Facebook is so Yesterday eh?

The partisan Conservatives, and there are a disapointing number of those at the otherwise great paper the National Post, continue to be out in force attacking the messenger. Face it Mr. Harper, people do want their government to be held accountable and Facebook may be one of the ways to do that.

I sent this in reply to a rather silly note from Matt Gurney in today editorial page.

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Given their success on the weekend Matt Gurney once again randomly shoots at the messenger, which is the Facebook group he earlier dismissed as only a group "overrun by internet cretins". 20,000 people on facebook are initially irrelevant as Facebook will never translate to action; now that it's 218,000 and 20,000 took to the streets it was a low percentage turnout. Well I'd ask how often in Canada do 20,000 people spontaneously take to the street on a point of political order?
A more rational look would be to observe that even at the election polls only about half show up and government costs people tens of thousands times more each than the $1 he proposes as a test. Putting the same standard on Mr. Gurney I wonder if he was out in the 'real world' and talking to real people if he would use such terms and be so dismissive of his fellow citizens? I wonder when he last found the time to march down a street holding a sign.
Yes I'm a member of this group since early January and I do accuse him of more than just "cynicism". It's blind partisanship and I really think the space should be used for NEWS not partisanship.