Tories Target NASCAR Fans

Oh please....

Anyone dumb enough to fall for that DESERVES to be represented by the Conservatives.

I refuse to use the word Tory, out of respect for Robert Stanfield, and Joe Clark.

They were real Tories, not a bunch of inbred American wannabees.

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If George W. Bush and Tony Blair are really Christians, then pork and shrimp are Kosher.

Inbred, no. American wannabees - most possibly.



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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

but the curious connection is with Bourque's pay-for-play website. I used to use it daily. I stopped about six months ago when it became clear that the CPC was buying news coverage on there. <p> Does anyone recall the Mr. Sage scandal? I think this is much the same. <p> http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-1631-11233/science_technology/early_radio-tv/ <p> <blockquote>During the 1935 election, the CRBC ran sketches featuring the ruminations of "Mr. Sage," a philosophical geezer who explained to his naïve young friends why not to vote for the Liberals and Mackenzie King. Eventually the truth emerged: "Mr. Sage" was sponsored by the Conservatives and created by a Conservative ad agency using CRBC resources.</blockquote> <p> http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_CRBC.html <p> <blockquote>What finally turned the tide against the CRBC erupted in the 1935 election when the Conservative Party's advertising agency, J. J. Gibbons of Toronto, created a series of 15 minute dramatized political "soap opera" shows called "Mr. Sage". They were harshly critical of Mackenzie King and when broadcast by CRBC, he was furious. When King won the election, the CRBC's days were numbered.</blockquote> <p> http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/analysiscommentary/negativeads.html <p> <blockquote>Mr. Sage takes to the airwaves <p> Sixty years later, a rising technology was harnessed to make political points. Radio was the new medium, but the same old allegations of corruption and incompetence were the message in the 1935 campaign. <p> The Conservatives struck this time, buying chunks of time on radio stations across the country for broadcasts by a folksy actor calling himself Mr. Sage. He chatted with his friend Bill and later his wife about unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, intimidation, lies, blackmail and worse on the part of William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals. <p> The ads were not identified at first as being funded by the Conservatives, but party officials later acknowledged their involvement. <p> King's party struck back with a series of three radio chats recorded by the leader, who was much more popular than the Conservatives' Depression-battered R.B. Bennett, and won the election.<blockquote>