
Outrage-o-meter
2008: Conservative Party website makes an iffy attempt at humour with a cartoon animation of a puffin pooping on Liberal leader Stephane Dion. Media reaction: apoplexy. Just take a guess at how many hits Google has for "pooping puffin" all written in "shock" at the "outrageous" "U.S.-style" "personal" "attack" on the "non-partisan" Dion.
2009: Liberal Party website makes an iffy attempt at humour by showing a photoshopped picture depicting the assassination of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Media reaction? zzzzzzzzzz.
UPDATE: The Liberals have deleted the photo from their website. I saved the whole web page in its original form, which you can see here..
Here's the picture. Hat tip Robert Jago.

