60 Replies to “Give The CBC Another 24 Hours”

  1. Thanks for your comments about the President of the US Terry Gain.
    This Layton guy must be related to Taliban Jacko, he, through his predictions of increased violence BECAUSE of the War in Iran, is giving all his students a just reason (by his own reasoning, not the rational of sane people!) to not only expect this sort of thing but to resort to it themselves because this is what society expects!
    He and his ilk teach – he should be pulled from his profession right now IMO.
    I wonder why he did not mention the mass killings of Saddam in Iran as yet another example of ‘isolation and frustration’ taking it’s ‘natural’ course. He has no sympathy for the victims, he is totally consumed with the ‘bad’ society that made this ‘frustrated youth’ into a mass murderer. If this little ex pat from Canada had been properly disciplined as a child this would have probably never happened. Children who do not learn to control their tempers turn into adults who cannot control their emotions – this has all been ‘enabled’ by a left wing msm group of spoiled mewing so called journalists.
    Like you Sammy, I saw the sorrow on PMSH’s face today. Revulsion for such a deed is so overwhelming that a person can hardly speak of it – I saw this in the stance of our Prime Minister.
    My prayers are with the families of the victims tonight.

  2. When it comes to the CBC any blowhard whose emissions evince the unfettered, smug ideals of a 70’s GTA Liberal is an “expert”, and on that basis Elliot Leyton is eminently qualified.
    But I just want to say that, in an unqualified way, it’s great to see the National being kept in the spotlight, especially here at Kate’s. They continue to egregiously deliver Liberal-tribe tone-poems coast-to-coast to the point where it makes you wonder when, exactly, conservative Canadians are finally going to shout “bullshit!” with such force that it knocks the National off the air.
    The pattern is starting to become clear: The bad stuff — not that they ever really put it that way, either at the time or now — all happened under Chretien; the behaviour of the Martinites is irrelevent — immaterial, superfluous, redundent, rude-to-notice — because of the Martin-induced Gomery Inquiry. It’s over.
    Last week, Stephane Dion called the investigation into the whole Earnscliffe issue a “witch-hunt”. CBC’s take? Well, here’s the end of Mansbridge’s intro to Keith Boag’s “report”: “Already,, there are questions about whether it will be impartial, and suggestions it’s just dirty politics. The CBC’s Chief Political Correspondent Keith Boag has the story. Keith?”
    BOAG: “Peter, the Conservatives say it’s all about a new level of public accountability; Liberals say ‘Nonsense. It’s nothing more than a good old-fashioned witch-hunt’
    Boag then proceeded to authoritatively — and apparently on behalf of our nation — a) dimiss the notion that there’s any basis for an investigation b) comprehensively avoid any mention of Paul Martin (although Mr. Harper was mentioned three times) c) give no details about, nor behavioural context to, what is being investigated. Instead, he transparently campaigned for the preeminence of the Liberal’s prefered narrative: The Conservatives are dirty, and low, and in bed with the separatists.
    Near the end of the report Denis Coderre was shown summarizing Boag’s report, only more concisely, and without the fraudulent journalistic cloak: “It’s a disgrace! Now you have Mr. Witch-hunter — Mr. Stephen Harper — who has appointed a separatist — a separatist — who’s against the Liberals — against the Liberals — personally.”
    In closing, Boag chimed: “The deadline for the final report is six months from now. Until then, Liberals maybe have to deal with suspicions about them — something some of them already believe is the whole point of the exercise anyway. Peter?
    Jeepers, no partisan spin there.
    Ah well, what can you expect from a network that has David Suzuki announcing, about, oh, fifty times a day, for months now, that “That guy is so far up George Bush’s backside that it’s not even funny…”
    Oh wait… sorry…actually, it’s perfectly okay; see, it’s merely a promo for Strombolopolous’s Strombopolous-Face-Time festivals, so it’s not any form of partisan campaigning whatsoever. A mere promo on CBC is surely not the same thing as a constant, coast-to-coast anti-Conservative ad paid for by taxpayers…
    Pull the plug.
    Just over a month ago CBC sent a reporter to cover Mr. Harper’s farm-aid announcement and related issues. Quickly, a banner with the words “FOR GEORGE BUSH!!!” appeared, a lingering, single-subject shot in front of a farmer’s field.
    Later, in that same coverage of the — yes — farm-aid announcement, the same banner, now on the march, was shown again, now in an urban location, and now perfectly unfurled:
    “CONSERVATIVES GET THINGS DONE…FOR GEORGE BUSH!!!”
    After a plenty-o’-time-to-read moment or two, an edgwise placard in the foreground on the immediate left rotates perfectly — flip! — to display a photo of….George Bush.
    The next day, on Saturday report, Mr. Harper is shown (head superimposed) with whipped-cream on his nipples; he is naked in a tent with George Bush, who similarly unattired, and stretching out his nipples with his fingers.
    Just in case anyone thinks I’m joking, I’m not.
    The farm-aid story was by some woman reporter whose name I can’t recall; as for Boag and Paul Hunter, their reports — and this is a big factor in their ability to get away with them — are like the “whack-a-mole” game you see at fairgrounds: they only sporadically pop up, just long enough to let you know what the whole point of the exercise is.
    On that note, I’d love to see Brian Lemon’s most-excellent and ahead-of-its-time liveblogging of Duff and Newman expand to include a club-wielding upper-body workout….

  3. I had this guy in University for a course, almost 10 years ago to the semester. It was a course about mass murders and violent crimes and the public perception of crime rate. In all my years of education, he was, without even a close second the best professor I ever had. I loved going to his class. He was a hard ass and hard marker but the material was very interesting.
    I don’t agree with what he is saying at the end of this but knowing him I have a hard time discrediting it outright. Google his name (Elliot Leyton) and you’ll get a sampling of his credentials. He is/was a leader in the field and is high on many a list when the local profilers can’t get a bead on the latest serial killer. When I heard about this killing the other day the first thought that crossed my mind is I wonder what Leyton will have to say.

  4. bagadonitz – I googled his name as well, and he does seem to be well respected. Here’s the question that always occurs to me with experts who specialize in narrowly defined research – just who out there is in a position to refute his findings?
    I’ll give you a different example, a person who is a favourite of media – “world-renowned dog expert and author Dr. Stanley Coren”. Stanley Coren is no more a dog expert than your local veterinarian is. He’s managed to carve out a happy niche for himself, but his observations are purely garden variety stuff.
    http://www.stanleycoren.com/library.htm
    Yet, he’s a “world renowned expert” and a media favourite, apparently because he’s written a few books. One especially, “The Intelligence of Dogs” that purported to rank dog breeds on the basis of intelligence, was particularly bizarre. But as it’s a niche topic, no one was sufficiently bothered to challenge his “research”.

  5. “When I heard about this killing the other day the first thought that crossed my mind is I wonder what Leyton will have to say.”
    And by your own admission you don’t agree with what he had to say. Perhaps that should be a clue. I don’t think its about the person necessarily, its just that the CBC goes out and finds the view that they would like expressed.
    What this gentleman said in the interview didn’t fit the circumstances at all. the VT shooter wasn’t a soldier and had not been exposed to the Iraq war other than in the new media perhaps. So what did his final comments have to do with the issue again??

  6. Before the shooting, news was already slow…So hang on to your shorts because unless something else ‘news worthy’ of the sensationalist tabloid kind comes along (Say of Anal Nicole territory for example), you and I (Although myself, I will shut it out…”Get me new batteries in the remote dear, I’ll be doing a lot of channel surfing”) will be exposed to all the victims backgrounds, their tearful relatives and friends, what they eat,drink,piss and shit.
    Meanwhile:
    -A crazed islamist is preparing for world armageddon.(Iran)
    -China is the key holder of the American debt which is slipping closer to a worldwide economic depression everyday.
    -Russia and it’s surroundings slowly moving towards anarchy.
    – African genocide of biblical proportions.
    – France, Great Britain capitulating to imported islamofascism.
    -A new religion and it’s inquisisionists like Gore and Suzuki are indoctrinating more and more sheeple of the 9/11 consperacy/fake moonwalk intellect.
    Atlas will shrug…REAL SOON!

  7. CanuckInMI and Kate, points taken. As I said, I don’t agree with his ending which I guess is his conclusion. There are likely more then 6 degrees of seperation between Iraq war and South Korean nut job so he missed the mark on that one for sure.
    As far as lack of experts in a field that is a valid point as well. In my line of work I’ve met a few of those experts who have all the right answers and better ways to do things until it is suggested that they go ahead and do it and show me an example. That usually ends it.
    Anyways, through four years of biochemistry, his sociology course that last semester to get enough electives to graduate, remains my favorite. I just hope I don’t see him drawing too many more of these conclusions to spoil that plesent memory 😉

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