Sunday, March 11, 2012

Robogate Protests: The Diminishing Returns Of Crying Wolf

The Canadian left's ability to attract protesters to their little gatherings sure has fallen a long ways since Prorogate (remember the outrage when we delayed the start of Parliament by a few weeks to host the Olympics) where the most lofty estimates guessed hundreds of thousands of demonstrators coast to coast to coast. This weekend they tried to organize a similar protest about allegations of Conservative voter suppression, and attendance barely even made a whimper. On Parliament Hill, about a dozen people showed up.


Ladies and gentlemen, your "Canadian spring"! Thank you to Richard Madan for snapping that picture from the CTV studio. This helps to illustrate that the people who have been continually pumping and promoting idiotic protests are experiencing the diminishing returns of turning issue after issue into a major national crisis. Eventually people stop listening to you. Even Occupy Canada drew less of a crowd than the prorogue protests, though it did attract a small number of young clowns who wanted to hang out for a camping trip to complain about capitalism and maybe shoot a little heroin. We're almost at the point where the number of media people covering the protests are outnumbering the actual protesters. Did "Stop Harper" girl even show up? Just a suggestion, perhaps the left should dial down the feigned outrage, otherwise if a wolf actually shows up, the average Canadian is not going to take you seriously.

8 comments:

  1. Your the math whiz Ice, whats the percentage of protesters to voters in the past election? Or would it be one of those, so low it's not worth figuring out?

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  2. 14.7 million people voted in 2011. Even if you managed 100,000 protesters, that would be less than 1% of the voting population. Good luck getting a reliable estimate on the crowds for prorogate. The number of people for robogate is much easier to count, and would not be any higher than 0.007% of the voting population.

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  3. Big picture of angry Harper on the front page of the Journal de Montreal, Montreal's no. 1 tabloid format French paper. The headline says "Quebec says No to Harper". If you think the English media are biased against the Conservatives, try the french media especially Radio Canada.

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  4. You think Radio Canada is bad now, just wait until after the budget comes down at the end of the month.
    Mon Dieu!!

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  5. What? Quebec Media has an attitude? The welfare case of Canada has issues? Screw'em!!!

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  6. Calgary Global just said about 100 showed up. Group included the Raging Grannies, or that other singing group of women, in weird outfits and hats singing so called message songs.

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  7. The "rent a mob" crowd wants to get paid by the hour. Another opportunity for a foreign "charity" to boost the takehome pay of basement dwellers. lol

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  8. Stephen Maher ends up with egg all over his face on his "investigative " work on robocalls, and his promised revelations and now that all is gone into the dumpster, he is blaming anonymous Conservatives and the Sun News Network. Maher never ever believed anything that anonymous Conservatives and Sun News Network ever said in the past, so why would he fly with this so called "fingering" (if we can believe that) - is it because it served his mischievous and partisan purposes but in his negligence he forgot to do a fundamental tenet of responsible reporting and that is investigate facts of the story.
    Ezra Levant holds Maher responsible for his actions and his responsibility for accurate and honest reporting in this video, and also exposes the dark and partisan side of Maher, where he tweeted the words "they can kiss my a_ _" to the Manning Institute. Although Maher later removed this tweet Canadians have the right and must be informed of Maher's bias, questionable tactics, and reporting. Canadians should expect that other members of the media would want the truth and whole story to be told and the media demand for full disclosure and openness, should apply to one of their own, as well as to members of parliament. In this video we learn, to our dismay, how open Maher is and how he is not prepared to give full disclosure to Canadians on his own investigative reporting and tactics, so his readers can judge Maher's integrity, professionalism, and credibility.
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/booting-the-media-party/1505339254001

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