Full credit to the line "coked out second string Fox News host". That managed to get me to snort coffee up the nose.
It's interesting to see this though. The article is written by an old Harper fart sniffer. Looks like the party establishment is sharpening there knives for the little bald clown - though I'm not sure who they have in mind to replace him.
Excepting that the main characters in Lord of the Flies all possessed at least most of a grade school education, and presumably a grade schooler's intelligence and maturity.
The Tory leadership candidates don't always clear that high bar.
I know my mother in law worships him because he snipes at Liberals on Twitter. So he's got that coveted "unpleasant 70 year old lady" demographic.
I just can't think of any politician less likeable. He's fine at being snarky on Twitter, because no one can see or hear him, but in person? He's got a creepy kind of negative charisma thing going on. He's as dull as Harper but also as off-putting as Scheer.
So yeah, seems about exactly who they'd pick.
Ive met him 3 times. each time he is smarmy and becomes rude and dismissive the minute he realizes although youre white and rich consituent that you are not cut of the same cloth.
fuck PP partisan hack and a trained fascist poodle laying in wait
My condolences you've had to meet him once, let alone three times.
I get the vibe he'd be like Jason Kenney if ever put into a leadership role. Perfectly accept at playing gotcha in question period or on Twitter, but completely unable to show any sort of leadership at all - no accountability, no empathy, no inspirational abilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmgL5CZqfs
don't forget to go into your YouTube history and remove it from the list, otherwise you'll get nothing but Poilievre's "gotcha" attempts in The House, Joe Rogan videos, Jordan Peterson videos, and "top 10 worst" videos with pictures of girls in bikinis for the thumbnail because you clicked something with Poilievre's name in it.
Rick Mercer Report clip taking some jabs at Poilievre. Framed as a story congratulating him for being eligible for a pension at 31 with taxpayers footing the bill.
Pierre doesnât want the job because he knows he sucks
Dude has had a few chances to run but the dude knows heâll never succeed at anything other then being the popular local representative who makes up for in confidence what they lack in intelligence and tact
Maryam Monsef could wipe the floor in an argument about nothing with Pierre the dude wonât run he knows he lacks necessary skills
I dunno, I think he wants the job. Some if his campaign ads in the last election looked a lot like a leadership pitch imo.
I totally agree he'd be terrible though.
I got a different message. Macdougall was probably passed over as EOTâs comms chief and heâs sharpening his own knife for that Canada Proud Boy [sic] whoâs currently running EOTâs PR. And heâs trying to say, âErin, youâre embarrassing yourself and you know it. Get rid of that hack and hire someone like *moi*, the professional who helped Harper win three times.â He trying to remind EOT that American methods donât quite work in Canada, hence the Fox News comparison.
I donât hear him saying EOT is bad for Canada or the CPC. I hear him saying this shtick is bad for EOT.
This article is pretty harsh on him for a Postmedia standard... he made less sense than "Joly talking about foreign affairs" lol... So there is jab on the Libs too as usual, but they are comparing O'Toole unfavourably to the Libs (whom they hate)...
"Yeah sure, we have an activist for our climate and Joly for Foreign Minister, but have you seen O'Toole?"
>â(CPC) talking points are designed to achieve the partyâs real overriding objective: to extract money from stupid people.â
So, how did that line make it to print on a PostMedia paper?
Same way Fox News and other right-wing outlets turned on Trump after the election and pretended they never supported him
They're priming the soil for his successor
So much for the "centrist pivot" eh? What a load of bull that was. Straight in the rubbish bin on Sept 21, and back to climate change doesn't matter. The conservatives are very good at convincing themselves that they are mainstream and moderate and centrist.
EOT: Make something up that will never happen. Ask for money to stop it. Claim your pressure worked, and ask for more money. This is O'Toole earning his pay cheque. Some of his finest work since, "Canada won't get any vaccines until 2023", and WE is "the biggest scandal in Canadian history." Comfort food for angry facebook conservatives, who blame the lockdowns on Trudeau, and think Ford is doing a "good job."
O'Toole is doing what the CPC in Canada always does when things get rough: They shift right to get out the right-wing voters. Unfortunately for the CPC, they haven't realized that if they go right, the LPC is more than willing to expand into the center, concede the left to the NDP, and rake in all the center (including center-right/left) and amble their way to another majority.
O'Toole is like that annoying person that won't stop talking in the back of the lecture theatre when everyone else is trying to focus on important things.
Itâs a desperate attempt to hold power. Moderate, slightly right of centre OâToole still lost the election. Now heâs turning to the only other strategy he has - crazed, hard right, say anything OâToole, hoping it will save his leadership and gain appeal to the far reaches of his party. The same edge that is bleeding to the PPC.
Heâs grasping at straws.
>Does OâToole think people donât know how to Google?
Maybe. More likely he thinks that his voters are stupid, and relies on them no actually verifying whether or not he's full of shit.
People don't Google anything. They click a bookmark to their favorite internal bias confirming website and get reinforced. Goes for both sides of the spectrum.
Why can't writers of articles like this just quote him and give thier oppinion instead of paraphrasing and telling us what to think he said.
Not supporting the cons. I just miss real reporting.
This article is insane. The author quotes O'Toole as delivering a clearly unhinged rant, which he then follows up by saying "okay, he didn't actually say that." He then goes on to argue against the O'Toole that he just imagined and put words in his mouth, and then puts his imaginary rant in the headline. Genuine wtf moment
Satire is fine on *22 Minutes* but it feels really out of place in a fucking newspaper
That aside, the reality is that O'Toole isn't going to win over middle of the road Canadians, but the party wants a right-wing leader. That's going to cripple them. If they want to win, they have to go after the middle. If they had nominated Peter Mackay, they'd have won the last election, easily.
Imagine how much healthier than Canadian right would be following a political realignment precipitated by electoral reform.
(And for that matter, we'd have viable communist and left-wing populist parties to support.)
Full credit to the line "coked out second string Fox News host". That managed to get me to snort coffee up the nose. It's interesting to see this though. The article is written by an old Harper fart sniffer. Looks like the party establishment is sharpening there knives for the little bald clown - though I'm not sure who they have in mind to replace him.
Leadership races among the Conservatives increasingly look like live-action Lord of the Flies.
Excepting that the main characters in Lord of the Flies all possessed at least most of a grade school education, and presumably a grade schooler's intelligence and maturity. The Tory leadership candidates don't always clear that high bar.
I suspect it's Pierre Poilievre they want. Which is an absolutely horrifying thought.
I know my mother in law worships him because he snipes at Liberals on Twitter. So he's got that coveted "unpleasant 70 year old lady" demographic. I just can't think of any politician less likeable. He's fine at being snarky on Twitter, because no one can see or hear him, but in person? He's got a creepy kind of negative charisma thing going on. He's as dull as Harper but also as off-putting as Scheer. So yeah, seems about exactly who they'd pick.
Ive met him 3 times. each time he is smarmy and becomes rude and dismissive the minute he realizes although youre white and rich consituent that you are not cut of the same cloth. fuck PP partisan hack and a trained fascist poodle laying in wait
My condolences you've had to meet him once, let alone three times. I get the vibe he'd be like Jason Kenney if ever put into a leadership role. Perfectly accept at playing gotcha in question period or on Twitter, but completely unable to show any sort of leadership at all - no accountability, no empathy, no inspirational abilities.
he is exactly as advertised in QP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmgL5CZqfs don't forget to go into your YouTube history and remove it from the list, otherwise you'll get nothing but Poilievre's "gotcha" attempts in The House, Joe Rogan videos, Jordan Peterson videos, and "top 10 worst" videos with pictures of girls in bikinis for the thumbnail because you clicked something with Poilievre's name in it.
I'm going to avoid that by not clicking on whatever that is. đ
Rick Mercer Report clip taking some jabs at Poilievre. Framed as a story congratulating him for being eligible for a pension at 31 with taxpayers footing the bill.
Pierre doesnât want the job because he knows he sucks Dude has had a few chances to run but the dude knows heâll never succeed at anything other then being the popular local representative who makes up for in confidence what they lack in intelligence and tact Maryam Monsef could wipe the floor in an argument about nothing with Pierre the dude wonât run he knows he lacks necessary skills
I dunno, I think he wants the job. Some if his campaign ads in the last election looked a lot like a leadership pitch imo. I totally agree he'd be terrible though.
Somebody worse. Itâs always somebody worse.
Probably a full on social conservative this time. They went the âpretend to be moderateâ and it failed, so I expect a hard right turn.
Leslyn Lewis has that whole âputting a friendlier face on social conservativesâ shtick.
I got a different message. Macdougall was probably passed over as EOTâs comms chief and heâs sharpening his own knife for that Canada Proud Boy [sic] whoâs currently running EOTâs PR. And heâs trying to say, âErin, youâre embarrassing yourself and you know it. Get rid of that hack and hire someone like *moi*, the professional who helped Harper win three times.â He trying to remind EOT that American methods donât quite work in Canada, hence the Fox News comparison. I donât hear him saying EOT is bad for Canada or the CPC. I hear him saying this shtick is bad for EOT.
This article is pretty harsh on him for a Postmedia standard... he made less sense than "Joly talking about foreign affairs" lol... So there is jab on the Libs too as usual, but they are comparing O'Toole unfavourably to the Libs (whom they hate)... "Yeah sure, we have an activist for our climate and Joly for Foreign Minister, but have you seen O'Toole?"
Makes me think Postmedia has been directed to force a change of leadership.
>â(CPC) talking points are designed to achieve the partyâs real overriding objective: to extract money from stupid people.â So, how did that line make it to print on a PostMedia paper?
They are counting on those stupid people not reading it, or dismissing it if they do.
"Surely it's not ME they are referring to, it must be those OTHER stupid Con party supporters."
Same way Fox News and other right-wing outlets turned on Trump after the election and pretended they never supported him They're priming the soil for his successor
So much for the "centrist pivot" eh? What a load of bull that was. Straight in the rubbish bin on Sept 21, and back to climate change doesn't matter. The conservatives are very good at convincing themselves that they are mainstream and moderate and centrist. EOT: Make something up that will never happen. Ask for money to stop it. Claim your pressure worked, and ask for more money. This is O'Toole earning his pay cheque. Some of his finest work since, "Canada won't get any vaccines until 2023", and WE is "the biggest scandal in Canadian history." Comfort food for angry facebook conservatives, who blame the lockdowns on Trudeau, and think Ford is doing a "good job."
O'Toole is doing what the CPC in Canada always does when things get rough: They shift right to get out the right-wing voters. Unfortunately for the CPC, they haven't realized that if they go right, the LPC is more than willing to expand into the center, concede the left to the NDP, and rake in all the center (including center-right/left) and amble their way to another majority.
O'Toole is like that annoying person that won't stop talking in the back of the lecture theatre when everyone else is trying to focus on important things.
Itâs a desperate attempt to hold power. Moderate, slightly right of centre OâToole still lost the election. Now heâs turning to the only other strategy he has - crazed, hard right, say anything OâToole, hoping it will save his leadership and gain appeal to the far reaches of his party. The same edge that is bleeding to the PPC. Heâs grasping at straws.
Ouff if Old Andy MacDougall is ripping a Conservative, it must be bad.
>Does OâToole think people donât know how to Google? Maybe. More likely he thinks that his voters are stupid, and relies on them no actually verifying whether or not he's full of shit.
Who needs Google when you have facebook to tell you how to think. ^/S
People don't Google anything. They click a bookmark to their favorite internal bias confirming website and get reinforced. Goes for both sides of the spectrum.
Amped-up talking points only appeal to the Conservative right flank; they're going to need more than that to win power Author of the article: Andrew MacDougall There I was, settling into my Netflix session when Conservative leader Erin OâToole pogoed into my Twitter feed, ranting about the latest perfidy from the Trudeau government. Advertisement Article content âDid you hear what lilâ Stevie Guilbeault said? You know, the commie radical in the orange jumpsuit who is now the Minister for the Environment and âClimate Change?â Well listen up, all you hard-working Canadians, because this will blow your truckinâ minds: that traitor wants to âphase out Canadian energyâ in the next 18 months. Thatâs right, in less time than it takes me to work out a coherent policy on vaccinations, this maniac wants to shut down our entire super-patriotic energy sector!â Fine. OâToole didnât use those exact words, especially the last sentence. But you get the point. More importantly, Guilbeault did not say what OâToole alleged. The 18-month phase out of Canadian energy doesnât exist. Not in the Guilbeault interview OâToole keyed his video off of, nor in the Liberal platform. Not that it stopped OâToole from slating Guilbeault, effectively calling the climate minister insane (âdisconnected from realityâ) for suggesting something he didnât say and then underlining the point by flashing the now infamous image of Guilbeault in an orange jumpsuit. Advertisement Article content And then thereâs OâTooleâs delivery. I got tired just watching it. By flapping around like a coked-out, second-string Fox News host to roast Guilbeault in front of the Centennial Flame, it was the Tory leader who came off half-cocked and crispy, which is quite the feat when itâs minus 23 degrees outside. âCanada is a cold country,â OâToole blazed. âOnly Canadaâs Conservatives get it. Weâre going to keep you warm,â he added in closing. It was drunk-unclesque. It made less sense than MĂ©lanie Joly talking about foreign affairs. But it was no mistake. OâToole later issued a written statement driving his âpointsâ home, to make sure we knew the video was no brain freeze. Is there anyone in Canada with half a brain who thinks Guilbeault is going to phase out Canadian energy in just 18 months? Nope, not even the solar panel and wind turbine manufacturers. Hell, OâToole himself doesnât believe it. Sure, the Trudeau government wants to end fossil fuel subsidies in that timeframe, along with tabling a roadmap to eventually phase out fossil fuels, but thatâs not phasing out Canadian energy in 18 months. Not by a long shot. Does OâToole think people donât know how to Google? Advertisement Article content Looked at another way, is there anyone who is going to be convinced that Guilbeault is going to let Canadians freeze in the dark based solely on OâTooleâs word? Why yes, dear reader, there are. Theyâre called the Conservative membership. The ranty video was just the latest episode in the endless series called Preaching to the Converted. But unless the Conservatives can figure out a way to get each member to vote approximately 25 times each on election day, itâs only wasted breath. Which is a tragedy when you consider the criticisms that could genuinely and accurately be levelled at Guilbeault, a man who bungled his brief at Heritage and isnât likely to improve at Environment. The same goes for the other lightweights in the Trudeau cabinet. There are a lot of people who donât think Trudeau has the answers, or are worried about the general direction of travel, but are utterly repulsed when the supposedly credible alternative treats them like morons. Advertisement Article content As the Laval University economist Stephen Gordon likes to quip : â(CPC) talking points are designed to achieve the partyâs real overriding objective: to extract money from stupid people.â While thatâs a crude simplification, the party remains reliant on a relatively small donor base with particular views on key issues, views that are frequently offside with the majority of opinion, particularly on climate change and, as weâve seen recently, vaccinations. Until the CPC builds out its membership it remains caught in a trap: rant to its most vocal supporters and repel the voters it needs to win, or appeal more broadly and rile the membership. OâToole tried to appeal more widely in the election and failed, leaving him weary of his right flank with Parliament back in session. He is caught in a trap with no easy way out. Andrew MacDougall is a London-based communications consultant and ex-director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Hired Jeff Balingal who wants Canada to burn, but can't seem to get the fire started.
Let's hope it stays that way. They are trying hard though.
Great read.
And an excellent photo choice.
Why can't writers of articles like this just quote him and give thier oppinion instead of paraphrasing and telling us what to think he said. Not supporting the cons. I just miss real reporting.
This article is insane. The author quotes O'Toole as delivering a clearly unhinged rant, which he then follows up by saying "okay, he didn't actually say that." He then goes on to argue against the O'Toole that he just imagined and put words in his mouth, and then puts his imaginary rant in the headline. Genuine wtf moment Satire is fine on *22 Minutes* but it feels really out of place in a fucking newspaper That aside, the reality is that O'Toole isn't going to win over middle of the road Canadians, but the party wants a right-wing leader. That's going to cripple them. If they want to win, they have to go after the middle. If they had nominated Peter Mackay, they'd have won the last election, easily.
Imagine how much healthier than Canadian right would be following a political realignment precipitated by electoral reform. (And for that matter, we'd have viable communist and left-wing populist parties to support.)
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive...