welcomw to the wonderful world of Warren Kinsella, the ads are designed to get people talking about his candidate, good bad or indiferent just get him noticed. Kinsella has been doing this sort of thing for ever and he does get peoples attention ,
Rocco Rossi Ads
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I hope the ads DO create dialogue about the candidates because there was no way Ford should be this high in the polls.
I've never voted before, but I am making an exception this year and voting for the candidate that looks the strongest against Ford in the polls.
Next step, get him charged with child pornography - that will give him lots of exposure - probably enough publicity to run for Prime Minister !
Guess it helped me. I wasn't sure who he was - now I know he is an idiot with poor judgment.
I find them a bit insulting, not becaue of the Italian aspect ( I'm not Itallan) but because to me those adds are quite accurately an "Italian" stereotype, but an Italian-american New Yorker stereo type... and what does being american have to do with running for Mayor in a Canadian City ??
Yep an introduction to democracy vote for the first time because you can not stand one of the people running. I don't suppose you could find something to vote for?????????????
Actually there is a reason for Ford to be this high in the pols, he is running a campaign that resonates with 40 odd percent of the voters poled. The other candidates have done nothing except throw mud and complaion that Ford should not be mayor. Do you really think he would
a) be in the lead if people were really satisfied with the status quo?
b) any one of the other candidates had run , oh i don't know a campaign maybee
The really "odd " thing is , he is ahead in every metric measured in all parts of the city. He even has a small lead in the old Toronto core ridings. He is not winning because the burbs decided to vote this time, he has hit a nerve and the voters are reacting to it.
He also destroyed the wait till labour day to really campign theory , he has been at it all summer and the others have just realized the PEOPLE WERE LISTENING .
this idiot should pull out of the race right now. I suggest he will now get less than 5% of the total vote after hearing the ad on the radio. What a disgrace.
As an Italian-Canadian, this is a major errorachio on the part of Mr Rossi; Mr Kinsella should have known better. And he even spelled bocci wrong.
I guess he resonates in the "pols" with the 40-odd-percent of the stupid people.
You know, the ones that have grade 4 reading comprehension; live in a fishbowl; that read the Toronto Sun; that care about cheap smokes, beer & gas ...
One of the reasons Ford is still in the lead is because politicians, and those in the media who do not support ford have resorted to insulting anyone who would vote for Ford.
And it's backfiring , based on that, I think you have to reconsider who the truly stupid ones are.
It's worth noting that Jonathan Kay, the comment editor at the National Post, has a different take on Kinsella's effectiveness in this campaign:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/09/20/jonathan-kay-on-rob-ford-mythbuster/
Probably, some of this dates back to the fallout from a few years ago, when the Post dropped Kinsella as a media columnist.
By the same token, though, I suspect some of the puffery in today's Toronto Sun about Kinsella's genius (including running the Rocco ads on the front page of the newspaper) is related to the fact Kinsella appears to be a front-runner as one of the "token Liberals" to get some kind of show on the upcoming Sun TV News. On his blog, Kinsella just can't say enough nice things about the proposed conservative news channel.
