The end of the party

I’m heading to BNN to do a federal-election related hit. But I wanted to post this best-available transcript of veteran PC MPP Bill Murdoch on a Sarnia radio station this morning. Check this out:

Host: Norm Sterling is accusing Randy Hillier of interfering in this process…

Murdoch: Well, he did…If Hillier did then he shouldn’t have.

Host: Is there a split in the caucus? That’s not what you want to see in an election year…

Murdoch: Well, yes and no. Now, I – see, I like that…I like the different voices and somebody keeping Tim onside. This will make Hudak work a little harder…if he’s going to be a Premier of Ontario then he has to sort this out. And that’s his job to do that. And if he doesn’t sort it out then maybe he shouldn’t be the Premier of the, of the province.


KCCCC Day 12: What kids might say


 


Simple solution

Any media folks who report these Conservative Party rallies as straight-up are running the risk of being complicit in presenting fiction as reality.

Until the matter gets straightened out – and if I were an editor-in-chief of something – I’d tell the Cons that we don’t plan to cover any of their private events.  It’s kind of like covering a play at Stratford, and telling my readers it’s real life.  It isn’t.

There isn’t a single media organization that will adopt this approach, of course, and I guess that’s why I’m me, and not an editor-in-chief.

But the bottom line is that the media are putting their claim to be truth-tellers at risk.  Their credibility, too.


KCCCC Day 11: Anatomy of a sloppy campaign


Logan Day, come home. All is forgiven.


In today’s Sun: Gordon and Bob are going to kill me for this

“If the Liberal Party of Canada ends up doing better than expected in Campaign 2011 — and, so far, the Grits are doing much better than anyone thought they would — they should give Bob Richardson and Gordon Ashworth a great big thank you.

In fact, if the Liberals somehow win back power, Richardson and Ashworth should be appointed to the Senate (one of them, I’m pretty sure, would accept).

They’re not household names, but they’d probably prefer it that way. The Toronto-based businessmen are partners in a modestly-sized consulting firm called the Devon Group.”

 


The Carson Circus Continues: Option A, B or C?

Option A:

PM wouldn’t have hired Carson if he knew his past
The Canadian Press, Mon. Apr. 4 2011 11:18 AM ET

Option B:

Ex-adviser told PMO about his fraud conviction: lawyer
The Canadian Press, Sunday Apr. 3, 2011 8:47 PM ET

Option C:

Quote of the day from the federal election campaign trail
The Canadian Press, Apr. 4, 2011, 10:58 AM

“I did not know about these revelations that we’re finding out today. I don’t know why I did not know.” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper on why he hired Bruce Carson as an adviser even though Carson had been convicted on five counts of fraud.