Hard to believe the Mother Corpse keeps him around. You can only imagine what the Tories could do with the CBC budget. We'd all be paying 5% income tax.

For the first time in weeks, I watched The National last night and heard MacDonald's biased report. I wrote a complaint to the CBC Ombudsman this morning and hope others to the same. Enough!

I vote to give Neil MacDonald and the whole CBC a 'Reality Check' on January 24, by canning the lot of them.

There won't be any further need for Librano fart-catchers on the air after Team Martin is wiped out at the polls.

Yeah, well it doesn't matter, because the CPC has just given the Liberals a rally cry ... "They will INCREASE taxes".

Lest you think I'm being a bit sensitive on this, consider Coyne's take:

http://andrewcoyne.com/2006/01/speaking-of-tipping-points.php

reality check is that this country has allowed state run television to continue, The so called journalist can't even write the script without big brother approving. this network has blead the taxpayer's for far too long. Maybe they should start holding telethon's for there monies, TV Ontario has too! They only have a few shows worth watching anyways. Look at all the recent problem's with CBC Regina, Incorrect info with 2second appology, CURLING ON COUNTRY CANADA PAY TV, STRIKES, LIBERAL HIRED HANDS AT THE TOP WITH NEXT TO NONE TELEVISION EXP. THE LIST GOES ON & ON like the everready rabbit, answer abolish & let them do like TV ontario dig up your own support with quality tv NOT SOCIALISTIC, BIG BROTHER DO AS I SAY COMRADE TV.

Harper just out talking about it now- with details.
Kenney jumped the gun. ( sorry --not allowed here)
jumped the tubular metal thing.

I watched MacDonald's story last night and actually laughed out loud... whether you like them or not, everyone knows Harper's position on tax cuts ... the CBC has its own agenda - the protection of the CBC

MacDonald became an embarrassment to the CBC on the Mideast beat, had to be pulled out, but not punished, so he's still at it, a paradigm example of "a fish doesn't know it's wet" when it comes to liberal media bias.

Maybe I'm being too sensitive but it seemed that the next story about mandatory minimum sentences also took a swipe at the Tories due to the cost of keeping convicts in jail longer and the fact that it "doesn't work". I know all the parties are now on the law and order bandwagon but the CPC got the ball rolling and I think they intend to be toughest, thus they will spend the most money on "ineffective" methods. It certainly seemed like that was the thrust of the story but maybe I'm just overreacting.

As of Saturday afternoon CTV is still showing the gruesome Liberal campaign stop, with PMPM pulling away from the mic and the reporters after him like a pack of wolves on a bone ...

All I can say is "bless you CTV."

Can't wait to see what is done with Martin's pledge to clean up the Great Lakes. Hope the MSM is fed all the facts on CSL's polluting of same.

Perspective: Forced to pay for what we refuse to watch.

Audience share: Nil for 98% of Canadians. Why give them free coverage here? MacDonald who? ??

CBC: $1 billion in taxes, 5.8% Audience Share. Forced to pay for ...
CBC: $1 billion in taxes, 5.8% Audience Share. Forced to pay for what we refuse
to watch. Which funding formula would be best? ...
www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/88 - 24k -

There is no end of CBC propaganda and the most stealthy and successful has been the very real hurdle of the *fear Harper agenda*. So my argument is...

While my personal politics don't really matter, I think it is important to talk to as many undecided voters as possible and present this overview.

Liberal Voter ? Me too, but,

This time I’m voting for Harper because the Liberals need a time out to clear out the dead wood and renew . Respect for liberals is at such a low ebb, that if elected as a weak minority, the Liberal Party could go out in flames just as the Social Credit party did in B.C.

Industrialist Paul Martin at the helm makes the Liberals more of a Conservative Corporate party rather than a true Liberal party. Martin fired his Canadian marine crews and hired on non-union Central and South American crews. He also registered his Canadian Steamship Lines in Barbados in order to avoid paying Canadian taxes.

Those moves are acceptable for an industrialist but they are not appropriate for the Prime Minister of Canada. Martin is banking on the fact that most Canadian voters simply do not have the time to read the news in detail in these busy modern times.

You may be aware of the Sponsorship scandal, but that is only the tip of a very big iceberg. There are well over 200 losses and thefts of Canada’s public funds and the list is still growing.

http://BendGovernment.blogspot.com

http://Scamslist.blog.com

These losses run well into the billions of dollars and have contributed to the loss of services in emergency hospital departments and countless other areas.

Time for a Conservative vote. If the Harper team fails to do the job, we can always vote the Liberals back in and by that time the Liberals will have a new respect for integrity and efficiency.
Sound logical? TG

add the 3500$ per viewer it costs to keep PRAVDA afloat to each viewers cable bill and see the last 5.8% disappear.

Once this election is decided can you imagine being an out of work former CBC turd polisher and having to submit your resume for a job to any company other than another low life Liberal trough feeding orginazation.

A deck hand on CSL or houseboy/girl for Maurice Strong won't come with the same fringe benefits package that we the Canadain tax payers have doled out over the years to the CBC.

Kate:

Re: Your addendum...

I think you watched both programmes for the same reason I did. It's the same reason a friend of mine goes to sci-fi movies, even though he hates the genre and thinks the whole concept is stupid he is fascinated with the special effects.
We know the content is either biased or suspect. Watching the BIAS is interesting, not the content.

"The medium IS the message"

BTW, again well done with the "Roundtable" stuff.

I watched both newscasts on CTV and CBC. The difference in the two was breathtaking. I wonder how Fife from CTV has lasted this long covering the Liberal campaign with his negative but true reporting.
Last night's Reality Check on CBC was blatantly biased and an attempt to put the CPC on the defensive. The sad part was that the full platforms of all the parties have not been released and therefore MacDonald et al have no knowledge of what's to come.
I can't wait to see Newman, MacDonald and Mansbridge begging for donations on the air as any public broadcaster does in the real world. The days of the taxpayer subsidizing is probably coming to an end and the CBC brass knows this. The lack of support for CBC was clearly evident when they went on strike. Nobody was pushing to settle the strike because the public could care less about CBC.It is unfair for CTV and Global having to go head to head with a TV media outlet that receives a $billion of taxpayers money to do virtually the same thing while they have to raise their revenue solely from advertising dollars.

Were the CBC upset with Neil "Israel-hater" MacDonald's obfuscation they would have fired him long before now. They are just as complicit in this latest half-truth as their biased reporter.

The bigger question: Have we all sent letters to the ombudsman about this?

Penning mine now.

Given Kate receives thousands of hits per day, wouldn't it be awesome if some 3000 letters appeared in the ombudsman's mailbox on Monday AM?!

Yes, but what about the RHINO PARTY? We haven't heard from them in this election. What's up?

Perhaps they might have some new planks in their platform like:

http://www.thiscanada.com/2006/01/07/rhino-party-adds-new-platform-plank/

Enjoy, Erik

Perhaps I'm too sensitive but I can't believe all the CTV commendations. I find the CTV to be very biased as well, just not as bad as the CBC. Fife? Wow, can that guy throw anymore softballs. I'm sorry, the CTV is horrible too, lets remember, this is an election campaign and the Liberals have had at least two scandels that came to the forefront. The media should be ALL OVER this and the CBC and CTV are not. They are both protecting their beloved Liberals, one just somewhat worse than the other.

eric is right the lib war room spinners will be on o/t tonite in order to get this into the media full blast monday before the debates, also most likely martin will be in front of the mirror before the debates working the chest & jowels,I can here it now, I will not raise your taxes, but harper will as loud & mad as he can. I hope Stephen can get the damage control going. Let's hope that this is not a repeat of 2004, cpc has a great mommentum going.

Two points:

1. Did you watch the Royal Canadian Air Farce last night. They had a lot of good zingers for the Liberanos. Stronach, Pettigrew, Martin and all. Repeated Monday night at 7:00 P.M. PST.

2. Reporters are like pirahna (sp?). When they smell blood, they're in a frenzy. The trouble is that the viewing public cannot establish the difference between objective reporting and media frenzy.

Mike

Agree with Vin 03:56. We're cheering on CTV because they are only p#ssing on us instead of sh#tting on us like Pravda.

Martin vows to clean up Canadian waterways

Updated Sat. Jan. 7 2006 2:54 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff >>

Exposed:Martin's CSL pollutes the Great Lakes>>

Sweeping It Under
Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices

BY Alex Roslin

The dirtiest job on the ship was understandably the one Jim Macdonald dreaded most. During his years as chief engineer for Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), aboard carriers including the CSL Tadoussac, Macdonald oversaw the offloading of 25,000 tons of iron ore at the Port of Hamilton on each journey. Now 70 and retired, Macdonald recalls his voyages aboard the 730-foot-long Tadoussac—how, in the late 1980s, the Tadoussac would head back to the far end of Lake Superior to pick up a fresh ore load at Thunder Bay. After a short catnap while the vessel eased through the locks of the Welland Canal, it would be time to clean out the ship. This meant dumping into the water tens of thousands of marble-sized ore pellets that didn’t make it off at port. >>>
http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2005/09/sweepingitunder.php

Mark, I sent my letter off while I was watching the report. As I said on another Blog site, you have to excuse Peter Mansbridge, they promised him an 'Elton John' weave if he went along with it...

To the CBC: the cost to keep my family safe from DRUG DEALING GUN TOTING RAPIST & MOLESTERS "PRICELESS"

To the CBC: I forgot one KILLERS, thanks

Slightly off topic, but I just read an interesting item on CTV's site concerning the size of the crowd at a Stephen Harper rally. It got me to thinking that I have been totally unable to estimate the number of people at any election rally due to the to the camera angles on ALL TV network reports. I was involved in Preston Manning's campaign years ago, and found the size of crowds coming out was a very good indicator of whether a campaign was going up or down. Any feedback on the various campaigns? I have a sneaking suspicion of where the bigger crowds are going, and why the media isn't letting us see them.

I am concerned that perhaps, arguably, the CBC is not run in a completely financially efficient way and that maybe there may be a slight possible leaning in a certain political direction - whichever direction that happens to be - from time to time.

Bryan--thank you--that was my exact thought when the economic cost was their only concern--what about the human cost for letting these criminals out time and time again--that is negligible in Liberal eyes--once again we see that honest citizens matter not one iota to the Liberal criminal lovers

The beauty is that there are fewer than a million Canadias watching CBC new and most of them are same ones who have always watched it. They are mindless leftists who are of little consequence in the bigger picture.

The CBC has been losing credibility for years now and is widely known as a very expensive hang out for Marxists. Given enough time in power, we can only hope the CPC will religate the CBC to public broadcasting that must do it's own fund raising.

Asses like Neil McDonald will have to retire or get a real job. Can you think of anyone who would hire this fat commie?

I, like others occasionally watch CBC for a cynical laugh and nothing more.

Please forward this to Neil MacDonald on “CBC Watch”, I haven’t been approved for membership in that fine organization

Conservatives increasing taxes- really now.
Yeah sure, the Conservatives are the party of high taxes and the Liberals low taxes. What planet are you from Mr. MacDonald?
Where is Mr. MacDonalds journalistic integrity? It appears that he doesnt have any. Neil, this is a classic example of "yellow jounalism" at its finest. I hope that you choke while 'drinking your own bathwater'.

Here is what I wrote the CBC today

I want to formally complain on Neil Macdonld's report last nite on the National of the Reality Check.
That was not worthy of a grade 3'ers version of the truth and how will I know of the response of CBC management to this bit of biased garbage that is supposed to be reporting can you tell me or will we not be assured this type of conduct will be dealt with. Can we send him back to Iraq?

I now consider the CBC to be a left-wing special interest group receiving a billion tax dollars a year just to say bad stuff about anyone who isn't Liberal or leftist.

They're no different from an organization advocating, on the public dime, say, for transvestite polka-dancing terrorists or something. Why do we need the CBC? It's not as if it's telling us the truth about us or about our federation, including its true history. They prefer fluffy socialist/social reengineering propaganda and do pretty much nothing else.

I hope their funding is phased out and eventually they'll have to depend on the generousity of the unemployed moonies and miserly millionaires like Paulie M. who ever bother to watch their propaganda.

Time for a Conservative vote. If the Harper team fails to do the job, we can always vote the Liberals back in and by that time the Liberals will have a new respect for integrity and efficiency.
Sound logical? TG

Very logical! I think it would be great if true supporters of the Liberal Party felt this way. The current Liberal party is a joke, and they definitely need some time out.

This is Macdonald's "Reality Check" in a nutshell:

"Are you actually considering voting Conservative? Time for a Reality Check."

Neil MacDonald doesn't care about truth or integrity. He's a classic Liberal-left apparatchik yes-man who'll gladly say anything he's told in exchange for his generous compensation courtesy of you and me, the taxpayer, who really just want the truth and nothing more from a news outlet.

Neil MacDonald would feel equally comfortable reading the news on Syrian or Cuban state tv or Al-Jazeera.

Watch for a scorched earth senate appointment for Mansbridge and MacDonald courtesy of Paul Martin, especially if this turns the tide of Tory fortunes. I hope somebody is on top of this, although Harper has said all along they would be releasing the rest of their policy later in the campaign.

I think the CBC should be charged under the gag law. They are clearly a 3rd party advertiser for the Liberals. Only in CBC reality land is a tax cut that doesn't happen in ignoring other aspects, a tax increase, as McDonald characterized it. I guessed the ongoing scandals and further evidence of corruption needed to be co-opted by "Conservative tax hikes." Luckily, the Canadian public seems to now recognize a pig in a poke (except the 30% of so core Liberal vote, which clearly includes McDonald). But then again, McDonald believes we shouldn't put people in jail because it costs too much. No need to calculate the cost to the people and communities violent criminals terrorize. I get the feeling McDonald has already been "excluded" by Canadian society. His bias reveals his incompetence as a journalist.

Just sent my letter to the CBC. Hope it does some good and we see a retraction on Monday or sooner.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The comments and report made by Neil MacDonald on the Reality Check portion of The National last night, where both disgusting, biased and untruthful. For this person to call himself a reporter, is a joke. His one sided reporting against the Conservative Party, without a single interview, to get they're perspective, is nothing short of criminal.

I would expect the CBC to look into this and take the appropriate action to correct this one sided journalism, on the part of they're employee.

being a journalist is a prerequisite for the plumest of all jobs, the Governor General ,-----so of course they plan on sucking up to the Idi Amins in power.( one of Idi's titles was "conqueror of the British Empire"for getting rid of the British Influence-like our own Pierre)

as well there will be a raft of senatorships given out before the Liberal ship sinks. -- a partisan one will be to Joe Clark for continuously making the wrong choice for over 30 years running.Kneel MacDonald would be looking for free employment where he can rail against the Conservatives as well.there will be just as many listening him in the house of sober second thought as on the news---none.

Am I the only CPC supporter that can properly use there, their and they're? I hope there aren't any educated undecided voters reading this blog.

Libs are now using CBCPravda as their source material on their site.

Its another branch of the great incestous mess.

Kate - next Roundtable you may want to comment on this relationship. but it may be your last public sponsored blog.

CBC is skating on thin ice. Throwing this election in the direction of the lying, cheating, power-hungry thieving Libranos will steel my resolve to have the CBC completely disbanded.

Who the hell do they think they are?

I bet the CBC is Shaken in their boots to see that you're resolved to see them disbanded.

Depressing as it might be, but there will be no change at CBC, regardless of who wins the election. Harper wouldn't have the guts to cut CBC's funding and/or clean it up in any meaningful way. (The Liberals are of course very happy with the current situation.)

I have an idea, what if everyone who doesn't likes them just refuses to watch the CBC. That way, the advertisers realize there's no money to be made on CBC. Then the revenue will stop flowing and the ONLY way for them to survive is with oodles of taxpayer grants. Then we follow the inevitible corruption that follows oodles of Liberal politically motivated taxpayer grants.

Then we shut down the CBC.

When I grew up in the Arctic town of Inuvik the CBC was wonderful. At dawn, it would show the flag flapping in the wind while the national anthem played. A real unifying force. Some of CBC radio still gives me that feeling.

But CBC television? The news is just awful. It's so intellectually shallow that it actually puts me to sleep. And considering that it's supposed to be a Canadian broadcaster why the hell does it keep showing left-wing documentaries about the US?

I think the CANADIAN broadcasting Corp. runs more documentaries on racism in the South and neo-cons in the White House than CNN. So God knows why we as Canadians have to pay for that mush.

Well I've watched more than enough of CBC and CTV today.

The CBC is pushing the "CPC to undo tax cut" nonsense hard. CTV on the other hand is pretty much ignoring it, and instead is running Fife's spot on Paul Martin answering questions about ITscam and Options Canada.

All I saw from CTV about the CPC undoing the Liberal tax cut was on CTV Newsnet's stupid news thingy that scrolls along at the bottom of the screen. It scrolls by so fast that you miss it if you blink.

It has been so obvious on various issues. As stated by others both the tax cut and jail "costing" issues were as transparent as could be possible. As I am reading previous comments the same thought came to as when cal2 states "Kate - next Roundtable you may want to comment on this relationship. but it may be your last public sponsored blog." It would be a bold stroke. Once thought over though I am of the opinion that Kate's presense there on a on going basis is needed more. Thanks Kate.

I think everyone who's ever (been forced) to watch Neil McDonald's style of reporting has come to the same conclusion.

Neil hates everything American, Conservative, or Jewish.

Imagine how the poor Conservative Jew in New York must feel?

Chip - how did you watch the red flag flap on the radio? I, too remember CBC radio, what an experience!! Listining to those gushing, 'rolling small stones in their mouth' Communists was nothing short of revolting. The only good CBC radio I have ever heard was the great music they played during the strike. Maybe they will go on strike again sometime soon - I hope - and resolve never to work for the gument again. How foolish I am.
I listin to them to pick them apart and it is a very easy thing to do - they are so 'pravda passe', I feel like I'm back in Communist Poland when I look at their earnest, forced grin, flabby faces and jowls flapping in tune to the left wing nuts that ruin this country. I have nothing good to say about them or CTV.

"I think the CBC should be charged under the gag law. They are clearly a 3rd party advertiser for the Liberals."

So are the special interest lobby groups that receive tax dollars!

They're always out there saying terrible stuff about Conservatives and good stuff about Liberals. Gad, the gag law is so unfair to us Conservative-oriented citizens! Gag!

Harper had the perfect chance to set the record straight today at that auto dealership. To my mind, he blew it.
He repeated the same line several times, did not answer the question with precision, looked like he was avoiding the issue.
What is so tough about telling exactly what hes going to do? unless of course there is something in the economic platform that needs to be kind of hidden in other messages.
He said his program would save people more money than the liberal program, so why didnt he spell it out?
This is the same kind of foolery that we rail against when the other parties do the same thing

there there Allen , they're only doing their best.

Allen,

" Am I the only CPC supporter that can properly use there, their and they're? I hope there aren't any educated undecided voters reading this blog."

Homonyms suck.

I had a horrible introduction to them by my grade 6 teacher and they haunt me to this day!

My grandest thoughts of CBC Pravda are sitting at a northern rig camp, waiting for the hockey game to start. The TV warms up and there is an orchestra playing ---CBC presents -- "A Night at the Symphony"

It was a collective decision ,we learned more from books that night as the screen went off. All the north subjected to the cultural whims of some bureaucrat of the program guide.Pravda continues to promote its own hidden agenda of David Suzuki and poorly filmed plays passing as drama.

dont get me wrong, I love classical music- learned it all from Bugs Bunny.

In return for all their assistance I believe the CBC budget over the duration of the election campaigne is going to be picked up by the Liberal Party and included in their election expenses.

Cockeyed Optimist

I think what we should do is to convince our families, friends, neighbours, business associates and fellow office and team workers to refuse buying any products and services of companies that advertise on the CBC, CTV, Globe and Mail, National Post, and other media owned by Thompson.

I've written the following to the cbc... for what it's worth.

I was a daily National watcher for many years... often I'll watch parts of the 9pm broadcast on Newsworld and make sure I catch the top stories and what I'd missed on the 10pm broadcast. I am now looking for an alternative news broadcast for my Canadian news.
I've taken issue with the Liberal bias in your coverage in the past and have shrugged it off and maintained my loyalty thanks to the in depth reports and mini-docs that run after the first 20mins. I've now given up. The garbage you are now foisting upon the taxpayers/audience has past the point of disgraceful. The blatant pro-Liberal bias is somewhat understandable due to the CBC's role as a Liberal Party Human Resources dumping ground which creates an institutional culture where such a bias is perhaps and regrettably unavoidable. However one would think that your flagship news show would attempt (for its own sake) to present the nation's news and not the governing party's spin on what the news should be. I (and many others) used to rely on the National for news. I've realized that such hope was misplaced and now I will look elsewhere as I'm sure others have before me and many more will follow.
I take particular issue with Neil MacDonald's reporting which does it's utmost to cast Paul Martin's day in the best possible light (maybe the least poor light is a better reflection) while going out of his way to breathlessly read from whatever late-day smear the Liberal war room has put out... whether is be a dated, out of context speech from an opponent, a minor detail or technicality that absolves the Liberal's of some kind off organized (and seemingly on-going) criminal activity or pointing out some inconsistency with the Conservative tax proposals (which have yet to be revealed).
My patience and good humour has been insulted by your ridiculous 'news' for far too long. So long, and I can only hope that you've destroyed your credibility enough that another network or medium realizes the opportunity you have created in Canada for a real news source.

Most sincerely,
Craig

Stephen Harper should announce the hiring of Don Cherry as CBC President and CEO. CBC employees heads would explode like in the movie Scanners.

I am writing to the CBC: have MacDonald correct or fire him; his argument is being parroted on local radio where I live.

I definately find McDonald a disgrace to his profession. The man is unethical and dishonest. Having said that this is a great opening for Harper if they use it correctly. They have to get it into the media of course. But if they have more to come this gives them the perfect opening to jam it down the Liberals throats.

Harper has to recind the Liberal tax cuts. He has to put in Conservative policy.

Too bad he couldn't just cheerily chirp of course we are getting rid of Liberal tax cuts. We have so much to fix and implement properly.

Harper could be waiting until after the debates on Monday to begin announcing his tax policy step by step daily like they did with the other stuff.

if we all participated in a dump Kneel MacDonald would PRAVDA listen?

the best we could hope for was a paid holiday for
Mr. Left of BobRae.

one problem is ---he is the one of the few journalists left on Pravda that you can pronounce his name.

Since when did the Liberal media become so concerned with spending? These guys never saw a buck that shouldn't flow through the government and be spent.

Now they get worried about spending on prisons.
Sshheeessshhh.

The CBC employees' heads wouldn't explode, actually. Since they've a vacuum of empty space inside their skulls, they'd implode.

And, Lee, I believe the Conservatives said they'll "spell it out" when the official, complete platform is released.

Besides, when have the Liberals themselves ever "spelled out" anything? Since they spelled out their promise to "scrap, kill, abolish" the GST and didn't, they don't "spell out" anything anymore... plausible denial, you know, as I believe one of the Libranos said on audiotape to Gurmant Grewal.

Monte nails it, hilarious as always:
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http://www.montesolberg.com/2006/01/cbc-breaking-news.htm

CBC Breaking News
Tonight in a shocking expose the CBC revealed that the Conservative Party still does not support Ralph Goodale's mini-budget and would instead implement the tax measures that the Conservative Party outlined in its platform. It's true, the Conservatives are still opposed to the tax measures they voted against in November! Yes, I am shocked by this too because everyone knows that you must do what the Liberals would do or you are not actually a Canadian.

Sure the Conservatives "claim" that their combination of GST tax cuts and personal income tax cuts will be much larger and more fair than those proposed by the Liberals, but then the Conservatives aren't actually Canadian and the Conservatives all have shifty eyes too. Well, not eyes really, more like optical sensors because the Conservatives are actually evil robots, but that's a Reality Check for another day.

But the string of calamities doesn't end there. I have it on good authority that tomorrow the CBC will reveal that the Conservative Party, if elected, would not implement the Liberal Plan for institutionalized daycare because the Conservatives selfishly feel that they would have a mandate to implement their own childcare proposals. The nerve!

Thank goodness the CBC is on top of breaking news from November. Now I feel I must watch into February to catch December's breaking news because I want to know if we get through Christmas okay.

Remember, it didn't happen if you didn't see it on the CBC.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but CTV's noon lead covers it infinitely more objectively in comparison:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?B4D923E6C

Harper says he'd repeal current income tax cuts
Updated Sat. Jan. 7 2006 12:35 PM ET

Canadian Press

OTTAWA — A Conservative government would reverse Liberal tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners passed just before the election was called as part of a broad tax plan that would substantially reduce taxes for everyone, leader Stephen Harper said Saturday...

I should have mentioned the previous was a CP release as is this one:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/01/07/1383568-cp.html

"Harper, Martin engage in tax tug-of-war

By MICHELLE MACAFEE

OTTAWA (CP) - Low-and middle-income earners found themselves at the centre of a tax cut tug-of-war Saturday, with Stephen Harper and Paul Martin desperate to yank them across the electoral line to embrace their plans for enriching household coffers.

Harper, the Conservative leader, was forced to explain his plan to reverse Liberal personal income tax cuts that took effect Jan. 1 after it was revealed in a TV report Friday.

But he made no apologies, saying the move is part of a broad tax plan that would substantially reduce taxes for everyone."

In contrast to the CBC "editorials," ("infomercials?") both of these are "new articles" that attempt to present both sides of the story.

I listen to talk radio all the time and last march or april the issue of Mother Corps renowned biases was being discussed. For an experiment I decided to compare the national newscasts of CBC, CTV and Global that night.

Here is what I noted on the one night I decided to try this.

A story ran on all three networks about standardized testing of kids in grades 3,6 and 9. Canadian kids had placed #1 internationally. There were also provincial breakdowns which showed Alberta kids had placed first in two of the three areas tested. I picked this particular story to monitor because it was the next topic discussed on the talk radio program that day.

Global and CTV reported the story consistant with what I had read in the Calgary Herald that morning and what I had heard on the radio that afternoon.

CBC was a completely different story. Mansbridge introduces the piece with a graphic of Canada's overall position as #1 in the background, cut to stock footage of kids in a classroom with a graphic at the bottom of the screen identifying it as MONTREAL, as this runs he speaks to the aggregate score being Canada's strength.
Screen changes to more stock footage of kids in a classroom, this time with the graphic reading EDMONTON. Only now the narrative is about how cutbacks have effected many areas of the country and may explain why Canada had only placed fifth in science.

I believe this was designed to give the impression that:

1. Alberta education was inferior and was responsible for the relatively poor performance of canada overall in science.

2. Alberta's poor performance could be attributed to lack of funding by those nasty Klien Conservatives, who of course is the godfather of the conservative movement in Canada.

3. Alberta is populated by slack jawed yokels and therefore breeds little slack jawed kidletts.

The piece now switches to stock footage of kids in a classroom with the graphic TORONTO as Mansbridge concludes on a positive note praising Canada's overall performance.

I watched this twice that night, on Newsworld and again later on the main network to ensure I wasn't seeing things.

The real facts were that the Alberta kids had placed first in all three grades in english and math and second in science. They had in fact brought up the national average.

I guess this only proves the point that the lefty social engineering pricks at the CBC will never let the facts stand in the way of advancing thier primary agenda. The left knows best and the right is pretty much stupid, a burden to be borne by the rest of the country.

This has caused me to wonder how much of this subliminal bullshit they have been cranking out over the years. This is manipulation of the worst kind and it sickens me to think that we pay the wages of these conniving bastards.

I apologize for the language, but this really pisses me off.

Syncro

Yes, I noticed the CBC bias as well. For years I've hated the CBC and wished they'd go bankrupt - the latest strike brought jubilation to my soul! - But did you notice the little smirk of glee on Mansbridge's face when the anti-Conservative report was coming on?! O ya, and the crime peice was funny. I remember telling my wife just before the peice was about to air "I bet we're going to hear some report on how the Conservatives are horrible and how everything is too expensive, and how the Liberals and especially the NDP are the only resonable way to go" - and of course, the report starts off with Jack Layton expressing some real emotion about a murder in his community- followed by Paul Martin looking a little bit like a moron, and the Conservatives as being Satan himself! CBC- what a crock! But hey, if we get only a tiny bit of anti-liberal reporting in the news (which we HAVE gotten), that shows a MASSIVE disgust toward the Liberals.

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Liberal attack ads are running.

via andrewcoyne.com

Here's the CanWest take on the same:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?A13A32E6C

Harper would repeal Liberal tax cuts

Norma Greenaway, CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, January 07, 2006
NEW HAMBURG, Ont. -- An unapologetic Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says a Tory government would repeal the new Liberal cut for people in the lowest income tax rate if it wins government on Jan. 23.

Harper said, however, the Conservatives tax-relief measures, once they have all been rolled out, would leave Canadians better off than they would be under what the Liberals are offering.

"We will be doing our tax plan, not the Liberal tax plan," he said, singling out the Tories’ promise to cut the GST to five per cent from seven per cent as the centrepiece of the plan that involves selected personal and business tax cuts.

"We can’t do both. And our tax reduction will save a lot more money for Canadians than the Liberal plan."

Just from the three articles I alone have posted, the contrast to the CBC's editorializing is stark.

I'm sure the CBC elite would make a comment similar to the mother proudly watching her child in the marching band: "Everybody was out of step but my kid."

I noticed that this morning CBC was playing the "Tax Recind" pretty hard, which I expected having seen the CBC bit last night, and CTV carried it this morning... I also noticed over the course of the day the CBC seemed to be dropping the story, and CTV is now making light of it too...

The way Jason Kenny and Monte Soleberg reacted to it scared them I think... CBC realized they missed something on it. Reading Monte' blog today, he sounded like a Fox eating shit out of wirebrush... he has a trick up his sleave.

Well it serves CBC right if they end up looking like assholes... there's no more deserving organization.

Also, Martin's the better story in media minds... and he got Pettigrew, whose dead smack in the middle of Options, to be the man carrying the ball on the situation. Is it me or is that just plain dumb. I suppose he figures since Petticoat is one of the ones who are gonna burn, he will run interferance the best... nothing like desperation to spur you on right?

Anyway, the Globe didn't really bite on the Tax thing, and the Star didn't either, so most Liberals were probably out partying their miseries away.

Ha! I know if I was a Liberal, I'd have no trouble finding a reason to buy myself a serious hangover. "Bartender, another one, and put a good tip on there for yourself, cause I'm not going to be in much anymore".

What you really have to ask yourself is the National a news program or just a magnet to attract unsuspecting suckers to thier Liberal friendly opinionating. There is bias on all the networks but at least CTV tries to stick to telling its viewers what happened so that they can use their intellect to form thier own opinion. Trying to convince viewers to listen and not think is pure propoganda. Thr CBC should have theor Licence pulled for what they are trying to pull again in this election. I wouldn't expect much to come out of complaints to the CBC Ombudsman. Really how independant do you think the job is.

How many gangsters could we put in jail with the one billion a year that we give the CBC.

You mean $1.6 billion Fred.

Syncro,

I wish I could write something to make you laugh, however consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind and it's time for a serious post.

Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful post comparing CBC’s coverage of the education issue to the facts. They think they are so clever but their coverage is so transparently biased to anyone who knows the facts.

Please send your post to the CBC. They will ignore it but it might make these smug unprofessional partisans slightly anxious as they prepare to pull out all the stops to keep the Liberals in power.

It's time for thoughtful Canadians to call for the disbandment of CBC T.V. With satellite TV they don't do anything that can't be done by a private broadcaster. They have outlived their raison d’etre and their usefulness.

Despite their constant and unseemly chest thumping and self promotion of their vaunted coverage of events the geniuses at CBC seem not to appreciate, or more likely deliberately ignore, the fact that they are funded by ALL TAXPAYERS including conservative taxpayers. This fact imposes upon the CBC a trust to provide coverage that is fair and balanced and doesn’t prefer the fortunes of one party or one political group or philosophy over another.

Instead what we get is this constant leftist and liberal spin of the kind you described in your post. The bias shows in what they cover and how they cover it, including their choice of guest. This afternoon they had on Phyllis Bennes of The Nation Magazine – one of their regular American guests. One wonders how many Canadians realize that The Nation is an anti- American, anti-Jewish publication which is so far left it makes the NDP look conservative by comparison.

They put her on to show Canadians what some Americans are thinking about a particular issue. They don’t tell you she is from the fringes of American society. On the other hand I can’t remember ever seeing them invite a conservative American for a non confrontational chat

Like the party they so faithfully support the CBC has abused the trust of Canadians. It’s time for both of them to go.

The press corps may be liberal, but they're bootlickers in the end - and their livelihood depends on government handouts. As sure as the sun will rise in the morning: if the Conservatives win the election, the coverage will be all positive for months.

By the way...the CBC was telling us for months that there would be a huge anti-Conservative backlash because "Canadians don't want a Christmas election". Have they done a "Reality Check" now that this ridiculous proposition has been proven totally false?

The CBC goes fair and balanced - note the time this story was filed:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canadavotes2006/national/2006/01/07/elxn-harper060107.html

or

http://makeashorterlink.com/?P51B14E6C

Harper says Tory plan means lower taxes for Canadians

Last Updated Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:28:17 EST
CBC News

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper confirmed on Saturday that his party would scrap the tax relief plan outlined in the Liberals' mini-budget last November. But he said Canadians would end up with more savings.

Harper said Conservative tax breaks, including a reduction in the Goods and Services Tax, would have a more significant impact on Canadian families than the Liberals' proposed tax cuts announced for low- and middle-income earners.

"We have a tax-reduction plan. We'll be doing our plan, not their plan," Harper told reporters while campaigning in Kitchener, Ont....

your right , bootlickers all of them .
they switched from "tories would increase taxes"
to "Harper boasts of lower taxes"--note the questionable authenticy of this type of headline to

Harper says Tory plan means lower taxes for Canadians.

maybe even Kneel Macdonald will have to Neil to the new masters.

I just saw Layton talking about how a conservative govt would reduce taxes and cut social programs. I guess Jack doesn't watch the CBC either!

Myself I couldn't stomach being left to disgusing re-runs of Three's Company, Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch. US crap for the masses. I could see a compromise of CBC staying in some "entertainment " production, but the news?? Not on your life. I'm voting Conservative as often as possible (he-he) but really feel we are destined to be swallowd up in US based stories/culture involving "the hood" and all that other related shit.

Sorry but Georgia is not my back yard and I don't give a fuck for stories that originate there; nor LA, nor Long Island; nor Malibu.

I can only stand so much tits and ass, not to mentioned talking cars named KITT....jesus garbage!!
More or at least some Barrie. Surry, St Johns and Mllwoods for me.

Terry

Thanks for the feedback. I think I will e-mail those idiots. BTW I did find something to laugh at in Kate's most recent post!!!

Syncro

Dear Duke,

I will hire Neil McDonald.

I will give him $25 an hour to wheel concrete next summer.

No joke. :0)

Duke

LMAO...I have a feeling you'd be wasting $24.50, cause I think you'd be streching it, to get a "HONEST" .50 cents, worth of work, out of Neil MacDonald

Yeah, and I want him telling my Canadian friends anything?

HonestReporting.org rocks!! And so does Stephen Harper's website Conservative.ca.

CTV website still carrying two headlines.

Harper to recind tax cuts.

Martin says" Tories will increase taxes"

do either PravdaCBC or CTV call the Libs Grits anymore??

Is Allen really Don in disguise?

if we all sent in a complaint about Kneel to the Left MacDonald ( I have sent in several) would it change anything that Pravda(CBC) I see that the Libs command (demand?) more than half the headlines on their site right now.

Likely not.

Syncro