Power & Politics question of the day: "Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?" When will this false equivalence end?

CK of Sister Sage’s Musings has a wonderful post asking why Bob Rae apologized for Vikileaks. Good question but what hit me hardest about the post was this gem regarding a poll question from Evan Solomon’s Power & Politics. The question asks: “Does ‘Vikileaks’ undermine Liberal credibility on robocalls?” What? That

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Robo-call revelations blowing up

Hold your guns, everyone! Peter MacKay insists that the robo-calls were an “isolated incident” and that the guilty party has already been caught, so no need to go further.  And Mike Duffy says it’s a “third party” who was responsible.  Err, except this came out – a damning revelation by a former call-centre employee

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The Ghost of Black Friday Past

Riot gear: what the well-dressed shopper is wearing in Florida these days, courtesy of newly-minted blogger “Left Over”, who also happens to be a long-lost, recently re-discovered meat space friend of mine.  (I love the Internets.)  You know her as commenter “cityprole” — hop on over and welcome her to

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Impolitical: Late night

That was quite a moving moment from the Iranian film maker who won the best Foreign Language Film award last night (beating out Canada’s Monsieur Lazhar). The director’s speech starts at about the 2:00 minute mark. More at Andrew Sullivan’s blog on the political significance of the moment.

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Why Did Bob Rae Apologize?

  Indeed! Why the hell did you, Mr. Rae?  So it was a Liberal staffer behind the Twitter moniker of vikileaks.  So? Glad someone was fighting back. Also, once again, with feeling, boys ‘n’ girls, @vikileaks didn’t use documents that weren’t already public record. In fact, anyone who would bother

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