Photo: Gerald Butts Meets With Upcoming Debate Moderator

Conil

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If they want to keep some integrity they should have a Moderator from somewhere else.

Many Canadians are raising concerns about photo that shows Althia Raj meeting with Gerald Butts.
A photo is circulating showing Gerald Butts meeting with Althia Raj, the HuffPost journalist who is also a moderator of the upcoming federal election debate.

“@gmbutts is busy busy busy.

I’m told this is happening, right now, at WHALES BONE with…. Someone who looks awfully like an upcoming DEBATE MODERATOR, @althiaraj??? Is that you?

Tomorrow or the next day he’s got coffee with @darrellbricker

Just Bananas!”
Notably, Kouvalis relays what was allegedly overheard at the meeting:

The person who sent me the photo of Butts & (what looks like) @althiaraj, tells me that the following was overheard between the 2 of them:

“If we lose we have to get rid of Trudeau, it’s the only way to please the country”, said @gmbutts
Questions were raised about the timing of the meeting, and when exactly it took place.

An Ottawa lawyer shared a Tweet containing four pictures, claiming that the meeting location has been “closed since last week,” due to “renovations.”
However, he neglected to look closely at the photos he himself shared, as one of them points out that the location is open, and asks people to go through a different entrance.
Many are now raising serious concerns about perceptions of bias:

“I always go out for a meal with my kid’s teacher the night before a big test. Doesn’t everyone?”
You’re a debate moderator. Why are you out to dinner with Gerald Butts? #CdnPoli #BlackfaceTrudeau #TrudeauCorruption

P.S We don’t care which blue collar job #Scheer4PM had. He’s not a trust fund baby elected because of his last name.”

“The last time @althiaraj had a photo as popular as her and Gerry’s Sunday dinner was the last time her and her friend Justin were photographed together @NickKouvalis”

This is not a Toucan! This is BANANAS!”

https://www.spencerfernando.com/2019/09/30/photo-gerald-butts-meets-with-upcoming-debate-moderator/
 

oldjones

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But wait! There can't be any panky being hanked, he was fired! Gerry and Justin are just good friends, now.
 

oldjones

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LOL You're the confused one, he's being sarcastic, Butts was rehired.
I was being sarcastic, but let's be clear: It was the Party that hired him back, not the PM. He used to work for the Party, back before the last election.

Political Ottawa's a small town, you might even be able to recognize the woman in the mirror who took the pic if your source hadn't mucked it up with his self-important caption. Does he imagine pols and journos take oaths of conversational celibacy? <sarcasm> I'm sure it's just a coincidence the maitre d' seated them like that </sarcasm>
 

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This is a giant "nothing burger." Journalists meet with political operatives all the time.

As much as I hate to find myself siding with Team Trudeau on anything, there's no sign of anything improper here.
 

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I have been surprised that this has not been reported in the mainstream media. If there was nothing wrong with the meeting, I would think that they would want to state that. If the meeting was what it smells like, I would also think that the media would want to report on it.
 

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Butts was rehired. Does't matter that he was rehired by the party, he still works for Trudeau.... or rather, Trudeau works for him as his mouthpiece.

Butts consorting with one of the moderators of the debate is indeed fishy. 'What questions are you going to ask.... he's a few for Sheer..."

If the Conservatives make no bones about this, they don't deserve to be elected.
 

oldjones

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I have been surprised that this has not been reported in the mainstream media. If there was nothing wrong with the meeting, I would think that they would want to state that. If the meeting was what it smells like, I would also think that the media would want to report on it.
You want your TVnews, newspapers and streaming feeds full of nothing but pols and journos in coffee shops, restaurants, dinner parties and cafeterias? Talking to pols is what they do, and restos are where they do it!

The most you could reasonably ask for, is a comment from HuffPost about what hot-info she got out of Butts (Don'cha love how that reads!), or from the Debate Commission saying what they thought their chosen Mod was up to. Of course, if www,spencerfernando.c o m was anything but the partisan blowhard we all know him for, he wouldn't have published without being able to tag the photo with: 'both agencies refused to comment when we questioned them'. But that would be him doing journalism. Perish the thought!
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PS: We expect exactly this stuff from professional pols like Butts; no point in asking his people.
 

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LOL You're the confused one, he's being sarcastic, Butts was rehired.
For Frankfooter, it's not about the quality of his/her posts but the quantity.
 

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For Frankfooter, it's not about the quality of his/her posts but the quantity.
Hey, he wasn't hired back by Trudeau.
By the way, do you really think getting debate questions ahead of time would win the election for any party?
 

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Hey, he wasn't hired back by Trudeau.
By the way, do you really think getting debate questions ahead of time would win the election for any party?
Do you really think anyone with a responsibility to be neutral and non-partisan handing any advantage to one party or another is appropriate, fair and acting in the best interest of Canadians?
No it is not
Why not take the chief electoral officer out for lunch, better yet fly him and his family down to the Aga Khans place for lunch?

You have no understanding of what a free and open election represents and you are void of ethics
If Gerald Butts is capable of inappropriately pressuring our attorney general to intervene on behalf of a Liberal Friend (SNC) he certainly would not think twice about pressuring a sympathetic debate moderator.

$600 MM of tax payer money directed to the media and now this garbage
They must be laughing at all Canadians
 

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Do you really think anyone with a responsibility to be neutral and non-partisan handing any advantage to one party or another is appropriate, fair and acting in the best interest of Canadians?
No it is not
Why not take the chief electoral officer out for lunch, better yet fly him and his family down to the Aga Khans place for lunch?

You have no understanding of what a free and open election represents and you are void of ethics
If Gerald Butts is capable of inappropriately pressuring our attorney general to intervene on behalf of a Liberal Friend (SNC) he certainly would not think twice about pressuring a sympathetic debate moderator.

$600 MM of tax payer money directed to the media and now this garbage
They must be laughing at all Canadians
OMG!!!!
CALL THE RCMP!!!!

THE LIBERALS MIGHT KNOW WHAT THE QUESTIONS ARE!!!!
THE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!!!



Laure, your outrage is not proportional to the lunch meeting.
 

WyattEarp

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Hey, he wasn't hired back by Trudeau.
By the way, do you really think getting debate questions ahead of time would win the election for any party?
No, I don't.
Nor do I think a couple hacked emails can swing an election.
 

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He posts all day LOL even when he knows wrong he'll still keep going...no honor.

I just dropped in for a quick look-see.

He's made 600 posts since being unbanned. HOLY SHIT LOL
 

WyattEarp

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I wonder if he's a home grown social anarchist or someone with ethnic ties to a third world country that personally feels marginalized by Western culture.
 
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