Good Boy! HA! Okay so far, the lefties refuse to say good boy. They are still trying to train the PM to OBEY their commands. How's that working for you lefty reporters? Readership dropping?
PM Harper's iron message control working
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has become legend for the iron control he exerts not only over the messages his government sends out over the heads of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, but also the messages his staff and MPs project.
Over the heads?? Meaning that PM Harper should bow down to the reporters in the parliamentary press gallery? Who are you but some journalist hacks with an agenda? Why should the PM care about your hurt feelings?
The PMO issues-management unit, whose job it is to get on top of breaking developments even before they break, was meeting every morning at 6 a.m. The schedule was so gruelling one of the young staffers complained to another he was going to bed at 9 p.m. each night, adding "and I'm not 80 years old."
Liberals in the Opposition Leader's Office, meanwhile, were beginning their daily strategy and tactics meetings at 8:30 a.m. as swine flu developments dominated Question Period. The comparison of schedules demonstrates the intensity of discipline that now envelopes Harper and his staff.
So, what we have here are lazy Liberals and said reporter, who can't be bothered to get their butts out of bed early enough to catch the worm, then they complain that the worm has been eaten and they didn't get their share of it. Too funny!
For at least two years, following his battle with the press gallery in 2006, Harper has snubbed the front door of the Commons for Question Period. He established a covert route to get to the Chamber from his third-floor Centre Block office, ducking down through a narrow hallway behind the public gallery atop the west side of the Chamber, down a small staircase, and then scuttling into the government lobby through a back door across from the House Speaker's Chamber.
Arriving and leaving the Centre Block, his motorcade now pulls up beside a renovated House Speaker's entrance at the West side of the building. Harper whisks in and out as his sun-glassed Mountie bodyguards give cover.
I suspect this reporter has Harper envy, plus I think he wants cool shades like the Mounties. Given the juvenile slant to this article, is it any wonder that PM Harper would ignore the "Parliamentary Press Gallery". Notice how the press, gives the "Parliamentary Press Gallery" capitals? As if they are up there with the actual Parliament. Talk about delusions of lefties.
Harper's stubborn insistence on managing his scrums and news conferences through deputy communications director Dimitri Soudas appears to have worn down members of the press gallery executive, who up to a year ago were firing off letters of complaint almost monthly.
Gallery President Helene Buzzetti says the struggle came to be too draining, a distraction from work, and there has only been one tentative exchange with Harper's new communications director, John Williamson. Nothing has come of it so far.
Look you little babies, maybe Canadians are sick and tired of your endless whining, like this whole article. Maybe Canadians are not buying your papers because we are sick and tired of being told by reporters how we should think. The days of people getting one paper delivered to their home and watching only taxpayer funded CBC are over. We have lots of access to thousands of newspapers online, add blogs into the equation and your paper is dead unless you provide interesting unbiased articles. This article is a sad biased attempt to make our PM look like a control freak. We are not buying that garbage anymore. The polls show it.
