Conrad Black on the Bizarroworld of Canadian political reporting:
If the Canada Customs and Revenue Authority had been used to harass and intimidate political and media opponents of the government in the run-up to a general election — as the Internal Revenue Service has done in the United States — it would be the greatest scandal in the country’s history, and would provoke a national crisis of confidence in the integrity of the federal government. The governing party would be out.
And if a Republican was in the White House, the scandals gripping Washington would be unfolding by the hour across the Canadian airwaves. But there isn’t, so they aren’t.
And closer to home, the CBC does make mention that it asked Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Senate Liberal leader Jim Cowan if they had “spoken” to Senator Pana Merchant about her off-shore trust, but not once does it make reference to “Liberal Senator Jana Merchant”. Squeezed by a word-limit, perhaps?
Both Conrad and Kate have it right in the above statements. Almost all of the Canadian media is in bed with the Liberals and NDP, and the US Democrats. Indiscretions by the left are ignored and indiscretions by the right are magnified and dwelt on endlessly.
In Canada a political scandal is usually some concocted innuendo from the GTA media targeting some office holder who does not fit into their narrow cliquish template. OTOH, they totally ignore the capital crimes of the “natural ruling party” and its MSM-vetted leaders.
Such is life in the demented dominion.
Citizen’s of Barbado’s can write for the NP too but should they?
illegals
I suppose that if a citizen of France can serve as Leader of the Opposition, a citizen of Barbados (one who is not quite so apostrophically challenged as “conan barbarian”, should have no qualms about writing for a Canadian newspaper.
Ken (Kulak) said, “Almost all of the Canadian media is in bed with the Liberals and NDP, and the US Democrats.”
Agreed. Canadian media just lays in bed on its back and says “next”.
We all better pray that SunNews survives.
By sheer coincidence I am reading the latest, updated edition of “perjury” the hiss-chambers case.
It outlines the last great scandal that the radical left suffered and that created an opening for the resurgence of the conservative movement. Back then the press was completely in bed with the commie spy hiss (who was the lead creator of the UNs founding documents BTW and was instrumental in giving the ussr a veto) and attacked the lead witness – chambers and the point man of HUAC – Nixon – unmercifully. Then the facts more and more made it obvious that hiss was lying and was a spy and that there were many more like him. The far left was routed for a generation.
I bring this up as a fable of sorts to comfort those distressed by what is happening today with the enormous radical left bias in the media both south and north of the 49th. The facts will come out and there will be losers – those in the media currently in bed with the Obama administration – and there will be winners – tapper, ailes, fox et al. Those in the media who remain loyal to Obama only ensnare themselves more firmly and will suffer the fall even greater.
The majority of the media in Canada are not interested in reporting news; they are agenda (twenty one) driven zealots and they are, as Ezra has indicated, bullies. News and reporting is not important to these creepy, wimpy, petty thugs: mean, childish, cooked up scandals against the anyone who does not follow agenda ‘rules’ controls their careers and their lives. When the news is a cess pool of targeted gossip, msm lose all credibility and is not relevant in a sane civilization. Untruth and chaos are essential components in any attempt to install a Totalitarian regime. Lenin called the press ‘useful idiots’. Sane people should always question the motives of anyone the corrupt press ignores because the human haters are playing on the same team, IMO.
The internet and real news sites like Dredge and SDA are replacing the msm in the quest of truth for thinking people; however schools are no longer teaching truth or facts or instructing students on how to think; schools have become institutions of the agenda. We live in dangerous times.
I’ve noticed liberal media trying to justify their extortion and witch-hunt of Ford, to late the lot of them are poisoned hateful liberals.
Example of low information voter:
When I said too bad about the casino in Toronto I got the blank stare…but he is totally convinced that Ford is a crack addict, and that Somali drug lords are 100% trustworthy.
Roseberry “I suppose that if a citizen of France can serve as Leader of the Opposition, a citizen of Barbados (one who is not quite so apostrophically challenged as “conan barbarian”, should have no qualms about writing for a Canadian newspaper.” Who was the last purely Canadian citizen to be leader of the opposition? Harper?
Even the treasonous Greenie, Lizzy May wants to rid us of the Queen’s birthday. I’d chip in for a bus ticket back to Connecticut. Doesn’t she remember the part about swearing allegiance to the Queen. I’m sure she never rid herself of US citizenship.
Libtards and media sycophants do not read history
Their very “power” comes from denying the existence of past events and fads.
People are slow to anger, but unforgiving of malicious trustees.
I forsee interesting days ahead for our so called MSM.
The pundits do not seem to be aware that they are the story. It is becoming crystal clear to nonpolitical citizens that they have been selective past the point of lying, in their coverage of Canadian and world news.
It is not a conspiracy, when it turns out to be true. Our media holds a special and privileged position in our society, they have betrayed our trust.
Open disbelief in media reports is commonplace and verifiable.Trust is gone and this means the current media is toast.
Neil Macdonald soils himself over at the CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/22/f-rfa-macdonald-obama-harper-scandals.html
“CLARIFICATION: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story suggested that Martha Joynt Kumar of Towson University agreed with the author’s observation that no modern president has shown the level of contempt for taking questions from the media that Stephen Harper has demonstrated. In providing CBC News with her research on presidential press conferences, Prof. Kumar was not commenting on the Canadian situation.
May 24, 2013 | 3:39 p.m.”
scar, what do have against the good people of Connecticut?
Frankly we have no one to blame for the current state of degenerated media but ourselves. Every time they lie, embellish, get creative with the “facts” or engage in partisan evangelising in an alleged news item or so-called unbiased item, call them on it. Complain to the media watchdog councils/agencies or sue. I think guys like Rob Ford ask for everything they get by not suing these lying defaming media hacks back into the abyss.
Occam, I think that there is a reason Rob Ford doesn’t want to sue. He is not a Nigel Wright, nor is he a Stephen Harper. He ran a successful campaign against one of slimiest politicians to emerge from the Hogtown sewer, but Ford is a very weak on which to lean for conservatives.
“a very weak reed* Sorry.
Some people in British msm believe that what Nigel Farage ingests is newsworthy; others do not agree!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6RafbWq1H0
This broadcast would never, ever be seen on any msm in Canada.
No, I do not exaggerate:
s talking to a 30+ year customer the other day about her foreign student daughter’s tax return.
I mentioned the enveloping IRS scandal.
SHE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT IT.
She’s lovely, charming, witty and according, to her husband, has a IQ of 150.
She did not know.
She said she’d tune in soon to NPR to get a balanced view.
She’s Canadian, lives in Vancouver.
She did not know.
The government might as well cut the CBC adrift right now, they are all the way back to their Liberal P.R. Firm mode now that Boy Wonder is leader, and Cons have done a bit of naughty business.
The “Liberal media lickspittle” label fits quite nicely and just having CBC talking heads dispute that actually makes it all the more comfortable since they can’t seem to wriggle out of it with their wry smiles and smirks (guess they figured us out, eh?).
Even Rex Murphy, part-time neo-con that he has proven to be, is back in Full Trudeau Orgasm Mode and house pet Andrew Coyne is as conservative a man as never existed or they would have kicked him out of the mothership like Ezra Levant. Sorry Andrew, you might make the occasional good point, but disputing “Liberal media lickspittle” when you had the alternative choice of explaining it, reduced you to useful idiot status.
This “scandal” is what it is, and no more or less. Basically, it’s just the usual ten-headed Ottawa swamp-monster of all political types making its semi-annual appearance to croak “I am Entitled, Damn It,” and it must have to do with the municipal drinking water because, frankly, you can’t trust anyone who bunks within sight of the Peace Tower. We should move the capital to Saskatoon and reduce Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver to one token MP (not each, among the three of them) and thus restore democracy in Canada.
Steyn Of course says it all.
Mark Steyn on IRS hearings: ‘You guys wasted your whole time with your revolution’
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/mark-steyn-on-irs-hearings-you-guys-wasted-your-whole-time-with-your-revolution/#ixzz2ULg1Lqi5
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/mark-steyn-on-irs-hearings-you-guys-wasted-your-whole-time-with-your-revolution/
Revnant Dream- Excellent rants and thank-you for the link to Mark Steyn. Mark has a wicked sense of humour and a fine tuned intuition for the absurd. His take on the Iwon ‘know nothing’ in the White house is slap stick laugh out loud funny.
Stan @12;40 – I went to that Niel MacDonald link and I tried to read what he had written. His contribution (I hope he was not paid) was a rambling page of gobbledygook! It was fiction and it made no comprehensive sense. Do you know if the guy is playing with a full deck? He is certainly getting those Chris Matthew type thrills down his leg at an odd time.
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Jema54:
Excellent as usual. Yes, dangerous times. I suspect the Japanese will bring the house of cards (world economy) down this year or next.
No, thanks, we are doing more than enough to ruin what used to be a nice clean small city. We don’t need to bring the national capital to Saskatoon.