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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

CBC apoplectic that new Canada immigrant guide excludes big yellow highlighting of gay rights

I predict another upward surge in popularity for the Conservatives.

The new idiotic CBC headline this afternoon screams: “Gay rights section nixed for immigrants’ guide”, like we’re all supposed to say to ourselves Dear God! How could they do that to the world’s gays?!, and then the article goes on for about a thousand words about how the minister in charge also voted against gay “marriage” and one time, he appointed someone to a refugee board who was also in favor of traditional marriage.  Like that is or should be illegal or is self-evidently subject to our severe scorn and condemnation.  As if we must all, by law, believe what they — the progressive, far-left — believe.  Or be cast aside as a nut or a criminal.

Oh. My. God.  Gay rights section nixed. 

So, apparently were heterosexual’s rights.  No mention anywhere in the guide about the type of sex you’re allowed to have in Canada.  Can you imagine? How are folks from Kenya supposed to know?  And apparently black folks’ rights and Christians’ rights and laborers’ rights are also excluded.  Nope, no word about those either.

This sort of news story is part of a progressive process, as per Saul Alinsky and other progressives and Fabian socialists.  The agenda is to browbeat, marginalize, demonize — criminalize if possible —anyone who doesn’t subscribe to or even loudly endorse and publicly celebrate their left-wing claptrap.  They’ll set up and use/abuse so-called “Human Rights Commissions” and “Tribunals” to censor, publicly demonize, penalize, and even force those who don’t buy into their agenda force to publicly apologize for their written or spoken misdeeds to the “aggrieved”.  They seek to dismiss all right-thinking Canadians and institutions as evil louts, and they keep doing it over and over until those folks finally appear to be ridiculous and out of step with the yummy progressive, left-wing agenda. 

And all that’s fine, if it’s extremist left-wingers and commies who are doing it on their own time, on their own dime, and in their own left-wing and progressive blogs.  But this is from the state-owned CBC.  It’s the taxpayer-funded news media doing this to you.  In a news article.

This CBC article is an absolute disgrace.  THAT’S the real news story here.

EXTRA PROOF of PROGRESSIVE (and I dare say Nazi-like) PROPAGANDA:

A useful idiot CBC fan and commenter named FrankieV wrote this (and multiple CBC fans gave it the big “thumbs-up”), extolling some of that famous liberal-left, progressive tolerance, intelligence, and understanding, after reading the CBC’s news story:

Isn’t it illegal to bash gay rights?
Shouldn’t this KenneyMinister be ejected for his actions?
If the government still tolerates people like that to lead this country…”

Heil [to someone], FrankieV — am I right? 

But I like this one by ThomasAlexander, who wrote:

We need to add sections to the guide that says “Women are allowed to drive” and “Women are allowed to wear whatever the hell they want” and “Women are allowed to marry whomever they want” and ... and ... and…
Geesh, do we have to say everything? How about “we don’t generally eat cats & dogs in Canada” or “bribing police officers is frowned upon”

And as usual, I would like to point out the number of times the whole word “SHIT” is posted within the comments at the CBC numbers in the countless dozens.  It’s like the CBC loves it and by approving every use of it, works to actually promote its use in the every day vernacular, on the state-owned, taxpayer-funded web site.  Great national family-oriented web site you’ve got here, CBC.  Good family values at play here.  Let’s teach the children to be just like you. 

EXTRA:
First reader comment read at the CTV.ca web site, which pitches the same angle as the CBC using the same Canadian Press story:

I fully support this move.

So do I.

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Monday, March 01, 2010

MUST be federal budget time!  CBC News refers to the (outright socialist) CCPA as “progressive”!

The official CBC News spin on the words of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ “Alternative Budget”, this morning, is “words of wisdom”.  Again, that’s “words of wisdom”. 

So far, two CBC News Network anchors, over two shifts, have referred to that socialist outfit’s “Alternative Budget” as “words of wisdom”.  Note that the CCPA is where the “alternative” is, as far as I can tell, and I’m honest: outright socialism  (but you know, shh!). 

So obviously the official CBC script —the agenda — is to parlay the socialists’ “Alternative Budget”, which the CCPA readily acknowledges includes massive increases in the federal budget deficit (right in the middle of a massive recession caused by massive, progressive-style, excessive borrowing and spending); even more massive government spending, which will of course lead to a still further increases in the size and scope of government, and even further increases in taxes — as “words of wisdom”. 

“As the Conservative government prepares its budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has some words of wisdom! [her emphasis on “wisdom”.]  It says Thursday’s budget should be all about jobs!  And the progressive [that word was barely audibly said] policy group has a warning for the government!”
 
—Carole MacNeil, CBC anchor

Note that anchor Suhana Meharchand, when she earlier reported this same story using what I’m sure was that exact same script, changed it only by leaving out the word “progressive”.  She simply referred to the far-left group as the CCPA —no political leaning attached whatsoever (they’re just plain normal!  Not socialist at all!).  The word “progressive” — which really should have been “socialist” — was only uttered by the later anchor, Carole MacNeil.  Maybe she has less seniority.

Then (in each case) the socialism-reliant CBC provides them with the free air time that the CCPA fully expected, in order to promote its far-left-wing, socialist platform.  This will be repeated over and over, all day long, until it sinks in:  “WORDS OF WISDOM”, folks, in juxtaposition to the stupid, stupid Conservatives’ words.

No word yet from the oh so far-right-wing, or the neocons or the right-wing so-called think tank, the Fraser Institute (which actually just stands for normal Canadian freedom and free markets), despite its repeated though unreported news releases and announcements about the need to restrain spending, lower taxes, and other sensible non-socialist things.  Same vis-a-vis the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the, ugh, ever so far-right National Citizens Coalition and its sensible solutions). 

UPDATE:

In the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC web site’s written version of this, which is nothing less than a free, taxpayer-funded PR-for-socialism pseudo-story, they describe the socialist outfit this way, thus getting themselves off the hook:  ”...the CCPA, which characterizes its policy stance as progressive.”  They nonetheless preface that by themselves calling the CCPA “the independent research group.” 

Huh.  “Independent”, and yet, as the CCPA itself admits in the very next paragraph, “progressive” —meaning exactly not independent.  To the far left, words like “independent” must mean anti-conservative, anti-capitalist, and ultimately socialist.

I think in the interest of honesty and transparency and respect for Canadians, so long as the CBC exists as a state-owned, socialism-reliant news and entertainment behemoth, the far-left CBC should be forced to continuously refer to themselves as “the CBC, which is far-left and anti-conservative and want you to be, too.”

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

More hate comments wishing for Dick Cheney’s death approved at state-owned CBC

I just added a few more comments to my blog post from yesterday exemplifying the extremist left-wing hate found at the CBC web site. 

It should be all over the news.  I don’t just mean Dick Cheney’s recent check-in to the hospital for chest pains —I mean the story of the hate site, CBC.ca, and how a state-owned, taxpayer-paid entity can allow such a thing to occur.  And how as its overseers, the apparently flaccid Canadian citizens and moreover, the government in charge, can allow its own government division, the CBC division, which it owns and to whom the CBC directly reports, to turn into a hateful, divisive, politically extremist left-wing crap sandwich, all at taxpayer expense. 

Canadians should demand the CBC be completely dismantled to save our country from utter shame and embarrassment, to say nothing of the fact that manifestly, state-owned news and entertainment media should be banned in any free country — and certainly in ours, where we already have viable citizen-owned options, against which the government tacitly competes —for profit, and for attention, and for advertisers, and in the forum of ideas, and notably the forum of political ideas.  It’s an absolute abomination of freedom and democracy.

Be sure you bookmark my whole category of CBC hate comments for future reference.  It includes the likes of “THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE” —a comment written in response to a news article about a Canadian soldier dying for our country in Afghanistan. 

I miss 99% of the hate—my efforts at documenting this extremist left-wing hate are limited by my time and money of course.  Note that these limitations don’t prevail at the CBC, with its apparently limitless taxpayer-paid resources, and whose lawyers once warned me, after threatening to sue me to kingdom come for posting videos critical of the CBC, that “we will be monitoring your site.”  This occurred in Canada —not Iran.

I’ve run internet blogs and discussion forums since they were invented.  The most basic tenet of any such site owner and administrator has always been to encourage at least a modicum of common human decency, and therefore, strictly forbid anybody from wishing death on anybody else.  It can be credibly argued that a site that allows that to happen on a regular basis, particularly when the hate, regularly expressed, is almost totally one-sided as it is at CBC, could be considered a hate site, an extremist site, and one which should be shunned by all of humanity.  That’s a fairly common notion amongst all site administrators who don’t run hate sites. 

The state-owned CBC web site is one of the most vile, hateful, divisive, and most left-wing and anti-conservative web sites that I regularly look at in North America.  I would avoid that site if I didn’t adopt it as a duty of mine to report on its extremism and left-wing political bent for a web site called “ProudToBeCanadian”. 

What kind of government would allow this to happen?  And allow this to happen at a cost to taxpayers — of in excess of a BILLION of our own taxpayer dollars per year, plus the literally unknown hundreds of millions in additional subsidies every year to secure all manner of left-wing content from nearly uniformly left-wing “artists” and far-left “documentarians” like Michael Moore, and other such left-wing claptrap resources.  And allow it to employ almost exclusively left-wing and far-left opinion columnists?  And then ensure that the CBC then benefits from myriad government protective regulations and laws and mandates to ensure all Canadians get its content?  What kind of a government allows that?

This is Hugo Chavez-style, banana republic BS.

The CBC makes me utterly ashamed to be a Canadian.

WRITE YOUR MP.

Better yet, since even the Conservative Party fully supports the CBC and won’t stop reminding us of that fact, thus further legitimizing it and all that it stands for, mobilize and get active in politics in your own neighborhoods and communities, and get personally involved in the Conservative Party itself —and make it respond to the your values — values of actual conservatives —traditional, sane, freedom-loving Canadians. 

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State-owned CBC:  commenting CBC fans wish Dick Cheney dead; hope he dies in pain.  APPROVED by CBC.

I mentioned yesterday that Vice President Cheney had checked himself into the hospital due to chest pains, and teased that the extremist left-wingers and haters at the CBC web site would soon be hoping for his painful death, and naturally I was spot on as always.

I’ve categorized some of the comments I found at that hate-filled, state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC web site.

From my reading over the years, virtually all CBC fans think (in lockstep, or rather in goosestep fashion) that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are “war criminals”.  All extreme leftist idiots I’ve ever listened to uniformly think this way.  But whatever he is, he needs to die, if I understand the CBC commenters correctly.  The fact that the CBC moderators approve of these comments makes them accomplices.

LEFT-WING GENIUS WAR CRIMES JUDGES OF ALL GET OUT:

· cprtrain wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:17 PM ET
This idiot should be in jail and not a hospital. He is a war criminal and is responsible for the US being in Iraq.
64Agree 10Disagree

· BentWang wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:36 PM ET
Let us make sure this war criminal lives long enough to stand trial.
15Agree 5Disagree

· HumptyD wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:53 PM ET
Well I hope Dick has a full recovery. I know it won’t happen but I always wished to see him and his puppet Dubya, in shackles at The Hague.
1Agree 1Disagree

· RALPH120 wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:57 PM ET
What a scare!
Don’t go ... yet, Dick “Tojo” Cheney.
You need to answer for your war crimes with your neocon buddies at the upcoming trial…
1Agree 1Disagree

AND IN THE GIMME JUST ONE ORIGINAL THOUGHT CATEGORY:

· JohnMeyer wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:18 PM ET
Well at least they won’t have to waste time checking for a heart.
Cheers,
John Meyer
56Agree 4Disagree

· mkconnie wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:21 PM ET
What? Cheney has a heart?
55Agree 5Disagree

· Pete from Scarborough wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:53 PM ET
Cheney has a heart?
32Agree 9Disagree

· WinkDinkerson wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:01 PM ET
Cheney has a heart?
I predict the above statement will be said at least 10 times in this thread.
19Agree 4Disagree

· KC3707 wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:34 PM ET
Obvious misdiagnosis. Dick Cheney does not have a heart.
15Agree 3Disagree

ON THE RELIGIOUS-LEFT FRONT:

Ahhh.  This explains why they’re atheists.  Because if there was a “god”, he’d murder Dick Cheney just for kicks.  Now get back to your CBC-readin’, Hank Ford and FarLeft!

· Hank Ford wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:19 PM ET
One reason I can’t believe in god is that if he existed, Cheney would not. He is scum, responsible for war crimes, and no loss to this world. Sorry, but that the way it is. Maybe when he does croak, he can get together with Saddam and find those missing wmd program in the nebulous future ready to strike American any minute smoking gun bullsh#t.
55Agree 10Disagree

· FarLeft wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:25 PM ET
“Cheney has had four heart attacks, starting when he was 37. He has had quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties.”
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Obviously, God is trying to get rid of this man.
46Agree 6Disagree

LEFTIST CAPITALIST GENIUSES:

· I’m Listening wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:55 PM ET
Guess Haliburton stock must of plunged…
27Agree 4Disagree

(sorry — there was only one financial genius)

ON THAT FAMOUS LIBERAL-LEFT COMPASSION AND LOVE OF OUR FELLOW HUMANS:

· AnotherPerspective wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:05 PM ET
I hope it hurts…. a lot!
19Agree 6Disagree

· SNAFOO wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:08 PM ET
Oh my! I hope he doesn`t recover soon…..
14Agree 7Disagree

· Wuzupdawk wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:04 PM ET
I understand completely why comments are pre-moderated. Most Canadians would be disappointed to hear Cheney is recovering—- I am no different. He has done much irreversible harm to this world.
22Agree 7Disagree

THIS IS HOW LIBERAL ARGUE FOR GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH INSURANCE:

· Hubris Hunter wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:25 PM ET
As if for a cruel exclamation mark the brutal ugliness is he would of been dead at 37 if he was one of the millions without health insurance…...
7Agree 3Disagree

· CynicalDragon wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:36 PM ET
obviously due to the reaction he had when he heard of Obamas new health care plans.
3Agree 0Disagree

· Dr. Wayne wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:19 PM ET
Now isn’t modern medicine a marvel ... for some.
0Agree 0Disagree

· ThePaz wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:24 PM ET
Wonder if his health insurance is up to date?
4Agree 0Disagree

· WESTER wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:50 PM ET
And right below the headline “Obama unveils newest health-care plan.”
Well-placed, CBC, the irony is delicious.
1Agree 0Disagree

MISCELLANEOUS LIBERAL-LEFT HATE:

· Burning Hazard wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:46 PM ET
They should send him to the Great Wizard of Oz for the first diagnosis…
2Agree 1Disagree

· ExSaskie wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 10:49 PM ET
I was always taught if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.
So…..
2Agree 4Disagree

· 48beepguin wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:10 PM ET
I guess hunter friend he shot finally fired back. It’s not the heart, its the lead pellets in his chest.
3Agree 0Disagree

· Tangaihua wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:19 PM ET
Should send him to a hospital in Iraq….I’m sure they would put in something that would tick much better….tick..tick..tick…\
2Agree 0Disagree

· catapleiite wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 11:34 PM ET
He should have checked in a hospital in Baghdad.
1Agree 0Disagree

Before I went to bed, there were also four normal thoughts in which folks wished Cheney well, and pointed out how utterly full of hate and bile the commenters at the CBC web site were.  Maybe the CBC didn’t approve the rest of them. 

UPDATE:  The death-wish continues Tuesday morning

Here’s another rather typical lunatic from the CBC commenting section:

· TheFacts wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 10:59 AM ET
Cheney the mastermind behind 9/11
The warmonger and war crimminal who murdered over 1/2 million Iraqis
He should be in jail together with Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair, Wolfowitz, Rice and all tha PANAC terrorists
But since there is no real justice in this world .... when is turn comes he will rot in hell
3Agree 3Disagree

· SmedleyButler wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 10:21 AM ET
Dear Dick,
Please die soon and make the world a better place.
Thanks,
Smedley
P.S. RIP?!?!?! I hope those old bones are desecrated daily.
13Agree 8Disagree

The above comment was APPROVED by the CBC.

· Houseman wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 9:39 AM ET
The sooner he takes the count, the better. Unfortunately, his daughter is planning on entering federal politics. If it’s not one Cheney, it’s another.
R.I.P., Dick. Soon.
4Agree 6Disagree

· anti_CCRAP wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 12:45 AM ET
I am always amused to read stories about Cheney.. specially those about his “heart”... particularly the nasty empty space in his chest cavity where most humans usually have one.
29Agree 5Disagree

· ravnlghtft wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 12:43 AM ET
Think he’ll live long enough to face the The Hague?
29Agree 4Disagree

· michael971 wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 12:16 AM ET
I wouldn’t miss him I think the world would be a better place. Would you?
34Agree 9Disagree

· OliverH wrote:Posted 2010/02/23 at 12:14 AM ET
FarLeft wrote:Posted 2010/02/22 at 9:25 PM ET: “Obviously, God is trying to get rid of this man.”
Assuming God exists. With a record of 0-4, God = FAIL
17Agree 8Disagree

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Companies associate themselves with those who share their values and suit their brand? Like the CBC?

  Headline: 
  “A FITTING IMAGE
  Companies sponsor athletes who share their values and suit their brand”.

Go team!  We’re behind you!  We share your values!  You suit our brand!  ...And that’s why we associate with and so support the CBC! (play that hilarious clip of screeching car tires).

The headline is about businesses associating with Olympic athletes and such, but it’s equally true of a lot of other things with which they associate themselves.  And it’s why, when Tiger Woods’ very liberal family and moral values came to our attention, companies who were associating with him didn’t waste any time publicly dissociating with him.  Woods didn’t actually “share their values”, nor did he “suit their brand”.  They wanted out.  For their own good. 

So it’s confusing to me that companies such as those I’ve listed in my Push Back list (also posted along the right side of this web site) advertise on — thereby sponsoring — the state-owned, socialism-reliant, taxpayer-funded, totally reliant on high and ever higher taxes, and it could be credibly argued, the anti-conservative, anti-capitalist CBC.  Or any clearly socialist outfit which relies on the continuation of, and what is inevitably the further advancement of, the socialist model for their very existence. 

Bank of Montreal?  Investors Group?  Tim Hortons?  I do understand groups like the University of Toronto and all those crown “corporations” (—wink!) advertising on and associating themselves with the CBC (as they do) because colleges teach and promote the same things as the CBC, and crown “corporations” all rely on the same economic model as the CBC being maintained.  But Vonage?  Shaw Cable?  General Motors?   Do these companies believe in socialism?  Does socialism “suit their brand”?  Really?  Is socialism and a government-owned, socialism-reliant media network the kind of “values” they want to be associated with?  Does socialism “suit their brand” —or ours? 

If so, good to know.  Their values aren’t mine.  (And let’s not be fooled: big businesses may very well not share your free-market capitalist values, so don’t be mislead or confused.) 

It’s a little counterintuitive to say the least.  Socialism is obviously the antithesis of capitalism and a free-market economy, and the state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC is the antithesis of capitalism and a free-market economy.  The CBC absolutely relies on the promotion of anti-capitalists like Michael Moore and his documentaries the CBC incessantly repeats, over and over, and the promotion of an anti-capitalist system writ large, to sustain them and their very existence.  So why would anybody want to be associated with that?  Whose values are those?  “A fitting image:  Companies sponsor athletes who share their values and suit their brand”  Well if the shoe fits…

It seems a little self-defeating to me, for a capitalism-reliant company who needs Canadians to have plenty of after-tax dollars and total freedom, to advertise on a socialism-reliant government media behemoth which constantly berates capitalism and conservatives and their free-market, freedom-oriented values and promotes socialists and other progressives.  It ultimately helps lead us to the demise of capitalism as we know it today.  And that doesn’t suit my own personal brand or that of my family, or even my country for that matter. 

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Antidotes to left-wing Obama-apologist stupidity at CBC —free at citizen-owned and paid-for PTBC!

This CBC-related blog post reminds me of my post from yesterday where I pointed to our fantastic PTBC columnist Ann Coulter and her latest superb column, which was followed almost immediately by an unwittingly hilarious report from the United Nations regarding exactly what she was properly railing about, thus not only confirming what she said, but laughingly so.  Read Chairman Ann’s column first, I said, then the story about the U.N. report.  And the good times they a-rolled, baby!  (Let’s just say.)

Well today we get to play that game again!  Yay!  This time, though, it’s got a darker edge to it.  I actually have to ask you to read something at the left-wing, state-owned, socialism-reliant and taxpayer-funded CBC web site — one of the most left-wing web sites in all of North America —first.  This of course pains me to no end as you can imagine.  Only then should you take the antidote and read a couple of things at the tremendous Townhall.com.  Astute observers will note that this twist on our usually fun game steers you away from this web site using all manner of hypertext linkage, for at least a little while.  This is most unfortunate.  But on the plus side, at least I’m not, and you’re not, paying for Townhall or PTBC with my, and your, tax dollars.  And, as a bonus, we will learn something and enjoy ourselves, I promise.

Feel free to enjoy a beer or a fancy cocktail while playing!  Take a sip every time a leftist blames conservatives for their own stupidity and lack of ability to sell Americans their hard-left claptrap!  It’s Friday after all, and I can tell you for a fact that Ann Coulter would play along.

This version of our game is built around the ever-arrogant, state-owned CBC’s “reporter” - (slash) - yet another left-wing political opinion columnist who is working on behalf of the state-owned media and you, Neil Macdonald, whom I just referred to this past Monday.  He once again lashes out at any damn thing conservative and sane, on the state-owned peoples’ CBC.ca all left-wing politics, all the time web site.  At your expense and mine.  See previous installment.  It bears an amazingly coincidental semblance to this most recent left-wing political opinion column by Neil Macdonald, on the state-owned taxpayer-funded web site, in its news section.

I usually try not to provide the CBC with increased readership at my own expense, largely because they don’t pay me for all the extra readership (which they’d have to pay me with my own money, which is of course preposterous, but that’s how the CBC works);  and because they literally exist to stand against everything you and I stand for (which is also preposterous, but that’s socialism and big government for you).  But this time I will begrudgingly provide a helpful link, because this Neil Macdonald rant actually provides sane Canadians like us with a valuable service, which is that it’s exemplary of the difference between, on the one hand, unthinking liberal-leftist and rabidly anti-conservative ideologues who are paid by the state and one of its tentacles, and on the other, normal conservatives who earn their own keep the honest way.  So we might be getting something for our money in this one case. 

And so (God help me), go to the CBC and read it first.  Helpful reminder: consume alcohol!).

And then for a funny and unwittingly and fortuitously-timed antidotal rebuke, read the columns of two real brilliant thinkers: Charles Krauthammer (“Ungovernable? Nonsense.”); and Jonah Goldberg (“Pick an Excuse, Any Excuse”). 

Game time will only last about 10 minutes (so drink fast), but by playing it, even drunk, you will quickly learn more about the difference between unthinking, ideological left-wing sycophants who seem to strain to appeal to the unintelligent (it is the CBC, after all), and the more clear-thinking conservative thinkers, than you will in even 12 minutes’ worth of regular daily PTBC reading.  And one of the key goals of PTBC is to help explain the difference between liberals and conservatives.  So, you know, cheers.

The cognitive dissonance contained within the likes of the distasteful Neil Macdonald part of our game reminds me of the “man-made global warming”, and the inevitable Climategate story which naturally followed, which proved outright fraud, among other left-wing ideologically-based deceptions.  And also about President Barack Obama and his administration’s political deceptions, outright lies, the false blame-game (miraculously identical in tone and substance and talking points to that of the CBC’s Neil Macdonald), and their phony history-re-writes, writ large.  And it could all be boiled in the pot of intellectual goodness found in Jonah Goldberg’s fantastic, huge New York Times best-selling book, Liberal Fascism, which speaks directly to all of this, and how this is a part of the progressive mantra:  demonize or even criminalize the opposition as best they can, enlisting and using the media, particularly state-owned media if possible, in lieu of actually making sense and selling your own ideas in an intellectually honest manner.

So as always, I’ll use this as another excuse to repeat my own little mantra with regard to the CBC:  What kind of government competes against its own citizens in business for profits, and especially in the forum of ideas and moreover, in the forum of political ideas?  That’s right.  So clearly, state-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion should be enshrined in our constitution. 

Once again please note that PTBC, which costs taxpayers nothing and yet tries to compete against the left-wing idiocy found at the state-owned CBC, is chock-a-block full of clear-thinking conservative-friendly columnists who, like me, don’t work for and get paid by the state at your expense and mine, but rather at my own expense in time and money, and theirs.  Thank you for playing our little game.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

CBC tells half the story; in which half full is full. They don’t tell the other half, which is wrong

In fact, they are full of it. 

I heard the CBC report its latest political polls this morning.  How exciting, I say, half jokingly.  On the other side of the coin, by which I mean the taxpayers’ coin, political polls apparently matter to the CBC in ways their own dismal ratings (which constantly put them in dead last place) don’t matter —at least not enough to report, ever.  But whatever. 

They do this polling by commissioning, with your money, a professional polling firm (EKOS), to do polls exclusively for them, and which are in fact “released exclusively to the CBC,” they pridefully tell us every week.  The EKOS polls are, we are constantly told, released “exclusively to” them, even though the massive taxes paid by the competing CTV (ratings leader!) and Global (also beats CBC in ratings!) and every other private media and all citizens pay for these “exclusive” CBC polls.  So that’s “exclusive” in ways they don’t even mean.  And apparently they at the state-owned media think no others in Canada are even capable of polling other Canadians without this government department (the benevolent CBC) stepping in and doing it for us, through the state-owned news media, and your cash.  How yummy, in a socialist, Hugo Chavez kind of way. 

Today’s poll shows (1) that support for the NDP, which if we look at the graphic they helpfully provide on the TV box, stands at 16.5%.  It is thus reported by the news anchor as, and I quote, “almost 17%”.  Not almost 16% mind you.  “Almost 17%.”  Half-full means full, when it comes to their party.  Thanks for rounding up. I almost appreciate your half-assed deception. Not.

And (2) they report that 48% of Canadians think the country “is heading in the wrong direction” (without telling us that therefore, up to 52% — or what we call “the majority” — don’t, in fact, say that). 

But since it’s all about politics, why not provide a little perspective?  For example, in the other half of the continent, under the Obama administration (hey!  Obama’s half black!), as Rasmussen Reports shows this morning (using the positive perspective instead), “28% say the U.S. is heading in the right direction”.  Meaning that up to 72% may think it’s heading in the wrong direction.  In fact only 65% think it’s heading in the wrong direction, or to round it off like the CBC, “almost every one”.  But at least they take the positive side and report only those who are, um, still “hoping”? 

Right Direction or Wrong Track
28% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Just 28% of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This marks the lowest level of voter confidence in the nation’s current course since one year ago and appears to signal the end of a slight burst of confidence at the first of this year.

The majority of voters (65%) believe the nation is heading down the wrong track, a figure that’s held roughly steady since mid-November.  ...

Of course if you ever want the other half of the story — the half the CBC never reports — you have to watch Fox News Channel, which is at least twice the news channel the CBC is.

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Plane crashes into IRS building: CBC fans reflexively blame “right-wingers”, “teabaggers”.

CBC radical leftists and idiots are racing to post their BLAME RIGHT-WINGERS! screed on the taxpayer-paid state-owned CBC web site, for the benefit of all Canadians.  (Avoid the CBC’s ridiculous version:  Read the story here). 

For extra amusement, the usual number of the totally irrational left-wing 9/11 ‘Truthers’ add to the CBC mix, in addition to one who calls this a “patriotic” (not terrorist!) act, and uses the CBC web site to publicly call for this just sort of “patriotic” violent uprising against business, or at least banks in particular.  And naturally, one calls the pilot a crazy “teabagger”, using the most despicable, derogatory term possible to describe at least half of America, which apparently the CBC has decided — perhaps in a committee setting — to officially approve, when used by its delightful commenters against conservatives and normal — non-progressive — concerned Americans.  And one thinks the homicidal pilot is actually a sort of a “martyr” to the cause, like the Islamofascist, homicide bomber/terrorists all think they are “martyrs”.

CBC approves all these:

• MenoKnight wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 12:30 PM ET
They say on CNN it is an IRS building.
A crazy Tea Party Nut?

• Pedestrian wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 12:35 PM ET
So why hasn’t the building collapsed in to it’s own footprint yet? It’s been burning for quite a long time, and my understanding of the Official Truth has always been that buildings collapse at the rate of free fall after events like this.

• MenoKnight wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 1:07 PM ET
CNN says It was a man with a grudge against the IRS
Just like a said, a tea party nut.

• Albertakid wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 1:10 PM ET
Not Terrorism, but patriotism. How long can people watch the government steal their hard-earned money and give it to their bankster friends? There needs to be an uprising of the middle class before there is no middle class left.

• Dice_K wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 1:10 PM ET
Hmm. On 9/11, building 7 “collapsed” and wasn’t even struck. Wonder if this building is made of tougher cardboard?

• Quasimodem wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 1:28 PM ET
Sure, I’ll go out on a limb and make a prediction without sufficient evidence, I think they will find that the pilot was a wild and crazy teabagger. One of Glenn Beck’s constant listeners.

• dizzydz wrote:Posted 2010/02/18 at 2:39 PM ET
Don’t waste your time with the terrorist theories. The guy has had a long running dispute with the real terrorists, the `Federal Taxman’ the ones who bleed us dry to subsidize the Halliburtons, Bechtels, Blackwaters, and GM’s of the world. Rest in Peace brother, your sacrifice will be remembered as those of a martyr.

Maybe the CBC fans should have read this part of the pilot’s suicide note, in which he apparently reveals himself to have been sort of the opposite of what the CBC commenters think —he actually seems to be a rabid anti-capitalist who reveres the lefts’ Marxist motto, and hates capitalism:

Not that it matters what side he’s on. He’s a murderer, either way.

Naturally, the socialism-reliant CBC doesn’t bother to include that tidbit of socialist credo, though, which is worth pointing out. 

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Hateful CBC commenter admits his HATRED of Israel.  CBC approves comment.

With the CBC’s help (or aid and comfort, you might say), these people from the “peace-loving”, “tolerant”, “compassionate”, “nuanced” and “intelligent” set are becoming more and more brash — sort of Ahmadinejadian in this example — in their abject displays of hatred and idiocy.  On your dime of course. 

As if to openly confirm, once again, my repeated claims that the state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC’s well-nurtured left-wing extremist audience is full of haters and intolerant left-wing asses, today we find one who actually types out the words —and naturally the CBC approves it. 

“...by the way…I HATE ISRAEL…”

...Which obviates another round of our fun little game!
Let’s play!
What if he said he hated GAY PEOPLE?!
Well that was fun.

The jerk who calls himself “GeraldMcIvor” at the CBC site wins our Worst Canadian of the Week Award.  Actually he shares it with the state-owned CBC itself.  Worst Canadians of the Week.  Marvy.

But at least this open hatred helps us understand the progressives —the liberal-left or extreme left, and one of their primary enablers, the CBC, better.  Straining to find an upside, I guess we could say that they are at least providing a valuable political service of sorts to normal Canadians regarding how liberals and progressives think.  Not that we should pay them for it, as we are (I mean no taxpayers pay me to explain how conservatives think, after all).

I should note that the hater then uses his tool (by which I mean the CBC, but I do understand the confusion) to blithely go on to accuse the Israelis of genocide (not even adding “alleged”?), and adds of course that Israel was aided and abetted in the “genocide” by our own country, and of course the even more hated U.S.  No word on his hatred of Canada and the U.S., but I presume, following his own logic, that he holds an identical sentiment:  HATRED.

 

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Taliban leader caught? Therefore, CBC’s left-wing nutbars come out of their rat holes in protest.

File this under the heading “Where did they learn this?”  Or you may choose the heading “At the CBC”.

Only extreme left-wing zealots and nuts could possibly come up with the kind of deranged drivel you find in the comments at the state-owned, taxpayer-funded representation of Canada: the CBC and its despicable web site.  And it could be credibly argued, this could only occur if the web site welcomed this level of idiotspeak and left-wing, Bush-hating discourse, and let it occur, over and over, thereby actually encouraging it.

On the news article today about the savage Islamofascist terrorist Taliban leader being arrested (unfortunately not shot dead) in Pakistan, within minutes, two comments appeared reading: “What about Chenney, Rumsfeld and Bush ?”

Never mind that President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Defense Secretary Gates have more troops deployed there than Bush did.  The fact that CBC readers so often view President Bush, Vice President “Chenney”, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in exactly the same light as savage Islamofascist terrorist Taliban leaders who gave aid and comfort to savages who declared war on America and the west killing thousands of innocent Americans and Canadians and others in a brutal attack, while at the same time slaughtering innocents in Afghanistan to take over that country, raping and torturing women and children along the way… tells us all we need to know about following the state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC has managed to nurture and encourage with our government’s blessing.  For us and our children and families and all the world to see. 

But worried that he didn’t seem to get his message across, he submitted it again, and again it was allowed to be presented to the world on “our” website (once again spelling “Chenney” like an uneducated ignoramus). 

Note that the CBC moderates and approves the comments at the CBC prior to their being posted. 

This is the same CBC web site where I found the words, in a comment posted at an article about a Canadian soldier dying in the fight in Afghanistan, “THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE”.  And others like that.

Unlike the “Official Languages Commissioner” who will “investigate” the amount of French being spoken at the Olympian government games,  there is no oversight whatsoever, apparently, prepared to “investigate” the far-left extremist sentiment being nurtured at the state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC. 

All the political parties in Canada support the CBC, including the Conservative Party;  as do many companies and organizations, including the Canadian military and the RCMP, who support it through their advertising.  Yet it is web sites like this one — ProudToBeCanadian — which they deem too “extreme” to advertise on or support in any way, shape, or form.  God bless ‘em.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Meandering through “progressives’” very own documents; it’s creepy; Orwellian…

A quote pulled from a Canadian government document. 

...the Commission [by which they mean the liberal-left’s very own Soviet-style CRTC division] is of the view that the composition of the digital basic service should be informed by the policy objectives of the Act [by which they mean the policy objectives of the Liberals’ very own Broadcasting Act], with a view to ensuring that subscribers have access to a basic service that, among other things:

  •  fosters the growth of Canada’s cultural, social, economic and political aims;

This CRTC division’s response was to an application from the state-owned and socialism-reliant CBC division, to reaffirm their mandatory (by government decree) carriage on all cable and satellite systems in Canada, as a part of all basic services.  Much as in Iran.  Or Venezuela. To wit:

Mandatory distribution of existing services on digital basic
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Applications

46.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) requested mandatory distribution of the national specialty television programming undertaking known as CBC Newsworld on digital basic, and requested that the Commission issue a distribution order under section 9(1)(h) of the Act requiring all DTH satellite distribution undertakings and all Class 1 and Class 2 BDUs to distribute CBC Newsworld as part of their digital basic services. 

REQUEST GRANTED ...by the benevolent, ideologically identical other division of the progressives’ yummy government and its fantastic progressive social-engineering and central planning mandarins.

Of course the applicant itself —the CBC — added this tidbit to their application, possibly reflecting the fact that in normal, free-market conditions, with which the CRTC division and the CBC want utterly no part (quite the contrary), and since they have certain “political aims” and “policies” to advance:

48.
The applicant also noted that, should CBC Newsworld not be granted mandatory distribution, the resulting decline in subscription and advertising revenues would lead to a need to reduce expenditures in the form of reduced coverage of events and documentary programming from a Canadian perspective. 

From a “Canadian perspective”... you know, like their constant re-broadcasts, over and over and over again, of Micheal Moore “documentaries” and other such “documentaries” as Al Gore’s “documentary”.  THAT “Canadian perspective”.  Wink.  In fact, they tacitly acknowledge that they would fail — nobody would even watch — unless the government FORCED it on people as best they could. 

Then as if to prove that they simply serve to, well, stimulate themselves, and serve their own “political aims”, we find this additional “Assessment” from the CRTC division regarding a similar application from the Weather Network:

Assessment

63.
In the Commission’s view, while weather information is an important topic to Canadians, such programming is readily available in every Canadian community through conventional over-the-air television services on the basic service as well as certain specialty services, through radio and through sources outside of the broadcasting system, such as print media and the Internet. As such, the Commission considers that the Weather Network and MétéoMédia are not of exceptional importance in the fulfilment of the objectives of the Act and, consequently, should not be granted mandatory distribution on digital basic. 

...Because after all, going back to the CBC application for reference, there is no CTV network, or Global network, nor any number of other private broadcasters which would magically spring up and also make themselves “readily available” in the absence of this CBC “public option” (—wink!).  And besides, what political aim is served by a private company showing cooling temperatures?!  And one which is not overtly advancing socialism and a stridently left-wing, progressive world view all day and night. 

In other weirdly related progressive-world news, the government is selling ad space to private Canadian companies to advertise on the CBC which we all already pay for and own.  However, upon my review (oh I admit it, I’ve done this review a thousand times), the CBC actually reserves the right to deny competitors from advertising on their very own CBC media. To wit:

Policy 1.3.11: Unacceptable Advertising
EFFECTIVE: June 20, 2006
RESPONSIBILITY: Chief Regulatory Officer
Policy

Some advertising is not accepted on CBC/Radio-Canada services, either for reasons of principle or commercial interest. This includes:

  • advertisements for services considered competitive with CBC/Radio-Canada services; 

As I’ve suggested before, until the CBC is properly abolished as a state-owned media, and the prohibition of state-owned news and entertainment media is enshrined as it should be in our constitution, the CBC should, if anything, be required by law to carry all Canadian-owned corporate and organizations’ advertising for free —especially competitors’ advertising. 

But I really doubt I’ll find a document outlining that application by the CBC.  Or any socialist.

None of these things are core functions of government.  None of this is capitalism.  None of this speaks to freedom. 

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Monday, February 15, 2010

“Man-made global warming” theories continue to collapse with new admission by “climate expert”

Did you know that one of the leading scientists (do we still have to call them scientists?) behind the “man-made-global warming” alarmist division of the United Nations has backtracked and admitted he was wrong and claims to have “lost” crucial documents “proving” his theory?  Shouldn’t you already know this, loud and clear?  If you didn’t know this, check your news source.  You just might be watching the CBC.  Or any other agenda-driving liberal-left news media, which, it can be credibly argued, are effectively misinforming you by an omission of facts, possibly because they and their cohorts are personally and professionally invested in the culture of this specious, left-wing “man-made global warming” claptrap.  Just as they were and mostly still are invested in Barack Obama, and things like government-run “health care” and “the public option”...

There are articles like this every day, but they’re largely buried by urgent stories and breaking news alerts about how Sarah Palin wrote something on her hand, in which they find a need to report that she is, in fact, dumber than a billy-goat.  Actually that’s not even true.  Liberal-left media like the government-owned CBC don’t even report these things like these Climategate stories until they are forced to by complaints, finally causing expensive, taxpayer-paid official inquiries by the state-paid CBC’s own “Ombudsman”.  See “FORCED”, below, for yet another real classic Soviet or North-Korean—style moment in Canadian “news” history. 

THE GREAT CLIMATE CHANGE RETREAT

THERE has been no global warming for 15 years, a key scientist admitted yesterday in a major U-turn.

Professor Phil Jones, who is at the centre of the “Climategate” affair, conceded that there has been no “statistically significant” rise in temperatures since 1995.

The admission comes as new research casts serious doubt on temperature records collected around the world and used to support the global warming theory. ...

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits:
There has been no global warming since 1995

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming. ...

World may not be warming, say scientists

The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.

In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was “unequivocal”.

It warned that greenhouse gases had already heated the world by 0.7C and that there could be 5C-6C more warming by 2100, with devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife. However, new research, including work by British scientists, is casting doubt on such claims. Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all.

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
[...]
Terry Mills, professor of applied statistics and econometrics at Loughborough University, looked at the same data as the IPCC. He found that the warming trend it reported over the past 30 years or so was just as likely to be due to random fluctuations as to the impacts of greenhouse gases. Mills’s findings are to be published in Climatic Change, an environmental journal.

“The earth has gone through warming spells like these at least twice before in the last 1,000 years,” he said. ...

FORCED
Here is the Ombudsman’s review of the CBC reporting on ClimateGate (or the attempted lack of reporting on it, as I see it), as supplied to PTBC by a reader, Jay S. 

It exemplifies some of the most arrogant, biased, and insulting blatherings of the self-anointed elites found in state-owned anything, but especially from the self-defensive, snotty, state-owned CBC. 

EMAIL to Jay S.:

From: CBC Ombudsman [mailto:Ombudsman@CBC.CA]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:56 PM
To: Jay S
Cc: Esther Enkin; Jennifer McGuire
Subject: Review of your complaint (Jay S.)

Dear Jay S:

Attached is my review of CBC’s delayed coverage of “Climategate.”

Sincerely,

Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

cc: 

Esther Enkin, Executive Editor, CBC News
Jennifer McGuire, General Manager and Editor in Chief, CBC News

AND HERE IS THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT referred to in the email above:

CBC * Radio-Canada
OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN
English Services

Review: Delayed coverage of “Climategate”
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February 5, 2010

We received 82 complaints concerning the absence/delayed coverage of the story concerning e-mail traffic in the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Many saw a conspiracy among those who support the theory of Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW) to keep the revelations under wraps. Many also claimed that the “hacked” e-mails completely undermined the basis for accepting that theory.

Esther Enkin, the Executive Editor of CBC News, responded. She said the explanation was more mundane—a lapse in assessing the value of the story which essentially broke over the weekend. She pointed out that a number of high-profile mainstream media outlets found themselves in the same predicament. She went on to explain how CBC News responded once the story’s significance became evident.

Several correspondents were unsatisfied with Ms. Enkin’s response and asked me to review the matter.

REVIEW:

Scepticism is one of the cornerstones of journalistic practice. Of course, it is not to be confused with cynicism, nor with manipulation, “spin” or denial of fact.
The good journalist should always view the “accepted” with an appropriately open mind, but not an empty one. Evolution can be acknowledged as accepted science, without closing the mind to new discoveries that might amend the theory.

While the “theory” of evolution can be tested with actual artifacts, the “science” of climate change appears to be a mixture of “artifact” and projection. Journalists should approach any kind of projection openly, but skeptically. This is a quite different position from those who argue against AGW and more in line with those who see that the broad spectrum of scientific opinion tends in one direction, but remain open to both historical and current data which might suggest alternatives.

There is no doubt that CBC News was slow to the so-called “climategate” story, although that trope overstates the extent and nature of the revelations. Most mainstream journalists should have become aware of the story over the weekend of November 21, 2009. A number of agencies carried stories then about the stolen e-mails. By Monday, the story had more general, but not universal, coverage. As Ms. Enkin noted, various major outlets had not yet carried the story.

A number of those who wrote cited the Google search numbers for “climategate,” but this tells us little since there was a very high “churn” rate among those looking for information to discredit the main body of climate change opinion. That being said, CBC News was extremely slow in picking up on the story, even after hearing from a significant number of people in the early part of the week.

Finally, on Thursday, Nov. 26, CBCNews.ca carried an item on the reaction to the story and the other services of the CBC began to pick up on the main drift of the revelations. Subsequently, both radio and TV in different ways gave appropriate and balanced coverage to the story. It should be borne in mind that the information contained in the published e-mails, while worthy of note, does not achieve the impact stated by a number of complainants—i.e., the complete undermining of the AGW position. They do show that some scientists are as capable of being petty and manipulative as their opponents.

The situation is, though, an object lesson for a news service to be prepared—weekends or not—to respond to significant stories and put them in appropriate context. It does not seem reasonable to me for a news service the size of the CBC’s to not have the resources and capacity to do so. Weekend staffing questions do not seem to cover the lapse on the Monday in following up this bit of news. It would appear that the senior journalists coming on after the weekend assumed that something appropriate had been done. Then, by the time they realized nothing had been done, lapsed into a somewhat self-protective “it’s old news” mode. Only as other major media began to catch up to the story did CBC News do so as well.

While it may be comforting to some to point to the lapse in coverage by other major main-stream outlets, I am afraid that CBC Journalistic Standards and Practices, and our own self-esteem, do not allow that as an excuse for poor journalism. Ironically, the story may have received more coverage than was really justified by the “real” scientific revelations contained in the documents—i.e., not many.

In any event, this was not the CBC’s finest hour. I trust that appropriate attention will be brought to bear on the weekend staffing of CBCNews.ca and other immediate response units of CBC News.

CONCLUSION:

The slow up-take on the story was a serious lapse in performance by CBC News. The fact that other major outlets were slow is noteworthy, but not an excuse for the CBC. Appropriate steps should be taken to ensure that events that originally occur at odd times or weekends can be properly assessed and covered.

Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

Please note that the Sarah Palin writing on her hand juggernaut occurred on a weekend, and was INSTANTLY reported over and over and over again on CBC News Network on the immediately following Monday morning.  So it’s all working out marvelously well now.  Worth every one of the BILLION dollars PER YEAR in taxpayer-funding and countless hundreds of millions in other supports and countless hundreds of millions in advertising revenue lost by citizen-owned competing media. 

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State-owned, socialism-reliant CBC “reporter”/opinion-writer Neil Macdonald:  bigoted left-wing ass

1.  Why does the state-owned, taxpayer-funded, socialism-reliant news and entertainment media behemoth HAVE political opinions?

“...The Tea Partiers’ America is a richly imagined nation, one in which a suitably shrunken government, its general uselessness exposed to all, answers directly to ruggedly individualistic citizens who carve out decent livings solely by dint of hard work and entrepreneurial spirit, scorning government handouts, and who are free of crippling taxes and regulations.

“Everybody speaks English in this America, preferably only English, and prays regularly. Their children don’t need abortions because they practise abstinence until they enter into a heterosexual marriage, often after military service, during which they get to go into combat abroad against America’s myriad enemies.

“A Tea-Party America would already be whacking the Iranians, slapping North Korea around and straightening out the Pakistanis.

“All of this would be financed by waves of tax cuts here at home because, as everybody knows, tax cuts provoke such wild economic growth that governments actually wind up richer. ...”

— www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/02/12/f-rfa-macdonald.html

More questions about this state-paid political crap sandwich:

2. (A - D) · How does having state-paid political opinions, broadcast in state-owned media, further the interest of Canadian freedom and capitalism?
· How does this advance Canadian thinking, unity, cohesiveness, clarity of thought, or any damn thing?
· How does this shrink government spending and the deficit?
· How does this help Canadian families?

3.  What kind of government competes against its own citizens in business for profits, particularly in the forum of ideas —and moreover, in the forum of political ideas and thought?

4.  What kind of people think this is perfectly OK?

5.  The state-owned, socialism-reliant CBC is promoted for use in schools for all the kids to read.  In schools.  (Here’s a random example:  in the “Teachers’ Resources” section, they provide a sample lesson plan which includes this question:  “11. According to CBC reporter Joe Schlesinger, what is the greatest advantage of the Canadian health-care system over its U.S. counterpart?”)

5. This article exemplifies left-wing banana republic Hugo Chavez-style BS. 

Latent POINT SIX
State-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion should be enshrined in our constitution.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

CBC News presents snowjob news video feed from snowy Washington

...By which I mean the snowjob is literal, this time. 

This is a screen capture from the live video presented on CBC News Channel this morning.  It’s real snowy today in Washington, see?  It’s so snowy, you can hardly see the CBC/Washington Bureau investigative journalist of all get out, Susan Bonner, amidst all the snow, see?  See like she’s like all white ‘n stuff.  For all the snow.  Can’t even see her.  That’s how snowy it is.  The entire video proceeded exactly like this. 

And therefore I call BS—for this fake news technique. 

Bonner, the CBC reporter, admitted that in fact, her news feed was not via a CBC camera, as usual, it was actually via Skype —the internet phone service;  and was being shot not with a CBC camera held by a union-paid CBC cameraman (or more likely a woman) as usual, but rather via the webcam attached to her laptop computer, as held up by her husband.  The webcam is obviously total crap, and has no white balance.  As the screen capture shows, the purposely lousy video shockingly includes the overlaid text “via webcam” in the upper left.  That’s how they achieved this phony effect and got that ever so factual news-y result for the big state news channel.  At least they told us “the source”, which is highly unusual and newsworthy in and of itself! 

And this is a picture on that same story from the CTV Newsnet channel, in which you can see it’s snowy, but you can in fact see a building miles away, not all whited-out, and possibly shot by an actual camera befitting a news organization which takes you seriously.

And the pictures from Fox News Channel, in which they also don’t pretend anything, they also just show you (1) the picture out the window behind Megyn Kelly(♥), apparently shot with an actual TV camera;  and (2) another picture on Shep Smith’s news show, showing images from all over the eastern seaboard, in which you can even see the Capital from the far end of the Mall, miles away, again not whited-out thanks to modern news footage techniques apparently currently unavailable to the CBC.

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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

UPDATED: Left-wing Toronto mayoral candidate in sex scandal has ties to a certain federal party.

CBC writes up the story about the latest sex-scandalized, cheating politician, Adam Giambrone, as if it were the story of a baker dropping a cookie.  He has been accused of dropping trou, and having sex with a 20-year-old girl in his Toronto city hall office — on the couch (oh how yummy for the visitors!) — for the past while.  Today he admits only to “an inappropriate relationship with a young woman.”  In this case, “young” means “barely an adult”.  She was 19 when they first started “dating”.  But whatever.  This is the world of progressive Canada, where the motto is. “You’ll get used to it.”  Giambrone is still running for mayor of the Canadian liberal-left center of the known universe, Toronto Ontario, having loudly announced his candidacy just a week ago, over the thumps of blaring hip-hop music (because he’s so groovy, baby).  So he’ll probably get elected.  He’d be a shoo-in if his lover were a gay lover instead, I figure, and the CBC wouldn’t even mention this story.

But the CBC really should have mentioned his extremely close ties with the federal you’ve got to be kidding party, today.  I’m sure it would even be OK if they used the name “NDP” instead.  It is a politics story.  They don’t even bother to mention that he’s “left-wing” —you know, the way they would if he were even remotely not left-wing, in which case they might remind us 18 times that he’s alternately a “neo-conservative”, or “religious right”, or “far-right”, or “right-wing”, or “right of center” (which they’d spell centre) candidate.  If he were connected to the Conservative Party — or he were a Christian — they might also have a five-part series on their “Passionate Eye” program about the big story, which they’d of course keep promoting on CBC News Network. 

So in case it’s helpful to the CBC, they could have written, for example, “Adam Giambrone is a far-left politician with close ties to the federal NDP.  Moreover, he is the former National President of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 2001 - 2006.”  They could do this because it’s true, and it’s a politics story, and because the news media should inform people properly even if they find it uncomfortable and it doesn’t advance their agenda. 

Not mentioning party affiliation is pathological amongst liberal-left and further left media, but only when the subject is left-wing and they’re caught doing something unsavory (by which I mean unsavory only to the rest of us). For example, the left-wing Toronto Star, which covers the story more thoroughly, also doesn’t mention anything about his being left-wing or in any way connected to the NDP. 

There is no CBC.ca story today about New York Governor David Paterson (D), despite allegations apparently about to be released by the New York Times about that left-wing politician’s trist with another woman besides his wife.  When he became governor, Paterson admitted he had been unfaithful to his wife.  But apparently there’s more. 

Paterson, it should but won’t be noted, if the CBC and others ever get around to noting anything, took over after Democratic Party star Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned, which he did only after being caught red, err, handed, hanging out and having sex with with a slimy hooker.  The most recent article I could find about Democratic Governor David Paterson at the CBC was back in April 14, 2009:  “New York governor plans same-sex marriage bill — New York Gov. David Paterson plans to introduce legislation this week to legalize same-sex marriage in the state…”, in which the word Democratic appears four times in that short and apparently “good news” (to them) article. 

UPDATE Wed. Feb. 10, 8:34 AM PST

Adam Giambrone quits mayoralty race

Posted: February 10, 2010, 10:47 AM by Rob Roberts

TTC chair Adam Giambrone ended his mayoralty campaign this morning in a brief, confused appearance that left the actual announcement to a spokesman.

‘‘He will spend the next few days in private. His mayoralty campaign ends today,’’  Kevin Beaulieu, a Giambrone aide, told reporters.

Mr. Giambrone, who plans to stay on as TTC chair, himself made a brief sombre appearance, his eyes tinged with red, in which he apologized to his fellow councillors, city residents and his partner, but did not discuss the sex scandal engulfing his mayoralty bid, or reveal his plans for the future.

CBC.ca’s followup story is buried within their site and is only visible to web surfers by use of their search engine; and like the National Post story above, still makes no mention of this guy’s far-left politics, nor his extremely close relationship with the federal NDP.  Sort of ironically, I suppose in this way people could at least reliably make the assumption that he’s not in any way a “conservative”, since if he were, that word or words that the media commonly relate to it, like making references to unnamed sources deeming him to be a “Nazi” or “homophobe” or “racist” or “teabagger”, would be splashed all over the story. 

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