Ryan Sparrow’s Comments on Bullet Hole Graphic
July 28, 2008 · By Greg Farries
It has been over a week and the “Dion bullet hole” graphic is still on Conservative.ca. According to Now Magazine, Ryan Sparrow, the federal Conservative Party director of communications, refuses to admit it was mistake:
But the Conservative’s director of communications vehemently denies the holes in the image are bullet holes. In an interview, Ryan Sparrow said they are just holes “like there are in Stéphane Dion’s policies.” And, in apparent unintentional irony, Sparrow framed the criticisms from blogs as Liberal partisans trying to “shoot the messenger.”
“It’s pretty evident Liberals are sensitive about bad policy,” he continued. He also said there are no plans to clear confusion about the holes.
Perhaps Sparrow has never actually seen a bullet hole before? Nevertheless, I’ll say it again, this website - including Sparrow’s comments - are an embarrassment to the party and its membership.
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I see no carbon residue around those holes. They are just holes to me.
Big deal…end of the world
You have got to get a life if you feel this is significant.
it pales beside the Liberal add with a gun firing at the screen.
The hole on the conservative site do not resemble real bullet holes at all .
Sometimes, a hole is just a hole. The Libs should quit looking for feeble excuses to shoot poo at the Conservatives if they want to be taken seriously.
I have seen a lot of bullet holes. When I saw the holes on the website graphic, I thought that they were poked through with a pencil. It’s a metaphor, symbolizing that there are holes in this proposed policy or that the other parties are poking holes in the proposed policy.
Get over it.
Considering the frivolous excuses provided by the many Conservative supporters above, it’s no wonder the Conservative party sucks so much - its members are a bunch of lemmings.
Keep dreaming that dream Ahip…
Conservatives live in the real world. We expect results from our government. Less taxes…good governance. So far Mr. Harper and his people have delivered. When that changes Conservatives will speak out loudly. The only lemmmings I have observed in the blogoshere have resided in LaLaLiberalLand!!!
The expression “shoot holes in that argument” is only offensive to Dippers and Toronto leftists. The Website gets the message across. Grow up.
I agree - the Conservative Party of Canada website is an embarrassment.
Take for example, the front page image of the stupid looking kid with his mouth open: perhaps they should add a balloon text saying “Duh?” just to solidify the message. Is this mouth-breather supposed to be the stereotypical conservative youth supporter?
Since they can’t seem to get it right themselves, they should hire a professional consultant to design a respectable and informative website. Start with trashing the second-rate photo-shopped images and cartoons.
What is the mistake that you allude to ? The graphic simply meant to portray that the Lib policy on carbon tax has a lot of holes and not a solid policy to begin with, evidenced by the myriad interpretations and reactions by the so called bright lights within the Liberal caucus. Bullet holes you say ? You have quite an imagination and a big axe to grind… Perhaps if there was a smoking gun, I would have agreed with you that these are so called bullet holes ….
You guys just don’t get it, do you?
This isn’t the website of some insignificant throwaway political party, this is the official party website of the Government of Canada. Look at the websites of the US Democratic National Committee, or the US Republican National Committee, or the UK Labour Party, or the UK Conservative Party, Australian Labour Party or the Liberal Party of Australia - to just name a few - and try to find any examples of the childish and amateurish antics that otherwise exist on Conservative.ca.
This particular image is indicative of a much larger problem the Conservative party has been having since securing power in early 2006. They seem unable to be unable to take the “higher-road” when it comes to addressing serious issues and or debates concerning the opposition parties.
As I said in my posting a few weeks ago:
The Conservatives are seemingly stuck in the “opposition-speak” mentality. They’re the government - its time they start acting like it.
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