Frank Graves is still making regular appearances on the CBC, despite a number of controversies surrounding his political bias as a longtime Liberal financial donor. To his credit, he was as hard on the Liberal Party today as I have ever seen him, even musing that 34.4% to 25.1% could be majority territory considering voter turnout. It seems like he's trying to go a little out of his way to come across as bipartisan.
There was a point near the beginning that was amusing if you followed last week's news of a biased/leading poll question sent in by a Liberal candidate that was selected by EKOS for a major poll. Well today they had a question on oil drilling based on a viewer question, so Soloman put up the original which was a leading question; and Graves made a big point about how they had to change the viewer question to a new more ambiguous question. It seemed like a deliberate attempt to quash last week’s dust up.
Then, after everything he went on a rant about the Green Party, defending that he really believes they will get at least 12% of the popular vote in the next election. Then as evidence he presented his theory that environmental concern over the oil spill in the gulf has the Greens surging up to 12%. But EKOS had the Greens at almost 14% in January, long before the oil spill. Just thought I'd point that out Frank.
"To his credit"?
ReplyDeleteBut why? Self interest perhaps?
Could the "Charge of the Cultural Wankers" be now considered a full out, tail between the legs, head for the hills, retreat?
If this little dust-up with Graves has caused the CBC to at least evaluate their fairness, the dust-up was worth it. For all parties!
ReplyDeleteOn At Issue Chantel Hebert said Chretien and Broadbent and others are in 'talks', nothing formal (yet).
ReplyDeleteShe also stated the obvious,
the only way for Liberals back to power in the near future is by arrangement with the Dippers,
and that with these numbers a LibDipper coalition (without the BLOC) is not a winner.
So what will the Liberals do?
-Unite the LibDems under Bob Rae
or
-Rebuild the LPC starting with a real leadership race
Chretien and Broadbent are negotiating the treaty? Isn't that something that is supposed to happen between party leaders, or is that the point?
ReplyDeleteIf an election was called today the Liberals and the NDP would have no choice but to campaign on a coalition platform.
ReplyDeleteBut what they forget is that many conservatives are like me.
Not particularly religious and mostly concerned about the amount of money they get to keep and spend on their children.
And people like us have accepted the fact of the religious right knowing that there are enough of us who vote for the party to temper the integration of church and state.
So the Liberals can trot out that bogeyman if they want to but we're not buying.
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Coming home on the bus the other day I heard a strange conversation.
Two kids, a guy and a girl were contemplating going to the doctor's office because she thought she was pregnant.
From their conversation I learned that they were both sixteen year old 'recovering' drug addicts who lived in halfway houses apart from each other who had somehow managed a random hookup and were facing that consequence.
The girl was just in the process of 'divorcing' her parents and the guy was someone on his own.
They were both under the care of social services and under curfew.
Neither did they have jobs or go to school to get better.
In fact school was seen as a way to get a free bus pass.
Another part of their conversation was about how to smuggle drugs into rehab.
I can't imagine how they will turn out.
But I have seen too many girls around here pushing strollers when they should be carrying a knapsack full of textbooks.
I gotta work hard to make sure my son and daughter don't end up like those two.
It's not the first time that I've stuff like this on the back of the bus.
And they have no shame talking about it either.
Like this stuff happens every day and there is nothing wrong with it.
Graves is trying to scare people with the Harper majority line . If Harper gets a majority EVERYBODY knows what will happen then . Mandatory church , 6 days a week , the draft , no abortions everybody will have to own a gun and everybody will have to wear conservative blue shirts with the conservative logo , you name it they'll pull it out of your liberal nightmares ( those are the ones that make you wake up in a cold clammy sweat that you can't remember ) and feed it to you ad nauseum .
ReplyDeleteImagine Obama having a state T.V to push his far left garbage?
ReplyDeleteWhat would the people in the USA do if their tax dollars was going towards far left progressive garbage?
Canadians are not free.
The CBC is just one example.
Every single country with gun control has led to nothing but misery and death for its population.
And it's coming to Canada.
Broadbent and Chretiens were behind the scenes fueling the 'coalition'
ReplyDeleteDuceppe signed the agreement which we know that he wants his fair share of the pie.
Now that Quebec is like Greece, this will enable Duceppe to demand the most and guess what, he is a unionist; layton belongs to the unions and the liberals they too are the union friends.
But it is Duceppe who can out the winner with big cash to save quebec. And if he doesn't get what he wants- corruption adscam you name it and the media silence on it will coming gushing out from Duceppe.
Where will the ROC be? like GREECE, bailing out Quebec. Where do you think CBC will be? Right smack dam with the coalition getting their fair share of the dough.
Frank Graves had the Greens leading in Quebec in one of his polls. Kinda funny actually. The Greens will be lucky if they get half that much. Sometimes, I wonder how he even became a pollster.
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