We’ve officially entered the dog days of summer. How can we be certain? Aside from the oppressive heat, at no other time would the provincial Liberals’ attempt to manufacture outrage over PQ leader Pauline Marois’ alleged purchasing of Facebook fans get much media attention. That said, the episode is revealing…
Sara Macintyre, Communications Director for BC Premier Christy Clark, is now more famous than her boss in large tracts of Canada. Macintyre’s heated exchange with the BC provincial press (if you haven’t seen it, click here for the clip) has led most major outlets in BC to run stories excoriating…
You might have heard that the North Korean Government is on Twitter. (And Facebook and Youtube as well). A tad bizarre for an organization whose chief interactions with its citizens involve spying on them and sending them to gulags. But there are, I have learned, sound reasons behind Pyongyang’s foray into the 140 character world….
BP and its complete ineptitude at PR continue to amaze. The company recently hired a bunch of “workers” to clean up a beach because Barack Obama was in the area. These workers did not actually do anything. They were for show and left the area shortly after the Pres departed….
Dictators never cease to amaze. The AP reports: President Hugo Chavez is tops on Twitter in Venezuela less than 2 weeks after launching his account, surpassing Internet-savvy foes who dominate the social networking site and use it to oppose him. Chavez’s account, “chavezcandanga,” had racked up more than 237,000 followers…
I WISH I was Philippine President Gloria Arroyo’s Communications Director. It would be an awesome gig in terms of career development. Agence France Presse reports that Glo glo has appointed her manicurist to the Board of a government agency responsible for lending tens of millions of dollars for the housing…
In 2006, I worked for the Conservative Party in its election War Room. The contest became known as the “Tim Horton’s versus Starbucks election” in certain quarters. Harper was the Tim Horton’s guy. The hockey dad who drank $1.15 cent coffees at rinkside on Saturday while he watched his son…
By no deliberate design it seems that one post a week here profiles a maniac’s or group of maniacs’ rhetorical craziness. Last week’s subject was KJ the Illest of North Korea. Today’s example comes from the Illest’s arch-nemesis, America, and the opposite end of the political spectrum. The Tea Party Republicans…
North Korea uses the most over the top official rhetoric of any country on Earth. In fact the language is so routinely bizarre that sometimes you wonder if the place is actually on Mars. Every year at this time the North Korean government issues a collection of crazy statements related…
This post by Julien Smith on the perils of saying “I love you” inspired today’s post, the first in a new video series called “Shoot that term in the head.” In business there are sorts of fucked up and vague terms that people use as ways to obfuscate, betlittle, exploit,…