Excerpt from article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, on Huffington Post:
Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery; false patriotism, bigotry, fear, selfishness and belligerent religiosity.
Harper's attempts to make lying legal on Canadian television is a stark admission that right wing political ideology can only dominate national debate through dishonest propaganda. Since corporate profit-taking is not an attractive vessel for populism, a political party or broadcast network that makes itself the tool of corporate and financial elites must lie to make its agenda popular with the public. In the Unites States, Fox News and talk radio, the sock puppets of billionaires and corporate robber barons have become the masters of propaganda and distortion on the public airwaves. Fox News's notoriously biased and dishonest coverage of the Wisconsin's protests is a prime example of the brand of news coverage Canada has smartly avoided.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s thoughts on Stephen Harper
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this story being true or not ... you Libs still don't get it, do you? You might have learned from the Toronto election 2010.
Joe Lunch-box doesn't give a crap about what RFK Jr says. In fact many of that crowd take offense to being told how to think by someone who probably wouldn't even be posting an article if Uncle Jack hadn't been president.
When I want to know what Joe Lunchbox is thinking I always go to the internet to hear what a semi-anonymous guy named Eric says. I know I can trust Eric's motives to tell me the truth.
That made me laugh so hard I accidentally farted
Eric,looks like "Joe Lunchbox" votes NDP in Thunder Bay. Also, you are a condescending twit to refer to a cross section of the population with a moniker that obviously came out of the Harpercon war room.
Eric, thanks for pointing out to me that I'm a Liberal. I'll take that into consideration while I check off the NDP box on my ballot.
Is "Joe Lunchbox" a distant cousin of "Joe the Plumber" from the last US election?
More and more it looks as if the Reformers hire Republican election strategists to help them out. Their campaign ads certainly don't look like something you 'd expect in a thoughtful country, like Canada. The narrators usually have US accents too..
I hate anonymous posters like "Eric" who don`t have the balls to use their own name
When that happens everyone else has to suspect the worst because we are given no reason for anything better.
When you get a name , then maybe we can talk.
Dr Mike Popovich
We should care what one of the most morally corrupt families thinks why?
Why? Perhaps because Robert Kennedy Jr. nails it with his succinct description of Stephen Harper and because what's blindly obvious to any intelligent outsider, may not be so obvious (to some Canadians) at close range?
Sorry Brent, I like you but I am now holding my nose and voting Tory to stop Jack Layton who is a bigger threat to our economic system. I cannot support a Layton-led coalition and I came to the conclusion today that it will probably happen.
Blogger The Grey Lady said...
We should care what one of the most morally corrupt families thinks why?
First of all, Robert Kennedy Jr, is speaking for Robert Kennedy Jr. This is not the Kennedy family speaking.
Meanwhile, not that I should have to defend a person's right to express an opinion (Robert Kennedy Jr.'s in this case) but to portray someone who is the son of the US Attorney General (Robert Kennedy) who brought about desegregation in the US South and enforced their rights as US citizens and their 14th Amendment rights under the US Constitution and supported the civil rights movement as "amoral", demonstrates your complete ignorance of history along with your mindless penchant for ad hominem.
Sounds like Robert Kennedy, is accusing the Harper Government of being a 'tool of the corporate and financial elite'.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Harper and Flaherty's only concrete policy is to implement their Corporate Masters'agenda, nothing else matters.
Whats the matter you on a slooooow burn today?
No one is interested in stifling the American Royal Family's ability to spout what ever they want. Interestingly you premise his opinion with his family so called credentials yet at the same time say he doesn't speak for them, but we need to give hm weight because he has a sperm donor in common with those whom have admirable accomplishments. Yes they were a morally corrupt clan, doesn't mean they didn't accomplish good things, they just sucked as human beings.
The Grey Lady said...
"Interestingly you premise his opinion with his family so called credentials yet at the same time say he doesn't speak for them."
I presented these as two arguments, Robert Kennedy's right to express an opinion and the reputation of his family as discrete thoughts, whereas you were the one to improperly (in my opinion) link his thoughts with his family tree in your mindless exercise of ad hominem. But then, you probably have no concept of the meaning of the word "discrete", by the sounds of it?
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