Duffy Kicks Fruitfly Suzuki's Butt!

I would love to see a verbal match between Duffy and Suzuki, Duffy would win hands down, but Suzuki refuses to debate anyone, ever. 

 I bet CTV is still missing this guy:



He seems happier now that he doesn't have to hide the fact that he is a Conservative. Lefties are still in shock that they could have enjoyed watching him all those years, never suspecting that he was a Conservative. That is unbiased reporting, and it hit lefties smack in the face when they realized that Senator Duffy wasn't actually one of them. Heck, I'm a Conservative and I never suspected he was a Conservative. 


It looks like the Conservative Senators are going to discover how badly foreign interests have corrupted our democracy through the use of environmental groups. Revenue Canada had better sit up and take notice, because they are now in the spotlight. 


I know of one tiny little charity that lost it's charitable status because of a minor accounting error, it just about caused them to shut down the real charitable work they were doing. So why doesn't Revenue Canada go after these environmental groups who are clearly lobbyists? Is Revenue Canada as Liberal as Elections Canada? Who holds both of them to account? No one as far as I can figure.


The Senate is showing us that they are relevant and can tackle tough issues. Good for them. My biggest disappointment with the Senate is that a failed Liberal leader from Alberta, who hates the oil sands can not be booted out of the Senate by Albertans. He is an arrogant Liberal who thinks that Albertans opinions don't matter, and he could care less what you want. I know, I've emailed him and just about got sick reading his response to my concerns, try it for yourself. Ask him why an Albertan doesn't support the oil sands, see what response you get.

Grant Mitchell   -   Liberal Party of Canada

Province:

Alberta

Senatorial Designation:

Alberta

Appointed on the advice of:

Martin (Lib.)

Telephone:

613-995-4254 or 1-800-267-7362

Fax:

613-995-4265

Email:

mitchg@sen.parl.gc.ca

Find Your Voice! Stop Being Dictated To By Lefties!

The media needs to sell papers so "attack ads" sells more than "truth ads". Let's get real, all political parties put out ads, some are serious, some are pointed at policies, some are pointed at leaders, and some are even funny. No matter how hard the media tries to shape public opinion on the ads, if they ring true with the intended audience, they are successful ads.

Here' s an ad that I think should have been very effective:



Seeing as Doer was re-elected, it couldn't have been as effective as desired. One of the most effective ads, that I remember from the 2006 election, wasn't even by a political party, and it wasn't intended to be political, but every single time I saw it, I thought about the Liberals, so thanks Capital One!



Whoever does the Capital One ads needs a raise! That ad alone helped to give votes to the Conservative party because adscam was still fresh in voters minds.

The media coverage is making Liberals into victims of big bad Conservatives. Poor babies. As if the Liberals or NDP have never put out "attack ads", like this one:



That ad didn't work as Brad Wall is now the Premier of Saskatchewan. I tend to like the funny engaging ads the best, but I remember the truly negative ads the most, like the Liberals "Soldiers in our Streets" ad that never actually aired, but the blog-sphere got the word out on that one really quickly, and the TV news stations were forced to air it.

Do "attack ads" work? Yes, but mostly only for the people who have already made up their minds. Can they give the final push into determining my vote? Probably. I liked Stockwell Day's jetski stunt, it made him look young and dynamic, compared to Chretien. Then the lefty media got really cruel, calling him "Doris Day", and a bright star was dimmed. I still really like him and think he got a raw deal from the Liberal friendly media, but that's what Conservatives have to expect. Steven Harper get's no breaks from the media, but he is too strong in character to buckle under the lefty media pressure, and that has the media in a tizzy! He makes them look like fools, and it looks good on them.

Here is an idea, let's take the media on. Blog more about their bias, comment more at their sites, and watch the political shows less. Lower their viewership and therefore their ad income. I would love to see what has happened to CTV's viewership since Duffy has left. I suspect it has gone down. Conservatives are not noted for being "activists", I have never protested anything in my life, but I find it very easy to email my MLA, Senator, or MP, depending on what I am ticked off about at the time. It is getting easier to make your point by contacting companies, like those who have said they are going to boycott the oilsands, and then quickly back down because the silent majority is finally finding it's voice. Find your voice, stop being drowned out and dictated to by the radical, boisterous lefties.

Political Shows...Anyone Watching?

When I started to get political, I watched Mike Duffy, CPAC, Question Period, and Don Martin. I listened to radio shows like Rutherford. I went to sites like Rabble, and quickly realized they were practicing freedom of speech, only for lefties. I finally found Free Dominion, and enjoyed commenting there. The first blog I found was Small Dead Animals, and I was instantly captivated by Kate's style. She was and is a refreshing voice for all things political.

I watched, I listened, I commented and finally, I decided to try blogging. I spent years blogging to myself mainly, but it was a great release for me, so I kept at it. Then I made the main page on Blogging Tories, and my page hits went up dramatically. All of a sudden, my voice was being heard! I still take it as a great honour to be a Blogging Tory.

As I evolved politically, I stopped watching political TV shows because of their bias and with a full time job, I just really don't have the time to listen to them. So far, I'm not missing much as far as I can see.

I would like to know what the viewing numbers are for CTV now that Duffy has left. The way they treated him was despicable and probably turned off a lot of people. He was popular until he became a Senator, then the lefties got nasty. Wasn't Liberal PEI involved again in slagging a Conservative? Typical. Same goes for CBC with Martin gone, what are the numbers for the new show? I suspect the viewing audience has diminished quite a bit. Are those numbers available anywhere? Only political junkies really care about these shows.

A typical day in my life, is dog pooling, work, make supper, help with homework, watch the local news, and then blog about something that bugged me that day. Who has time to watch the real Question Period, or any of the political shows? They come on here in Alberta at 3:00 while everyone is still at work. Nice Ontario bias by the networks. So they are catering to the Toronto audience. That is why the Liberal party only wins in Toronto.

Is anyone watching political shows anymore? Maybe the better question is: Why should we?

With Slow Measured Steps...

We will take back our freedom of speech! Have you ever stopped and thought before you said "Merry Christmas" to someone? Saying "Merry Christmas" used to be an automatic response in this country, it isn't anymore. There is nothing hateful about saying "Merry Christmas" but now you might "offend" someone, and the way the HRC's are going, soon you could be hauled before them for just that reason, saying "Merry Christmas".

Ann Coulter, just by her trip to Canada, might actually do more to wake Canadians up about our erosion of free speech, than anyone, even Mark Steyn. She wasn't even in the country yet when she ran up against our lefty culture at universities in this country. When the students at UofOttawa managed to shut down her speech, they clearly showed how badly our country has gone off the rails regarding free speech. They shone a light on their own hateful attitudes, not just to Canadians, it made the news internationally. It also gave the Conservatives the perfect opening to start the freedom of speech issue, and they have started the ball rolling, in the most interesting of ways, in the Senate!

The senate, filled with old political appointed hacks.... some still left over from the Trudeau days, linger in the halls, like ghosts of an era gone by. Today, some of the new blood that has been injected into the senate, stood up and started the debate on free speech, and wonderful speeches they were!

I notice that Ezra has posted about this issue, so I will refer you to his post for all the relevant coverage. He is the expert in this issue, as he has had to suffer through 900 days of HRC rage and it's still not over for him.

This is a great start, and I think we have to thank Ezra, Coulter and Steyn for getting the ball rolling. I have already emailed Premier Ed about the AHRC's but so far, nothing is being done. It will be an election issue for me, my vote goes to the party that will shut them down.

Senator Duffy Wipes His Feet With Stoffer!

I don't usually visit the CBC, but Springer from Sort of Political mentioned this and got me curious, so I wondered over there.

Duffy blasts NDP MP as 'faker'

Make up your own mind on this one by watching the video.


I like Peter Stoffer for his support of our troops, but he's way out of line with this one. It's not as if PM Harper appointed MORE Senators, he just filled vacancies. Vacancies that no provinces voted to fill, except Alberta. Maybe the NDP could get one of their own elected if they worked with the provinces to get a list of elected Senators In Waiting for the PM to choose from.

Lefties distort what the PM has said about Senate reform to suit their own purposes. Like this extreme-left lefty, Gayle.

Blogger Gayle said...

"Gayle, explain how the Liberal leader of Alberta got into the Senate?"

He was appointed of course.

First, he is obviously qualified, even if you do not agree with his politics (and as you may have noticed, I have already noted there are undoubtedly qualified conservatives out there, even though I do not agree with their politics).

Second, at no point did the man who appointed him promise he would not appoint senators, nor did he promise he would not use the senate for patronage appointments.

I thought people like you did not like politicians using the senate to reward their political friends. I do not see how you can complain about Grant Mitchell being appointed if you are OK with Mike Duffy's appointment.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:17:00 PM

You see, in Gayle's mind it's okay for a political hack like Liberal Mitchell to be appointed to the Senate, from Alberta no less, when we had a list of Senators in Waiting that Martin ignored. No, he rubbed Albertan's noses in the fact that he didn't care what we wanted. He appointed Liberals in Alberta to show us how little he cared for us westerners, a typical Liberal response to western Canada. Someone like Mike Duffy, who no-one even knew was a Conservative until he got appointed, is unacceptable....to Liberals. It was okay when Liberals were appointing Liberals because they loved yanking Conservative chains, they were the natural ruling party after all. Now that Conservatives are close to a majority in the Senate, the lefties are getting hysterical.

All Senators who have been appointed by PM Harper have agreed to limit their own terms, but you won't hear that from the media, or the lefties. Gayle is happy that Mitchell is in the Senate until he's 75, seeing he was born in 1951, and appointed in 2005, he has until 2026 to suck off us taxpayers, and he can't be fired!!!!

Gayle thinks he is "obviously qualified". HA. Look at his bio, he is qualified to be a politician, one that Albertan's rejected time after time. So a failed politician gets a sweet life time deal in the Senate. Knowing this guy, I will soon be called into the HRC for slamming him.

Senator Duffy is a great addition to the Senate. I loved getting a message from him, and the Conservatives should continue to use him to promote the party policies. I like the fact that Duffy is now free to tell it like it is, instead of having to be non-partisan. PEI is lucky to have him representing them.

Go Duffy!!!

Duffygate! Lefties Just Can't Help Themselves!

It truly is a disease. They lie, they disrespect any different view from theirs, they believe they are the only ones who know how we should think, and they think we are stupid.

You would think that wafergate would have been enough to send a message to the MSM, but it appears that they have no clue. They think because they own the media, they own us.

So, right after the wafergate was proven to be a lie, we have the Duffygate! A more blatant misuse of a reporter's power I have never seen! Thank goodness we have the blogsphere. Thank goodness we have the Blogging Tories. Without such a strong group, the media could ignore our voices, but they can't now. The Blogging Tories are a strong team of Conservative minded people who are being heard and are making a difference.

I love PEI, my husbands family lives there, and we will probably retire there (depending on what the kids do). It's a delightful, safe place. Too bad the media makes mountains out of nothing.

Duffy's speech hints at looming federal election
P.E.I. senator sings praises of prime minister
TERESA WRIGHT
The Guardian

Rumours about a looming federal election this fall were certainly not quelled by P.E.I. Senator Mike Duffy in a speech to a group of business people Monday.
Speaking to members of the Charlottetown Rotary club Monday afternoon, Duffy used his 15 minutes at the microphone to highlight the hundreds of millions of dollars the Conservatives in Ottawa have committed to P.E.I. over the past few months.
Funding announcements and re-announcements, both on P.E.I. and across the country, have become an almost daily occurrence since federal MPs began their summer hiatus. ‘The Duff’ has been front and centre for many of these announcements on the Island, representing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, praising the PM’s vision for the country at each one.
On Monday, he reminded those at the luncheon as well as those watching on EastLink cable about many of those funding commitments and promised more of the same for the coming weeks and months.

What I would like to ask Teresa Wright is did she report on the Charlottetown MP, who wanted to hang Mulroney high? You remember this one right? It's not made up like Wright's story, this is real live action from Parliament Hill!



And PEI Liberal's re-elected him after that outburst, probably because their newspaper forgot to report it. I love PEI, and I know how hard working PEIer's are. What I can't understand is why they want to be Liberal toadies, when the Conservatives have given them more respect than the Liberals ever did. The Liberals promise, the Conservatives deliver! That was the essence of Duffy's speech, but the reporter just didn't get it.

Newman Versus Duffy!

It appears Newman is retiring from CBC. Bet he couldn't resist that healthy buyout package and hefty taxpayer pension. Can't say I blame him, I probably would have cut and run too. What is interesting is the reaction to his retiring as opposed to Mike Duffy's retirement from CTV. Sure, Duffy retired to become a Senator, and Newman is only retiring without any prospect of becoming a Senator, but it's interesting to see how the lefties perceive both retirements.

Duffy retires and becomes a Senator:

Elaine Paliwoda from Canada writes: I am sickened.

Mike Duffy should not have been on the air, pedalling partisan Conservative half truths, pushing character assassination of Mr. Dion, pushing Harper's talking points and misinforming Canadians. Mr. Duffy has been brutally undemocratic and unfair to Canadians, for his own self-interest.

Such partisan assassination such as that attempted by Mr. Duffy should not have been tolerated from people like him, who falsely claim they are a "news source". It's a very sad day for Canada when so-called "news" people who do not properly report truthful information, are in turn rewarded with a lifetime supply of dough, as though pre-arranged. And since everyone has been predicting this on blogs for years, it's pretty clear the fix was in, by Harper & Conservative TV (CTV) against Canadian's trust.

The demagogue has rewarded his jester with a lifetime of jewels. Some do it for 72 virgins, some accept their sheiks' oil money. In Harper-Canada, he sticks it to the taxpayer to make his propaganda artists comfy for life.

Newman retires:

Jean-Pierre Arenes from St-Mathias, Canada writes: Thank-you Don and good Luck.
You have provided me and countless of CBC viewers an unbiased insight in Canadian politics. Quite an accomplishment !

.... Herm Acat from Gravenhurst, Ont., Canada writes: I'll be sorry to see Don retire. He had the useful journalistic ability to come across as a nice guy while asking politicians relevant, tough questions, without seeming antagonistic.

Thankfully, Don's not following Mike Duffy's sleazy exit into the cushy Senate trough. (Did anyone else notice the softball nature of Duffy's questions to Tories prior to his being named to the Senate, a position he'd been actively lobbying for?)

.... Ronnieblue Acacia from Edmonton, Canada writes: What can I say that other commentators haven't already said. I often come home during the noon hour when Don hosted the program during Question Period. He asked tough questions and very insightful on what he was talking about. He didn't let his guests off easily and always ensured they stay on topic to the questions he was asking. He will be truly missed, and along with the recent retirement of Henry Champ, leaves a gaping hole in the political scene.

Unlike the pompous Mike Duffy, who was full of himself and much more style than substance ( and now we have to put up with him in the Senate), I wish Mr. Newman the very best in his retirement and whatever projects he may wish to take on next.

I suspect that the lefties don't even see their bias. They think Newman good, Duffy bad. Since Duffy has been gone, I have watched Power Play once or twice, it is a poor imitation of Mike Duffy Live, and now Politics will lose Newman, both shows will continue to tank no matter who hosts. Why? They look at 37% Conservative voters and 63% lefty voters and think they will win by slagging Conservatives. Not so.

Most voters are middle of the road voters, not Conservative or Liberal, they are not the ones watching these political shows, so they will make their minds up at election time.

What even my Liberal voting parents have noticed is that the media is biased, and they don't like it, they prefer to make up their own minds about who to vote for, not be told who they should vote for.

Jane, Who Fed You The Dirty Questions?

PM Harper appointed 18 new Senators, and two have been under fire ever since. Duffy and Brazeau. Funny how Duffy was a hero at CTV until he got his appointment to the Senate. Green is a bad colour CTV, it makes you look sick.

Jane Taber is a gossip columnist masquerading as a reporter, as you can see in this clip. She has to read her questions and even calls Brazeau a deadbeat Dad without knowing the real facts. Pay attention to her smug attitude. Who fed her the questions she was reading? Who gave her what she obviously thought was the "dirt" on the new Senator Brazeau?



Full interview here!

Typical CTV, attack any Conservative, for any reason. In this case Jane pretends to not know who might be spreading all those nasty rumours about Senator Brazeau. Well, Senator Brazeau was very careful not to say who it might be, so let me enlighten Jane. How about Phil Fontaine and the AFN? Why would Fontaine be against an aboriginal in the Senate? Maybe he thought it should have been him that was appointed to the Senate, but he hitched himself to the Liberals a long time ago and if you read the report I linked to, you can see it's all about getting more money from taxpayers than it is about helping his own people.

This article might have ticked him off as well.

The problem is that the AFN retains a view of righteous entitlement to interfere and intervene. Government after government, both Conservative and Liberal, have made repeated and earnest attempts to bring about redress for various past wrongs to First Nations peoples. But every time, it seems, the AFN finds flaws, fault and fuel for dismissal of such efforts.

This time, the blame that the AFN seems so ready to frequently lay at the feet of government rests with itself. The AFN has much to explain -- to its citizens, to its families and to Canadians who fund it.

At the heart of the matter, it must ask itself one fundamental question: How long can it, in good conscience, carry on the charade that it actually cares about grassroots First Nations peoples?

Then we have this report:

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples was originally known as the Native Council of Canada before reorganizing in recent years. Its leadership says the group represents Metis and off-reserve status and non-status Indians.

Therein lies the controversy, as many groups say the Congress doesn't represent them.

"The allegations are still hanging in the air that the Congress declared itself to represent people that don't feel they are being represented by the Congress," said Paul Barnsley, a journalist who has covered aboriginal politics for years.

Barnsley said those he spoke to following the appointment viewed it as a double-barrelled move.

"People are wondering how much this is a recognition that the Congress supported Stephen Harper's party when they first became government and how much of it is a snub at the other national chief," said Barnsley, referring to Assembly Grand Chief Phil Fontaine.

"There is some rivalry there and it is a very interesting political scenario.

And this article is interesting.

“Canada’s Aboriginal community should be celebrating the appointment of one of their own to the Senate of Canada. It’s very sad that certain individuals choose instead to let petty jealousies overtake reality. It is time to put all this behind us and move on to the important business of helping our peoples.

For really biased reporting, you need to go to a free lance reporter by the name of Cuthand. It shows the great divide in the First Nation's nation.

Brazeau has a history of speaking out against the elected chiefs and calling for more accountability. His solution to the "Indian problem" is to throw out the baby with the bathwater. He wants to see an end to the Indian Act and the reserve system and he wants to set up about 60 Indian communities across Canada. This is just not in the cards and has not been seriously supported by any other First Nations leaders.

So, if some First Nation people are against Brazeau, it must now be okay for CTV to be against his appointment as well. Or might it be that both Duffy and Brazeau were okay until they revealed themselves as conservatives.

Look how the lefties slammed Emerson a Liberal turned semi-conservative (mainly because he cared about the softwood lumber issue), but loved Belinda, a fake conservative turned Liberal Cabinet Minister by betrayal. These lefties can suck and blow at the same time leaving their voters unfulfilled and wondering why they don't feel better about themselves.

Someone Thinks It's Brilliant!

That's what the experts say, and we know how the media uses lefty experts all the time to disagree with Conservative policies, so how did it go this time?

First the policy. Harper announces new parental leave program

Self-employed Canadians will have access to a new parental leave program if the Conservatives are re-elected, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday. The initiative targets more than 2.6 million Canadians who work for themselves but the party is aiming the program specifically at female entrepreneurs.

Now, one Liberal hack, and two experts.



Seems the experts agree that it's brilliant. I do too.

It's a small change that will potentially affect millions of self employed individuals, not just women.

What is impressing me the most is that Conservatives are proposing family friendly, low cost policies while the Liberals and NDP are promising the sky and being totally irresponsible with taxpayers money.

If the green shift is going to generate 18 Billion in revenue FOR the government, where is that 18 Billion coming from? Let's say it's the big polluters who are going to pay. Who are they? Taxpayers.

The government produces nothing. Let me repeat that, the government produces nothing. They generate revenue by taxation. Who do they tax? Us.

The big bad oil producer gets their money from...us. The taxes they pay come from...us.

It's time for us to say enough is enough. To take a favorite phrase from the feminists and change it a bit.

It's our money, and our choice! Vote wisely.

Liberals In LaLa Land!

Well the gloves are off. PM Harper called the carbon tax crazy, and to add insult to injury, he called the opposition Liberals, bankrupt intellectually! Too funny! He was really upset with the opposition today. I don't blame him, the opposition is useless.



Dion is making things up as he goes. Now everyone can expect monthly cheques to reduce heating costs, that's what Dion said! He also told Alberta to grab our wallets because we are the problem in this country. Dare he even appear in Alberta this summer? NEP II? That's going to go over well. Our carbon taxes would go to Quebec because they are lucky enough to use hydro power? Not going to happen Dion.

I think PM Harper respects Jack Layton because he has some intellectual brain power, Dion not so much. Watching Dion's interview with Mike Duffy, it was painfully obvious that he just doesn't have any political instincts, and he actually looks like Kermit. (Also never trust a man who has no upper lip, and a weak chin. Hey that's why he looks like Kermit!)

Good job by PM Harper! He gave it to the Liberals with both barrels, no holds barred. Notice how most of the MSM didn't cover this in the news? Not only are the Liberals in LaLa land, the MSM has joined them!

Spreading Hate To Fight Hate!

Ezra is interviewed by Mike Duffy Live. Here is a video highlighting both Ezra and Mike Duffy, and a disappointing Conservative strategist response.



I am a very staunch Conservative supporter, but I'm starting to get tired of a weak Conservative response to this issue. Where have all the "reformers" gone? This issue is going to blow up in the Conservatives face if they don't stop wimping out. Take a stand, please. At the very least, come out in support of the motion to get rid of section 18 of the HRC's.

This has now gone beyond a "blogger's" issue, and is hitting main street Canada. With Mike Duffy's coverage, this will only get bigger, it is not going to disappear.

I want to see the Conservative government come out of hiding on this issue, take a strong stance, and show Conservatives that they are not Liberal lites or Red Tories. They have all summer to educate the public on this issue, while the Liberals are educating us on why we should love a carbon tax.

Quit being sissies, we all know PM Harper didn't like the direction HRC's were going, so come out, come out, where ever you are, and quit hiding behind being the government, that just doesn't cut it with Canadians.