… he really is. See this puppy? Thomas Mulcair hates puppies. He would do things that would hurt puppies. THIS PUPPY. Only a strong Conservative government can stop this puppy hater. (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
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CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper Conservatives’ Attack Ad Betrays Fear of Mulcair Victory in 2015 (VIDEO)
Stephen Harper’s Tories are proof that when a dictatorial regime is threatened by the force a democratic insurgency, and the specter of losing power, it becomes dangerous. Threatened by the prospect of NDP leader Thomas Mulcair becoming Prime Minister in 2015, the Conservative Party of Canada released a new dirty-politics
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tory Attack Ads Against Mulcair Begin
And like the good Pavlovian creatures the Conservatives assume the electorate to be, they eagerly await our unbridled panic. Recommend this Post
Continue readingImpolitical: New Mulcair ad
It’s a Mulcair day on the blog, it appears! How on earth did that happen… I find it hard to get too excited about this. Released just after the parliamentary session has ended, what’s with that? Come now, Conservative war room, timing is everything. Unless it is part of a
Continue readingImpolitical: Not sponge worthy
“‘Sad and pathetic’ anti-Mulcair salvo lacks punch of past Tory attacks.” That’s the spin from NDP spokesman Karl Belanger on the new Conservative website that was just launched as a putative attack on Mulcair and his NDP cabinet. To use my favourite phrase of the past few days, this looks
Continue readingPop The Stack: Who Needs Honour When You Have Fear?
I’m starting to think that The Conservative Party of Canada is trying to exhaust our outrage meters so we’ll stop complaining about real issues and just let them do whatever they want. Take a deep breath, maybe even a Tylenol and take just a peek at this site new site put
Continue readingPop The Stack: Who Needs Honour When You Have Fear?
I’m starting to think that The Conservative Party of Canada is trying to exhaust our outrage meters so we’ll stop complaining about real issues and just let them do whatever they want. Take a deep breath, maybe even a Tylenol and take just a peek at this site new site put
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Attack ad script on Harper’s trust issue
Here is a script for an attack ad which illustrates Stephen Harper’s trust issues: VIDEO AUDIO Camera up on Slick game show host in studio holding cue cards, smiling at the camera. HOST: Welcome back to Canada in Jeopardy! Mark it’s your board. CUT TO: Contestant looking up at the
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Vive la différence!
The Harper government says, “Thomas Mulcair is an opportunist whose tax agenda, blind ambition and divisive personality would put Canadian families and their jobs at risk.” Really? I say, “Stephen Harper is an opportunist whose tax agenda, blind ambition and divisive personality would put Canadian families and their jobs at
Continue readingPolitics Canada: DIY attack ads on Stephen Harper
You can tell in your gut when you see a good attack ad. The Conservatives know how to make a good attack ad, this is clear. It’s one of the few things, I would say, they are good at. I found an interesting site called “Attack Ad Generator”, might be
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Create your own attack ad on Harper
In this day and age media and communication tools are available to almost anyone who wants them. I am suggesting that there are many Canadians out there who can create an effective attack ad on Harper and the Conservatives. There is a veritable bonanza of material available for anyone to
Continue readingTrashy's World: My debate teacher told us that…
… ad hominem attacks were cowardly and used only by those of inferior intellect. And I agree. Yet the CPC doesn’t see it this way. Politics over policy. Attacks over debate. Accusations over cooperation. It’s the Stephen Harper Way. Daniel Veniez penned a good article in iPolitics about the latest
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservative attack ads already? A distraction attempt, I’d say.
Some folks in the media and elsewhere are saying the fact that the Conservatives chose to start running attack ads going after Liberal “still interim” leader Bob Rae means they view him as the de facto next permanent leader and the greater threat then the Opposition NDP’s new leader –
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons: The Horror and the Desperation
Well I see the politicians may be on a spring break, but the sinister Con War Room, like death, or Great Ugly Leader. Never takes a holiday… Golly. I have to admit when I first saw that attack ad it struck fear into my heart. I was afraid I might
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Liberals need an aggressive communications strategy
The only way to stop the Conservative attack machine is to hit it back, hard. This means creating an attack ad that will register with viewers, something that the Liberals have not been very effective at. While it is good to see the quick response from Rae, it will probably
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Defending “Rae Days”
Unlike his two immediate predecessors who unwisely allowed themselves to be negatively defined by relentless campaigns of character assassination from the Conservatives, Bob Rae is making it clear that he’s not going to sit idle and simply allow attack ads by Harper’s mufti-million dollar smear machine to go unanswered. Instead,
Continue readingAgain with the ads. Why the Conservatives keep winning.
The Conservatives are about to unleash new TV ads – slick and appropriately placed in the most researched demographic markets – attacking Bob Rae. What’s telling is that Sun Media breathlessly promotes the ads in gory details in what amounts to an advertisement itself but dressed up as a news article.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Little Miss Progressive and the Attack Ads
Once upon a time in the dark and scary woods of Con Canada, lived a little girl named Little Miss Progressive. And like many other girl and boy progressives she didn’t believe in making nasty attack ads. Even though the Big Bad Wolf and his evil friends made them all
Continue readingTrashy's World: I don’t know…
.. how many of you have seen the cheesy ad (oops… NOT an ad… just a video, according to the NCC) made by that reactionary of all reactionary groups in Canada – the so-called National Citizen’s Coalition. I don’t think it is getting a lot of air time. And it
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