Okay, right after New Years, I went off on a business trip to the US, and getting back into the saddle on the 11th of January, the whole landscape has changed.
I was wondering why the media was so happy to play along with the "Conservative" spin leading into Christmas: always leading with the Harper daily announcement, and it's imploded on itself now. All the coverage seems to be based on whatever the Conservative spinners are delivering and nobody is analyzing the spin from the fact. Must be that the CBC at least is run by 20-year-old ingenues who don't have enough life experience to detect when they are being spun.
It appears that they are all predicting a conservative win now. The scary part about predicting a minority is that voters think - "oh, I'm contributing to the minority, which is a good thing, rather than a majority - yikes." But when everyone does that, you get a majority anyway - case-in-point: the NDP Ontario government of a couple of decades back.
The worst bit of Journalism I've seen is the media coverage of the Liberal "Soldiers with Guns" ad - there was a clearly staged Conservative old-timer soldier protest, and the coverage of it was "here's a protest - soldiers are outraged" not - "The conservatives set up this lame protest"
And nobody is pointing out that the "Conservatives" are not the conservatives... but rather a bunch of Reformers in Sheeps' clothing.
The only thing scarier than a fascist party is a fascist party that has learned to dress themselves up as acceptable moderates. When they realize that it works, and people forget what they were 15 minutes ago, they get these weird grins of delight.
More on the rest of the campaign later.
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