Over at Free Dominion, at first some refreshing honesty from my Facebook friend Connie Fournier.
There were thousands of people on Parliament Hill. I would guess about 5000.
We went there half expecting it it to be a crowd of freaks wearing terrorist garb and masks like the group that was in Ottawa protesting Bush that time, but we were surprised by the people who were there.
They were a bunch of normal looking Canadians.
That said, we did leave early because the speakers were crap. One thing that we learned when we were organizing rallies is that you have to get your speakers to stick to the message. We left because we were sick of hearing about "climage change". A guy behind us was saying he left because he didn't want to listen to someone talking about some problem with Nortel.
Anyway, I agree with Narrow Back. Harper is in trouble.
After some more typical FD drivel, Connie wades back in again:
Is the CPC telling people to say that it is better to not have Parliament than to have it? It seems to be quite the theme here lately, and I find it quite disturbing coming from people with populist Reform roots.
I'll put this as plainly as I can. Any country that is being run by one person is a dictatorship.
I know that none of you would be dismissing this if a Liberal had sent everyone home to run things himself. You'd really be better off to just say that you don't care than try to justify it.
A very few of her minions, l like the above-mentioned Narrow Back agree with her. The rest put their hands over their ears, chanting 'IdontcareI dontcareIdontcare.' Like this poster, EdS, who can't handle the quote function and has a 'I miss Ronald Reagan' poster for an avatar:
{quote="Connie Fournier"]I know that none of you would be dismissing this if a Liberal had sent everyone home to run things himself. You'd really be better off to just say that you don't care than try to justify it.[/quote]
That is my position, precisely. If the Liberals had done this, I would be ranting on street corners. That Harpoolah has done it...
Ho-hum... you're right... I don't care. I don't care what Harpoleon does. He could declare Martial Law... don't care. Don't care what happens so long as no bastard liberal is in power. Those vile curs, those socialistic progressive bastards are scum. I hate them with a passion that cannot be described.
Another novel ReformaTory approach is to deny that there were any rallies atall atall. CC in a post tellingly titled 'Let the dumbass, retarded wankitude begin' demolishes one Blogging Tory called The Iceman.
Pause to savour what happened here. Iceman wants to go to the CAPP rally to mock people who actually value the idea of a real democracy. He does not bother to actually check any of the countless online sources of information to find out where that rally is marching to. Instead, he takes a wild guess ... and guesses wrong. He therefore concludes there was no rally, and goes home.
If a four-year-old did something like that, I would consider them retarded.
Go to CC's to read the whole thing and get the link to Iceman's hilarious photo essay on Where the Woozle Wasn't.
Meanwhile, one of the discussions at the CAPP group focuses on collecting examples of such spin and considers ways of confronting them. Drop by with examples or advice.
Oh. And membership is still growing. It hit 215,000 early this evening.
ADDED: I think I might be getting a girl-crush.
2 comments:
I was happy to see that 215,000 -- a nice round number.
And ya, we're winning big time! Did you see the Harper's eyes? He is in big trouble and he knows it! His eyes were, quite literally, piss holes in the snow, the area around his eyes, very puffy. Watch -- I know it's very very difficult to do so -- but look closely next time you have the news on.
You'll know we're winning when you see him!
Dr Dawg blogs about an incident in which Young ReformaTories may have used Rovian tactics to engineer disinformation about the CAPP pro-democracy rally in Winnipeg.
As for Harper, it would seem from his slurred speech and strange lack of affect that he's medicated, as Don Martin thought during the last federal election leaders' debate. It would be necessary these days for Stevie to keep his legendary raging temper under control because it would not be a pleasant sight if he lost it while cameras were rolling. Watch the press conference here to observe how dopey he seems.
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