Political operatives and journalists take to Twitter to verify the source of a quote in the latest Liberal attack ad
Earlier this morning, National Campaign Chairman for the Conservative Party Guy Giorno questioned a quote attributed to Stephen Harper in a Liberal attack ad. The quote read, “It’s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act,” which appeared in an August 26, 2010 article in the Globe and Mail. Giorno pointed to David Somerville as the source of the quote, which CBC reporter Laura Payton later verified by digging up the source document: a June 1997 issue of Bulldog. The following is a selected timeline of the tweets that unfolded between dueling war rooms and fact-hungry reporters.
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/59982830750539776
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/59994441963941888
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/59999069505986560
http://twitter.com/#!/laura_payton/status/59999232425332736
http://twitter.com/#!/liberal_wire/status/60009793695387649
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/60017430621204481
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/60016344015450113
http://twitter.com/#!/CBCTerry/status/60015164543614976
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/60016129397108737
http://twitter.com/#!/liberal_wire/status/60016145389977600
http://twitter.com/#!/jasonlietaer/status/60016759058604032
http://twitter.com/#!/laura_payton/status/60031174394912768
http://twitter.com/#!/kady/status/60033226424586240
http://twitter.com/#!/wicary/status/60033695192584192
http://twitter.com/#!/cpc_giorno/status/60048484665004032