Actually, “Harper Meets with Layton” read the headlines this week. Or as the Globe and Mail puts it, adding their own yummy flavor packet to the “news”, “Layton sees no reason to back PM” (though cast as some sort of cautionary tale, personally, I see that as a good thing). The CTV.ca division seasoned it with: “Layton suggests he’d back bid to dump Harper” (find it just above their headline, “‘Mean-spirited’ government punishing Khadr”. Suggestions for other headlines: “‘Conservatives suck!’”).
“I don’t care” reads the main headline my mind. Followed by “And why bother propping-up an abject socialist and giving him the attention that his party’s feeding tube — its artificial life-support system — the media — so craves?”
That said, related images spring to mind:
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I’m actually more interested in the story of Papa John’s pizza founder John Schnatter reuniting with his long lost Camero Z-28.
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This use of the words “dump” together with “Harper” is interesting. At canoe.cnews.com, their headline, like the CTV’s (see above and below), also uses the word “dump”. “Layton open to dumping Harper”.
Nowhere in either story does anybody say anything about “dumping” Harper. Not even Layton says the word “dump”, and it’s he who is associated with the use of the word. So the tendentious word “dump”, right beside “Harper”, is obviously one carefully considered and then purposefully used by the respective (though increasingly disrespected and disrespectful) media sources, CTV and cnews.canoe.ca, themselves.
Both stories were written by Canadian Press, and cnews.canoe.ca admits theirs was written specifically by Martin O’Hanlon and Joan Bryden of Canadian Press. 
So I suspect the Canadian Press and possibly those two writers came up with the juicy “dump Harper” verbiage themselves, and the CTV and cnews editors simply welcomed the look and feel of it. Otherwise they could have changed it to something less tendentious, less biased, and more honest.
Somewhat antithetically…
Cnews.canoe.ca is milking the words “dump” together with “Harper” as far as they can today, not only using it in their loaded headline at the top of their site today in their big, featured news article of the day (the death of Ted Kennedy story taking lesser value—see above), they’re actually using the loaded word in their online poll today, in which they ask readers about “dumping” Harper. But sadly (for them) the poll seems to be backfiring on them. Their readers think “dumping” Harper would actually sink the NDP/Liberal coalition of progressives. Or “dump” them, as it were.
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