I will personally pay for the Fox news flag and raise it over the CBCpravda site on memorial drive in Calgary when we rid ourselves of these obnoxious lefties and their filty slovo.

Heather Mallick is one of the SOW's who do not speak for me. And calling her a SOW is a kindness.

I can't believe a newspaper would print such a smear piece. Absolutely disgusting!

Let this shit flow. It's good for the grass(roots).

Heather Malice, the belle of Kapuskasing? Shudder.

it's unfortunate, women have achieved so much, and you have a hack like her saying such things. There is a Dem American at my work who married a canadian, she's a feminist (so she says), after the Palin speach, she said that Palin should not be VP because she has 5 kids at home, who is going to look after them!! I was knocked off my chair, next she was going to tell me that she relinquishes her right to vote!! because she is a women!!! I think I smell fear the left kind!!!

Well she'd fit in well with DU or DK. What does strike me is the high percentage of people agreeing with her. Some of your fellow southerners need to get out of the sun more often.

Now I think I see why the guns laws are so stringent in your country. I know most of you are responsible adults but your leftard population seems a bit to unhinged to be around anything more serious than a water pistol.

I wish I could get paid for writing vulgar rants all day like Heather Mallick. Alas, my profession involves actual work, like, oh, I don't know, saving people's lives on a day to day basis. I doubt little Ms. Arts Student wouldn't last a week in medical school.

Must be a nice gig, if you're braindead enough to to be qualified.

Fair comment is one thing, but this piece is beyond partisan. No, this is a vile and hateful piece of bigoted trash passing for mainstream journalism. And, that my tax dollars in part paid her for this smear piece makes my blood boil.

Bring on a Conservative majority, and may God bless them with the wisdom to cut the CBC's billion-dollar-a-year subsidy. If Canadian far left loons want to pay for this trash, let them. I would like to opt out, thanks very much.

er, WOW. Geezus, I can think of a lot of things to call this profound idiot but I don't want to play her game.

Wait a minute, I can't stand it. What a seeyouenT.

My tax dollars at work. Infuriating.

What an insult to pigs. Just think, this thing Mallick, got some of my money to finance her clap trap. Oh Canada!

She's a hag, always was, always will be. There's my freedom of speech. And hey feminazis out there in left-wing looneyland, don't presume to represent the vast majority of women, because you most certainly DO NOT.

Mallick doesn't have to worry about being a sex object because even women find her ugly.

This is what an MA From UofT in English Lit buys you in CBC's Toronto homeland. That MA plus a looney would buy her a java outside of Ont. Sooooo naive, so liberal.

Sent this to the CBC Ombudsman with the url as the subject line. Don't expect anything but what the heck.
The reference above is to a screed is from the CBC website and contains nothing resembling accuracy, fairness or integrity – which is prominently displayed as your mandate. It is a mean spirited slovenly written screed which has no place on a website funded by my tax dollars.

I am, by copy of this to my local CPC candidate, putting you and he on notice that this type of hyperventilated anti-Americanism and vindictive screeching is not acceptable and I expect a majority Conservative government to step in and do what you have, apparently, so abysmally failed to do which is to curtail the nasty, snide, anti-Americanism so much the cachet of the CBC.

As for Mallick, I don’t think there is any redemption other than a complete personality and character transformation. Unfortunately our health care system only pays for sex changes.

Most of the white trash I know, when they actually vote, vote for the NDP.

Keep it up, Mallick.

This kind of material will bring *more* voters to Palin and McCain, than you will ever know.

As for the CBC, this should bring a big, big magnifying glass to what we fund, behind your creepy, vile doors.

Stephen Harper is well on his way to a majority goverment. The CBC is gonna get a large can of rightous WHUPP-ASS poured all over it. That little piece of crap that Heather Mallick wrote is just what the people in this country need to read to understand the rot at mother corp they need to live or die on their ratings, you know the real world, That will put an end to Heather and her ilk and such charmers as Air Farce and Little mosque on the prairie.
cheers Bubba

This is being defended by some as 'free speech'. It is not free speech when I am paying for it. If this 'woman' wants to start her own paper,magazine,or blog and write her opinion,go for it. But when my taxes end up in her pocket,I get pissed off. I believe that the cbc is important to Canada,but they need a house cleaning badly. This piece is a personal attack that would have been dropped by any respectable news organization.

It looks like the wheels are coming off the MSM bus during this election cycle in Canada as well.

Heather Mallick please, please encourage your co-workers to pick up from where you left off thus ensuring the bus hit's the "Asteroid"

This Heather Mallick would push Monica Lewinski out of the way for a turn at Slick Willie and call it progressing womans rights.Go SOWS go.

I've seen pictures of Heather..........the pig is actually better looking, and its nose isn't turned up as far in the air.

I guess they both wallow in shit......so they do have one thing in common

It's being defended as "free speech" by some because the government pays for it. That means it's free...no?

Sent my comments to the editor, blocked CBC from my TV's.

Hope Kate isn't on the CBC during this election campaign...I'd hate to miss that.

Its the aniual time to slap them dad gum congressional hawgs again i mean its annuial event we all have to do

I am astounded, that vile and disgusting article should not have been published by the CBC. Where have their editors minds gone??? More and more we see this kind of stuff coming out of the 'mother corp'...sell them now!

Heather has the political turrets syndrome, without the disease. Like I’ve have said before, its our right to make jackasses out of ourselves. Well it used to be until the CHRC.

It's a mystery to me how such a sweet old Scottish lady could have spawned a creature like this. Her dad was a little off his rocker, and degenerated into a pill pusher toward the end of his career.

The combination of being the product of an interracial marriage, having a father that had an intense aversion to sex, and being exposed to the leftwing media at an early age has shaped an extremely bitter woman.

Personally, I would have left the Sus scrofa domesticus out of it and gone with either stridulant (which means to produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do), or ptomaine (which is a nitrogenous organic compound produced by bacterial putrefaction of protein).

Perhaps what the world needs is a catastrophic breakdown of civil society.
A disaster of sufficient magnitude should cull the likes of this Mallick individual,and allow the obviously superior gene pool(s) of the likes of Sarah Palin to prevail.

Q1: Does Heather Mallick anticipate voting in the American election?

Q2: Assuming "no" to Q1, should she continue to write in a Canadian publication about a Vice Presidential candidate in a foreign election she (nor any other Canadian) has a say in?

Q3: Is it wise for any Canadian to prefer to discuss the details of the American elections (Nov 4) instead of their own elections (Oct 14)?

I e-mailed the following letter to the CBC ombudsman tonight. I tried posting this once, but accidentally closed the browser before it refreshed. If this post shows up twice, my apologies:

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html

Dear Sirs,

I write to you today with respect to the article posted on the cbc.ca website (noted at the url address in the subject heading) written by Heather Mallick.

As my tax dollars in part fund the CBC, and the journalists who comment for it, I found this particular piece beyond the pale for a taxpayer-subsidized news organization. I recognize that the piece was an opinion piece, but it added nothing the the debate to the topic being discussed. Instead, it offered only hateful and bigoted vitriol directed toward the U.S. Republican party and its supporters. This article was a vile piece of hateful bigotry, passing off as mainstream journalism. Some of the more vile comments from the Mallick piece:

(1) She refers to male Republican supporters as "sexual inadequates".

(2) She states Palin "isn't even female really", is a "hillbilly" and "white trash".

(3) She describes Palin's physical characteristics as those of a "porn actress".

(4) She calls the father of their daughter's baby a "ratboy" and "redneck".

I direct your attention to the so-called values of the CBC as posted on the cbc.ca website:

- "The CBC occupies a unique position of trust. Not only is it the most substantial and broadly-based broadcast journalism organization in Canada, it is funded, through Parliament, by the people of Canada. The CBC therefore considers it a duty to provide consistent, high-quality information upon which all citizens may rely." (http://www.cbc.ca/aboutcbc/discover/policies.html)

- "The CBC is fully committed to maintaining accuracy, integrity and fairness in its journalism." (http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/page/mandate.html)

The Mallick smear piece fails to measure up to any of the published CBC principles. Fair comment is one thing. But the Mallick piece is beyond partisan opinion, and has no place in any mainstream media outlet. It certainly has no place in a taxpayer-subsidized media outlet.

It is appalling the CBC would publish this piece of tabloid-quality rubbish, and use my tax dollars to do so. As a taxpayer, I find it totally unacceptable.

I will be forwarding this missive also to my local Conservative member of parliament.

Another vulgar and shameful diatribe from that dimwit. The irony is that she has a MA in English and yet she can't construct a reasonable argument nor present her thoughts with the skill of a wordsmith. Is that the best the UofT can offer Canadians? This is so typical of post-modern urban elitism that looks down upon people of other regions, cultures, settings and worldviews. Simply shameful this is and a sad and telling example of how Canada is becoming increasingly know, worldwide, as intolerant and stuck in leftist ideologies. Ideologies that are leaving us uncompetative globally and increasingly without allies. God help us!

Does Ms. Mallick realize that the term "white trash" is considered racist because it refers to white people who associate with African Americans? "Race traitor" or "white n----r" are also commonly used in place of "white trash".

In the world of skin-heads and Nazi's there is nothing worse than a white person who associates with someone of a different race, they are "trash", or "white trash" to be more specific.

"White trash" is, next to the n-word, one of the most racist terms a person can use.

Ms. Mallick has chosen to tell us all a lot about herself with her choice of words.

Heather is pea green with envy - with her good old fashioned M.A. from the U of Tranna!! She has obviously never been taught proper manners. She appears to have no respect for people who are morally, intellectually and physically better than herself.

This person is the servant of the Canadian people (we pay her) she has disgraced us; she must be fired.

This is not new for the CBC, the writers there have no limit to the foul smells they produce when passing wind. This woman is either insanely jealous or plain stupid. She is too old to teach so I would recommend she apply for the next janitorial job she can find.

I am just thankful that the Governor of Alaska is very unlikely to see this spewing of venom. Her writings will not likely get read by anyone important; thank Heaven for merciful circumstances (CBC is too irrelevant to hit American news).

When I emailed the quote above to the CBC 'Ombudsman' I had to by-pass my mail programs content filter to send Heather's words. It's a pity CBC has no functioning content filter.

In the past three weeks the cbc have missed the story on the liberal candidate from Regina,Oledzki,being caught forging wills,and the story about liberal Senator Eggleton's top aide being charged with numerous offences after 'allegedly' breaking into a home and brutally sexual assaulting a woman,yet this misogynist screed gets published. The cbc needs a house cleaning as bad as Mallick needs to buy a battery charger.

I believe the Conservative government signed an agreement in their first year, to continue with the government subsidy for the next 5 years. So they have about 3 more remaining.

I am not surprised by Heather Mallik's subsidized opinion.

It is everything I expect of her.

Who is this Heather Mallick?

Gee, nobody's asked the OBVIOUS question yet:
What the H is an employee of our public broadcasting institution paid for by OUR tax dollars doing editorializing about a foreign election? It is not her place to voice ANY opinion about such a thing, paid for with with my tax dollars, much less an opinion that is as as nasty, vitriolic, and downright infantile as that one!

I am really shocked that this is what passes for writing at the CBC. The end of that outfit cannot come soon enough.

The part that really floors me is that they think they are doing something important over there. How can you be so deluded? How does the law of gravity even work on people that wrong?

"By Heather Mallick, special to CBC News."

Mallick is just giving unfettered voice to CBC producers' and reporters' view of conservatives. She is hateful, and small, but she is a joke, really, by virtue of the fact that she is so transparent, and that her self-considered view -- that she is superior as a human being to Sarah Palin -- is blown to shreds by her own expressions.

The more dangerous individuals are the "news professionals" at the National because they fake that they are merely "reporting" on the bad things *other people* -- not them, of course -- are saying about...of course, Stephen Harper.

They -- I really believe it's the producers' responsibility, ultimately - hit similar notes, over time to Mallick's while hiding behind a presentation of objectivity. It's entirely easy to appear objective and disinterested and non-partisan simply by using the selective source/selective soundbite approach which entails assembling a newscast chock-full of low blows against The Conservative while semi-plausibly saying in effect "hey, it's not us, we're not the ones saying it, we're just reporting on what Canadians say" -- as if the pool of views out there isn't virtually infinite, and that the selection thereof isn't newsmaking.

It's such a transparent and disingenuous tactic. Tonight Susan Bonner informs us that so-and-so is "labeling Stephen Harper and the Conservatives outright liars."

Dion, in her report: "They are piling their lies -- open lies -- they are unable to stop to lie." (sic)

Then Mansbridge, introducing Milewski, intones "Dion says Harper is a liar."

Milewski shows that same clip that was in the Bonner's preceding report: "Piling their lies -- open lies."

Okay, we get the point. The honest guy from the party you institutionally oppose is a liar, and you certainly have to report on that.

On a slightly...different note, check out this spectacular bit from Milewski: "The Liberals under Jean Chretien promised to abolish (the GST), but they flip-flopped when they got into power. Then the Conservatives flip-flopped too, calling it a Liberal tax that they would cut."

Huh?

..and she put her name to this piece of trash??

I'd pay to see the look on her face ....when she sobers up.

Heather Mallick, classy as ever.

looks like the article was pulled, I guess the editors at the CBC woke up

Heather Mallick is a stupid bigot, and best ignored. Her smug self-righteousness is all too typical of much of the Canadian establishment. No surprise the CBC features her opinions so prominently. She fits in perfectly with their bias.

errr.. nevermind, it was only a glitch, it's back up

Imagine you were at a party 2 weeks ago and started a conversation with a woman you met. Her name was Heather. In the course of the discussion she expressed to you that she considered herself to be very liberal and a definite feminist.

With a twinkle in your eye, what do you think would be her response if you said the following to her: "I can't explain why, but I predict that if a no-nonsense, get-the-job done professional woman with a personality similar to Hillary Clinton, but 20 years younger, were to run for political office, you would vilify and condemn her and ask how on earth she'll be able to balance her family life with the duties of the job."

What do you think would be the reaction of this self-defined liberal feminist? Yet just 2 weeks later . . .

Sounds like she doesn't like Gov Palin alright.

Kate

Don't let your animosity to Ms. Mallick's writing blind you to the fact that she is firing blanks. She is out of ideas, out of arguments, and out of ammunition.

Her histrionic writings are just her death rattles. Soon, she and others of her ilk will be nothing but part of the stench of the decaying corpse of the liberal/socialist agenda.

Take heart.

Couldn't this be construded as interferring in the US election. It is certainly worse than telling the truth re Obama's stmt to cancel NAFTA.
Watching dion sputtering and using the word liar over and over again, compare that to PMSH with a family in BC. Cute kids. If the conservatives stay warm and cuddly and just start replaying dions words and threats back at him, majority here we come. If that happens, I hope PMSH breaks a promise and cancels the money for the cbc a few years early. At least he should never increase their budget. MSNBC demoted 2 overly partisan hacks, maybe Heather can be sent for re-education.
Maybe it is the name, read a report yesterday on all the dirty tricks Heather Mills played during her divorce.
Notice it is the women who have the vilest comments re Sarah. Saw Hillory speaking today, and what a difference, buggy eyes, stern face, shrill voice, but she did not attack Sarah, just the ticket.
We all know she want Obama to lose, but now has to decide how to do it, and go after Sarah in 2012.

I'm gob-smacked. It can only be a matter of time before the CBC is put out to pasture.
What I found most annoying: Our author actually thought she was being cutting and clever. She was neither.

Any white trash out there want to volunteer to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commision about this bit of hate speech? :)

MaryT has EXACTLY the same idea I did! If enough Americans raise a stink about it, it will:

1. Force a [minor] international incident, because it will appear that an employee of Canada's CBC is trying to influence an American election through hate speech.

2. Make the corrupt CBC and all on the ultra left in Canada look like completely hypocrites (go back to the article and look at the favourable comments toward Mallick [Sort by First to Last] - beyond ridiculous!!!)

3. Disgust more than a few Canadians against the left, which can only help Stephen Harper.

Mallick's column was a tipping point ... or more accurately could become a tipping point that would help both nations.

An outspoken Conservative MP like Jason Kenney or James Moore should hold a press conference and say something like this: "I am absolutely disgusted that a member of the CBC would say such vile, horrific things about a woman who may become the next vice-president of our largest trading partner. I demand that she sincerely apologize and call upon Stephane Dion and Jack Layton to condemn her actions as well!"

Any white trash out there want to volunteer to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commision about this bit of hate speech? :)

Posted by: MikeD at September 9, 2008 3:02 AM

All ready done.Mind you,I don't expect much to come of it.After all,how can the CHRC go against one of their own?

Regarding a CHRC complaint.

I'd love to file a complaint against Mallick. This screed of hers is hate speech.
However;
I will not sanctify the existence of the CHRC with a complaint of any sort.
Mallick is demented enough to be a useful tool for the leftists in legitimizing the CHRC. By posting screed such as this, and getting the right to react to it, some flunkie in the CHRC will justify their pension.

An election is upon us and the leftogonists are afraid for their entitlements.
Let the CBC and CHRC die from within. Now is not the time to feed them.

hahahahahah, Heather is way out of her league attacking Palin. Palin is everything Heather could never be. It is like the depressed evil girl in school who starts rumours about the popular one, because she is jealous of her beauty and accomplishments. The whole column just reeks of plain Jane jealousy. The more the feminist attack Palin, the more thier twisted passive agressive behaviour is shown to us. Palin is that woman they want to be, but are too lazy, and not intelligent enough, to be.

Ugh.

Yet more left-wing unhingedness on the taxpayer dime.

This time at the CBC. Cue the violins, of course.

Fire. Them. All.

Why are we paying that useful idiot to write such crap?

She should just get a blog if she wants to spew such bile and assorted ignorant, pea-brained filth.

Like I've been saying about the Left lately, they've really lost it and have become more unhinged than ever before. It's as if a leftist-specific brain virus has quickly infected and continues to infect leftists everywhere, causing sporadic fits of bizarre psychosis... I mean, we're witnessing it all day, every day now. It's surreal!

And all it took for this to happen was the selection of a great woman as the running mate for John McCain...

One would've thought the "progressives" would've praised the choice as something like "Finally, the glass ceiling is shattered!", but no; the "progressives" aren't what they claim to be at all.

I trust Heather checks her own comment thread. What a hoot!

Canadian Broad, casting stones in a glass house --
of ill repute.

Gee, hateful speech from the Left. Its unprecedented! I'm shocked, simply shocked I tell you.

Oh, wait...

Urban bigotry? Is that like when someone advises drug addicted street people to share needles in order to hasten there deaths, as Kate McMillan did, resulting in her denunciation by the Premier of Saskatchewan?

Anyway, I'm having fun alerting everyone to the kind of commentary Kate McMillan is attracting these days. I guess that's what did Carol Skelton in, eh?

Not a word about Palin achieving the VP ticket, and how it advances the cause of feminism.
Once again proving that it was never about women’s hopes and aspirations. It was always about Liberalism.
At least their showing their true colours to the rest of us trailer trash.
Carry on!

"Is it racism? I'm told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it."

The above lines simply astonish me. Wow.

Anyway, I'm having fun alerting everyone to the kind of commentary Kate McMillan is attracting these days. I guess that's what did Carol Skelton in, eh?

Posted by: Liberal at September 9, 2008 7:29 AM

You carry on doing that,Lieberal.It is your CBCpravda that allows BOTH Mallick to spew her crap,and Kate to respond.Oh wait.Lefties don't like to be exposed!

Come November 4th, Sarah Palin could very well be the new VPOTUS, and Heather Mallick will still be, well, Heather Mallick....how sad for her.

The salt in the wound is that CBC is funded by tax dollars. Were it privatized I wouldn't be half as miffed at Mallick's putrid ravings.

Harper: privatize the CBC, all of it, now!

I wondered where the trolls were. THanks for showing up.

That said, I will abide by the blog owner's wishes and not say what comes to mind.

And Heather? There are MA degrees? What a BA was not useless enough?

We know the caliber of person the malicious Mallick represents, she's bared her soul and it ain't pretty.

Problem is she's working on our dime for the CBC and we need someone in that Liberal/Left organization to distance themselves from trash journalism and FIRE HER.

We have an election campaign going on here, plenty to REPORT, or, in the case of CBC et al SPIN.
Why are the Liberal/Left so worried about US politics since we have no vote there and no influence either? The problem with the Liberal/Left they can't stand the possibility of Conservatives in power on both sides of the border, they're in panic mode.

What malicious Mallick wrote is uncalled for slander, pure character assassination and worse, I do not want her on our payroll.

From the comments"

"Great article and keep it up. If people don't like it, they don't have to read it."

No, we don't have to read it. Just shut up and pay for it. Every year. Ad nauseum.

"couldn't this be construed as interfering in the American election."

Yeah, on the side of McCain Palin.

Hmmm ... Heather Mallick . This reminds me of a joke I heard in 1980's Finland.

Nikita Khrushchev goes to visit a pig farm outside Moscow and the Russian news reporters tag along. When the reporters return they have a picture of Khrushchev amongst the pigs. They try several captions ... Khrushchev visits pig farm ... no not good enough ... Khrushchev among the pigs etc. Finally they settle on a caption ... "Khrushchev 3rd from the right"

In this case it should be Mallick ... 3rd from the right.

Mallicks article posted to www.hotair.com with interesting commentary by Ed Morrisey re: the hypocrisy of the HRC under the unfortunate heading Hatred in Canada Alive and Well.

Mallick is a mentally ill whore for the liberal media and she looks like hell.

But....I thought attack dogs were outlawed in Ontario?

The filth referred to as Mallick's journalism is only symptomatic of the left. The disease is pure hatred.

They're in love with hate. Nobody knows how to hate better. Everything they pen is powered by one thing. Hate.

So the subordinate haters who commented positively on her rant have a queen bee hater to speak for them.

"I'm a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred."

Need more be said?

With her opening words "I assume" Ms.Mallick says it all. In her delusional mind this rant allows her to justify all that is lacking in her shallow, moraless world.
It can not be without consequences that such hate and ignorance be funded public funds.
Hockey parents unite,less CBC, more redneck areans!

"A Mighty Wind"....Ms Mallick Queefs out another article.

This is the lowest of lows. I have done a lot of reading about Sarah Palin and checked out the comments. The most vilest comments seem to come from when. It seems that they can not stand any woman raising above her class, "that they put them in".

HRC was running as a candidate. Hero to women but what was her actual accomplishments. Very few, her most famous was the forgiveness of BC about the oval office incident.

SP is the potential VP of the USA. Since she has arrived, she has to contend with the most vilest comments I have ever seen on a person in politics.

I think the caption not only relates to Heather, it relates to all of them that have their face in the trough.

Mallick: "I'm a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred."

Doesn't that say it all? "Woman hatred."

Ever since the feminazis wormed their way into the fabric of the Canadian governmental/media/educational bureaucracies, woman hatred--against any woman who DARED to think, say, or do anything contrary to their radical feminist manifesto; against any woman who DARED to be feminine and who loves her husband as a full partner in life--has been their modus operandi.

The CBC's really outdone itself: CrapBoldlyCrapped. Mallick is a disgrace. FIRE. THEM. ALL.

PRONTO!!

Mallick gets paid for what she writes. The small dead trailer trash may not like what she writes, but there it is. Freeloading farmers, on the other hand, get their swill just for being farmers. There's a big difference between being at the trough and having a real job.

Methinks Heather's a little jealous that Palin fills out a skirt better than she....

Watching and listening to her and her ilk gives further credence to the theory of a human sub-species.

This story has now spread south as well:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/hatred-in-canada-alive-and-well/

It would seem that “the white trash” is tutored at “the University of Toronto” and studies “English literature”. Gets its news facts from “The Colbert Report”
Of course all of that is necessary in order to have a view that looking down on people can be said with certain tone of sophistication as not to insult the senses and the feelings of the socialist/fascist cadres in the upper crusts of self admiring society in the circles populated by the CBC.
The ‘journalist’ does the usual out of context quotations, omits to include the sense of what other people write.
The ‘journalist’ is wholly inadequate so far as facts, though in the ‘journalists’ defense, this is common in ‘journalism’.
The ‘journalist’ did not do research for the article, the ‘journalist’ simply picked what sounded good for the purpose, so, of necessity came up with the ‘article’ that shows ignorance.

I've always been bemused and rather perplexed by this urban condescension toward those living in rural areas. I grew up in a small mining town myself and I must say that, being on a frontier of sorts, it attracted some of the brightest, most adventurous, hard-working, and resourceful individuals I've met. Likewise, was my time spent working in the eastern arctic where I rubbed shoulders with intelligent, well-travelled, adventurous individuals aplenty. While parochial individuals do exist, they were no more prevalent than in urban areas.
Is this disdain the result of some deep-seated insecurity -- a knowledge that in a lifeboat scenario the rural dwellers have more of the basic skills and make more of the essential contributions needed for actual human and human social survival? Where does the supposed intelligence change occur when moving from rural to urban environment -- at the green belt, at the suburbs, at the urban core? Do rural professionals -- doctors, engineers, managers get their professional training at some mythical University of Bella Coola?
Perhaps some urban sophisticate from the Toronto area could inform me. This ex-rural rube awaits the enlightenment.

Is this the tolerance and diversity the left is so famous for?

What's the real issue here? It must and can only be your resentment of the CBC. And if the issue is solely that this opinion emanates from publicly funded media, I think you have a point. However, the issue can't be that Ms. Mallick has an opinion. It can't be that you find it is derisive. Surely, it can't even be that some of you find it "ignorant", however one wishes to codify "ignorance".

Free speechers around here seem to want to advance a speech without contraint. You wallow in the very same hatred against which you now rail. You will fight for Mark Steyn's right to articulate his version of hatred. Why react with such sanctimonious indignation? Why not simply expose her ideas as fallacious and unfounded? BTW, to Irwin Daisy, quoting a piece of her text and saying "need more be said" is not a terribly good rebuttal. I mean the idea that historically women have been complicit in keeping women in their place, or that women are capable of "masculine" qualities like hatred and aggression doesn't seem overly contentious to me. At least something worth debating.

Perhaps, at issue here is that Ms.Mallick sounds a little too much like your queen bee, Kate. She's feisty, unconventional (Ms. Mallick spoke out in very politically incorrect terms. She voiced her own strong opinion, one which I'm sure is NOT endorsed by the CBC, which has increasingly become a shill for Liberal politics) and full of satire. I think the real issue around her is that Kate's drones are confused. It talks like Kate, walks like Kate but is saying something entirely different from Kate. You hate it when progressives don't sound and act like your version of progressives. Agreed, I'm unsettled too when a conservative utters something worth paying attention to. And it occasionally does happen... :-))

At least there is no illusions as to who and what she is. She has the credibilty of Micheal Moore and class of Andrew Dice Clay. No one but other leftist radicals take her seriously. In the free market, she would only be employed at places like KOS or DU.

What I find far more corrosive are the reporters who are able to better pretend to be fair and objective.

"Freeloading farmers", says "manny", go to your local Farmers' market and yell that one out. Shame on you.

I stopped reading Mallick's drivel about two years ago when, applying her extensive knowledge of climatology, she blamed the CPC for a windstorm that uprooted trees in Stanley Park. I believe in freedom of speech, and I would have no problem with Mallick posting her uninformed opinions on a self-funded blog in some obscure corner of the WWW. I do have a problem with our "national broadcaster" featuring Mallick on their main news page, grinning in her pearls, and spewing her vitriolic hatred of anything she views as damaging to the feminist cause. Even a modicum of balance from the Broadcorping Castration would work toward silencing my criticism. I nominate you, Kate, to write "viewpoints" alongside Mallick's. You could airbrush a set of pearls around your neck in one of your hunting photos.

Exactly the kind of garbage and filth I've come to expect from Heather Mallick.
And while the article is purportedly an attack on Sarah Palin and the Republican Party, it really smears people who are not rich, who live in rural areas and don't have university degrees. Over and over, Heather Mallick refers to them as 'hicks', 'trash' and 'hillbillies'.
Shame on you, Heather.

Re: Bill Stewart (10:18 am)

Bill, the issue isn't Mallick's tone, or content. The issue is that we're paying for it. Please note the swine that accompanied the post. It doesn't mean that she looks like a pig, or acts like a pig. It's a symbol of those (like Mallick) who benefit from the public trough (i.e. taxpayer dollars).

Yes, we resent the CBC. We don't expect it to mirror our views. But is it too much to ask that it present a balanced viewpoint? Mallick's attack on Palin for being too "rural" is, in effect, an attack on all rural people. These same people pay taxes which fund the CBC.

Let Mallick get her own website. Then we'll have a true debate.

Some people miss the point completly.

No Liz, shame on them for wallowing in all that swill. And shame on you for supporting such hypocrisy.

To the contrary, Bill S, I hope that Heather Mallick keeps going and the others at CBC follow her lead.

Her type of satire is poorly done. There is no humor or wit just obnoxious words from a bitter old feminist.

No, bill stewart - the issue isn't freedom of speech. You are, as usual, missing the point.

The issue is both WHAT Heather Mallick is saying as an authorized opinion piece (she's in the public eye as speaking from the CBC) and the fact that her speech is ungrounded, unfounded and personally malicious. AND that we, the taxpayer, are paying for it. Neither of these problems has anything to do with freedom of speech.

It's obvious that she's a deeply ignorant woman. Her previous job at the Globe and Mail, as an opinion writer, also provided us with bigoted and incredibly empty fluff. She also wrote articles about her favorite activity, shopping at Holt Renfrew. She's both ignorant and dumb. She got her job via the usual- friends/contacts.

Your attempt to equate her with Kate is unfounded. Kate doesn't talk/write in ignorance. Neither does she resort to vicious and malicious name-calling.

Equally, your assertion that Mark Steyn writes his 'version of hate' is ungrounded. What does that sentence of yours mean?

The issue is that her vicious and malicious opinions are being paid for by us, the taxpayer. People here don't 'resent' the CBC. What a trivialization of the issue. People reject the CBC because it belongs to us, the people, and yet, it is not fulfilling its duty to us. Instead, it has been taken hostage by a cabal of leftists, who use our money to spew out biased, ignorant hatred. We reject that.

You are the one who is reacting with 'santimonious indignation'. Telling us, pompously, to rebut her 'ideas as fallacious and unfounded'. Nonsense. She isn't offering us any ideas to rebut.

Her whole text is nothing but a spew of personal insults. You cannot rebut that! How can you rebut such name-calling as:

".. rural, loud, proudly unlettered ... toned-down version of the porn actress ... overtreated hair, puffy lips ... "pramface" ... roughneck fuckin' redneck ... prodding his daughter ... ratboy ... fizzing with rage and revenge ... vicious and profoundly dishonest ... good fast listing..."?

Are you supposed to go through each name, and say: no, her lips aren't puffy, no, her hair isn't over treated, no.... What if Palin lips WERE puffy? What would that have to do with her ability as VP?

These aren't arguments~! They are sheer 'ignoratio elenchi'..irrelevant personal insults.

Actually, Ms Mallick isn't unconventional; she's very much a mindless follower of the leftist feminists, of socialism...and unable to critically analyze her own texts.

She's not 'progressive' but regressive. She doesn't think; she doesn't analyze; she doesn't base her opinions on anything other than her own biases.

Try again.

Todays Independent Gallup Poll has White Women at 68% for McCain/Palin. So much for Ms. Mal-lick's Vagina Theory.

No, bill stewart, you are the one being smug and sanctimonious.

Heather Mallick's post had no ideas in it to rebut; it was pure ad hominem. Nothing but malicious name-calling.
Do you seriously think that one can rebut calling someone 'puffy lips'..'overtreated hair'? These aren't ideas; they are personal attacks.

We don't resent the CBC; we reject it for its refusal to represent Canadians. It belongs to us; we pay for it. Instead, it's been highjacked by the left who use it to broadcast propaganda. And malice against people/issues whom they don't like. endless anti-Americanism, endless support for 'global warming'...and so on.

Heather Mallick's post wasn't an opinion piece. There weren't any opinions; just pure malicious name-calling. Nothing to do with freedom of speech either. Just that we are paying for her to write empty vicious garbage.

I take it Ms Malice must be going after the grand prize in the upcoming annual Demented Canadian Leftard Awards show. After that article, I think she is a shoe-in to win.

Bill, I think I conceded in my original comment that your "it's on my nickel" was a very justifiable response. However, I think more is going on.

You resent the CBC and I think, possibly quite rightly, it has more to do with the fact that you don't see yourself reflected in its views (what about Don Cherry, a personality more synonymous with CBC than anyone else I can think of?) than its lack of balance. I may be way off, but you're argument sounds a little like the betrayed speaking to the wandering lover (It's not that you had sex with that other person, it's that you lied to me). I believe usually the issue is precisely the one person had sex with another and not the deception.

Again I think what's being missed is that many here are not reacting as reasonably as you but with faux righteous indignation. Secondly, Ms. Mallick contributes a "Viewpoint" piece. It is meant to be opinionated, one sided, and incendiary and not necessarily balanced. Lastly, I think she should be commended for breaking out of the politically correct, unassuming, nice tone typical of the CBC. I think she dared offend everyone equally. There are as many Liberals riled at this moment as there are Conservatives. Notice how few people have come to her defense. If she had made the same point in a different tone, Liberals would have been all over the CBC defending her.

Well said ET!. I would like to add that in the 3 years that I have been reading SDA's blog. I have yet to see anything put out on Kate blog-site even with guest bloggers like Heather Mallick comment.

I see that Star Choice dropped the CBC Regina station from its satellite TV line up. Great! Just another dozen or so to go, and the public interest of Canada will be well served.

I've mentioned before here to not feed the trolls and I generaly try to abide by that but I've seen enough of Bill Stewart's words of wisdom. Most of the commenters here are angry that the taxpayers of Canada are helping to finance the arrogant verbage that the CBC broadcasts in this country as 'news'. Heather Mallick did not write and broadcast her rant on a private blog site, her editors did not edit it for content and as such we should not be paying it. The CBC as a national newscaster should hold itself above partisan politics, unfortunately this is not the case. The CBC spews nothing but left-leaning propaganda, truly worthy of a Goebbels award, and like almost thirty percent of Canadians, as your initials indicate, you have swallowed this B*ll Sh*t for most of your life. By all means keep reading independent blogs as you may eventually see where the CBC has been leading you on behalf of the Liberal party of Canada, but in the meantime restrict your inane comments to liberal blog sites where they truly belong. (PS, Don't bother responding as I don't play that game, I made this exception to try and help you.)

What the... pramface?

From the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pramface

"A word used to describe young women who err, push prams. Often labelled as chavs for having children so young; as it has suddenly become acceptable for the middle classes to openly mock the working classes."

There you have it in a nutshell: "...it has suddenly become acceptable for the middle classes to openly mock the working classes."

The new tolerance, openness, and diversity, I guess, for which Heather Mallick is the poster girl. But I'd change that line a wee bit: "...it has suddenly become acceptable for THOSE WITH NO CLASS to openly mock the working classes."

I read Ms. Mallick's article and my first reaction was that she was concealing her envy in a "bitchy" diatribe. I get that feeling a lot from a type of fem-inist who has entirely lost her sense of connectedness with women as well as any sense of humor. This fem-speak has become a pose wrapped in a predictable formula which accords no dignity, understanding, or identification with the people they pretend to respect and represent. It's very patronizing this assumption that women need to be instructed and led into a "higher plane" of awareness--one which is mean-spirited and rather vicious. And as far as men, well if they have anything resembling testosterone, they had better reform themselves very quickly into a kind of acceptable fawning subservience. Heaven forbid that he might actually make a living with his hands and brawny back and might prefer a beer at the end of the day instead of a glass of chilled white wine. Mallick sounds like such a lightweight when she wanders into political commentary, that I'd rather let her speak for herself. The fact that CBC publishes it on my dollars doesn't bother me in the least. It would be a lot more insidious if someone truly intelligent were espousing such thoughts. Her columns are there for shock and entertainment value. She's provocative and that can be an opportunity for everyone to think about issues.

As far as Governor Palin, she will forge ahead with or without Ms Mallick's approval. I agree that there are many folks at CBC (and indeed in Ottawa/Ontario) who adopt a superior and mocking attitude to the folks who make the economy roll, who grow their food and plumb their homes. Again, it shows a great vacancy in spirit and an astonishing conceit. As far as Ms Mallick's vitriol goes, it's because Governor Palin is powerful, attractive, men like her and many women (those who work, raise a family and deal with the challenges of doing both) find her easy to identify with. That's 4 strikes right there.

As far as balance...yes, I think CBC should obtain a response from someone like Kate. I also notice that most of the responses they published to Ms Mallick's article were sycophantic in their agreement. The few token disagreements I'm sure were not in their true proportion.

I'll have 2 requests for the new govt.

Lower taxes and do something about the CBC.

As for Mallick, she deserves nothing but pity.

Do you know how messed up you have to be to write that kind of garbage?

The CBC is a national disgrace.

bill stewart - you are defending the indefensible.

There's no need for a 'viewpoint' to be ignorant, biased and nothing but a litany of ad hominam insults? There weren't any opinions in it; insults aren't opinions. That's not a viewpoint!

No, people here aren't reacting in 'faux righteous indignation'. The indignation is real, because Ms Mallick is being paid by us. And she is not presenting a viewpoint, or an opinion. Merely a litany of personal insults. We shouldn't be expected to pay for someone doing that.

Nor is she 'offending everyone equally'. Her name-calling is against one political party and one woman.

The CBC is hardly politically correct; it is biased. It takes specific political stances; it is openly anti-American, anti-science, anti-Conservative, pro-Liberal.

Again, a slew of personal insults is not an opinion piece. It's not a 'viewpoint'. It's purely nothing but empty insults.

I'll have 2 requests for the new govt.

Lower taxes and do something about the CBC.

As for Mallick, she deserves nothing but pity.

Do you know how messed up you have to be to write that kind of garbage?

The CBC is a national disgrace.

Well, no surprise there. Mallick has a history of idiotic commentary and she does not disappoint this time....

Antenor thanks for the advice and the pronouncements on the CBC. You clearly missed that I too an not a fan of the CBC, what with your haste and chauvinism that's expected. You also must have been absent in grade 8 civics class when students were taught that just because an ideology is situated to the left of Conservatism (where else could an ideology be situated) doesn't make it part of "The Left". I have as much in common, possibly less, with Liberals than I do with you. Similarly Obama is as Socialist as you are. I sense, not at all! Now I don't have exclusive right to defining what is considered the Left, but I certainly have a right to try to shape that definition and not allow it to be hijacked by people with no vested interest in the term. As all of you do with shaping "The Right".

You must think that Lefties are easily intimidated. Wrong. I will post here, there, and everywhere I choose. If Kate chooses to censor my comments then fine. Hypocritical but it is her choice. Until then you will not be the arbiter of whether or not I post here or anywhere else. I'm just glad not everyone around here is like you.

btw rita, I scanned the first 25 or so responses on the website and 2 of them supported Ms. Mallick, and of those two, not sure they were "sycophantic". I'm not sure that qualifies as "most of the responses they published to Ms Mallick's article were sycophantic in their agreement".

As vile as Heather's writing is, what bothers me more is the certainty that the CBC would never even consider publishing a column expressing similar sentiments towards a Democrat or Liberal candidate.

Freedom of speech means putting up with garbage like this. I wish the tools at the CBC understood what freedom of speech means.

Mallick's article about Palin reminds me of one Michelle Landsberg wrote about Ronald Regan in th 80's. The leftards are very, very scared.

Head exploding in isle 1.
Bringing the little chillin into it was all elitely nuanced and progressive.
Nice touch; here's hoping Fox News gives this gubmint employee the coverage she so richly deserves.

"She isn't female", "Rectal Fissure" aaaaand "sexual inadequate".

Did your Master Of Farts pogrom at The University of Toronto teach you this prophetic tome?

"I'm rubber you're glue, It bounces off me and sticks to your big-ugly-catchers-mit-face."

This article is the journalistic equivalent of a turd. I hope Ms Mallick feels better now. Could I be so bold as to suggest more roughage in the diet?

Bill Stewart wrote, "Lastly, I think she [Mallick] should be commended for breaking out of the politically correct, unassuming, nice tone typical of the CBC."

I beg your pardon?

Mister Stewart obviously wears rose coloured—as in pink—glasses when listening to the left-wing propaganda and vitriol that's a regular feature of the CBC, where "balance" is nowhere in their lexicon—just in their nightmares (and our dreams).

Bill, you come across as very naïve (or very biased) and not very good at processing CBC junk. Heather Mallick doesn’t have an original bone in her feminazi body: she’s a bitter, unattractive, on all fronts, has-been and a total feminist sheep. Her views in this article are, chapter and verse, those of the left-wing juggernaut whose agenda is to obliterate any original thought or action. She’s a radical feminist clone: the media are packed with doctrinaire women like her. Original? I think not.

Now, Sarah Palin . . .

Out-of-the-box [for the media] thinking: she’s the real McCoy and speaks for the millions of us—ordinary, independent thinking, accomplished women, many of us wives and mothers (some home and some not), who are sick to death of the social engineering and dirty tricks of the left-wing elites, who have been in power for the past three decades and have nearly wrecked our social contract and society, to boot. Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air. She’s a woman who knows who she is and, without the usual feminist rancour and BS, just gets on with it.

Brava, Sarah. Tough luck, Heather and Bill.

Get used to it!

Girlie Manny
I'm not sure how Malick's diatribe brings onyour usual spew about farmers but if you don't like what farmers have to offer... Eat shit.

Apparently she has had a lot of unsatisfactory sex with conservative men and now hates them for it. I suggest she should go after sober conservative men for a better ride. Although what sober man would screw this piece of shit.

"It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman. They're unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously."

Somebody call the HRC.

Manny.Please tell us just what you have against the people(farmers)who put the food on our tables? Did you step in a cowpattie as a kid or something? You almost make Mallick sound literate.

BS- Mallick is not rebelling against PC, she is wallowing in it. It has always been politically correct to bash whites, Christians and conservatives. Socialists have never given quarter to woman or minorities who deviated from the Left's narrow path of righteousness. To be Politically Incorrect she would have had to give praise to the historic nature of having a woman nominated as VP, even if she disagrees with Palin's politics.

CBC 1-866-306-4636

A gentleman who had not read the article stated he thought the article was strong but did not see hate speech.

Manny, you're welcome to your ignorant opinion of farmers, you've insulted a lot of hard working people. Best advice to you comes from "Grandad"@ 12:36PM.

Heather Mallick = "Blueneck" ?!?

This is to be expected from the CBC. Yes we can ignore it and not read or watch it, but we still are forced to pay for it. As Mrs. Palin so eloquently stated to the media in her acceptance speech, "I'm not here to seek your good opinion..." She is above the lowbrow name calling and mud slinging, it is very sad to see her family dragged through the mud by the very people who claim to be our betters.

"It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman."

I don't know about how they vote but women will defiantly pick movies based on what hot dude is in the show; therefore, women can not be trusted to make the right choice at the movie house:)

Bill Stewart...I rechecked the Mallick article and yes there are quite a few more comments when I checked the first time. So you are right.

On second reflection, I was disappointed because Ms Mallick has written better and more thoughtful articles in the past--edgy and to pointed effect--even though I seldom agree with her. But in this article, I thought she let everyone down, and mostly herself, by indulging in this sort of cheap claptrap. Perhaps she served CBC's purpose--raise the temperature and raise the readership. I can't think of any other reason for such a shallow and mean-spirited article.

I beg you Canadians to haul Mallick's butt before the HRC, as she has insulted all Anglos by her use of the racialist term "white trash".

This combination of the pejorative "trash" with the skin tone "white" is prima facia racism, and insults all parties of that skin tone. I am sorely distressed, but I live in the USA.

It's worth the close examination by the HRC.
I am not joking here -- the best defense is a good offense.

I referred the hate piece to Jonathan Kay and he wrote a brilliant response to it this afternoon.

In further correspondence with him, he assured me that he will widely publicize the documents of anyone who decides to file a Human Rights Hate Speech complaint against Heather Mallick and the CBC. Send all pertinent info to him here: jkay@nationalpost.com

On a side note, a growing list of women are compiling "I AM Sarah Palin" videos such as these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-4eYveEVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4xlsYGmCI

I would be more than happy to help anyone who wants to film a short clip of themselves saying this and allow me to compile a bunch of such videos together into one long video segment.

I just sent this off to the CBC ombudsman's office and recommend as many as possible do the same.

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I am appalled at reading the latest garbage being put out at tax payer expense by your columnist Heather Mallick.

This is not what tax payer dollars are mean to subsidize - sexism and verbal abuse in the extreme.

These are some of the terms used in what is supposedly an analysis of John Mc'cain's Vice Presidential Pick.

"Sarah Palin ... fit of pique ... the white trash vote ... sexual inadequates ... she isn't even female really ... Alaska hillbilly ... "white trash" ... trailer trash ... rural, loud, proudly unlettered ... toned-down version of the porn actress ... overtreated hair, puffy lips ... "pramface" ... roughneck fuckin' redneck ... prodding his daughter ... ratboy ... fizzing with rage and revenge ... vicious and profoundly dishonest ... good fast listing... nervous wreck with deeply strange hair ... the hick vote ... ordinary hillbilly ... racism? ... racism ... "rectal fissure" ... tense no-hoper ladies ... white female marginals"

Is this what is supposed to qualify as analytical opinion at the CBC these days ?

I will be forwarding a copy of this complaint to the Prime Ministers office, my riding MP, my riding MPP, and the press ombudsman's office.

I will do my utmost to rally like minded people to contact the authorities to have the plug pulled on the CBC which abuses tax dollars to produce garbage like this.

Please let me know what action you intend to take in this regard.

Heather Mallick's diatribe boils down to this. Palin will be the first woman in the White House as VP and ultimately president. In Mallick's twisted mind, Palin represents the wrong party and she (Mallick and her ilk) just can't stand it. It's all based on fear. Many pundits and many people right here at SDA prdicted this would happen. The snot nosed, elitist left wingnuts are in the midst of a bi-polar meltdown and cannot control themselves. The viscious war on Palin will go on, even after the U-S election is over.

Heather Mallick usually puts some political spin into her stuff, but I remember a column in the Blubb and Wail which was just about shopping. She mentioned finding a wonderful something or other in the gift shop fo the Muse'e de Cluny, which gift shop she said was the best in ther world; without further explanation. I thought, "how utterly graceless and snobbish". The Mus'e de Cluny in Paris is not among that city's best-know tourist sites, and it would have taken little on her part to explain that it is the former late-mediaeval residence of the CLuniac abbots in Paris, is an important mediaeval museum, holds the "Lady with the Unicorn" tapestries and is built on the ruins of a Roman bath. Usually the Mallick puts enough politics in her discharges that dislike can be attributed to political differences; but that particular column showed her pure vileness.

BTW that particular gift shop is nice but there are equally nice museum gift shops elsewhere, including in Canada.

"Any white trash out there want to volunteer to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commision about this bit of hate speech? :)"

White men can not complain about hate to anyone because they are not "historically disadvantaged".

It should also be noted that Canada's exclusively liberal media is totally consumed and fixated on the American election.

Harper calls an election and the only election reports are vile and slanderous attacks on Sarah Palin - who is exclusively responsible for McCain's jump in the polls.

The Heather Mallicks, Connie Woodcocks, Michael Corens, Rosie Dimannos et al are doing their evil best to discredit Sarah Palin and her conservative values.

Let these low-life Canadian liberal hacks know what you think. Make them miserable. Contact their editors. But most importantly, give Harper a majority government.

After reading this screed I can only make one comment: The woman needs to be restrained and medicated for everyone's own good! Heather is clearly deranged.

The smell of "flop sweat" has been emanating from the DNC ever since Mrs. Palin's nomination and the lefttards are responding with, even for them, uncommon hysteria.

Hey people - take a deep breath. Your insanity is all too evident!

Go figure. Liberals howl when we point out Obamanation's America-hating wife...but have the gall to spew this unadulterated hate our way?

Hip-O-Crites.

Does anyone know what Zoo they keep Heather locked up in ?

I'd like to toss her a chunk of raw red meat.

Talking about pitbulls with lipstick, that article makes Ms Malice look like a pitbull with no brains.

I beg you Canadians to haul Mallick's butt before the HRC, as she has insulted all Anglos by her use of the racialist term "white trash".

Sorry but no.
1) That would give HRCs a legitimacy that many of us believe they are not entitled to.
2) They would never agree to hear such a case anyway. As someone else has already pointed out, Whites are purported to be "historically advantaged" and are therefore not entitled to make claims of racism or hate.

I don't understand why you are all so upset? Don't you see the comedic value of it?

It is an awful lot like what appears on this site at times, so could be seen as the anti chri** of redneck female bloggers / journalists.

The first half was good for a laugh then. I'd had enough at that point. Maybe its a good example of why people who live in one country shouldn't say a great deal about politics in another.

hugger - it has nothing to do with people from one country talking about the politics of another country.

Furthermore, it wasn't satire, it wasn't comedic, Heather Mallick meant every word of it as 'fact'.

And it certainly isn't representative of what is posted on this site.

Remember, bloggers are not paid by the CBC, or taxpayer. That was a posting by an official representative of the public broadcasting system of Canada. She ought to be fired.

Ann Coulter loves to shovel the vitriol yes, but she is at the end of the day creative and funny. Mrs. Mallick is slinging American slang terms in a common fashion. Not too witty.

Whew "anal fissure" I really have no experience in that uh.. area Heather.. I guess we will leave uuh.... looking into that to you-all Heather,expert reporting and all that, perhaps uuh... expanding on that "star wars" theme you know "going where no(wo)man has gone before" My tax dollars at work. I'm guessing your are voting Liberal, good luck with that. A fine article like that should get you-all a complimentary seat on Air-Inuit you know "Pollute-t-Air" one.
cheers Bubba

If Mallick gets fired by the CBC, though that's unlikely, she could always become a "community leader."
Then she'll have to make a tough decision. "Sit down at the desk or use the cell phone."

Typical, vitriolic, left-wing ad hominems to substitute for the integrity and substance the elitist hypocrites don't possess. Boy, are they running scared.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving crew!

Like everyone else who has a sense of fair play, I am absolutely fed up with the personal attacks against Sarah Palin and her family! This vile bile from Heather Mallick was the final straw.

Several people have suggested that I launch a complaint with the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission. Clearly she has violated the hate speech rules of that organization. BUT I do not believe that a government body should be allowed to silence citizens, so I will not go down that route.

Instead, I've launched a grassroots initiative to create an "I Am Sarah Palin!" video, comprised of a series of short video segments sent in from women & men and girls & boys from around the U.S. and around the world.

You can participate too: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-am-sarah-palin-video-initiative.html

Free Speech is a beautiful thing!

I have wrote to the ombudsman at the CBC. I suggest you all do the same. Mallick does not have to like Palin but the hatred she spews is disconcerting and it is high time the CBC be told.

ombudsman@cbc.ca

From the looks of it, the left has been able to compensate for the loss of GHW Bush.

Failed ideologies always need a scapegoat, and symbolism.

Jenn @ 6:26, I also sent a note to the CBC ombudsman. It probably won't help much, if at all. They have their agenda and it in no way relates to me or anything I hold dear. However, since I am still forced to pay for it, I will state my opinion and state it strongly, without calling anyone horrible names. Hmm imagine that.

Posted by: ET at September 9, 2008 4:32 PM

Well ET, you say tomatoes and I say tomawtoes.

What I find most amusing about it is that someone with her list of credentials would think it worth publishing. You might not share my view but that's ok.

I expect Ms. Palin could care less what a CBC journalist?? wrote about her. Overall, Americans have much bigger fish to fry at the moment. Have you been following the Fannie / Freddie bailout? Sends shudders down my spine.

With further thought on the hate article, have to wonder if she's in her right mind or on something mind altering. That over-the-top sort of thing about someone one would doubt she knows the personal life and history of is not normal.

Good suggestion Jenn
Following is my letter to the ombudsman
Dear Sir,
I am writing regarding Heather Mallick's "viewpoint" piece titled "A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention". I do understand, and fundamentally support the principle that columnists have a right and, indeed arguably, an obligation to present opinions, even strong and forceful ones regarding current affairs topics including political events and personalities. However, I am at a loss to imagine how Ms Mallick's column, consisting as it does of a virtually unbroken string of insult, profanity and vitriol directed against variously those living in rural areas, Republicans, Sarah Palin, her husband and two seventeen year olds (minors) who are not even participants in the political process, could possibly be construed as a commentary fit for a purportedly national broadcaster i.e. the CBC. Are gratuitous smears of: Republican men as "sexual inadequates", men "irresponsible with their semen", Sarah Palin "porn actress", Bristol Palin (a minor not involved in the political process) "the look of the teen mum, the 'pramface'", Levi (Bristol's boyfriend and also a minor) "prodding his daughter", consistent with the journalistic standards, not to mention the unadvised language warnings of the CBC? I will not even attempt to type the crassest profanity contained in the article as I doubt it would pass my e-mail filter.
Please don't get me wrong. I'm no prude. I spent nine years in the armed forces and am no stranger to the profane outbursts of drill instructors and drunken infantrymen. Naively perhaps I had rather thought that "Canada's national broadcaster" would have slightly higher standards of editorial comment. Am I mistaken? If I am please let me know, and if so, then perhaps it's time to cut the CBC free of my forced tax contributions and allow it to compete on its own penny amongst the ranks of ranting internet bloggers it seems intent upon joining.

I got off my e-mail to the ombudsman. Fat good that will do.

You know, Palin is making the left go into an apopleptic grand mal seizure, rabidly frothing at the mouth because, suddenly, there is an atteractive woman, homebuilder and successful politician who doesn't agree with the politically correct mores they hold dear.

And, worst of all, they, deep in their hearts, understand the threat she poses to them, although they can't believe it. She must be a fake.

In diving a grand mal seizure can occour due to breathing too high a concentration of oxygen. It is known as "Oxygen Toxicity".

Clearly, Palin is toxic Oxygen to the left. I am beginning to hope the left has blown it ... again (fingers crossed).

Wallyj @ 1211:

This piece is a personal attack that would have been dropped by any respectable news organization.

But you missed your own point. The CBC is not a respectable news organization.

Joe Canuck @341 pm, don't throw her your red meat, she bite it off in her slathering rage. :^)

It looked like she took either another Xanex or another sip of Gin between each sentence, so it is hard to tell how seriously to take it.

Does she know that rednecks can usually read and are allowed to vote? Anyway, we have been trying to make sure that as many Americans as possible get to see it, so if any of you see her around on the street, be sure to thank her for her effort on the part of McCain Palin. I am sure the bitter clingers in "New Pennsylvania" as Obama calls it will love it. We think that "New Pennsylvania" is one of the 57 states that Obama campaigned in, but we are not sure.

Are any of the Obama supporting posters here even mildly curious why conservatives try and get peices like this as widely circulated as possible? Do you ever wonder "why do they hate us?" I mean, we know why you hate us, it is clear in articles like this, I am wondering if you ever wonder why we hate you?

Can you find a single story in any media outfit that is as hateful of Democrat voters as this one? Yet somehow we are the troglodyte haters? But we do hate you, in our nice way, we hate you enough to be sure to vote against snots like this with our vote for Palin McCain.

I sent my ombudsman@cbc.ca email as an irate American. I included the link to Hot Air so they can reflect upon the 236 comments by angry Americans now furious at the Canadian press and some who are sure to extrapolate it into Canadians are jerks. I also asked that as a taxpayer subsidized national media is that how they want to present themselves to Canada's oldest ally and largest trading partner? Do they have the majority of Canadian taxpayer's permission for such an ugly piece?

Maybe it's better not to stop these idiots in the MSM from burning their industry to the ground. Well, that only applies if they aren't a taxpayer subsidized monopoly. Sorry. I forgot for a moment.

It has been frequently commented that she has an MA in INGLIT from the U of Tranna.

Well, that means she is well and truly lost. She would have been taught how to deconstruct, contextualize, degenderize, feminize and decolonize, let's not forget about cultural identity, identity theft or cultural genocide.

I feel I have missed some phrase or other containing the word "perspective".

She has been taught that there is no objective morality or, even, facts. Science is a white male patriarchal social construct and has no more legitimacy than a shamanistic belief.

I could go on but I boor you all :-) You get my drift. She is no more intellectual than a puke-sodden toilet bowel - to use her argumental genre.

There, I feel better now.

On the subject of pigs, Idiot Boy called Palin one today.....

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html

Sure it was a slip of the tongue just like "my Muslim faith" recently. Amazing.

Bill Stewart, why do suppose so many people often "miss your point".

penny: "I included the link to Hot Air so they can reflect upon the 236 comments by angry Americans now furious at the Canadian press..."

Could you include that link here, penny?

Thanks!

Tim in Vermont,

I think many of us Conservatives are looking forward to seeing seething leftists like Mallick throwing themselves off a bridge when McCain/Palin win.

Where else will their hate take them? How could they possibly carry on living?

There were 1750 comments or so on that Politico story about Obama calling Palin a pig.

Look at the tenuous logical threads that the Dems have followed to get racism out of Obama's ads. He appeared with white women who ironically represented giant black phalluses, remember that one? Yet Obama calls Palin a pig, and they deny it. Sorry, he did it as clear as the big honking phallus of Tommy Lee sounding the boat horn in that video with Pamala Anderson... (It was on TV in the UK)

I meant McCain's ads. I hang my head in shame.

batb, here's the Hot Air link
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/hatred-in-canada-alive-and-well/

Thanks, kelly!

I think I know what Heather Mallick's problem is. At her Web site, her bio says "Heather Mallick grew up in small towns in northern Canada and now lives in Toronto."

Now that she's a big-city sophisticate (sic), she's forgotten her humbler small-town roots and doesn't like being reminded of them. Or maybe she just couldn't bag a moose and is jealous.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/comedy-gold-lefty-radio-hosts-crestfallen-as-palin-defended-by-mike-gravel/

I got tired of getting upset by all the BS going on with the left and their inability to treat Sarah Palin with any modicum of respect for her achievements and her way of life.

But now I just marvel at the sheer idiocy of the liberal media and the Obama campaign. An article like Mallick's simply moves another million votes from the Dem or Undecided column to McCain/Palin.

Apparently the "first-rule-of-holes" has been repealed and there are plenty of pundits ready to jump in and help shovel when Barack gets tired. More power to them. The hole just keeps getting deeper.

""""" Or maybe she just couldn't bag a moose """"

of course she can't BAG a moose, her head gets in the road, what else would she need the BAG for????

With that vitriolic and patronising piece of junk-journalism Mallick just demonstrated just how out of touch the North American "left" is with the inhabitants of fly-over country.

Middle america does not want some arugula muching chardonnay swilling idiot like B. Hussein Obama telling them to much to inflate their tires.

Palin's life resonates with their own lives and that is why McCain and Palin will win. :)

Heather Mallick per se isn't hard to figure. She's a narcissistic, luridly paranoid, unbalanced hysteric. I've caught her on TV twice, and she's the sort of woman you wouldn't want sitting down next to you on a bus. But why, oh why, has this "journalist", whose "articles" are basically just weird, baffling, vicious exercises in free association - why has she ever had any gig in the mainstream media? I mean, is she a Trudeau or a Suzuki? Related to the Lewis'? I could never figure it out. Nothing she writes should be of interest to anyone but her therapist.

"It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman. They're unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night?"

So why do we have deluded organizations like Equal Voice, that want equal numbers of men and women in Parliament? In their bizarre worldview, men cannot represent women, presumably because they don't have vaginas to call out to them (or who knows what).

It's funny that the piece was titled "A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention". Heather Mallick is one of the biggest blowhards in Toronto journalism. She's a waste of space who probably thinks she has something to say. And anyone who calls an idiot like John Doyle "the cleverest critic in Canada" is out to lunch.

And it's hypocritial to call Republican men sexual inadequates. She wouldn't say that about black men or Muslim men. Aren't Republican men an "identifiable group"?

Her writing reveals the contempt of the feminists when they encounter a real woman.
As Anne Coulter said...Palin (in the mind of the lefties) is 5 abortions away from the White House.
Salt on their silly wounds is the truth that Sarah is happily married, and happy to be a mom. How dare she?

Mallick, of course, can write all the garbage she wants, and the UofT Alumni can wallow in her trash.I hope she hangs on their necks like an albatross.
I just don't want my tax dollars paying for this garbage.It has to stop.

Heard Joy Behar (of the View) on Larry King Live: "She will put women back 30 years!" Abortion on the brain always, 24-7 with these broads. They are so threatened by how terrible they look compared to Sarah Palin's pro-life choices. They truly are ugly, inside and out.

What will really put women back 30 years is how it's mostly WOMEN who are attacking this brave candidate. Shameful. Palin's story is remarkable and these despicable "women" cannot congratulate her for her achievements. So high school and petty. Makes young girls really want to go through that crap on their way to the top, doesn't it?

Oh I forgot, only conservative women get treated like this. Have a couple of abortions and all is forgiven.

Who gets the last laugh? The bitter Canuck hausfrau with an M.A. and not much else to her name, or the accomplished Alaskan woman who's running for second in command of the free world?

(Despite what you may hear of us in the True North, we Americans are pretty generous souls, so I'll let the Heather Malicks of the world take as much time as they need to figure it out.)

Oh, just one more thing: that M.A. she's so proud of? It neither displays any sign of native intelligence, nor does it imbue her with any. To paraphrase the words of John Cleese, "Apes read philosophy. They just don't understand it."

----- Original Message -----
From: KAROL KAROLAK
To: Zerbisias, Antonia ; Zerbisias, Antonia (BLOG) ; unrepentantoldhippie@yahoo.ca
Cc:.....
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Barbara Kay: Stop using my money to fund hate on the CBC

Dear Antonia,

I hope that you have read an email that I have forwarded to you not so long ago regarding your sister in arms Ms. Heather Mallick. If you did read it I hope that you might remember that I have filed a Human Rights Complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding Ms. Malice's performance as a Canadian journalist. My beef with her writing is her habit of spreading hate on the Internet (see attachment for specifics of my complaint). It turns out that I am not the only person that is getting upset with her literary productions. I guess that such information is not much of a news to you as you have repeatedly labelled me and other Canadian fathers sharing my views as malcontents and crackpots of some sort.

I do not know if you noticed but it seems to me that there are more and more cracks showing lately in the sisterhood of hate. I am kidding, of course, as you not only have noticed but you have also publicly chastised on your blog your sister Barbara Amiel and painted her as Fifth Columnist. http://thestar.blogs.com/broadsides/2008/09/fifth-columnist.html#comments

It seems to me that list of people whom you will have to paint is growing rapidly and I keep of asking myself if your venom glands can keep up with ever increasing demand for venomous paint that you use to smear people with.

My concerns steam from the fact that Mr. Barbara Kay also seem to think that Ms. Mallick is very sick and hate filled individual who should be banned for life from working as a Canadian journalist.
Hers are some very serious demands following on some very serious concerns, BTW these concerns seem very similar to mine.

Antonia do you think you can muster enough venom to dump on Ms. Barbara Kay for her opinions on Heather Mallick same way you dumped it on me, my friends and lately on Ms. Barbara Amiel???

If you do not deliver on smearing Ms. Barbara Kay and Ms. Heather Mallick gets a boot from CBC it might cause a domino effect; first Heather Mallick, than Dr. Henry Morgentaler, than Marty Teplitsky and Backhouse sisters, than you, than your blogging sisters, and than God only knows who else might fall.

Please read below Barbara Kay's post copied from National Post website and get your venom glands working. Your blogging sisters are looking up to you and they counting on you as their last line of defence.

Cheers,
Karol Karolak
--snip--

It is highly appropriate that one of Ms. Mallick's books is titled "Pearls in Vinegar." Her shameless attempt to dissolve all the good and precious things of life using only the acid of her own hate and resentment has not gone unnoticed.

Then again, considering the title of this article, perhaps the book would have been more accurately titled "Pearls Before Swine"?

good writing. sure got people riled up. I'm assuming that's what it's suppose to do. a lot of people feel this way about palin but dare not say for fear of being ripped apart like the way they are doing to you. I was offended that she was dangled in front of us, just for votes. I'm surprised that more women are not upset that palin is being pimped by mccain. that's just sad.