Liberals plant an employee in front of a CBC camera; no one’s surprised.
No one can really prove the liberals actually aranged it that way, or that the CBC went on a hunt for someone who would back up the opinion we’re supposed to be reading from the interview in question, but it’s not much of a stretch to suspect one or both. Particularly after Mark Sakamoto, Ignatieff’s director of political operations–well, okay, one of them, showed up completely and totally by accident on a news report for CBC’s the National. Except it might not have been an accident. He, plus his wife and children, were standing in line at one of the H1N1 vaccination sites they’ve been saying are coming out as complete and utter failures. And, surprise surprise, when asked his opinion on the H1N1 delivery, he too said it was a complete and utter failure. Oh, and what was kept quiet by the CBC? Sakamoto used to work for them.
Folks, I watched the emergency debate on Monday night. Admittedly, out of boredom more than anything else. In between repeatedly informing the opposition that Canada was ahead of schedule with the H1N1 vaccines, and has ordered enough to stick everyone who wants one with a needle and then some, the conservatives suggested that the liberals, as well as the NDP, are trying to politicise the H1N1 problem. While all the while the liberals shot back that it’s not a partisan issue. Well, they’re right. But they’re also wrong. See, Michael, your man on TV just outed you. Horible coincidence or not, intentional or not, ethics bungle or not–quick, ask the ethics commissioner if you screwed up–Sakamoto, a current liberal employee and a former CBC employee, just slapped a partisan tag on it. Tell me it doesn’t suck to be a liberal party member right now.
