There Goes Sun Media Pumping Their Sunshine — There is no Substitute For Meeting Politicians in Person

Here is the latest sunshine the Kory clan had to pump today:

No sooner was the sanitizer flying off the shelf than we received a harsh letter from Liberal MP David McGuinty — brother of Ontario’s Pinocchio Premier — taking us to task for the tone of our critique.

“Maybe your newspaper(s) should give Ignatieff’s bus tour a chance instead of writing it off before it starts,” wrote McGuinty. “What’s required is a little less anger and a lot more journalism.”

Really? For here’s McGuinty’s assessment of the raison d’etre of Ignatieff’s mid-summer’s dream.

“Where the Conservatives want to build more prisons,” wrote McGuinty, “Liberals want to help more kids go to college.

“Where the current government wants to add another $6 billion in corporate tax cuts to their record $54-billion deficit, a future Liberal government wants to reduce the deficit and help caregivers care for loved ones at home.”

Quick, someone on the bus pass us their Gravol.

McGuinty can mix apples and oranges all he wants — prisons and schools, like corporate tax cuts and home care, do not belong in the same sentence — but don’t try to pass this nonsense off as if Ignatieff has answers.

Schools and home care. I thought that crowd was always criticising the Liberals of having no ideas.  Now they present some and they still get chastised. But things like schools and home care; things that real Canadians like Jane and Joe Six pack can really get behind, probably much more so than prisons and corporate tax cuts,  just ain’t what the Kory clan think is sexy enough for average Canadians (Translation: Prisons and corporate tax cuts are better for Joe and Jane six pack in Master Steve’s world than schools and home care).  Hell, who needs a long census form when we have Kory and Sun Media and not to mention, of course, the rest of the Harpercon cheerleaders doing our thinking for us?

He’s making it up on the fly. There’s no substance.

This six-week dupe show is all about Ignatieff’s image being in the tank, and the Liberal Party plummeting in the polls.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Ask any journalist on the bus.

This glowing optimist doesn’t even sign his/her masterpiece.

Rob Silver over at the Grope & Fail  actually picks out Brian Lilley’s name (whether it was really at random or not is irrelevent here; what’s more relevent is that Mr  Congeniality who wrote that drivel obviously doesn’t communicate with his own colleagues as Silver so astutely points out).

Here’s a quip from the new darling of  the Kory clan, himself:

“If the crowds and the stump speeches on the rest of this tour turn out as well as Monday’s, the Conservatives may want to start checking over their shoulder.”

As many of my readers know, I actually did show up at the Town Hall in Papineau when Iggy came with Justin Trudeau. You can read about my positive experience here.

It is because of this experience I tend to look at those who continue to view Iggy as the arrogant, condescending  professor who is disconnected from real Canadians;  and the even more shallow still who seem to think he’s just too ugly to be PM, as extremely judgemental.  It is also quite laughable. They would also be quite disappointed if they ever got the chance to meet him in person or at the very least, get the opportunity to share common space with him; to watch and listen to him in person.  He is actually a very engaging, personable and approachable man. You look at him in person when he speaks, one can tell he is well intended.  As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, he answered many questions as time constraints allowed for,  clearly and fluidly without stumbling.  He never missed a step.

People have been accusing Iggy of not being able to connect to real Canadians. Well, he is attempting to do that now on that bus tour. Now he gets chided by the Harpercon cheerleaders for attempting to do so. Is it because he may well be succeeding and they just don’t want him to?  Which is it?

Friends and family in other parts of Canada who have had the chance to see Iggy during his bus tour have told me the same thing about him and the mood of the people who showed up. Commenter, Penlan had a chance to see Iggy in her riding yesterday; catch her remarks here. and they were similar to mine as well as everybody else I’ve been hearing from.

We’ll see how this translate into polling numbers.

I also have heard many outside of Quebec, as well as inside speak quite highly of Gilles Duceppe. That he has the most integrity out of the leaders. That may well be true, and maybe not. Yes, he will do what is best for Quebec and you would get no argument from me. But if one really thought  outside the box, they would also see that he plays games with both the Liberals and the Harpercons and knows how to further pit them against each other as if they needed help with that in the first place. Not trying to nit pick, I’m just sayin’ that things aren’t always as they seem.

I have met Gilles Duceppe awhile back at another event and he is the least approachable man one could come across. He could barely utter the word “bonjour” if  he passed you.  A very anti-social man. One can have off days, but I was told by a few friends who had met him in the past that that is his natural demeanor.

In all fairness, I have never met Steve, but his policies and his actions do speak louder than words, thus proving he has ice water running through his veins; that he is a very cold hearted man.

In addition, Deborah Grey, who was his boss and did work closely with him said  a long time ago what we pretty much already know today:

“People skills? He was more fond of policy. Constituency work seemed like a grind for him.”
- Long-time Reform and Alliance MP Deborah Grey on Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

But before anyone calls me a hypocrite, if  Steve were to come to Montreal to an event that wasn’t members only or 500$ rubber chicken dinner, but an actual  event like a town hall, yes, I would make a point of going, not only to see for myself what makes him tick, but to attempt to ask him some very difficult questions.

Oh and Frmgrl, you shrieking shrew prude you;  average middle class men don’t earn 6 figure salaries  and do you call buying fighter jets and turning major urban centers into police states  relating to average Canadians?  Deborah Grey above ended your little argument there.

It goes without saying that I would also grab the opportunity to meet Jack and Dizzy Miss Lizzy.

The lesson, here folks, don’t believe everything the media and the pundits tell you. If your MPs and the Leaders of any of the parties show up in your town holding public events, make the time to go to them and meet them for yourself. At the very least, watch & listen to them in person. It’s a whole other perspective than watching them on the big TV screen or listening to them on talk radio; much less so reading about them.

And yes, from the questions Iggy and his MPs have been answering on the tour and in the speeches; there are ideas and policies. One just has to stop reading things like Sun Media and start listening to Iggy and team Liberal themselves.

Something tells me Steve is getting nervous though, regarding the census long form and perhaps even the positive response Iggy is getting with his bus tour; the attacks have resumed yet again; new ones.  I only hope Iggy can avoid falling in Steve’s trap for the rest of the tour.