POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Propaganda - and this kind of attack-advertising is just a
form of propaganda - generally is effective when there is an accepted truth
incorporated in the muck.
Thus, America blubbered about the plight of women while
attacking Afghanistan (killing thousands of them along the way, too). Thus,
past attacks on Ignatieff only said something we all believed already about
that ineffective and disingenuous man.
These new ads cannot work against Trudeau because most
Canadians rightly perceive him as a decent, earnest young man. And Trudeau is
doing exactly the right thing in quietly explaining the ads' dishonesty.
The ads will serve to confirm Harper as the most hateful person
ever to have been prime minister.
