- The digital attack uses both conventional web sites and social media. The web site:
- It appears the Tories have planned this for some time. The web site, according to a Whois lookup, was created on Mar. 22 and is registered to the CPC.
justinoverhishead.com Whois Lookup & IP | Whois.netWhois.net, Your Trusted Source for Secure Domain Name Searches, Registration & Availability. Use Our Free Whois Lookup Database to Search...- The Tories also created a companion Facebook page, which hosts the first video and a slew of comments. Many of those comments, though, are critical of the Conservatives' strategy.
- Comments on the Facebook page were mostly negative. One example: "Wow, that's just pathetic. Your "K.O" is a quote, taken out of context, made 14 years ago..."
- This video, posted on YouTube and hosted on the justinoverhishead.com site, is at the heart of the social media response. On YouTube, comments are closed.
- The segment of the above video where Trudeau discusses Quebec superiority is part of this lengthier CTV video:
Trudeau's Quebec comment in contextWatch LIVE events from Canada and around the world. Live breaking news, national news, sports, business, entertainment, health, politics ...- Huffington Post Canada is also crying foul, claiming "The video clip was taken from The Huffington Post Canada without permission. (HuffPost is making its concerns known to the Conservative Party.)"
WATCH: Tories Attack Trudeau's Charity StripteaseAs expected, the Conservatives have released attack ads on new Liberal leader Justin Trudeau just a day after he won the party's leadersh...- Twitter is awash with comments about the Tory attacks, most of it negative. Even some of Canada's heavyweight political pundits weighed in:
- Further to the "cheap shot" Martin refers to, the Canadian Liver Foundation re-iterated its gratitude for Trudeau's charity effort:
We feel @JustinTrudeau should be applauded for his support of a serious health issue that affects 3.4 million Cdns #cdnpoli
Show your outrage at Tories using liver cancer fundraising by Trudeau as attack ad. Donate! http://www.liver.ca/support-liver-foundation/donate/ …-…- Chris Selley: Conservative anti-Trudeau attack ad contains a whopperThere was a school of thought, recently, that the Conservatives might have to change their usual game when it came to Justin Trudeau. Sté...
On attack adsA few thoughts. Every political party uses advertising to tell voters its opponents are unpleasant people. Literally absolutely nothing a...- But most comments came from the non-pundit class:
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