The Conservatives unveiled their election war room this week.
So far, it has been called "the fear factory" and "the Death Star."
I'm still relatively new to this industry, but this is the weirdest media event I've ever seen. Of course, that's why so many reporters showed up, and why everyone's blogging about it.
At the event, journalists were given a tour of the 17,000-square-foot office in the Ottawa 'burbs that will script the leader's tour, direct candidates to not say anything stupid to me and my colleagues, and create and disseminate pro-Harper and anti-Dion advertisements.
Why would the Conservatives invite journalists to this place?
1. To show they have their ducks in a row for whenever an election comes.
2. To show they have more money than Scrooge McDuck.
3. To simply get their names in the newspaper.
4. So they have a chance to get their message out. Their message right now is as follows: "We're prepared for an election we don't want. We want to have a nice, long summer with our families. Liberal leader Stephane Dion wants to force an election. Why? Because he hates summer and families nearly as much as he loves terrorists."
The truth is, though, that no Liberal in his right mind wants an election now. The polls have them way down, they don't seem to have anything under control, and the public still has those (put on a Quebecois accent) "Do you think it's easy to make priorities?" commercials in their minds.
The last thing the Liberals want is an election, and they'd probably be more likely to vote in favour of the death penalty than to rush into a spring campaign.
So, in other words, it's all in Harper's hands, and everyone knows this, and now everyone knows the Death Star is ready for when Darth Harper decides to close his fist on Parliament.
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With the help of William Shatner, Rogers unveiled its new video phone that allows you to see the person you're speaking to.
I'll give ten points to anyone who can think of a reason, other than for the purpose of phone sex, why anyone would want this.
Comments (1)
That’s an easy one. “Closed Circuit TV” makes the inevitable Regressive Conservative propaganda machine give the same reruns as the previous Magna-Car-Tour, Brampton.
The Fear Factory Focus (3F’s) diverts the publics attention away from Ontario’s $5.5 billion deficit that occurred while Harris and Eves had outsourced (downloaded) provincial/municipal responsibilities into private (Workfare-Workfirst) contracts while their Anchor Man JB was assuming a Minister of Social Services role, during the omissions of our T-4 and EI slips (verifying occupational codes) were taking place.
Minister Pupatello had already scripted parts 2001 of the episode (http://hansardindex.ontla.on.ca/hansardespeaker/37-2/l056a-513.html ) where Harper has to stage his defeat before Schreiber’s deportation hearing’s ( http://www.thestar.com/article/177147 ) opens up the “outsourcing” can of worms from where the 1994 Tory Blue Book states “ New Zealand had abandoned Workfare-Workfirst in the late 80’s”
The sequel footage from the “Max Headroom” series http://mail.tscript.com/trans/Walk_Jun_29_01/index.htm page 107 script 14 is edited out because the 1995 Blue Book made omissions where “Statutes of Limitations” don’t apply, but as Ursula may have encountered “Close Circuit –In Camera” also attracts viruses and unsuspecting power surges”.
Hmmmm?? makes one ponder whether an Environment Minister would used fossil fuels to back-up Death Stars auxiliary generators before running the Tele Prompter that’s been on stand-by since his July Black Out?
Posted by Abbe | April 4, 2007 12:52 PM
Posted on April 4, 2007 12:52