On an official trip to India he outfitted his entire family like Indians, rehearsed to act out tableaus mimicking Indians.
Justin prays to Buddha that no one will find pics of him in blackface singing "Day-O" dressed like Harry Belafonte.
Posted on 09/22/2019 5:22:56 AM PDT by Liz
Even before bombshell pictures of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in blackface makeup surfaced on Wednesday, his Liberals and their main opposition Conservatives had foregone the usual niceties in favor of tactics more common to the hyper-partisan mud slinging contests south of the border in the U.S. To some, it’s been a cynical race to the bottom where leaders have focused on inflicting maximum damage on their rivals rather than propping themselves up -- a slippery slope that could fuel the sort of political polarization that Canada has largely avoided until now.
“We’re going down a bad road here and after this campaign we’re probably going to see a lot of postmortems about how did we get here,” said Rick Anderson, a long-time political strategist in Ottawa. From the start, the Liberal plan has been to paint the Conservatives as reflexively regressive, riddled with closeted bigots and ready to pounce on women’s reproductive rights. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, meanwhile, has gone personal, raising questions about the prime minister’s integrity and calling him a liar who would say anything to get elected.
Both parties are using increasingly sophisticated campaign war rooms -- armed with volumes of research on rival candidates and ready to attack every perceived disadvantage -- to fuel the negativity. Days before the election was called, Ralph Goodale, Trudeau’s public safety minister, released a 2005 video of Scheer, a practicing Roman Catholic, talking about how he opposed same sex marriage because gay couples can’t naturally procreate.
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Classic media approach—when one of their lefty idols starts taking the heat they start whining about how toxic politics has become.
24-7 attacks on conservatives is the high road in their view. :-(
Trudeau is an IMMATURE CHILD!
From the start, the Liberal plan has been to paint the Conservatives as reflexively regressive, riddled with closeted bigots and ready to pounce on women’s reproductive rights.
Now I ask you, just what were the Conservatives supposed to do? Act like Jeb! and other loser RINOs down south and smile while being bludgeoned with lies to another loss?
The unspoken element of the article is that this is really The Trump Effect. They came close in this paragraph:
It’s a dangerous development that opens the door to populists, according to Anderson, currently a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group. “How long are we going to be like that before we find our situation like the U.K. and the States -- it may not take very long,” he said. “I don’t know what happens when people don’t like anybody.”
Nice deconstruction...................
I love it when this happens to liberals! They did it to us, and now it hits them. They deserve it. I hope this fairy-face liberal drops out of politics for good.
Trouble is, the CBC and most of the other Canadian media are all left-wing fanatics, ergo they will happily attack the Conservatives while protecting Trudeau and ignoring his corruption
Just like in the US, there are very few Canadian journalists that DON’T have a leftist slant in their “reporting”
Trudeau out? May we even hope for that?
And take that guy that draws “Doonesbury” with them.
"leaders"??? These are leaders???
Trudeau is going to have a hard time propping himself up after those make-up images surfaced.
The hypocrisy of the Left is emetic. These parasites cover themselves with a cloak of public service or some such nonsense while helping themselves to the public's hard earned assets.
It’s funny that something that people didn’t care about 20 years ago (blackface) could bring a government down. LOL!
On an official trip to India he outfitted his entire family like Indians, rehearsed to act out tableaus mimicking Indians.
Justin prays to Buddha that no one will find pics of him in blackface singing "Day-O" dressed like Harry Belafonte.
Karma can be entertaining.
The Left is confused about everything—including the absurd concept of “cultural appropriation.”
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