Website e-mails back Harper's feud with media

Peter O'Neil, CanWest News Service; Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, May 26, 2006

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is rallying his party's so-called ''base'' of right-wing activists by waging a high-profile battle with the national media, says a party member who runs a website for social and fiscal small-c conservatives.

''My sense is that conservatives are getting a great deal of satisfaction out of watching Harper put the boots to the press gallery,'' said Connie Wilkins, vice-president of the Kingston and the Islands riding Association.

''And, when journalists shoot back with articles about his weight, or the kind of car he drives, conservatives just want to see him kick them harder.''

Wilkins, who failed in her bid last year to get the party to support an anti-abortion motion, runs a website with her husband called Free Dominion. She said most of her like-minded conservative friends and associates have long believed the so-called MSM - mainstream media - are hostile to their agenda.

So the vast majority of comments on the Free Dominion site this week cheered on Harper as the prime minister claimed the media is against him and declared that he will ignore Ottawa-based journalists.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=da318402-7045-4ce8-b8c4-b9ef9a0b6390&k=7897

(Not sure if it's a good thing that I've never heard of these guys before.)

Just a bunch of wackos.

The very converted.