Looks like it was another generous payday for Ari Fleischer last week.
Sheldon Alberts writing in the “Full Comment” section of today’s National Post makes quite a good point: “If Harper really wants to praise Obama and speak to a U.S. audience about Canada’s concerns about rising protectionism on the American left, here’s a thought: Less Fox, MSNBC.” No kidding.
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Why can’t he just move in with Mark Steyn and do this full time down there? It’s obviously where his heart is.
Great play on words!
huzzah! you’re back bloggin’…and i have another site for my daily reads. best,
C-stanian
It’s always fun to see what colour his hair is.
Grey sometimes, chestnut others.
It keeps changing, like his stands on issues.
Seems Harper spends more time in the US than Iggy and pays a whole bunch of taxpayer money for it.
Why are you afraid of your own media in Canada Harper?
RuralSandi,
I think I know the answer to your question.
Because Harper can be assured that the Canadian media will treat him without respect and be relentingly negatively partisan.
The Canadian media is really good at sharing their political views with the Canadian people.
That being said, I would agree with you (I know I’m shocked too), that Harper should put himself in front of the Canadian media firing line, because the average Canadian will see how he is treated and there will be a back lash sympathy discussion at the water cooler the next day.
Oh, spare me this whiny Liberal media bias crap – because that’s exactly what it is.
Harper purposely made a combative situation with the Canadian media so he can manipulate his supporters into believing there is a Liberal bias – and they fall for it.
RS,
If you knew the answer, than why pose the question?
Being rhetorical again?
“whiny Liberal media bias crap” reminds of the saying, just because Harper’s paranoid doesn’t mean they AREN’T out to get him.
“Why are you afraid of your own media in Canada Harper?”
Alright take two:
1.) Harper & Co feel that by appearing on US media it gives an impression of legitimacy to their message to Canadians. Alan Gregg mentioned that idea at the beginning of this campaign and Korn Kob Kory Teneycke has mentioned many times that he wished the CBC was more like Fox News.
2.) More softballs: Harper, doesn’t want to answer the questions on the issues that affect Canadians; neither the good points nor the bad points. They were taken badly off message with their financial update last November and have never been able to regain control for more than a very short time. Harper & Co feel that talking through more sympathetic media in the US, they won’t add more logs to the fire so to speak.
3.) Firing up the power base. Who watches Fox News likes it’s serious news outside of the most fervent partisan types? For me it’s not much different than watching professional wrestling except wrestling has better acting and masks.
Maybe I’m cynical but the whole campaign strikes me as a feeble attempt to regain the message. Yes I’m sure this was described as a brilliant ploy by conservative staffers, but they are so partisan these days that I wouldn’t be surprised if their crap filter is completely burnt out and they see all their ideas as brilliant. That would also explain the Puffmaster Infomercial the other day.
That’s my 2 cents.
Tomm, are you saying now, then, present Canadian media in the past acted biased, or the media then now is or will be biased? Or was then but not after and not now but will be; the media bias? If so that seems like a silly position (21 of 22 newspapers endorsed Harper and you are calling the @#$%ing media Liberal-biased because Toronto Star didn’t?!). And CBC is the only media that supports two official languages by not tricking French speaking leaders.
On a serious note, Republicans have successfully lobbied to lift surveillence of white-paramilitary their intel has ID-ed as most serious terrorist threat. I think CSIS and GOP should give serious consideration to redirecting our entire foreign policy and policing institutions to garnering intel on terrorist threats (this one seems minor but it is the precedent) that Obama ignores due to Republican Lobbies. We can police USA terrorists for the world if they won’t, for example, with the threat of turning off Eastern Seaboard electricity. We are the only other nation that can address such concerns.
So Harper won’t talk to Canadians because he’s afraid of the media.
My hero.