The Boomerang Smear?

Don'tEvenBotherToDefend
SlimeVille

As we've said more than once, we figure that two non-story stories were critical in the LINO's carjacking of the Province of B.C. last week.....

One was that StratCounsel/BellGlobeMedia/FastEddieG 'Poll of Inevitability' that was released four days before the election (heard any retractions on that one yet?).

The other was Mr. Gordon Campbell's not so secret, but utterly duplicitous, smear of the BC Teacher's Federation that went CanWestGlobal faster than you can say Money Talks five days before the election.

So, imagine my surprise when, during a post-election visit to the newly emergent kinder and gentler hotbed of JamesGangsian Socialism otherwise known as Vancouver Island, I came across this in Victoria's CannedWest print organ grinder's monkey, The Times Colonist*:


Chris Mason
May 20, 2005, pg A6

"I don't think there will be any significant holdovers (from the election)" said (LINO) Education Minister Tom Christensen........

.....Christensen said the best solution may be to circumvent the union and deal directly with teachers, calling the tone of the union's campaign comments 'unfortunate'......


Ya, right.

And the best defense against your leader calling a wedgie-assisted press conference and lying, on purpose, is a good offense, right Tom.

Not to mention the fact that it brings up the Christy Clarkian "re-jigged for bustin' " BC (non)Teacher's College without even mentioning it by name.

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But wait....

What is that rotatory whooshing sound I hear coursing through the air?

Could it be the Revenge of the Boomerang Smear?

VANCOUVER, May 26 /CNW/ - The B.C. Teachers' Federation has filed suit in
B.C. Supreme Court, calling Premier Gordon Campbell to account for defamatory
statements he made five days prior to the election.
  On May 12, 2005, at a hastily called news conference at his campaign
office, Campbell made numerous false statements that teachers cannot allow to
go unchallenged.
  "The premier said many things about teachers and our Federation that are
untrue and unconscionable," said Jinny Sims, BCTF president. "We immediately
wrote to him to request a retraction and apology, but he did not respond. As a
result, we are compelled to take this important issue to the courts."
  As an example, Sims pointed to Campbell's claim that teachers had "a
duplicitous plan meant to engineer a school strike only weeks before
provincial exams that would throw our schools into chaos."


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