I just received this leak of raw versions of six new videos against Dion’s Liberals. They stem from the leak of audio from a secret conference call that Liberals participated in on September 22nd of this year while they discussed strategy.
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September 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hope they run these every 20 minutes for the next three weeks.
You gotta love the fact the liberals are giving the ammo even if you don't hear the whole conversation. Bury them the same way they have tried to bury everyone else by dissecting a few lines here and there.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I think the ads are very hard hitting. Is it just me or does John McCallum sound like he's 3 sheets to the wind.
I'd like to see the Conservative's go after the Bloc in Quebec as I feel that could be a weak spot for the Conservatives..
Anyone with a good understanding of French know what their ads are like
September 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
This almost makes me feel embarassed for them. Poor ol' Penny Collenette is due on my door any day now. With the state of homelessness in her hoped-for riding, McCallum's advice on the national housing strategy should make her job getting elected even more difficult.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hard hitting and will be a powerful ad campaign, I think a voice over should go with the text that way us dum Albertan's will be able to git it ; )
September 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Oooooo! It's on now!
September 26th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Stephen
These are impressive ads to say the least…but what is really telling of these people is their derision of the common voter which shines forth glaringly in their “telephone body language”…namely their tone of voice and conspiratorial thinly covered snickers aimed at the “rubes” they are hoping to dupe.
Cynical politicoes at best…No make that dishonest operativesof the most callous order!
That there is no honour amongst thieves would be an understatment.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Nope, these will backfire.
Don't get me wrong, these are very interesting, but they will backfire. Have to find another way to get this information to Canadians.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
WOW !
September 26th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Not really related to this, but I thought you would get a kick out of it. Pay attention to the photo and caption
September 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Hard hitting and simple…….using the Liberals own words against them so that they can't point to what some mean and nasty Conservative said. I love 'em!
September 26th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
They need subtitles.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
The first 2 aren't effective at all and the 5th one is just silly. I hope they don't run them.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I worry that these ads may backfire on the Conservatives. Questions it raises in my mind are
1) how did the conservatives get these tapes?
2) is there too much spin in them?
3) will the undecided voters take this a too underhanded and slimy?
I would instead look for any bump out of the debates where Dion will not be protected.
But too late now I guess, it is in cyber space
September 26th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Wow.. some of them are kinda tame, but the National Housing Strategy one is a really nasty one to have played. It essentially portrays the Liberals as deceptive and devious, pretending to care about homelessness to win votes.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
The housing ad is great and I'm sure would resonate,the others I'm not so sure about.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
OUCH!
September 26th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
If they run these with vigor, they'll put Jack Layton into Stornoway.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Personally, I would not be using these unless and until the LPC engages in real lowball tactics. The ads detract from Stephen's message that he is an above board kind of guy. Many Canadians will not like the fact that these are taken from calls that were meant to be privileged. This will backfire. One man's opinion for what its worth.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Some folks are right. Dion, as much as he is not a leader, is very much a likeable and nice fellow.
I think we should let the liberal party simply implode, and ONLY if necessary, like in a defensive situation, shoud these be used.
The cup of our sweet drink is drawing closer, let us not get giddy and spill its contents!!!
September 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I think they would backfire. They should not run them.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Hey, a Liberal on the call taped it and leaked it to CPC supporters…nothing wrong with the CPC using what is given to them.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Heck, I like your version of the NDP's attack ad you cooked up Stephen, especially that Gattling gun spewing out empty shell casings a mile a minute. Yee-haw! Take that,Taliban Jack!.
As to the new Conservative ones, they rightly hoist the Liberals on their own Petard. Crude, but certainly effective.
I hope they look good on the big screen TV's in people's livingroom's across Canada.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I say run them and run them lots. The Liberals would do it if the situation were reversed. Look what they did with the Ritz Conference call, they and their buddies in the media were ecstatic and giddy to get that clip from a Liberal mole or Judas.
These are a gift to the people of the country, they need to know just what kind of disarray they're in and how totally unfit and unprepared they are to govern. Anyone who looks at these videos and still votes for those Bozos have no care about this country.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
How can they backfire, they're coming straight from the mouths of Liberals?
It's fair game to give them back some of their own medicine, they've been indicating they want to play Gotcha games, theyve been doing it for months,it's all they have aside from lies.
The laughter in the videos is another clue to the fact they're trying to come up with something,whatever they can cobble together to fool the people. It's serious information and the people should know what they're about.
September 26th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
The liberals will be wiped out.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Tough time to be a Liberal but it's long overdue. We've had a long spell of their arrogance and outright sneering and put-downs of those who don't agree with them, it's finally payback time. It's restoring faith in the people as well to see them at last reject the Liberals for corruption and showing disrespect for the taxpayers money.
A former Liberal operative has it right, they'll have to reinvent themselves.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:51 am
WOW… I almost dropped my morning coffee as I listened to the audacity of these audio clips. I am speechless.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:09 am
I love the whole “hidden agenda” thing being turned around and used against the Liberals. Because of their goal of implementing a carbon tax if elected, it will provide fodder for the Tories, meaning CPC gov'ts for years and years to come. If they do not have a carbon tax as part of their next campaign, they will be forced on the defensive, allowing the Tories to tag them with the very term, “hidden agenda”, that they themselves created (supplanted in this election with “master plan”). I love it!
BTW, the Tories shouldn't have to be the ones to dispense this information to the public. That's the job of the MSM. But unlike their play up of the Randy White tape, the MSM will attempt to bury what McCallum and friends truly think about Canadians.
Like their refusal to uncover the truth in the Krista Erickson affair and the Liberal players involved, what else are the Liberal media hiding from Canadians?
September 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
The Conservatives would be wasting their time with Liberal attack ads for the rest of the election. The Liberals are done like dinner – the most important target now should be the NDP. For example, they should play the footage of the NDP star candidate in BC, where he said “the tarsands must be shut down”. Or, they should look at all the ridiculous promises Jack Layton has been making, and nail them – ie. Layton has said he'll cancel the Softwood Lumber agreement – Cancel it ! The same one that took about 7 years to negotiate, was agreed to by industry leaders, provincial governments like BC, and which apparently would cost Canadians $5 Billion just to cancel – let alone the future fallout of that. Layton and the NDP need to be taken to task, and the main stream media sure aren't going to do it.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Gotta say I do not like them.
At this point of the campaign and with the mo' that the CP has, now is not the time to attack what is already a failed and forgotten policy platform of the LP.
The dire tones of the music at the end add a sinisterness that splatters onto the party that produced them.
These are defensive ads – the kind you use when your opponent is on the rise – sort of like the crap the LP used in the last days of the previous two elections. The CP needs to keep the focus on the greatness of its leader and it policies – that is what got them to the heights they are now and will carry them further upwards to a majority. they shouldn't soil their reputation – carefully cultivated ever since SH became leader – as being above this kind of stuff. Time to have a quiet chat with the more arch members of the CP warroom and tell them to think twice about such tactics.
I wonder how these ads work in female focus groups… My guess is that they would find this off-putting and bully-like.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Those ads will not help the Conservatives – they will backfire.
Attack the NDP instead, because the Liberals are done. The NDP have made enough stupid comments, and outrageous promises throughout this election…just paste them all together in a video – examples: Layton has said he would withdraw our troops from Afghanistan “immediately” – can you imagine what that would cause there?; NDP Byers in BC is on film saying “the tarsands must be shut down” – these are just 2 examples of what must be a plethora available. Along with Layton on Pot TV, the Marijuana guy who ran for NDP lighting up 20 joints…
September 27th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Didn't like them. They seemed like a 'whole bunch of nothing'. I also wonder how the tape was acquired .I admit that the speakers seemed cynical and somewhat conspirational. Is it enough? Maybe if they didn't sound 'sinister', but were done with some wit?
I am sick of having to listen to tax funded lies and perversions of the left brained media, but it doesn't make me 'feel good' about these ads.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Funny how now it is US accusing the LIBERALS of having a “hidden agenda”…
I love it!
September 30th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Funny how now it is US accusing the LIBERALS of having a “hidden agenda”…
I love it!