rapid response from pmo war room: stephen harper so does not eat babies!

the one that fought back

the best part of this story:

"Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies," the message kept repeating. "No one (in the car) seemed to be reacting to it," said Nicholls ...

thankfully, pmo leapt into action before anyone got the wrong idea:

Dimitris Soudas, a spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, described the hacker's actions as "inappropriate and disrespectful."

and seriously, there's a non-denial denial if we ever heard one! but giving steve the benefit of the doubt (as we like to do), we concede that he probably does not in fact eat babies ... but what about the kittens!!?? just so happens that we know someone who knows where the bodies are buried, and he's totally ready to talk.

lol. ooops, we mean not lol at all, because we should really be taking this very, very seriously ... you should see how mad and serious our faces are right now. and here's steve janke displaying the correct attitude:

But for the smirk factor, this is serious business. Those advertising signs might be seen by up to 150,000 passengers in a day. Thankfully, the average rider of a GO train is well-educated well-paid white-collar office worker, so I don't think most people are going to look at the ad and think, "Hey, maybe there's something to that baby-eating thing."

first of all dude, what go train are you riding ... executive class? but secondly, good point. we must ensure that people without university degrees are never exposed to "harper eats babies", because surely they won't have the critical thinking skillz to see through such sly propaganda. and the angry one's analysis of this important breaking news is really quite sophisticated, so we should quote some more :

I wonder if the vandal who put up the ad was really aiming to insult the riders, and not the Conservatives. "Hey, you right-wing suburban neo-con SUV-driving drones, here's what I think of your Bush-lite president wannabe, and there's nothing you can do about it!"

ooh, how fiendishly clever ... targeting "SUV-driving clones" by hacking public transit! ok, here's an alternative theory we'll just throw out there for the hell of it: the hacker was actually satirizing the reflexive "harper-is-scary" political culture of liberal-bastion TO, and succeeded brilliantly when the commuter-zombots failed to register surpise when the electronic signage started telling them that the pm wants to mow down on their kids. of course, to accept this theory requires a certain receptiveness to irony ... so instead, let's all just agree that it was secret thought-control messages being beamed out of the cbc building.

UPDATE: um ... can we change our answer? it was really all an intricate plot to expose who can and who can not take a joke.