Tell me that there wasn’t a deal worked out between Liberal staffer Adam Carroll and the Liberal Party to hire him back (see here) after the storm blew over from him setting up the Twitter account to smear Conservative minister Vic Toews?
Liberal leader Bob Rae obviously lied when he said that “political controversy is one thing, personal attacks are another” or Carroll would not be now be back inside the party he leads.
And will we hear Justin Trudeau denounce this re-hiring since he stated at the time that he was “Appalled to find out Vikileaks came from us Liberals. Yes, I tweeted about it, but I did not endorse it. Personal attacks are always wrong.” or will he be silent because he knew all along there was a deal in place?
What about the media who praised Bob Rae for “unreservedly” apologising to Toews like the National Post’s Andrew Coyne:
“Rae turning a fiasco for his party into something of a personal triumph. This is how an apology is done, folks.”
Can’t wait to hear from them all.
Also: See earlier post on this from Jan 29 2012 here
August 2, 2012 at 9:42 AM
And what is increible about this is when a Conservative staffer was fired/rehired the CBC did a news story on the event. Located here….
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/30/pol-kenney-staffer.html
Wonder if the CBC will do a news story on Carrol ? So far nothing on the CBC website……
August 2, 2012 at 10:27 AM
I’m not as angry with the Libs for hiring Carrol back. I reserve that for individuals/groups/orgs that I hold in high esteem. The Libs obviously don’t qualify. Instead, reading this story I stopped and thought, “Yeah, that sounds about right.”
The true test, as always, will be to see what the Media Party does with Carrol’s re-hiring which I suspect will be nothing. I bet the CBC’s Solomon doesn’t bring it up which is why conservatives on his show should not only bring it up themselves in conversation with P&P’s fake moderator but ask him why he and the state broadcaster have chosen to leave it to the CPoC to inform Canadians on the development.
August 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM
WHO’S IN CHARGE OF HIRING AND FIRING? SURELY HARPER HAS THE GUTS TO PUT THE HAMMER DOWN AT THE RISK OF LIBERAL ANGST WHO ARE,DEFENDING SOMEONE WHO CONSTANTLY CONTRAVENES ETHICS AT THE VERY LEAST, AND LIKELY ENGAGES CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.WHAT A JOKE THAT THIS IS TOLERATED IN MY COUNTRY. KEEP THEM COMING BC BLUE. BUT, I DO GET ANGRY WHEN I HAVE THE TIME TO GET ON HERE.
August 2, 2012 at 12:31 PM
David
are you an angry person or did you just not notice that your keypad is stuck on caps ?
August 2, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Who will be his next target. Regardless, any time in the future that stuff appears by some blogger or whatever, that is against any conservative, we will blame the liberals being behind it.
August 3, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Thing is, Carroll didn’t just make a snide comment on twitter and forget about it,he was set up to do as much damage as possible to a man and obliquely his family. He should be ashamed, his party should be ashamed but being Liberals they kow they can get away with it. Even in politics there can be no excuse for rotten stunts like this.
August 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM
What does he have on some liberal that he threatens to put out there. Oh, and Apps guilty of illegal lobbying.
August 5, 2012 at 7:09 AM
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