tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post7157012777287853826..comments2024-01-30T12:46:10.810-05:00Comments on Yappa Ding Ding: Tory TrollsYappahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-12885601768740872382008-11-14T20:30:00.000-05:002008-11-14T20:30:00.000-05:00Hey ruralsandi, the first thing that comes to mind...Hey ruralsandi, the first thing that comes to mind about LeBlanc is stay away from the cheese doodles. Dude, your packing too many pounds, and regardless of what comes out of your mouth, all anyone thinks about is "geez he looks like a pear!"<BR/>How am I doing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-73319616649550356802008-11-14T16:45:00.000-05:002008-11-14T16:45:00.000-05:00Hi northern pov -I disagree that they become borin...Hi northern pov -<BR/><BR/>I disagree that they become boring. I think they have a huge impact as long as people think they're just normal folks. They're one of the most effective smear campaign tactics ever and that's why we have to keep exposing them.<BR/><BR/>And I know it goes on. When I lived in Ottawa I worked with the wife of a political operative, and she told us all sorts of stories about her husband and his colleagues. They would try to dominate phone-ins like Crosscountry Checkup. The phone-in people knew his name and phone number, so he'd have to use other people's phones and fake names. She claimed that on some phone-ins, every caller was a spin doctor for one party or another.Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-18484980921546602162008-11-14T15:54:00.000-05:002008-11-14T15:54:00.000-05:00yes we can to justice and equality.yes we can to justice and equality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-23289430975409276182008-11-14T14:20:00.000-05:002008-11-14T14:20:00.000-05:00Virtually all the comment threads at major CDN sit...Virtually all the comment threads at major CDN sites are now dominated by the type of trolls you mention.<BR/><BR/>Take heart, they become sooo boring that everyone (except the trolls) will or has already stopped reading them.Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-57692378707084366232008-11-14T12:56:00.000-05:002008-11-14T12:56:00.000-05:00Fact is - the CPC will have vile attack packages f...Fact is - the CPC will have vile attack packages for each of the candidates.<BR/><BR/>Intertesting to see what they'll try to come up with for LeBlanc. I haven't heard of any baggage about him yet, but, hey, the CPC will come up with something.<BR/><BR/>You see, the CPC just can't seem to win over Canadians with the views and policies so attack is all they have - speaks volumes doesn't it?RuralSandihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09552973218865121867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-16571793499623505662008-11-14T12:42:00.000-05:002008-11-14T12:42:00.000-05:00To Anon at 12:03 -Thanks for your comment.It doesn...To Anon at 12:03 -<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't matter whether they most fear Ignatieff or Rae. For one thing, who they feared most last time may not be who they fear most this time. Ignatieff was a neophyte last time and now has a couple of years of intensive experience. The most important criticism of him last time was that he was unproven; by the end of this leadership race, I think we can agree that he has proven himself one way or the other.<BR/><BR/>In addition, I don't care who they fear most. Their estimation of their biggest threat is not a useful criterion for how we decide who would be the best leader and best PM. Not only will we never know the truth (as you say), but they will have different opinions, just as we do.<BR/><BR/>Also, I don't know that their shennanigans last time made any difference whatsoever to the final outcome. They probably didn't. I have heard people who were there say that they treated all the anti-Rae buttons as a joke.<BR/><BR/>My point is that we need to be more aware of their dirty tricks and call them on them. I am outraged that they interfered in the last Liberal convention and even boasted about it, and I'm outraged that they weren't pilloried in the press for doing it. The Harper Conservatives are using all sorts of dirty tricks, including messing in our internal party processes, and we should be showing the entire country just how unprincipled and unethical they are.<BR/><BR/>And by the way, the fact that I support Rae does not mean that I do not support Ignatieff. If Rae weren't running I would be with Ignatieff.Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-72319928997729439322008-11-14T12:03:00.000-05:002008-11-14T12:03:00.000-05:00I suspect that they didn't really fear Bob, and ha...I suspect that they didn't really fear Bob, and had attack ads at the ready in case he won, similar to the ads they had on Dion. The candidate the conservatives really fear is Iggy. (Haven't Liberals figured out by now that when Conservatives try to tell you something, you should believe the exact opposite?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-56875131571868092862008-11-14T11:27:00.000-05:002008-11-14T11:27:00.000-05:00Anon 11:21 -Liberals writing about internal Libera...Anon 11:21 -<BR/><BR/>Liberals writing about internal Liberal politics, OMG can someone please call the RCMP???Yappahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126433451905766475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23053767.post-44567432255672049612008-11-14T11:21:00.000-05:002008-11-14T11:21:00.000-05:00Well, it's a good thing that there are never any h...Well, it's a good thing that there are never any hyper partisan Liberal trolls posting to those threads...wait, what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com