The Hypocrisy of the Liberal Campaign

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Thank you for the cite.

Well I don't see the "contradiction" you're talking about.

What I gather is the confirmation of what Harper was saying: it is an uncertain time.

And I essentially agree with you, though predictions vary greatly right now because of the uncertainty. What I did show though, is that your Liberal biased media reported the story.

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Another blame the evil media statement. When they first came to power Harper's definition of unfairly ambushed was that the media asked him questions he didn't want to answer. Sorry but in a democracy that's not an excuse to throw a little tantrum and stop dealing with the media. He's now better in dealing with the media but at no point was the media unfairly ambushing him.

I laugh my ass off everytime the conservatives bring out the Evil Liberal Media bullspit.

The majority of media outlets endorsed Harper, in two elections now!

Dion was intentionally made to look like an idiot, by the CTV affiliate, but it is the Biased LIberal media that is the cause of all the CPC's problems.

I don't buy it for a second.

Just a bunch of paranoid clap-trap. You'll have to get another tinfoil hat people 'cause the current one ain't workin'.

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I laugh my ass off everytime the conservatives bring out the Evil Liberal Media bullspit.

The majority of media outlets endorsed Harper, in two elections now!

Dion was intentionally made to look like an idiot, by the CTV affiliate, but it is the Biased LIberal media that is the cause of all the CPC's problems.

I don't buy it for a second.

Just a bunch of paranoid clap-trap. You'll have to get another tinfoil hat people 'cause the current one ain't workin'.

Hmm, here's a nice non-biased article from what is normally considered a right-leaning newspaper: http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/C...989666-sun.html

It's a nice heartwarming story about how the local community has stepped up and provided funding and resources to keep a community resource functioning after being abandoned by the Catholic Church. Overall, it pretty much shows how a community can actually accomplish something without the support of big government - a conservative ideal if there ever was one.

However, the first paragraph is "I was thinking the other day about fat-cat artists and cocktail galas, wondering if Prime Minister Stephen Harper has ever found his way to St. Brigid's, all of about six blocks from Parliament Hill." and there are several more digs against the Conservatives throughout the article.

Not mentioned are the facts - (a) the 'arts cuts' did not affect any program from which this church may have received money, and ( why should the federal government ( i.e. Moose Creek, Saskatchewan) finance a local project like this? and © the arts funding to families that was announced by CPC would likely benefit the programs currently offered by this community center.

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(B ) why should the federal government ( i.e. Moose Creek, Saskatchewan) finance a local project like this?

The Federal government always has and hopefully always will provide money as needed to local projects and initiatives. Governments in Canada have historically been very big on the idea of cost sharing between 3 levels of government and sometimes between government and the private sector. An example of this are the Building Canada Plan. It provides funding to projects and some of them only benefit specific areas.

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I think the media was actually better this election than I've seen in recent elections, I would have been first on the bandwagon to say otherwise and there were a few examples of very biased media, the Toronto Star for example, CBC radio's hate for the Conservatives oozes out the car speakers every morning. Print media certainly was the best and as the election campaign wore on the National post is the only one I noticed become biased toward Harper, perahaps with the exception of Don Martin, who became more critical.

That being said, there was not a lot of good detailed research in any of the media, particularly the television media who focused on cheap shots all around.

I think the interesting thing about the campaign is that the Liberals when desparate always turn back to the "values" argument and painted Harper as mean etc with the attack ads. I am not a big fan of attack ads, the con ads were nothing like American attack ads at their worst. All the while Dion was calling Harper a liar ten times per speech, certainly in my circle calling someone a liar is far from civility. However Dion was being portrayed as so nice and civil. However listening and watching him speak I sensed an arrogant sort of naivity that he wasn't offered unconditional deference when he spoke.