by Rob Cottingham | May 5, 2004 | Communicating, Politics
A fearless prediction: at least one of the two Liberal attack ads featured on the front page of the Globe and Mail yesterday will never appear again.It’s the ad attacking Stephen Harper for urging Canada to jump into the war in Iraq. And it’s just plain... by Rob Cottingham | May 4, 2004 | Media Mix, Politics
David Brock, the one-time character assassin for the U.S. far right (and that’s a generous way of putting it compared to his own self-assessment), has resurfaced.In his book Blinded by the RightBrock came clean a few years ago about his role in tarring Anita... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 27, 2004 | Politics
Hats off to Paul Wells for finally doing the math and figuring out that the Conservative Party is actually kind of a, well, flop.I know how odd that sounds. Aren’t the Conservatives riding high, buoyed in the polls and nipping at the Liberals’ heels?... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 24, 2004 | Politics
As the Bush administration tears into one-time antiterrorism czar Richard Clarke, a question comes to mind:If he’s such an anti-Republican partisan, if he has such a “legacy of failure,” if his recommendations were “either ineffective or... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 9, 2004 | Politics
Flinging dirt at an opponent is a time-honored political tradition. And when that opponent is a former friend whose allegiance has recently changed, well, that can really boost the power of your throwing arm.But flinging mud without getting your hands dirty takes a... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 17, 2003 | Media Mix, Politics
For Canadian lefties, this has to count as one of the all-time greatest schadenfreude-y highs.Far-right newspaper baron Conrad Black has been dumped— sorry, has resigned — as Hollinger International’s CEO.It doesn’t end there. David Radler...