"Yes, We Lied," They Explained

See, it's alright when THEY do it:

The Liberals are the masters of using wedge issues to scare people, especially progressives, into voting Liberal to keep the scary Conservatives away from power. But thus far they appear to have had trouble making any of these wedge issues stick, and some have backfired quite spectacularly. ...

The Liberals have subsequently cycled through all their favourite wedge issues, abortion, guns, and privatized health care. It’s this last one that has once again seemed to backfire on the Liberals.

On Sunday deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland’s Twitter account posted an edited video that appears to show Erin O’Toole saying he was unequivocally supportive of bringing “private, for profit” health care to Canada. The edited video was deceptively spliced to make O’Toole’s answer seem much different than what he actually said in the full passage, where he makes clear that “universal access remains paramount.“ Later on Sunday while speaking in New Brunswick the prime minister apparently said “shame on you” to O’Toole for supporting for-profit health care during the pandemic.

Perhaps this is all just normal partisan hyperbolics. But Twitter apparently doesn’t think so. Late Sunday evening the platform labelled the edited video in question as “manipulated media.” Once again the Liberals have managed to step on a rake in their efforts to wedge their opponents.

 

Indeed:

Reporter: How do you respond to Twitter flagging your doctored and manipulated video that clearly misrepresents O’Toole’s position on health care?

Trudeau: Our doctored and manipulated video clearly speaks for itself pic.twitter.com/Avs2MSCUsB

— 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙪𝙢𝙚 (@BryanPassifiume) August 23, 2021

 

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday defended a video posted to Twitter by Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland that was flagged by the social network as "manipulated media."

What does one expect from the party of the SNC-Lavalin and WE "charity" debacles?

Must one go into the complete screw-up that is Afghanistan but characterised by Liberal chair-moistener, Marco Mendcino, as "nothing short of miraculous"?

The Liberals don't even hide their moral corruption and total idiocy anymore. What would be the point?

Also:

Staff in the Prime Minister’s Office complained it was “totally unacceptable” for the Public Health Agency to offer medical advice without first checking with political aides, according to 2020 internal emails. Staff debated whether to order removal of a web page recommending essential workers wear Covid masks when federal agencies knew masks were in short supply: “They’re not ready.” 

 

And: 

In a baking parking lot bordering the Miramichi River, in front of a couple of hundred broiling New Brunswickers, Trudeau’s stump speech assailed O’Toole for his position on pandemic relief, mandatory vaccination, childcare and private health care. “Shame on you in a pandemic,” he said, with the mock fury that only a politician whose prospects are heading in the same direction as his polling numbers can summon up. “His instincts and values are not aligned with helping vulnerable Canadians.” ...

(Sidebar: ... said the @$$hole who shut down an economy and made it possible to kill old people faster.) 

The problem with turning it up to 10 this early in the campaign is that Spinal Tap was a satire and you can’t really turn it up to 11. In 2006, the Liberals used strong, sometimes questionable language in their attacks on Stephen Harper and it backfired. Does Erin O’Toole really want unsafe abortions or kids getting sick on trains or planes? Did Harper really want to put soldiers on our streets?

The fact we were in Miramichi before heading to Charlottetown, P.E.I., and then Halifax — all Liberal-held ridings — indicates how markedly things have changed in the past week.

Leaders visit every province during most campaigns, so it would be too much to suggest that the Liberals are in trouble in P.E.I. on the basis of Trudeau’s plane touching down there.

But it would be no surprise if Trudeau was back in New Brunswick and Halifax again before the end.

 

Say anything, Justin.