Conservative blogger catches CP journo spreading Delacourt’s flimsy Mar 29 election story

Blogger Alberta Ardvark has made a couple great posts in the last few days.

First he caught CTV deviously editing Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s gaffe (see here) and today he shows us another example of how incestuous the Ottawa Press Corp are.

The Star’s Susan Delacourt had used “Don Burroughs” as a source saying he got a call from a Conservative fund-raiser who told him that there would be an election Mar 29. The Star then later used Delacourt’s ridiculous article in another story (see here).

Check out Alberta Ardvark’s run-down on Jennifer Ditchburn using this same unsubstantiated Mar 29 election story on CTV’s Question Period here.

“Pulled elastic” and other nonsense from Ignatieff

Some questions in the House of Commons today from Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for which he has had 6 weeks to prepare:

“What exactly has the government been saying to the authorities in Egypt?Are we or are we not standing up for democratic values?”

Ya, the Conservatives are in favour of dictatorships… Iffy then went on to say that difficulty in Canadians getting out of Egypt were due to foreign service cut backs. Like every other country isn’t having similar logistical problems getting their citizens out of there. Maybe Iffy also missed the account of one Canadian who has been in Egypt for 4 years saying she’s in no rush to leave and feels very safe? (see here)

“Mr. Speaker, the government is raising taxes for small and medium-sized enterprises”

After all the crocodile tears about the Conservative ads misrepresenting Iffy, he has the gall to have this lie recorded in Hansard?

“When, will the government start listening to those families where the elastic is pulled tight and start doing something for them instead of corporations that do not need the help?”

What is this “elastic” that he is referring? It really makes me wonder if he even understands the questions prepared for him by the Liberal brainiacs.