little shop of tories
Great moments in amended press releases: [Insert outraged MP here]
Oh, how I’ve missed you, Ryan Sparrow – and I’ll cheerfully admit that it took me far too long to spot the difference. (Next time, I won’t forget to check the French text.)
The amended version of the Conservative Party’s release on the return of Borys Beryl Wajsman (link when available):
Pour diffusion immédiate
And today’s award for War Room Desperation goes to …
The Just The Facts Gang in the Little Shop of Tories for this truly astounding example of out-of-context-quote-yoinkage:
WHAT ARE LIBERALS SAYING ABOUT DION’S LEADERSHIP?
More and more Liberals are openly starting to muse about Dion’s leadership. In fact, even one of Stéphane Dion’s few original caucus supporters is now wondering out loud whether he regrets supporting him.
Charles Hubbard: “I sometimes say in my mind ‘what if Bob Rae or Michael Ignatieff were leader?’” (New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, October 2, 2008)
The context:
The Sparrow may be gone, but his legend lives on …
Including in the riding of London-North Fanshawe Centre … where, coincidentally, the PM will be heading off later today. Local columnist Chip Martin remembers all too well Ryan Sparow’s antics during the ill-fated 2007 2006 byelection, when he turned up “driving a gus-guzzling SUV with Alberta plates” to tank local Tory hopeful Diane Haskett’s campaign with his big-city brand of politicking:
Day One: Early Morning Briefing || Day Five: Late Afternoon Teleconference
I just can’t imagine why the Conservatives wouldn’t want to have a bunch of reporters wandering around the War Room today:
Media Advisory / Avis aux médias
Date: September 11, 2008
Release: Immediate
CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES’ EVENT
Well, at least it wasn’t puffin pornography: One last post on the Conservatives’ day three debacle
I have to say that, like just about everyone else who was covering the flight of the puffin yesterday, I found the official unofficial explanation that it was all the fault of a still unnamed web designer – described in various accounts as “overactive” and “overzealous” – to be a little hard to swallow. Especially since the War Room kids really were, as Graham Richardson noted on CTV News yesterday afternoon, “bragging” about the site.
Can someone in Gloucester check on the Little Shop of Tories?
Because right now, Stephane Dion is live on my television screen. Isn’t it supposed to be the Conservatives who set the daily agenda with those early morning briefings? Was there a mass failure of the CPC wake-up telephone tree or something?