The Great Communicator
After a long hiatus, Bob Rae is back to blogging - in the voice of Stephen Harper. Seriously. This morning, deadpan, Rae posted a letter he says he got through Access to Information - from the PM to the president of Tim Horton's.
The letter praises the decision to fire an employee for giving away a Timbit, because "it's really just the beginning of the end."
It also contains some communication advice for any negative fallout: "Stick by your original plan. The bad publicity will come and go. Don't answer questions. Attack the questioner. Challenge their credibility. Smear Coffee Time."
UPDATE: The blog entry has been "disappeared." Apparently Rae's sense of humour isn't universally shared and he voluntarily took it down after someone didn't find his fake letter funny. It's one thing, I guess, to call Tim Horton's cruel and heartless for firing an employee, but it's just going too far to compare the doughnut empire to the Harper regime.
Good for Bob Rae...he understands....
the BEST way to deflate these pompous gas bags - is to laugh at them - enough laughter and you hear the PPzzzzzt of an overinflated ego on oxygen deprivation....
Posted by: Wascally Wabbit | May 12, 2008 at 09:56 PM
Only mildly funny, but the interesting thing is that the letter disappeared again from the website within 24 hours. Any idea as to why?
Posted by: Inge Jordan | May 15, 2008 at 12:17 PM