Tories put themselves atop Olympic podium !

[HeresyLives]

Friday, February 19, 2010 7:11 PM

Tories put themselves atop Olympic podium
Jane Taber

VANCOUVER – Halfway through the Winter Olympics and Stephen Harper's Tories are already out with a new video campaign, starring Mike Duffy, pitching pride and patriotism in our athletes and country.

It didn’t take them long to use the Games to appeal to supporters.

To be clear, the good senator from PEI and well-known former broadcaster is not asking for donations or for votes. Rather, he appears in the video with a supporting cast of one – Senator Nancy Greene Raine, who is also Canada’s Olympic ambassador.

Together, they engage in a hokey pitch – at one point he says, ‘Hey, Nance,” as he introduces his colleague – about Canada’s athletes and how they are competing against the world’s best.

Ms. Greene Raine compares the athletes to “our strong leader,” Mr. Harper, who is in a competition of his own: “With our strong leader Canada will continue to compete with the world’s best,” she says. And Mr. Duffy, who also refers to his colleague as “my Olympic champion,” goes on to say, “We Conservatives are champions in our own right.”


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More...if you can stand it...at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/tories-put-themselves-atop-olympic-podium/article1475032/

[Metric System]

1. Completely disgusting and complete unsurprising. I loathe Duffy.

[HeresyLives]

2. Great cartoon today in the Globe and Mail

[Spazito]

3. LOL!

That's perfect!

Thanks for posting this, it gave me a good laugh first thing in the morning, always a great way to start the day!

[HeresyLives]

5. I've noticed his nose growing in cartoons for some time now,

but this is the first time I've seen that 'mad' look in his eyes that toons about Blair developed. :)

[glarius]

4. How right we all were in detecting Duffy's bias towards the Cons.

before he was made a senator by his beloved Harper and while he was "impersonating" an actual media anchor person. I loathed him then and I loathe him now.
The other media people (in keeping with their usual reluctance to criticize their own) never mention him or his behaviour.
I see this with all the media. When one of their members does anything wrong or badnewsworthy, it gets in the news once and from then on it's never spoken of again. This goes for media on both sides of the border....Disgusting!!!!!