…when you read that the last debate—which Conservative leader Stephen Harper clearly won simply by virtue of the fact that he smashed all the liberal-left monikers to pieces (“scary”, “angry” etc) —is explained in the Canadian mainstream media as “a tie” between Harper and the bumbling Liberal leader Paul (“I dint know nuttin”) Martin. If it’s described as “a tie”, then you KNOW Stephen Harper won by a mile.
It’s explained as “a tie” notwithstanding their own online polling which showed Harper the clear, overwhelming winner. At the liberal-loving CTV/Globe and Mail (both owned by liberal Bell Globemedia), they had to dredge out their liberal polling firm Strategic Council to once again strip-mine select Canadians to find that “Mr. Martin won the debate”.
“A big chunk of people could not say definitively who won the debate,” The Strategic Counsel’s Tim Woolstencroft told CTV.ca on Sunday.
Yeah? A bigger chunk said Harper won, according to the CTV online poll (51 to 18 in favor of Harper), and one at Canoe.ca’s CNews (63 to 19 in favor of Harper), it seems to me. Smoke THAT instead, Mr. Woolstencroft.
“More and more they are kind of conceding the Liberals are going to win,” Woolstencroft said.
Well of course they are. Of course they are, Mr. Woolstencroft. There there now.
…and when the attacks start to get laughably personal against Mr. Harper, in order to divert attention away from Mr. Dithers, and because they have no ideas and no sound policies to stand up for.
“He obviously lacks any compassion”. “He’s so impersonal”. “Scary” is already out the window, darn the luck, eh liberals? And suddenly not being “angry” (even in the slightest) isn’t enough—he must now be like a squishy soft teddy bear in order to be an effective leader, apparently.
“This has got to be disappointing to Stephen Harper,” Robert Fife, CTV’s Ottawa bureau chief, told CTV News … “But he’s not connecting with voters. He’s too serious. He doesn’t show any warmth or passion,” he said.
“Remember, Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien all had passion. They could excite people. And that’s what Stephen Harper has to do if he wants to win this election.”
Strange because I get excited by the fact that he doesn’t lead a totally corrupt political party, he goes to church, and he’s not a socialist. But that’s just me.
…and when they start toeing the Team Martin liberal-led anti-Americanism line, which I see as a slimy coaching of Canadians so that they believe they are somehow a “superior race” to the Americans. It’s really a revulsion of American success of course and a complete ruse, as sensible people know, and it’s a excruciatingly terrible strategy as all earthlings who lived through the USSR’s reign of terror know.
Just read how this anti-American mainstream Canadian media “news report” begins (from a Canadian Press story today by Beth Gorham, and published at CTV.ca):
WASHINGTON — It’s been a spectacularly jerky ride for America’s cowboy-in-chief.
From top-level scandal to furor over Iraq, huge budget problems and a disastrous hurricane response, President George W. Bush has been dumped on his keister time and again.
And despite recent polls suggesting the dramatic drop in his popularity is easing, Bush’s political woes seem destined to dog him into 2006.
That may not be good news for Canada or the future of cross-border relations, but the view from south of the border on that is mixed.
A preoccupied president with diminished clout in Congress has less ability to address Canada’s concerns, some say. Others maintain, however, that Bush’s problems will force him to work harder with key allies like Canada at a time when he most needs friends.
That “news report” was actually accompanied by this photo:
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When you start reading and seeing things like that, things are in actual fact looking up. It’s just that you have to see through the smoke.
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