Canadian catfight: Conservatives try to plant fake Ignatieff photo at Sun News, but get caught

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

Patrick Muttart, a key Harper campaign strategist, has suddenly left the Conservative campaign after reports that he tried to improperly spin a negative story about Michael Ignatieff to Sun Media.

... Mr. Muttart returned to Chicago, where he works at a public affairs and political strategy firm , according to a source.

... But he ran afoul of Quebecor’s Pierre Karl Peladeau, who owns the Sun newspapers and TV network. The media titan exposed him Wednesday as the source on a story about the Liberal Leader.

In his Sun newspapers, Mr. Peladeau wrote that a package of information, including a photograph purportedly of Mr. Ignatieff in Iraq in 2003, was given to Sun Media honcho Kory Teneycke, a former Harper spokesman, by Mr. Muttart.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/whiz-kid-patrick-muttart-leaves-tory-campaign-after-fake-ignatieff-photo-flap/article2000591/

[cleanhippie]

1. Their conservatives are about as slimy as ours are.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Conservative MEANS slimy

(not many people know that)

[DCKit]

3. Muttart must have a very low opinion of Canadians to have tried that stoopid shit. nt