This has to be a bit embarrassing.  It’s a number of anti-abortion blogs excited about a poll mentioned on the Catholic news site Lifesite. (started by Campaign for Life Coalition)

Expected. What I don’t think anyone was expecting was a fake polling company. Bloggers jumping on this were had.   JJ and her readers at unrepentant old hippie did an outstanding job of asking questions and unravelling what is behind this Campaign for Life need to keep their discontent with the rest of us with this poll. The comments under the first post Tuesday are what blogging is about, as readers post the information they find and release how fake these companies are, the process is and the outcome became.

Freeped polls are common with anti-abortion supporters in Canada, the second post lays out how this  goes way beyond freeped. The second post comments show how bloggers called the phone numbers and talked to one of the people listed the CNW press release.  The scam was meant for anti-abortionists to feel good about what they do as well as point out the prior criticisms of Campaign for Life’s enterism.

The spelling, the labelling (honoring, abortionist) were a tip off, did Campaign for Life get hoodwinked also, or did they perpetrate and pay for the fiasco?  The poll, companies, methodology is a house of cards, a sham. Who authorized this fiasco? It didn’t take bloggers long to find out this is mostly the work of family members of Winnipeg Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge. One of the family members is a failed politician and is listed a conservative fundraiser.

Remains to be seen how this will play out. Will mainstream media notice? Will some anti-abortion websites (where questions have begun to be raised about this scam) acknowledge this type of behavior does their credibility no favours?

Update: Gets worse. Bouquets of Gray does some tech digging. When Bouquets of Gray does tech digging, you might as well throw in the towel. This is blatant even for a push poll and Campaign for Life phone poll ripped off text from a US company.  Amateur hour. The question remains. Who paid for this?

This is reminiscent of the C-10  push poll done by Canada Family Coalition they attempted to slide past the Senate Banking Trade and Commerce Committee just over three months ago.