If the left's accusations about Harper press conferences were true, don't you think they'd sound more like Justin Trudeau press conferences with questions like, 'What shampoo do you use?' 'Who's your favourite Avenger?' 'Do you like babies?'
Ask yourself, would Harper be getting non-stop Duffy questions if there were any truth to the accusations we've heard in recent opinion pieces like the one from Stephen Marche?
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“By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.” – Albert Ellis
“The history of progress is written in the blood and men of women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause…” – Emma Goldman
“The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas” – Vivienne Westwood
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.” – Winston Churchill
“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” – Adlai Stevenson
“Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.” – Sandra Day O’Connor
No – but as you can see, I can get along just fine with sensible and reasonable conservatives. You are the opposite of that.
You are one of my favorite people here. We may not agree on a whole lot, but I think you are completely reasonable and I hope you don’t take this the wrong way – but you seem like a cool chick with a good sense of humor.
Jimmy gets it, so I don’t know why people still have a problem with him. Plus, talking to him is fun. I highly recommend engaging with him.
The National Post probably believed they would be getting a funny puff piece about the importance of a good hairstyle in contemporary Canadian politics, but what she delivered instead was factually-questionable, pro-Trudeau propaganda.
Even staff columnists have their copy edited and shortened without their awareness or consent, and it’s not censorship. It’s called fact-checking and lawyering. I expect The National Post just didn’t want to get sued for printing Atwood’s half-assed suppositions and conspiracy theories.
People, PLEASE, read up on a topic before commenting. That said, as far as I can tell, The National Post only deleted the two phrases Jimmy mentioned. This isn’t censorship, it’s the editorial process. Atwood has the gall to demand she be consulted before any changes are made, and that’s the only reason she’s pissed, and that’s the only reason this is even a story at all.
WRONG.
The changes are shown here:
Journalist Jonathan Goldsbie has made a complete list of these changes. The censored sections are significant, and accuse Stephen Harper of hiding “the two-million-dollar-donors to his party leadership race,” and make reference to Harper having given “four mutually exclusive answers” about the Duffy cover-up.
https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/634915074533142528
and it’s covered here:
http://canadalandshow.com/article/hairgate-what-really-happened
That doesn’t even make sense – thus proving my point.
I am sorry you don’t have the brain power to just ignore something you don’t like.
Shooting people in video games does relieve stress as well if you can’t get to the shooting range today. :)
If you think I am a troll – then why do you continually feed me. Why not just ignore me?
Maybe you should click on links next time. The article was posted, then deleted and then reposted with edits made without Atwood’s approval. She was in fact censored.
I have always said that while The National Post is conservative – and they themselves state that – they do offer a liberal view as well. Sometimes even side by side with the conservative view to allow people to make up their own mind.
So while they are conservative – maybe not enough to your liking, they do try to be fair and balanced on occasion and I give them credit for that. But a liberal source wouldn’t edit Liberal hero Margaret Atwood’s article. Atwood is a respected Canadian – thus that is the reason why The National Post posted it in the first place.
You wrote that the National Post pulled the Margaret Atwood article. Typical regressive left lies. Here is the link,
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/hair-is-in-the-election-season-air-but-is-it-crucial-to-your-vote
which I just now pulled off the National Post web-site, 10:20 M.D.T., August 24, 2015. Granted, it was well down the news list, which makes sense considering it was first published Aug 21, 2015 when I first read it; but it is there. Usual B-grade writing, Atwood is noted for, but it is there for all to read, on the National Post web-site.
…I for one am so sick of hearing about Duffy…Of course Harper would never cherry pick questions about Duffy…this is so obvious…so why does the media think we will believe it? Because they know how easy it is to dupe us into preferring the candidate who is asked about what shampoo he uses or other nonsense (Trudeau).
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Why doesn’t the press ask Mulcair about these!!!!
I knew the stories I was reading were full of pablum, what I like about Lilley’s reporting is his straight forward tell it like it is!
And this is to everyone, who appear to need a gentle reminder that it’s a GOOD thing to hear opposing viewpoints, otherwise we become radicalized, close-minded and intolerant.
Jimmy, thanks for the link about Margaret Atwood’s Post column. I have to say, however, that while the National Post may have began having a conservative editorial slant, the fact that it ran this column at all “clearly” disabuses the notion that it’s still a conservative newspaper. Frankly, I’m surprised all they did was delete a few sentences rather than yanking the whole thing, which is probably what a more liberal paper would have done, and no one would ever even know.
Liberals are not stopping conservatives from posting here. We are greatly outnumbered here.
manipulate the election by the sort of questions they ask….the ‘truth’ as many believe from media dilligence is
not the ‘truth of real truth’…..journalist should be asking and highlighting just what Mulcair and Trudeau
will be doing to enhance the french language to a higher level than we have today. (since their stated
actions on this will interfere with canada’s industry,trade,jobs …hope some journalists wants to report
the truth of language changes via opposition leaders.