Thus, a Sunday rally on Parliament Hill that attracted only a few dozen people was summarily dismissed by a Windsor Star headline: “Robocall protests fizzle.”
On the same day, 75 people attended a Winnipeg protest, which CJOB headlined as “sparse attendance.”

More than two dozen protests took place across the country, in Halifax, St. John’s, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Some attracted hundreds, some just a few dozen. My colleague Michael Coren, who has mocked the protests, wrote: “The verdict? Nobody cares. We have better things to do.”

That, in the main, has been the Harper regime’s main communications strategy in the Robocon disgrace: No one cares. And that may well be true. But passing judgment in the early days of Robocon, as Coren and others have done, isn’t risk-free. They may just end up being proven wrong.

“This scandal is working because people tend to believe it already. Even before [the story] broke, voters already felt Harper was the kind of guy who would step on a little kid to eke out a vote. That’s the problem with Robocon for the Cons: it neatly confirms what lots of voters already suspected about the Harper regime.”

A woman who identified herself as Sona’s mother cast doubt on the fairness of investigation on Sunday. “To me, it’s been of a setup from Day 1,” she said, without elaborating.

They’re wrong, for the reasons they cite.

They’re right, for the reasons they don’t.

Something tells me that treating Stephen Maher like a leper isn’t a great media-management strategy.

Something tells me that treating Stephen Maher like a leper isn’t a great media-management strategy.