Update: Dawg has some details that I missed, including the fact that Glen McGregor of the Ottawa Citizen was there and left the party in solidarity with Maher.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Rumour: Reporter Who Broke Robocon Story Booted From Manning Conference Party!
Update: Dawg has some details that I missed, including the fact that Glen McGregor of the Ottawa Citizen was there and left the party in solidarity with Maher.
You journalists are so full of yourselves you think the news is all about you. Get over it. You are not the centre of the Universe.
ReplyDeleteI am not a journalist.
ReplyDeleteGuess Robo-call has run its course
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-admit-sending-anti-tory-robo-call-in-guelph-during-2011-campaign/article2365355/
What will be next from our professional crisis makers?
Louise prefers to get her news from Reformacon talking points. It's easier to not have to think.
ReplyDeleteAnti-Tory messages during an election campaign?
ReplyDeleteSay it isn't so, Dwayne!
I consider "Anti-Tory messages" public service announcements.
ReplyDeleteGuess this throwin' folks out and falsely equating fact-based calls to misleading fraudulent ones is what (a) democracy (centre) looks like.
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Robo calls are legal.
ReplyDeleteBreaking the law isn't.
I see the cheater party folks are out trying to excuse their crimes because someone badmouthed their candidates.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how well Rae is handling this. He keeps releasing admissions of minor shenanigans and the CPC takes the bait every time, trying to convince Canadians that cheating is ok because the Liberals can be politically incorrect. When the 60% aren't rolling their eyes, they're laughing at the antics of the CPC buffoons.
Rae understands the Harpocrites won't be defeated by boring ethics issues. They'll be defeated because Canadians can no longer look at the CPC and keep straight faces.
Once more the "progressives" get it wrong.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/03/10/it-really-was-a-misunderstanding-maher-says-of-eviction-from-manning-party/
Another reason to stop jumping to conclusions. But the media, and some others, believe the worst because it confirms their preconceived notion of the world.
Who gets it wrong, Dwayne? The link you provide is to the same outfit the reported the original story.
ReplyDeleteBut the story doesn't wash. The event was advertised as open to anyone with $20.
Another reason to stop jumping to conclusions. But the media, and some others, believe the worst because it confirms their preconceived notion of the world.
ReplyDeleteGee, you're right. There's nothing suspicious about an organization associated with the Conservative party kicking out a journalist who broke one of the biggest scandals for the government out of an open party. Nothing suspicious about singling Maher out from a group of journalists and asking him for a laynard. And it doesn't fit a pattern of Conservatives ejecting people from their gatherings who aren't die-hard Conservatives.
We may have jumped to some sort of conclusion, but as Coyne notes, the reputation of the Conservative party isn't the best right now.
@Lenny, did you even read the story? Maher was the one who said it was a misunderstanding... So, the media that got up on its hind legs runs away with its tail between its legs, again. Just like robocall... wait for it.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the echo chamber folks.
Yes, Maher says it was a misunderstanding. And your point is...
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