Attack Of The Liberals

March 21, 2007 @ 09:14

Some interesting fall out from yesterday's budget. It was fascinating to listen to Liberals criticize the Conservative budget when their main bone of contention is that the Harper budge was like a Liberal budget. What?

Another interesting tid-bit was Dick Smyth's commentary on 640 this morning. To my surprise, it's becoming more and more apparent that Dick is a Liberal.

This morning he went after Stephan Harper claiming he's not a very nice man, while from all indications Stephane Dion "is" a nice man. Then he went on to criticize the Conservatives for their attack ads against Dion like they have no precedent.

Does Mr. Smyth forget the attack ads that were launched against Harper during the last election campaign? The ads that referred to him as a right wing extremist and claimed he was best friends with George Bush.

Does Mr. Smyth forget about the ad that was yanked off English TV one day after it was released because it claimed:

"Stephen Harper actually announced he want to increase military presence in our cities. Canadian cities. Soldiers with guns. In our cities. In Canada. We did not make this up."

Yes they did. They did make it up, but apparently some people choose to conveniently forget it.

Category: Politics

7 Responses to "Attack Of The Liberals"

Jason Meltzer Pattersonq
March 21, 2007 / 09:22

No he's not not Bush's best friend but George and "Steve" get along and have more in common that you seem to be willing to admit.

Your point on the attack ads I agree with, but just because the Conservatives are the "other choice" doesn't make them a good one.

I hate the Liberals for being liars, I hate the Conservatives for being.. Conservatives.

But as I have said before, in Canada we vote for the best person in our riding, not the party.

Having said that, I'll vote for the person who will do the best job in my riding, regardless of their affiliation.

Sweet Pam
March 21, 2007 / 09:46

Regardless of which party is the best party, it's pretty shoddy commentary on Smythe's part to conveniently forget those demonizing ads the liberals used to undermine Harper. I don't know where Smythe has been all these years, but I think I recall hearing him read the news on Chum years ago. I thought he was an arrogant loudmouth. Looks like nothing has changed...

Trish
March 21, 2007 / 11:44

Even if it WERE true - so what? Bush only has a year left and then people like Smythe can stop their bellyaching. He was once on tv too - sitting at a desk in a white shirt, leaning forward, huffing self importance and acting like an old-school, big-city newspaper reporter who had all the answers.

Harry Carey
March 21, 2007 / 12:48

Dick sucked a good pipe in his day. No really, he sucked pipe. A big pipe. A pipe. In a Canadian city. Does Dick deny sucking pipes? He's just won't say.

JIM
March 21, 2007 / 13:19

who cares what MR Smyth says
he is an old bitter man with very narrow views on everything He would still be hiding his old feable ass up north at his cottage if His Daughter wasn't the news director at 640

MR Smyth please just
SHUT UP
and go back into hiding. You have no shock factor any more unless its from your defubulator

Barney
March 21, 2007 / 20:35

I heard the comment later in the afternoon.

It was just dumb.

I expected Smyth to be a little more astute than that. This was the first report of his to truly disapoint.

I'm not sure how anyone can honestly say that Stephan Harper comes across as NOT being a very "nice" man.

A little staid,conservative, unemotional and boring maybe - but really - not NICE ?

That's just dumb.

By the same token, I'm not quite sure how anyone would observe that by all indications Stephane Dion IS a nice man.

He may be inarticulate, a really bad speaker, sort of goofy looking, and a really poor choice to lead the liberal party, but he hasn't shown us any particular personality traits, nice, mean or whatever - at all.

If the point of these comments was to somehow support the claim that the conservatives are a vicious lot who begining to take on an unethical approach to seeling their party, then, that's dumb as well.

Who would even buy that ?

How can you NOT remember those fictionalized over the top melodramatic "attack" ads that the liberals tried to dupe the public with prior to the last election ?

Thank god they didn't work.

And, thank God that the sky didn't come crashing down when the conservatives finally took power.

BTW, What exactly is the big "Hidden Agenda" that the liberals claimed the conservatives were up to ?

Is that going to be revealed sometime soon ?

And, exactly, is Mr. Harper expected to peal off his mask to reveal that he's actually the son of Sam ?

At least the conservatives ads are based on truths - not fear mongering storybook fiction.

If anything - they've been forced to fight fire with fire and take this approach because of the Liberals pathetic tacts.

How does an intelligent man like Smyth conveniently forget about all of this ?

Those Liberal attack ads were actually yanked off TV
because they were so far fetched they were ILLEGAL.

These are the same corrupt bastards that were passing around brown envelopes filled with cash to one another during the adscam debacle in Quebec.

The whole party are nothing more than white collar crooks - an organized crime ring hell bent on returning to power for their own personal gains at the expense of Canadian citizens.

How anyone can support their actions is regodamndiculous.

Dick Smyth
March 26, 2007 / 10:34

Have read the comments with interest.
Two points
1)The Liberal attack ads were under Paul Martin's leadership, not Dion's.
2)I addressed the possibility that Dion might sanction attack ads while expressing the hope he does not.
And, by the way, Steph is a dear friend and valued colleague but she is not my daughter.
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