing convention by scheduling the speech to be delivered at 6:35 p.m.
[Joel notes: that’s EASTERN—which is 3:35 PACIFIC, when everyone on the coast and even in Alberta is at work —except maybe liberal voters who might well be sitting on the couch]
, at least three hours later than tradition
[suddenly they care about “tradition”? Since when?]
.
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion may have the most to lose. The late start means his Commons response to the speech outlining the government’s intentions for the new session will be pushed into the night.
[Joel notes: that’s what ignorant liberals who have no comprehension of the West call “5:00 PM”. I’ll try to stay up!]
[…]
And this article was printed in the Victoria Times-Colonist. Sure it was written for the Ottawa Citizen. Whatever. What’s good for them is good for Victoria.
Please note that nobody I know of in British Columbia is able to watch the Throne speech at 3:35 PM Pacific time, unless their boss at work thinks it’s a fine idea to set up a TV and allow all their workers to stop all work and crowd around the TV set. But they may in fact be home just in time to watch the various liberal-leftists and their media’s predictably disgusted reaction to it, which renders nearly all of what was said and written in this article —this half-baked “news reporting”—a total farce. That is unless you think Canada is all and only about their voter-base in Ontario—which liberals all seem to do. (Part of the irony here is that Westerners are in fact more likely—not less—to see and hear the liberal-left hair-on-fire reaction and the negative anti-Harper media spin, now that the Harper administration has “manipulated” the thing.)
“It’s all about spin,” said Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale
[well that’s ironic, since you’re all about spin, Mr. Goodale]
. “It’s all about trying to enhance the government’s message by focusing on prime time and then minimizing the opportunity for response and reaction. It’s bending parliamentary convention and protocol to suit the government’s convenience.”
[This indignation over “bending conventions” from a Party that changed the definition of “family” and “marriage” to suit the Liberal Party’s convenience]
Nary a mention of time zones in the whole article.
As I said: liberals so “get” Canada. Vote liberal.
LATE (“into the night”!) EXTRA (5:00 PM Pacific Time—that’s 8:00 PM—prime time in the holy land of Ontario):
CTV.ca poll says…
We also learned—at about 2:30 PM Pacific time from Ralph Goodale himself on live liberalvision TV, that despite his and all of their caterwauling in the “news” article above, Dion and his party had no intention of even addressing the matter of support or lack thereof tonight in any case—but rather to wait until after a caucus meeting tomorrow. But at least they and their media got their article out about Harper and the Conservatives “manipulating” and “maximizing” their “government control” over the media.
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