Stephen Harper copies Tim Pawlenty ad

[JBoy]

Run time: 02:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGXGwr3nr7g   Posted on YouTube: April 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: liberalvideo Views on YouTube: 304   Posted on DU: April 06, 2011 By DU Member: JBoy Views on DU: 1440

 
Why not? Everything else in his fear-based campaign is modeled on GOP tactics.

And in true Canadian form, it looks like he tried to do his commercial on 10% of Pawlenty's budget.

:puke:

[Crowman1979]

1. WTF?!?! They used the EXACT same music!

[Newsjock]

2. Tories accused of following Tea Partier's script in new ad

Source: The Globe and Mail

A slick new Conservative television ad that seeks to present Stephen Harper as a statesmanlike leader bears an unusual number of similarities to a recent commercial for the Tea Party-backed Republican former governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, and his 2012 presidential run.

The 60-second Tory spot titled Our Country, which unfolds like the trailer for a Hollywood political thriller or a boastful Molson Canadian ad, mixes archival scenes from Canada’s glorious past, including the 1988 Olympic torch relay and a black-and-white newsreel snippet of marching soldiers, with sweeping images of the country’s awesome geography, fighter jets and a multicultural passel of faces.

... But hours after it was released on the Conservative Party’s YouTube channel Tuesday, the Liberals uploaded a video to their own YouTube channel titled “Harper ad strikingly similar to Tea Party Governor ad,” which stitched the Conservative spot to the end of Mr. Pawlenty’s commercial promoting his political action committee and his memoir Courage to Stand: An American Story. The book was released in January by the Illinois-based Christian publisher Tyndale House.

... The Pawlenty plagiarism allegations threaten to derail the Conservative attempt to pivot in their messaging, from using their ads to sow fear over Michael Ignatieff to a more hopeful stance.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/tories-accused-of-following-tea-partiers-script-in-new-ad/article1972359/

[Crowman1979]

4. Glad the Canadian press is able to see through the shield of BS.

Whereas the MSM in the USA always takes a scumbag's word without question.

[Kall]

3. Ugh

Harper is such a fucking sack of sleaze. Stupid electoral system keeps him with minority governments with 35% of the vote, but governments nonetheless.