Spot the attack ad

  Hey kids, here's a fun game to play at home.  You may think that only sophisticated grownups can make attack ads to put on TV, but actually, any child can do it. 

Here's how it works. Look at this transcript of today's post-Question-Period scrum with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, and see if you can find the sentence that you'd put on YouTube, preferably with grainy video and crayon-scrawled headlines. 

Question: Do you have any evidence at all that the government will compromise on this? They're calling it a socialist scheme.

Michael Ignatieff: I love socialist scheme. You do something for the unemployed and suddenly you're a socialist? Come on, let's get serious here. We think that this is good, sensible, practical politics. We think that it will not increase payroll taxes. We think it will not extend benefits unduly, extend length. It will not increase the level of benefit. All it means is that you get a national standard and the key point here is to - 150,000 Canadians will get EI benefit. People have already contributed and not eligible now, 150,000 people will get benefits. The good thing about that is that it is the fastest and more direct way to get stimulus into the economy.

Did you find it? Big hint: it's the first sentence of his answer. Coming to a screen near you, almost guaranteed.

 

 

Comments

[Wascally Wabbit]

Knee jerk reaction to the presumed input of Rovian-type communications messaging from south of the border that seems to have been influencing the Conservatives spin of late.
"Socialist" is a key pejorative in the US. Up here - it might just resonate with Harpewr's core - but even that is questionable!
Republican populist FOX News spinmeisters love to trot out the word Socialist...Canadian Socialist Health Care system, Canadian Socialist National Energy Program...Centre / Left (or Democratic) politicians names preceded by Hugo or Fidel...
Same old same old...
But - other than giving Ignatieff boosters a little giggle - I don't see it resonating with the general Canadian public - sadly - I think it will zing right over their collective (get it!) heads!

[Darwin O'Connor]

I would choose "We think that this is good, sensible, practical politics."

Apparently helping unemployed Canadians is only worth while when it is politically practical. He wasn't interested in helping them back during the budget debate because that would force him to form a politically unpopular coalition: http://doconnor.homeip.net/blog/?p=39 Now that the issue could help him in an election he's all for it.