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Originally Posted by zuluking
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
However my concern is with the demographic data that's being collected and where its going. I think that does need to be disclosed now that there's a lose connection between one of the involved people and Michael Ignatieff.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
What do you mean there's no connection, beyond one of the people that worked on developing this survey and is in charge of collecting the stats used to work for Ignatieff on his leadership campaign and advised him on equalization policy?
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Also...here is the connection according to Ezra Levant.
Perhaps he's taking the word of Peter Loewen, the "director of analytics" for the Vote Compass. Loewen just happens to have been a policy adviser for Michael Ignatieff's 2006 Liberal leadership campaign
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Again its great that there was a collaboration of students, but even you have to admit that there's something that's fairly smelly about this especially considering that the director of analytics, the guy thats probably receiving the information from the compass including ridings and vote preferences used to be directly attached to Ignatieff.
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OBJECTION DENIED! Looks like the Sun intentionally omitted some vital information. Who's biased now?
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It’s amazing what sort of character assassination you can get away through chicken#### use of question marks (in Levant’s case). Or in Lilley’s case, through the deliberate withholding of facts. As Peter Loewen himself told Lilley when Lilley interviewed him for his March 31 story, Loewen did the same sort of work for Harper in 2004 that he later did for Ignatieff. Loewen was also a staffer for a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leadership candidate in 2005. And he once donated money to Pierre Poilievre’s nomination campaign.
This information was available to Brian Lilley, his editor, and to Ezra Levant. It is thoroughly despicable that it was not included in the stories that were published. What is going on here? In yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Simon Houpt suggests that Loewen just got caught up in a broader anti-CBC campaign by Sun Media, as it prepares to launch its new television station.
If so, that’s disgraceful enough. But I actually think something more basic is at work here: Intellectual prostitutes like Brian Lilley and Ezra Levant are so used to selling their brains on the cheap in journalism’s back alleys, they find it literally incredible that everyone else’s intellect is not similarly for sale.
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Oh snap!
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/06/sun-family-values/
The Sun' National Bureau Cheif (David Akin) even got an email from Tom Flanigan vouching for Loewen's objectivity. You can read it
here.