Upon receiving an email tip from a reader, I checked out Tom Clark's new show Power Play out of curiosity at how Liberal Party Of Televsion cast members were reacting to McChevygate .... and stayed with the news coverage that followed just long enough to witness Rosemary Thompson take another gratuitous swipe at Fox News.
Thanks, Rosemary, for reminding me of the level of professionalism we've come to expect of you, and why I haven't tuned to CTV Newsnet since Mike Duffy retired.











Sorry to say Kate, that I can't establish a link to McChevygate.
thanks
Thanks simon, fixed now.
I can't watch Tom Clark's show; it's boring, it's inane, it's trivial; it's pro-Liberal to the degree that is has no capacity for providing information or analysis. Just propaganda. Same with Newman's show.
Ah, Tom Clark.
You know, just before Mike Duffy moved on to the Senate, I myself moved and decided not to get cable TV at my new place, and don't miss a thing, since Duffy no longer does Mike Duffy Live.
Besides, I din't have much hope for Tom Clark, having seen his work before and not being impressed. In fact, less than a week after starting blogging in 2005, I blasted him for crap reporting...
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2005/09/ctvs-tom-clark-full-of-opinionated.html
CTV's political programming meme (exception Duffy) was to avoid any extended or non stage-managed debate on issues the Trudeaupian guard had no answers for...of course the Trudeaupians and their spawn the new LPC soviets, are embarrassed by a number of their idological policy failures, like Cuba and the de-industrialized 3rd world welfare state McChimpy has made of Ontarslobovia. Don't expect critical analysis any time soon.
CTV, CBC = Tass, Pravda same ruling class soviet spin with different logos.
Every time I saw the two fossilized Trudeupian zombies they prop up in front of the cameras to give Canadians their nightly ideological affirmations (Count Lloyd and "Ginger" Oliver) I gag on the retro left politics CTV is mired in.
I tuned CTV news and public affairs programming years ago...except for the Duff. As you say Kaye there is no reason to watch any more....same for CBC, when Murphy is gone I will have a total black out on CBC news.
i don't know where this mistaken respect for the puffster comes from...i've watched that fat slob lob interviewer nerf balls to everyone from mulroney and the present collection of on the make pols all the way back to turdeau....
today everyone speaks of him as the long lost oriana fallaci of the canadian MSM....
so why is that...he never busted anyone's hump....he never broke anything big....he was a filthy rotten cad for the way he treated margaret trudeau after pierre's funeral....
he's shown himself to be an overstuffed piggy faced opportunist equivocator for decades ...and now he's the Launcelot of canadian media...??
i don't get it...
i don't get it...
john begley
Simple, john.
The puffster has gained small dead legitimacy because Dear Leader has bestowed the taskless thanks of a Senate appointment upon his useless, corpulent form.
My husband and I watch CTV's "Power Play" with Tom Clark almost every day. In my opinion, Tom Clark is *the* fairest and best informed journalist in Canada.
He didn't let McCallum off the hook for his lie about the vehicle he drives.
"I can't watch Tom Clark's show; it's boring, it's inane, it's trivial; it's pro-Liberal to the degree that is has no capacity for providing information or analysis. Just propaganda. Same with Newman's show."
I don't watch Newman's show, and I think you're dead wrong about Tom Clark's "Power Play."
Clark has a very impressive background and is sharp as a tack.
Can't stay up late enough for Reader Tips but I would like to say: "At last!"
Canadians join KAF Express
by Capt Paul Kim (see www.forcesgc.ca)
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD — In the skies over Kandahar Province, Canada’s Joint Task Force – Afghanistan (JTF-Afg) Air Wing is making a big impression on operations and improving the safety of Canadian and allied soldiers.
CH-146 Griffon tactical helicopters and CH-147 Chinook transports from the JTF-Afg Air Wing are now flying with “KAF Express”, the ISAF helicopter pool that moves coalition and Afghan personnel from Kandahar Airfield to destinations throughout the province. After less than three months of operations, the wing has already moved more than 1 200 passengers who would otherwise have had to travel on Afghanistan’s deadly roads.
“One of the reasons why the wing is here is to deny, or at least limit, the enemy’s ability to strike at Canadians and allied personnel by moving them through the air instead of on the road,” said tactical helicopter pilot Captain Christine Salt.“Every day, we grow in capabilities as we bring more equipment and resources on line, as well as develop expertise in flying operations in Afghanistan. Every mission we fly, we learn something new and incorporate that into how we do things.”
“The only disappointment I’ve heard,” said mission specialist Sergeant Michael Scott, of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, “is from people we had to turn away because of priority and limited space.” Passengers are loaded according to operational priority, which is set by higher HQ and not by rank, said Sgt Scott, who pointed out cases where a corporal was seated ahead of a senior NCM or an officer. “We will do everything we can to get our guys where they need to go with their kit,” he said. “We have had to do some creative loading in the past few days due to the types of loads we have been handling.”
Formally stood up December 6, JTF-Afg Air Wing grew out of a key recommendation of the Independent Panel on Canada’s Future Role in Afghanistan that called for a Canadian aviation capability designed primarily to move troops.
John Begley is an idiot.
NeilD
Fox News is a palpable threat to the Canadian leftocracy. Rosemary and all like her are just chickens in the same neo-Liberal idealistic coop, hoping the fox doesn't bust in on their little leftist group hug.
Redux, don't you think Murphy and Coren would make a great team? So what if they'd have to interact to each others comments with subtitles on the teleprompters? Couldn't be on CBC though, there'd be no audience.
I'm ready to cut Tom Clark a 'bit' of slack. It must be tough to rise through the depths of leftist sludge to even dare suggest an indiscretion with regard to the chosen ones.
Today, I think he really tried to pin the tag of LIAR on this POS. Of course, you've got Taber and Mr. Muppet-Oliver there deflecting the arrows.
But this time, there's lots of fodder on record which I hope doesn't go to waste.
As an aside, I would dearly like to see Mike Duffy showing up on one of the MSM networks and letting loose on the sins and biases of his ex-'journalist' compatriots. There's gotta be a lot of skeletons there, and I think he wouldn't mind unearthing a few of them. Would he be brave enough to take on the Man? Sooner or later, I think he might.
"Can't stay up late enough for Reader Tips..."
Move to Alberta!
CTV has already stuffed that one down the memory hole.
Memo:
From: Puffin Head Office
To: CTV News
Subject: Reporting on our people without fudging to make us look good.
Action Required: Stop it, bury this and don't do it again if you know what's good for you.
End
"In my opinion, Tom Clark is *the* fairest and best informed journalist in Canada."
He could do all of Canada a great service if he persuaded Craig Oliver to unclench the rectal thermometer with Stephen Harper's name engraved on it that Oliver carries around in his shorts.
If I cross Achmed the Dead Terrorist with Mortimer Snerd, I get Craig Oliver 2 splinters short of a tree.
I agree with Begley.
Wallin and Duff are trough denizens of the first order.
To hold them up as paragons of unbiased reporting is a denial of the facts.
Piperpaul:
"Redux, don't you think Murphy and Coren would make a great team?"
Absolutely!
After a while viewing them sub titles would be unnecessary as the audience would have been brought up to speed on common English diction and literacy levels... ;-)
"he's shown himself to be an overstuffed piggy faced opportunist equivocator for decades ...and now he's the Launcelot of canadian media...??"
actually that's just your take on it.
Duff was pretty bland as a reporter but he was the only thing approximating balance in the CTV organization....and he did tell one of Martin's Librano apparatchiks to go get stuffed...on air...when the little turd ball tried to threaten him.
Tom Clark: Not as bad as some people think; I've seen him nail some of his guests and they haven't all been Conservatives.
Like so many in the MSM, however, nepotism was at work when he got his first job: His great-uncle was Greg Clark, OC, OBE, MC, Canadian journalist and humorist.
That's not particularly earth-shattering, except that there are too many MSM- and Can-Lit-Cabal "brats" clogging Canada's airwaves and newspapers. Just the other day, the so-called London "Free" Press, neglected to cover Kathy Shaidle's, Ezra Levant's, and Salim Mansur's, standing-room-only HRC talk in London. This was a watershed event in London, on a topic of prime importance to Canadians, and Paul Berton, the LFP's editor-in-chief and son of Pierre Berton, didn't think so.
'Wonder why? 'Seems it's in his DNA to disparage anything c/Conservative and to only champion lib-left causes: the Canadian Media Disease.
"a watershed event in London"
Oh please. The LFP gave the event some high exposure through its coverage, which is exactly what organizers look for and need.
What is served by a transcript in the LFP of three people on a stage agreeing with each other?
But if you think the anti-CHRC movement rises and falls with the MSM, carry on.
Idiot.
Tom Clark: Not as bad as some people think; I've seen him nail some of his guests and they haven't all been Conservatives.
Like so many in the MSM, however, nepotism was at work when he got his first job: His great-uncle was Greg Clark, OC, OBE, MC, Canadian journalist and humorist.
That's not particularly earth-shattering, except that there are too many MSM- and Can-Lit-Cabal "brats" clogging Canada's airwaves and newspapers. Just the other day, the so-called London "Free" Press, neglected to cover Kathy Shaidle's, Ezra Levant's, and Salim Mansur's, standing-room-only HRC talk in London. This was a watershed event in London, on a topic of prime importance to Canadians, and Paul Berton, the LFP's editor-in-chief and son of Pierre Berton, didn't think so.
'Wonder why? 'Seems it's in his DNA to disparage anything c/Conservative and to only champion lib-left causes: the Canadian Media Disease.
back off redux
i made my bones delegitimizing super duper K man's run at a common's seat in north van back in the 90's.....which is more than the puffster has accomplished in a lifetime.....i always DO something to actually thwart the enemie's machinations rather than simply pontificating and playing the wise old owl as some folks do...
btw thanks for allowing me to express my "take'(mistaken as it is but then again you are a REAL liberal if i'm not mistaken)
If you don't think that what's going on with the HRCs is either important or news, and defend the LFP's lack of coverage ... go ahead.
But, who's the "idiot"?
You've lost the argument, smitty, the minute you revert to name-calling. You can slither back under your rock now.
"If I cross Achmed the Dead Terrorist with Mortimer Snerd, I get Craig Oliver 2 splinters short of a tree.
Posted by: Hannibal Lectern at April 18, 2009 12:20 AM"
LOL! That's a hilarious visual! My take on Craig Oliver's special status on Tom Clark's "Power Play" is that it's due to Clark's respect for Oliver's longevity in their journalistic fraternity. Craig Oliver is, at least, better than Jane Taber, the gossip columnist, and Gloria Galloway, who appears to be in bed with the Liberals. Tom Clark is intelligent, astute and funny, and Robert Fife is quite good, as well.
Watching Tom Clark, I know what's going on in our House of Commons. I think he gets a back rap here.
"Like so many in the MSM, however, nepotism was at work when he got his first job: His great-uncle was Greg Clark, OC, OBE, MC, Canadian journalist and humorist."
Welcome to the real world, where connections matter, but so do smarts and personability.
Nepotism didn't work so well for Caroline Kennedy, thank goodness. She doesn't have what it takes to make it past the initial networking stage.