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Friday, September 26, 2008

CBC banner under Bush:  “Republican Revolt”.

Revolt
Pronunciation:  \ri-ˈvōlt also -ˈvȯlt\
Function:    verb
Etymology:    Middle French revolter, from Old Italian rivoltare to overthrow, from Vulgar Latin *revolvitare, frequentative of Latin revolvere to revolve, roll back
Date:  1539

intransitive verb

What induces revulsion in you?  Terrorism?  Liars?  People who are deceptive and anti-American or who think they are superior to others?  Abortion? 

Well then you may not work for the CBC. 

Golly Canadian viewers, we didn’t mean it that way—it’s just that you TOOK it the wrong way!  Sorry you took it the wrong way!

...Because there are just no other words to describe the notion that some Republicans in the U.S. Congress are rightly fighting back against the financial rescue plan.  “REPUBLICANS REBEL?”   No.  Crazy.   “BUSH WANTS CONSENSUS”.  Nah.  These things don’t promote the idea of revulsion against Republicans and the Republican President of the United States. 

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

“COME ON ALREADY!!!!!!”  —- Ugh.  I’m going to have to boycott CBC’s advertisers.

Apparently CBC Newsworld can’t attract enough advertisers and the one for “GreyPower.com” insurance has to be repeated 8,000 times per day on Canada’s state-owned media.  And of course it’s one of the most excruciatingly shrill, annoying ads ever created, which only makes CBC Newsworld even more redundant. 

Maybe the CBC is officially going for the “already insane” demographic. 

 
“Come on already!!!!!!!!!!  Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!!” 
“You don’t drive like her, and you shouldn’t pay the same insurance premiums as her!”

Why would companies advertise on a far-left socialism-reliant web site anyway?  Don’t they believe in capitalism?  I would think they if they believed in capitalism they wouldn’t support that outfit. 

They are literally helping an outfit that works against me and everything I stand for.  Why would I support them in any way, shape, or form? 

So they’re driving me crazy on at least two levels.  I will never buy anything from “Greypower.com”. 

They should really support capitalism-advocating media.  Maybe they’re yella.

“ING Direct” is getting close too.  “Save your money” is their repeated line, ironically, considering they’re advertising on the BILLION DOLLAR PER YEAR taxpayer-funded left-wing CBC.  I’d love to “save my money”.  If the government would let me keep my money, I promise I’d save it in my ING account. 

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Not on CBC:  Their Barack Obama accepted $105,849 “contribution” from Fannie Mae

Golly I couldn’t find this information anywhere at the state-owned CBC —not even in all their hysterical coverage of what they’re tendentiously dubbing “Bush’s Bailout”, in their usual misinformation campaign and campaign against the, why it’s the Bush neo-con industrial complex if I understand correctly.

Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Name - Office - Party/State - Total
[“D” stands for Democrat]

1. Dodd, Christopher - S - D-CT - $133,900

2. Kerry, John - S - D-MA - $111,000

3. Obama, Barack - S - D-IL - $105,849

4. Clinton, Hillary - S - D-NY - $75,550

5. Kanjorski, Paul H - D-PA - $65,500

6. Bennett, Robert - S - R-UT - $61,499

7. Johnson, Tim - S - D-SD - $61,000

8. Conrad, Kent - S - D-ND - $58,991

9. Davis, Tom - H - R-VA - $55,499

10. Bond, Christopher - S - R-MO - $55,400

11. Bachus, Spencer - H - R-AL - $55,300

12. Shelby, Richard - S - R-AL - $55,000

13. Emanuel, Rahm - H - D-IL - $51,750

14. Reed, Jack - S - D-RI - $50,750

15. Carper, Tom - S - D-DE - $44,389

16. Frank, Barney - H - D-MA - $40,100

17. Maloney, Carolyn - H - D-NY - $38,750

18. Bean, Melissa - H - D-IL - $37,249

19. Blunt, Roy - H - R-MO - $36,500

20. Pryce, Deborah - H - R-OH - $34,750

21. Miller, Gary - H - R-CA - $33,000

22. Pelosi, Nancy - H - D-CA - $32,750

23. Reynolds, Tom - H - R-NY - $32,700

24. Hoyer, Steny H - H - D-MD - $30,500

25. Hooley, Darlene - H - D-OR - $28,750

Includes contributions from PACs and individuals.
2008 cycle totals based on data downloaded from the Federal Election Commission on June 30, 2008.

Also note that former Fannie Mae CEO James Johnson was engaged by Barack Obama to vet his potential vice-presidential prospects. 

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“Artists” and “actors” mug for cameras and act-out like they’re literally being led to slaughter

“Artists” held a “news” conference (and anti-Harper festival!) today, to bash (no, not “critique”) Prime Minister Harper today, for the CBC fawners. 

Naturally, left-wing central casting, the CBC, carried it all, live.  They couldn’t get enough of it.  This was their people.  Harper-bashers with good voices.  Good makeup.  Good lighting.  Scripts.  Little jokes and bon mots at the ready. 

One after one, each one presuming that we knew them like we know Brad Pitt, they presented their rehearsed little screed, each one as if pleading not just for still more hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars than they currently get from your wallet, but rather, pleading for their very lives.  Each thespian pretended, with their deceptive little story line, that the evil Mr. Harper and manifestly the whole neo-con industrial complex hates “the arts”, and that of course being conservatives rather than the more proper socialists or Marxists, want to eliminate all funding—all of it—end it all—for all arts—immediately upon being re-elected. Unless Harper is defeated, all arts will be cancelled. 

Not even a shred of evidence that they were embarrassed about their little deception.

Government being responsible to taxpayers and managing budgets properly = “censorship”.  And proves you’re a boor.  Proves you “don’t understand the arts”.  Proves you’re but a Neanderthal.  Beneath contempt.  Anti “arts”.  An “arts hater”.  Indeed, anti-Canada.  You’re not even a Canadian unless you agree.  Something’s not right in your head.  You are literally insane. 

Most were utterly condescending to Harper and conservatives generally, and to anyone who doesn’t yearn to load taxpayer cash on them;  each one snotty.    One unknown, snotty, arrogant egoist began her Charlie Gibson to Sarah Palin-like lecture looking down at us over her glasses, with “I’m going to start by giving Harper a little history lesson ... Michelangelo was subsidized!”  (I looked up her own “history” —Alberta Watson dropped out of high school when she was 15.  Harper got two university degrees and studied piano through the Royal Conservatory course program.) 

Most of them betrayed an utterly anti-American sentiment.  The big danger in Canada today is “deregulation” —and that we’ll get American TV if we’re not careful, and that would be a disaster!!!!  They’re capitalists!  As we all agree, the Americans are the bane of our existence, and we are of course better than them.  We are of a superior race!   [All the assembled artists in the audience clapping on cue… Yes! Hate them! They’re not like us!]

I’d never heard of any single one of them, although as they approached the podium and announced their name, each one had a built-in pause for applause that never came.  They all seemed to think—and they all acted like—they were all world famous and moreover, in no unmistakable way, erudite, and more significant, and important, and knowledgeable than you or I.  On every matter.  Not just poetry. 

Gordon Pinsent, the only name I vaguely recognized, said he knows about Harper’s “master plan”.  (I got the feeling that that “master plan” part was giving away too much of their Harper-bashing script, and the others seemed to feel uncomfortable that he gave away the plot line like that).  He droned on, painfully slowly, lecturing us ad nauseam.  When he started talking about “censoring”, even the CBC felt the tension in the room, and rather than allow him to embarrass all his comrades in the room and Canadians generally even further, chose to break away from the vital, live “news” coverage. 

It was all on the state-owned, billion-dollar-per-year, CBC.  So even this little anti-Harper political event was taxpayer subsidized. 

All in all it was a boring, snot-filled sob-fest of whiners and Marxists and hyperventilating over-actors who demand like babies their perceived God-given “entitlements” as “artists”.  I won’t watch the 8,000 sequels. 

OUTTAKES

More bon mots from the artists’ anti-Harper “news conference” (and Festival!):

Well at least there’s no “contempt” on his part. 

HEY WHERE’D THEY HOLD THIS FESTIVAL?
I now understand the “news conference” event (and Festival!) was held in none other than the extremely fancy, state-owned, state-funded Glenn Gould Theatre (seen at left—take a good look because it will OBVIOUSLY be DEMOLISHED! by the Harper neo-cons!), located at the mammoth taxpayer “artist” black hole, the CBC studios in Toronto, and owned by the CBC. 

Because there are no private rooms in Canada. And because everything “art” must be government-funded.  Because it’s a “Canadian Value”. 

Vote liberal. 

HUGE BACKLASH AGAINST WHINING “ARTISTS”
The usually liberal-luvin’ commenters at the liberals’ Globe and Mail division are blasting the “artists” by a ratio of about twenty to one, in their story. 

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Dion promises “more fun”, thanks to HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in “government” cash taken from your wallet

Liberals promise official “fun”, provided and paid for by the benevolent government.  Kind of like they do in communist dictatorships, where “fun” and culture doesn’t just happen, it is created by, sanctioned, and funded by the state.  In state books, movies, TV, radio, and in state “thee-ate-ers”.

Here’s an actual transcript taken from part of a dialogue on the state-owned, state-run, BILLION TAXPAYER DOLLAR PER YEAR CBC, just now, starting with a clip of their Liberal Frenchman Stephane (the “Green Guru”) Dion.  (Then observe how the liberal media deploy this familiar tactic in their war on Conservatives every chance they get:  They start sentences with the likes of, “Conservatives refuse to apologize,” or “Tories aren’t backing down on their statement that…”, or “is there any sign the Conservatives are relenting or re-thinking their policy?”). 

It’s more and more like we’re living in Insane-ville in this country.  And not just because we have liberal/far-left politicians saying things like what I’ve translated from the socialist to English, above, but because their media doesn’t even remotely question the veracity of it or the very sanity of it.  They laugh and enjoy the fact that a potential Prime Minister is actually promising a government “fun” program—more of their state-created “culture” and “fun”—using countless hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars taken from taxpayers’ wallets.  In the middle of a financial crisis. 

And they choose instead to question whether the Conservatives are “relenting” or “re-thinking” their (sane) policies. 

The fact that this media behavior—in which they’re so demonstrably liberal-leftist that they don’t even know how liberal they are anymore (or worse, they do know) —betrays their own far-left world view of course (to say nothing of their abject left-wing “news reporting” bias).  But most Canadians don’t get Fox News Channel, thus they don’t get anything but liberal and far-left liberal or socialist views to compare anything to, so they don’t even know. 

Canadians don’t balk and laugh them out of the room, which I find pretty distressing, indicating I need more state cash funded “fun” program (and “early learning” —wink!) help from our benevolent government. 

 

 

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Not reported at CBC:  Sarah Palin draws crowd of 60,000 (SIXTY THOUSAND) at Florida rally today

...And it wasn’t even a Democratic Party political convention pre-advertised, ad nauseam, by the liberals’ media;  and there weren’t any fireworks or movie stars or phony Hollywood “Roman God” stage sets. 

That ain’t liberal! 

Palin draws crowd of 60,000 in The Villages

THE VILLAGES—Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is “the only great man in this race” and promised Sunday he will fix the nation’s economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.

“He won’t say this, so I’ll say it for him,” the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. “There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years—talk about tough.”

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“Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!” they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed—along with free water bottles—by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.

Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family’s arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.

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I think the CBC and CTV and every newspaper in Canada is still on that “Conservative GAFFE-Gate” caper.  Or something. 

I liked one Florida TV station—WPTV’s—live blogging of the event.  in the time leading up to it reporter Bryan Garner wrote:

1:07 pm

THE VILLAGES, FL—Nearly four hours before she’s scheduled to speak, the line of people waiting for a chance to hear Gov. Sarah Palin stretches more than a quarter mile along the main drag of the The Villages downtown.

There is a palpable excitement in the crowd as supporters buy campaign buttons and t-shirts that read “Sarah Palin’s Pitbulls.”

It’s a blazing hot day - 90 degrees in the shade - and yet the crowd appears to be building as the campaign rally nears.

Theresa Alvarado and her family drove in from Ocala to see Palin during the candidate’s first campaign stop in Florida.

“Were you planning to vote for McCain before he picked Palin for his running mate?” I ask.

“Yes, but we weren’t as excited about it,” she replies.

Alvarado says she likes Palin because she represents a “good role model for my daughters.” - Adrienne and Lauren, ages 7 and 4.

“It’s tough to raise a moral child in this world today,” she says. “You know Brittney Spears and Lindsey Lohan, these aren’t role models.”

Alvarado says more than any one issue, a candidate’s moral values are the most important factor deciding her vote.

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Moral values you say.  Huh. 

Liberals are against that.

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THICK SKULL CHECK: HEATHER MALLICK WRITES **POLITICAL OPINIONS** FOR THE STATE-OWNED MEDIA (CBC)

For the blithe, duplicitous, and yet seemingly arrogantly self-satisfied “reporters” and editors in Canada’s liberal-left dinosaur mainstream media, particularly those who are simply liars, or those who seek to obfuscate and whitewash over pertinent facts (as, say, Lee-Anne Goodman, of the Canadian Press in her fanciful, tendentious story today; and all those newspapers who harbor her story):  Let’s see if we can’t expose you once again for the total farce that you are as “reporters” of facts. 

• THE CBC’S HEATHER MALLICK WRITES FOR THE STATE-OWNED MEDIA.
• Not just another common private, citizen-owned news/opinion TV station,
magazine, or web site. 
• No, not for a personal blog.
• Yes, she actually writes POLITICAL OPINIONS for a STATE-OWNED MEDIA…
• ...For some reason with which possibly only Iranians or North Koreans could relate.

• Yes, that is more than half the point.

So please stop looking down on us; spare us the CBC comparison with the private National Post or the Globe and Mail or indeed Fox News Channel and their Greta Van Susteren (the “reporter” Lee-Anne Goodman calls Fox News “right-wing” in her “news” story, which in and of itself betrays her utter ignorance, but without ever identifying the CBC as even remotely “left-wing” —or of course state owned).  Or with any other private media or columnist or privately-paid opinionator employed by regular people—like me—or companies or web site—like PTBC—who make it our avocation to analyze news and express opinions. 

Even the CBC has the unmitigated gall to pretend it compares to the private sector media, to wit: the bunkum written by them to those citizens who dare complain to them about Mallick and her moonbat, state-paid opinions. (Actual quote from one of their emails:  “I should be clear right away that CBC NEWS.CA – like the National Post or The Globe and Mail – contains stories about the news of the day as well as columnists who express an opinion about some of those events.” ).

QUIT THE FARCE:

  You know only too well (and perhaps it pains you), as we Canadians all know, that those comparisons are completely absurd. Those media are different in every conceivable way, and have different responsibilities (such as, for example, they are not mandated with “contribut[ing] to shared national consciousness and identity” (—CBC Mandate according the Broadcasting Act), or charged with helping foster a united Canada and bringing Canadians together; nor are they charged with the responsibly of divesting over one BILLION dollars per year of MY MONEY by working against me and everything I stand for (WITH MY MONEY).  Nor are they Agents of Her Majesty (i.e., crown corporations), or owned by Canada.  They don’t report to Canada’s Parliament.  They are not a branch of any government. 

So stop with your condescension, all of you. 

Canadians aren’t as stupid as you think they are. 

Repeatedly Asked Joel’s Questions of the Day:
1. Why does a state-owned media employ political opinion columnists?  At all?  What is the crucial taxpayer need for that?
2. What kind of a country competes against its own citizens in the forum of ideas—particularly political ideas?  And for profits? And political advocacy?  Using our own taxpayer cash against us. 

SAY IT WITH ME:

State-owned and state-run media should be BANNED in this country, and that notion enshrined in our constitution.

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Know The Enemy

Also see PTBC blog entries and columns about this here:

•  Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about to hit on CBC-Heather Mallick story

• “Heather Mallick, CBC columnist, paid by you, exhibits her weekly hatred of conservatives”
—J-log

• “Why I’ll defend writers who represent everything I hate”
—David Warren column

Related “NEWS” reporting from CBC “NEWS”:
• “CBC’s “reporter” Neil Macdonald on Sarah Palin: Best at “talking about hunting moose”
—J-Log

• Also this, by National Post editor Jonathon Kay: “Another week, another disgrace at the CBC”; and his followup—a reader complaint to the CBC:  “Wouldn’t it be great if the CBC were as professionally run and politically impartial as NBC?”.  (And please forgive the slightly misguided Mr. Kay for thinking NBC is “impartial” rather than “in the tank” for liberals and particularly Obama—even after their recent firings of Olbermann and Matthews from their anchor desks—read comments here.)

• And this by a blogger at Michelle Malkin’s HotAir.com:  “Hatred in Canada alive and well”.

• More J-Log:  I’ve exposed her repeatedly for her anti-conservative hate-fests before, numerous times.   Yes here’s but just one more. 

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about to hit on CBC-Heather Mallick story

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UPDATED Friday morning
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HAPPENING NOW….

Greta teased it just before going to break.  Says:

“Listen to this: A columnist calls supporters of Governor Sarah Palin “white trash”, and compares the governor to “a porn star”.  You heard me correctly!  Who said this?  That’s coming up…”

Standing by!

OK:

  Guest was none other than David Warren (yes ours!) who was also interviewed by Megyn Kelly this morning on this same thing.  ...

Greta says Mallick just sounds like a PIG to her.  A pig, she repeated. 

David Warren has a very interesting take on it—he defends Mallick’s right to say that [crap] in ordinary circumstances, and sees this as another great opportunity to show that the dreadful state-owned CBC should be taken down.  But it’s hard to get that point across in a 15-second bite….  Read his latest column to get a taste of it. 

OK.  Carry on!

EXTRA CBC-EXPOSING INFORMATION:

• Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly also mentioned it on his O’Reilly Factor tonight, opining that the Canadian government has to get that CBC outfit “under control”.    With the greatest respect Bill, you’re wrong.  The Canadian people have to get the Canadian government under control, and demanding that they get rid of the CBC and banning state-owned media in our country and enshrining that in our constitution… would be a good start. 

•  Fox News’ Brit Hume also covered this last week, as I reported, on his “Special Report” show.  I put up this YouTube video of it.

Thanks to Matt Drudge for these latest stats:

CABLE RACE, WED, SEPT 17
Viewers

FOX NEWS - HANNITY/COLMES - 4,921,000
FOX NEWS - BILL O’REILLY - 3,839,000
FOX NEWS - GRETA VAN SUSTEREN - 3,561,000
FOX NEWS - SHEP SMITH - 2,184,000
FOX NEWS - BRIT HUME - 2,108,000
MSNBC - KEITH OLBERMANN - 1,854,000
CNN - ANDERSON COOPER - 1,719,000
MSNBC - RACHEL MADDOW - 1,716,000
CNN - LARRY KING - 1,646,000
MSNBC - CHRIS MATTHEWS - 1,145,000

• And as I’ve mentioned, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly also talked about it yesterday.  Meaning that possibly 10 or 12 million Americans and Canadians or more have seen the Fox News Channel expose of the far-left CBC and how its Heather Mallick represent Canada. 

(...Related blog earlier today…)

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly brought it up again this morning (Friday Sept 19 - 6:50 AM PDT), pointing out that CBC is a “taxpayer-funded” outfit, with on-screen quotes from a CBC spokesman who of course sounds like any typical government operative or bureaucrat in the Soviet Union Politburo. 

 

Megyn Kelly is more upset about this than any Canadian politician is.  I’d vote for Megyn Kelly before any Canadian politician in Canada. 

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FoxNews.com on CBC’s rabidly anti-conservative opinion columnist Heather Mallick;  CBC to act?

The state-owned CBC is NOT on this story today:

Columnist’s Labeling Palin Backers ‘White Trash’ Spurs Review at Canadian TV

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.”

The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.”

In the CBC story, Mallick wrote that John McCain’s running mate “added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote.”

She proceeded to write that the Alaska governor “has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression.”

She also questioned why the Palins were allowing Levi Johnston — 17-year-old Bristol Palin’s boyfriend and father of her unborn baby — into the family.

“What normal father would want Levi ‘I’m a f—-n’ redneck’ Johnson prodding his daughter?” Mallick asked.

“I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. … Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.”

CBC Ombudsman Vince Carlin told FOXNews.com that he has gotten “quite a few complaints about [the column], both from Canada and the U.S,” and said he’s reviewing its contents to see if it meets CBC’s journalistic standards and practices.

Asked if Mallick’s column represented the views of CBC or the Canadian government, which owns CBC, Mallick suggested it did not and questioned whether commentators on FOX News represent the views of all Americans.

“I don’t think so,” he answered.

As for Mallick, he said, “She’s a columnist not a journalist.”

Mallick also wrote on the CBC Web site that Republican men, whom she called “sexual inadequates,” must think that women would vote for Palin just because she’s a woman.

In her Guardian column, Mallick claimed her own small-town credentials are just as solid as Palin’s, writing “Palin cannot out-hick me.”

But she said Palin should have stayed in her hometown of Wasilla, writing, “Small towns are places that smart people escape from, for privacy, for variety, for intellect, for survival. Palin should have stayed home.”

Mallick also blasted Alaska as Canada’s ugly stepchild.

“We love our own north to the point of covering our eyes and humming as it melts … but Alaska is different from our north,” she wrote. “We share a 1,500-mile border with a frontier state full of drunks and crazy people, of the blight that cheap-built structures bring to a glorious landscape.

“Alaska is our redneck cousin, our Yukon territory forms a blessed buffer zone, and thank God he never visits. Alaska is the end of the line.”

Click here to read Mallick’s Giardian column

I might also add this email a PTBC reader sent to me that he got from Mary Sheppard, Executive Producer, CBC NEWS.CA, who said she was writing on the instruction of the aforementioned CBC Ombudsman, Vince Carlin, who in the above piece said “he’s reviewing its contents to see if it meets CBC’s journalistic standards and practices.” But in this email, it is insinuated that the CBC is abiding by all kinds of standards, just perfectly. 

Dear xxxx,

Thank you for your e-mail of September 9 addressed to Vince Carlin, CBC Ombudsman. As you know, Mr. Carlin asked me to reply.

You wrote to draw our attention to a column by Heather Mallick in CBC NEWS.CA’s Analysis & Viewpoint section posted on September 5 under the headline, “A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention.” It is “sexism and verbal abuse in the extreme” you wrote.

I should be clear right away that CBC NEWS.CA – like the National Post or The Globe and Mail – contains stories about the news of the day as well as columnists who express an opinion about some of those events. Perhaps needless to say the two are quite different. We take great pride in the excellence of our journalism and you are right to expect that news stories on CBC NEWS.CA will be accurate, fair, unbiased and in all respects meet the rigorous criteria set out in the CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.

But as the section heading – Analysis & Viewpoint – suggests our pages also contain clearly identified viewpoint and opinion. We invite some of the best and, yes, controversial writers in the country, Ms. Mallick among them, to offer their views on the events of the day. That is as it should be. It is CBC’s mandate, part of its obligation under the federal Broadcasting Act, to offer a range of views on matters of public interest and concern. And I believe we are doing that.

Ms. Mallick, a veteran Canadian journalist, columnist and editor, has won awards for her reviews and feature writing.  She is widely recognized as an insightful, witty – and controversial – observer of the political and cultural scenes.  But although we encourage commentators to express different points of view, I should be clear that the opinions they express are their own. We do not expect all our readers will share them. Certainly, they are not the opinions of CBC NEWS.CA.

I should also point out that while columnists are entitled to express their opinions, their critics are also free to disagree with them. As you will have noticed, the section encourages readers’ comments – quite a number of which, I see, have taken issue with Ms. Mallick – and prominently posts them at the bottom of the column.

Thank you again for your e-mail. ...

Oh yes.  The state-owned, state-run taxpayer-funded CBC and its CBC.ca web site with its far-left columnists is EXACTLY like the private, citizen-owned National Post and the Globe and Mail in every way.  In a parallel universe.  Or if you’re high.  And they should abide by exactly the same standards as citizen-owned, private media.  Pass the joint. 

Also see PTBC blog entries and columns about this here:

• “Heather Mallick, CBC columnist, paid by you, exhibits her weekly hatred of conservatives”
—J-log

• “Why I’ll defend writers who represent everything I hate”
—David Warren column

Related “NEWS” reporting from CBC “NEWS”:
• “CBC’s “reporter” Neil Macdonald on Sarah Palin: Best at “talking about hunting moose”
—J-Log

• Also this, by National Post editor Jonathon Kay: “Another week, another disgrace at the CBC”; and his followup—a reader complaint to the CBC:  “Wouldn’t it be great if the CBC were as professionally run and politically impartial as NBC?”.  (And please forgive the slightly misguided Mr. Kay for thinking NBC is “impartial” rather than “in the tank” for liberals and particularly Obama—even after their recent firings of Olbermann and Matthews from their anchor desks—read comments here.)

• And this by a blogger at Michelle Malkin’s HotAir.com:  “Hatred in Canada alive and well”.

• More J-Log:  I’ve exposed her repeatedly for her anti-conservative hate-fests before, numerous times.   Yes here’s but just one more. 

SAY IT WITH ME:

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, September 17, 2008

Email from reader who viewed CBC this morning.

Dear Dean,

Sorry you watched the CBC this morning.  I hope you’re OK.  And I hope you have access to Canada’s best channel, Fox News Channel, so as to regrow your brain cells and get more fully informed.  It is possible.  I do it daily. 

I long ago created a new CBC logo in a communist, hammer and sickle motif, but was warned by someone that the CBC could sue me for using it because it was based on “their” trademark.  Humor is not allowed vis-a-vis pictures of Mohammad, as we’ve found out from the Islamofascists, or possibly the CBC. 

Nonetheless, here is a spoof, a humorous, a sarcastic, a satirical, sardonic, just-for-fun logo I created:

© 2008 Joel Johannesen - CBC may not steal this - offer not valid in Quebec for some weird reason. Che Guevara is sexy.  Vote liberal. Peace.

I’m worried that if you or me made a sticker with the CBC logo and a cross through it the liberals’ “Human Rights” Commission division would bust you and me (or whichever of us is a bigger threat to the Church of Liberalism or Socialism) for hateful “thought crimes” against an identifiable group (Communists). Nonetheless, here’s a possible sticker idea.  It is to protest the Children’s Book Council.  Or the Congressional Black Caucus.
Thanks, Joel P.S. Please say it with me:  State-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion enshrined in the constitution.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

CBC’s “reporter” Neil Macdonald on Sarah Palin: Best at “talking about hunting moose”

Don’t reporters report the news, generally speaking?  When did the state-owned state-employed CBC’s reporters transform into purveyors of their inevitably left-wing or far-left-wing opinions about things?  And how exactly does this benefit Canada?  How is it that Canada “needs” this? 

Here’s how the state-owned CBC’s ostensible reporter, Neil Macdonald, “reported” when asked what he can tell Canadians about this evening’s Sarah Palin interview by the left-wing (but not nearly as left-wing) NBC network:

Neil Macdonald: Well I thought I was listening to someone who has spent her life in the incubator of a sparsely occupied, you know, remote state dealing with the parochial concerns of a small town mayor which is what she was until not too long ago ...  it was almost as if Charlie Gibson was toying with her ...

... Really what this woman is best at doing is being a populist and you know spouting campaign boiler plate and talking about hunting moose and riding on snowmobiles and bringing “change”, without defining what change is which is what a lot of politicians do nowadays so you know…

Asked how it might “play” tomorrow (as if that’s a fact-based, news report-related issue to ask a reporter rather than an opinion columnist or, say, a Heather Mallick):

Neil Macdonald: Well you know, uh uh, my guess is that people who think she is a uh, a, you know, a wonderful multi-tasking super-mom salt-of-the-Earth person will think the same thing tomorrow—people tend to hear what they want to hear; and the people that think she’s a glassy-eyed fundamentalist Bible-thumper will think the same thing tomorrow…

Next time maybe they’ll ask Heather Mallick for the latest “news” on Sarah Palin.  At least it would be funnier. 

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CBC presents “carbon offsets” infomercial to blast Conservatives and their campaign plane

Only the socialist loons at the globe-trotting, state-owned, state-run CBC can go into deep lunar orbit in a “news” segment, and present it as a reality check. 

Amidst the faux “controversy” surrounding the various campaign planes and their “greenhouse” effects, the CBC flies right into a pile of bull poo.  And likes it.  Covers themselves in it.  Throws it at you.  Asks of course you to eat it. 

Here’s their ostensibly balanced senior CBC reporter Terry Milewski and most of his unwittingly hideous “news report”:

It took a few days but the Liberal plane is finally in service and, it’s a gas guzzler!  Even with the ‘carbon zero’ logo, it’s nearly 30 years old, and spews out a third more greenhouse gasses than the newer Airbuses used by the Tories and the NDP.  This for the leader who’s made a virtue of being ‘green’. [video clip played]

The Tories are having fun with this!  Calling the liberal plane ‘smog-belching’!  ‘Carbon-emitting’! ‘Gas guzzling’!  And, they have a point.  But THE REALITY is that it’s really the Conservatives that are polluting MORE.  That is because they are not doing what all the other parties are doing: namely paying to reduce greenhouse gasses elsewhere to offset what they are doing during the campaign! It’s called ‘carbon offsets’. 

Here’s how it works: ... [video]

 

And the CBC then proceeds to present an infomercial on ‘carbon offsets’ (with spokesmen!) and exactly how fabulous and beneficial these ‘carbon offsets’ are.  The CBC’s inserted ‘carbon credits’ and the Liberals and NDP are forgiven and here’s why infomercial went on 80 times longer than the actual “news” ...which was of course the news—no sorry THE REALITY—about the bad, bad, bad, dirty Conservatives…

Then Milewski went on:

Sooooo, the real holdouts are the Tories who won’t pay a dime for ‘carbon offsets’!  ... [more video]

Interspersed in the “news” story, they played clips of environmentalists and ‘carbon credits’ employees and sundry such objective “experts” who all equally clearly despise conservatives owing entirely to their filthy and oh so incorrect stance on all the “man-made global warming” and their refusal to be suckered into buying “carbon offsets’. 

Then he went on with his ultimate CBCscientific conclusion. 

The upshot then is that the Liberals have the dirtiest plane, BUT they are paying for corresponding cleanup.  Only the CONSERVATIVES, are NOT. 

Terry Milewski CBC News Vancouver. 

And the debate is over.  A consensus has been reached. 

Here’s a PTBC reality check:

I once played this stupid game of “carbon offsets” as an experiment, and wrote it up for you all.  Here is my blog entry from Tuesday, March 13, 2007: 

My experiment in thinking like a liberal. Official result: I feel like a total idiot.

But thank God Buddha(?) I’ve got “good karma” now.  I know this because I paid cash money (in U.S. Dollars) for it.  And they told me so in their official documentation. 

Curious about liberal-leftist moonbats like Al Gore and other rich Hollywood liberals and their hideously hypocritical and massively excessive greenhouse gas emissions and their even bigger excuses for it —excuses which include the increasingly regular usage of the “but I’m offsetting my ‘carbon footprint’ by purchasing ‘carbon offsets’ and some-such thingamajiggy ‘trade-offs’ and thereby making my ‘carbon footprint’ neutral blah blah blah liberal liberal liberal BS BS BS….”—  I decided to buy myself off as well, as an experiment in how liberals think.  And I’m not impressed.  I feel like a total idiot. 

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I bought me and my wife off the politically-correct guilt-hook through one of the (what I personally believe are) modern day snake-oil sales outfits—this one called “terrapass”, which I now believe, as a result of my scientific experiment, may be staffed by folks consuming psychotropic drugs (there is an approximately 90 percent likelihood of that, according to my pseudo-scientific data, meaning that I’m officially “pretty dang sure”). 

I understand that terrapass is one of the outfits Al Gore uses to buy himself some “good karma” and to help make up for the 20-times-normal energy usage at his Tennessee mansion to say nothing of his private jet usage and other mansions.  I’m not sure what the leftist Prophet Suzuki uses to make up for his mansions and jet-flying and cross-country campaigning on diesel-powered luxury motor-coaches.  Nor Liberal-left Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards with his 28,000 square foot mansion carved into a once-forested acreage but mowed down and clear- cut for his personal usage.

But now, you see, previously guilty me and my previously guilty wife can drive our humble little car, pollute away, fill the atmosphere with noxious gasses, and not worry about the greenhouse gasses that it is emitting—just like them!  We’re guilt-free!  “Carbon neutral”!  It just cost us $40 U.S. per year I think—I’m not sure because I think I should really include the electricity that was expended to go online and buy the “carbon credits” that we bought to get us off the hook (that would cost us still more of course.) 

But it really doesn’t matter because we got decals for our car!  (Made out of plastic!)  And letters!  (Made out of trees!) And a fun bumper sticker!  (Made out of plastic!) 

First, there’s the letter from them (“printed with soy ink”!).  Note that they address me as “Joel” like they’re my friend.  But perhaps the scarier aspect of these nutroots is that their letterhead bears a scary resemblance to my own web site’s header. 

Actually no—that’s not the scariest part.  The scariest part is manifestly the whole concept, which is rooted in complete and utter bull, which is being embraced by Al Gore and the Prophet Suzuki and all their clergy and cult followers. 

Here’s what my official certificate says (see the letter it’s attached to, above)—I’m supposed to carry this in my car or wallet, presumably: 

“Be it known unto all kindreds, tongues, and people, nations, principalities and governments, the above listed individual has offset this car’s CO2 emissions for a year and thereby lays claim to all the privileges associated therewith, i.e., peace of mind, satisfaction and general good driving karma.”

I hope all “peoples” keep their “tongues” off my “karma” and in fact any part of me—and off my granola which I may or may not eat in a “principality” while driving about.

I honestly feel as though I’ve been had by a bunch of jokers.  But scarily, they don’t see themselves that way.  They see themselves as saving the planet.  Seriously.  And yet this is half the basis of the Kyoto Accord bunkum.  This seriously frightens me as a thinking man. 

Maybe it’s the accompanying cartoon which supposedly presents an ever-so whimsical view of the future according to environuts—a future in which we happily live in a police state in which citizens must produce documents and verification in certificate form proving that they aren’t Man-Made Global Warming “deniers”—or perhaps someday conservatives—or Christians, perhaps. 

Or this accompanying “certificate” which uses the style and language that could only have been picked-up by excessive reading of government documents and other such complete BS:

So next time some liberal mouths off at me for being a “denier”, I’ll simply flash my terrapass documents at them.  And the strange, ironic thing is, I believe they’ll think I’m some kind of a total nutbar.  And so they should.

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The CBC-nurtured fans and commenters dutifully express their vile hate and idiocy on 9/11

Almost exactly as they do whenever a Canadian soldier dies on the post-9/11 Afghanistan battlefield (in which they write things like “THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE” and hundreds of other almost exactly like-minded thoughts—which the CBC moderators approve), today, on the anniversary of the Islamofascist declaration of war on America and the west, the CBC’s well-trained hate-speak moonbats bring out their idiot clubs to represent ...using our tax dollars. 

I refuse to spend any more time at that vile, divisive hate site (the state-owned, state-run CBC.ca site) than I have to— particularly today, 9/11 — so I only managed to spend three seconds there and found these three comments.  There’s dozens or hundreds more. 

I suggest you banish CBC.ca from your children.  Use a filter to ensure your children never go there. In this case, it’s a question of respect, among other things. 

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Heather Mallick, CBC columnist, paid by you, exhibits her weekly hatred of conservatives

UPDATE 3:30 PM PDT:  Fox News Channel’s Britt Hume just ridiculed the “notoriously liberal CBC” and its columnist Heather Mallick for their hideous hate column on Sarah Palin.  See below for my YouTube video of the FNC clip.

Why does the state-owned, state-run media have extremist, far-left columnists being paid to write weekly, far-left, anti-conservative screeds on its taxpayer-funded web site?  Why do they have any opinion columnists at all? 

What kind of a country has a state-owned, state-run media competing against its own citizens in the forum of ideas in the political realm—or any realm at all? 

What kind of country has a state-owned, state-run media?  Complete with huge websites and radio station networks and satellite broadcasting and huge urban buildings and newsletters and iPod files and cartoons and kiddie fare. 

I’ve been asking these questions and pointing out exactly why I have, and giving detailed explanation after explanation and example after example to back up my assertions, for many years, almost every single day, including Sundays (which actually mean something to me). 

I try my hardest to counter the competition from the state and its extremist, far-left site, the CBC, with my own money and time, through this comparatively humble citizen web site.  Very few people have sent money to help me —a situation about which I never complain.  (I constantly get asked for financial and other help by other groups, of course, and I do).  I have, for years, paid famous columnists out of my own pocket (and simply arranged for others) to help me counter the state—my state—in its effort to castigate me and my ilk—plain old conservative Canadians—and our ideology, through their use of opinion columnists tendentious, biased reporting and re-runs of Michael Moore “documentaries”, and to help advocate for a better Canada through conservatism and traditional Canadian values. 

I’m fighting my own country who’s fighting back against everything I stand for… with my own money. 

What kind of country is that? 

My mantra has been that state-owned media should be banned in this country and that notion enshrined in our constitution. 

But in the meantime, read this CBC columnist and conservative-hater Heather Mallick column at the CBC.ca web site this week.

Then I would invite you to please consider sending me lots of money. 

The Conservative Party has enough of your money.  And mine, by the way. 

And the government clearly has way too much already.

And please don’t forget to read our PTBC columnists. 

And courtesy of the digging by long-time PTBC contributor (with cash and in every other possible way) “conservativegal”, read this long but worthwhile counterpoint to that specific Mallick screed, written by a sober, lucid American blogger.

Also this, by National Post editor Jonathon Kay: “Another week, another disgrace at the CBC”; and his followup—a reader complaint to the CBC:  “Wouldn’t it be great if the CBC were as professionally run and politically impartial as NBC?”.  (And please forgive the slightly misguided Mr. Kay for thinking NBC is “impartial” rather than “in the tank” for liberals and particularly Obama—even after their recent firings of Olbermann and Matthews from their anchor desks—read comments here.)

And this by a blogger at Michelle Malkin’s HotAir.com:  “Hatred in Canada alive and well”.

And of course don’t forget my CBC Reader Comments category of recent blog entries featuring HATE and VILE CBC-APPROVED COMMENTS by CBC-nurtured fans.

VIDEO UPDATE

I just posted this YouTube video of a Fox News Channel clip, which picked up on Heather Mallick’s moonbattery.  I called it “Far left CBC’s farther left Heather Mallick moonbattery”

UPDATE UPDATE:
While I was revisiting this blog entry, I found some other blog entries I’ve written about Heather Mallick:

I’ve exposed her repeatedly for her anti-conservative hate-fests before, numerous times.   Yes here’s but just one more. 

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Banners the CBC should stop using

Even if the banner was actually in support of their new hero, Danny Williams, anti-Harper warrior, they really should avoid putting this image out there:

They make it so obvious. 

UPDATE:

WATCHING AN UNHINGED DANNY WILLIAMS IMPLODE ...  OBSESSED WITH HARPER HATRED…
CBC chooses to spend endless minutes—20 minutes or more of live taxpayer-funded “news”?—with a live segment on Danny Williams as he reads out an excruciatingly boring, bitter, spiteful, anti-Harper speech to some group in Newfoundland.  In it, the “Progressive Conservative” (code for liberal or socialist in the slow, Fabian model) premier calls Prime Minister Harper “a right-wing”, “reform” guy (as if that’s a bad thing) and paints him in hateful, personal tones, as some sort of a freakish, filthy Conservative, and, (I quote) a “fraud”.  “We don’t need him, ” he intones. 

Williams is having a baby temper tantrum.  Making no sense. 

No wonder the CBC suddenly loves him and is covering every word he speaks no matter how utterly insignificant it is today, and no matter how many Canadians unfortunate enough to be watching this stupidity-inducing channel are falling asleep. 

UPDATE 2:

CBC reporter Julie Van Dusen enjoys a post-Danny Williams speech chat with the CBC anchor and says his speech was “eloquent” and “graphic” in his “denunciations”.  His message may “resonate”.  Says (while clearly smirking—see screen capture taken at the exact moment), ”...Danny Williams isn’t buying the ‘warm fuzzy sweater’ makeover that the PM has uh, has uh, done uh, lately that uh, softened his softened his look…!”

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