US magazine have probably shot themselves in the head. The hate just a keeps on rolling towards even higher levels. Shame on them for the whole smear. They to see the modern form of femenism being crushed. Not a moment too soon in my opinion. This is just another put down by desperate people trying to hold on to there status Quo. Empires built on those assumptions of the modern Women are going to be pulverized for the con they are. They made splendid Jackasses out of thermselves, which is their right.

cant wait for CBCpravda to skid Kneel McDonalds rig. he should apply to Al jazeera with his years of antiamerican slop journalism

OhOh. Does this mean that the Ontario Re-education...errrrr...Teachers union is now going to fight with the carpenters?
As for the left and their immorality,remember.They(most of them) have jobs ONLY because they create a victim culture somewhere,somehow,they say they are going to help,when in fact,all they do is keep the "victims" down so they can keep their jobs.No victims,no jobs.It is just self-serving,lefty crap.

WHEN will the CBC be cut off period.
I mean EVERY election they are a one way monologue of leftwing 'shaping' of:
the news, pre-selected leftwing audience members for townhall meetings and focus groups, spun polls and an unending, cacaphonous anti-Conservative misrepresentation, smear, slur and innuendo on EVERY newcast at EVERY hour of the day and night...ALL on the radio and TV airwaves that we the citizens of Canada pay for with our taxes..and lots of us taxpayers are Conservative but the CBC does NOT reflect a fair picture to put it mildly.
EVERY election they do this without absolutely no compunction at all.
SOMEBODY HAS TO PUT AN END TO THIS!

Terry Glavin has done some truly good work. I'm particularly fond of this essay from April 2008:

The Cairo Clique: Anti-Zionism and the Canadian Left

The phenomenon that Dr. Ely Karmon of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism has called "a growing trend of solidarity between leftist, Marxist, anti-globalization and even rightist elements with Islamists" has lately emerged as the dominant trend in "anti-war" activism in Canada...

[Also available at http://tinyurl.com/2gv7gn (Z-Word)]

The progressives seem to have a high school mentality. Not all of course but certainly more than their share. The actions of the progressives and media in regards to Palin confirmed it.

At the beginning, there was the adolescent cliquishness, the rumor mill and the journalistic swarming. Then it was criticisms of the status symbols she was lacking like a Harvard education, urban lifestyle and extensive foreign travel. Finally there was the peer pressure as channeled through the Gibson interview. He appeared to be more interested in showing his groups superiority over Palin, by literally looking down at her, than conducting an objective interview. The one that sticks out most though is the MSM/progressives need for everyone to unquestionably conform to current fashions as defined by them- from hairstyle and clothing to lifestyle and ideas. Unbelievably immature behaviour.

It was revealing though. For all their talk of inclusiveness and diversity, the Progressive/MSM Club is extremely exclusive. The pool of people that they deem competent to seek office seems to grow narrower with every election. Of course this is just a cover for what they really mean. No matter what qualification a conservative has, they are not good enough. OTOH, progressives are elevated as worthy regardless of their lack of accomplishments. Then these same organizations are offended to find out that people see them as elitist snobs and mock them. Perhaps if they let go of this need to define and be part of the "in" crowd they would not have so much trouble connecting with voters and customers.

Whatever else he may be, Terry Glavin is certainly no Conservative. His Georgia Straight political pieces have always been about strategically voting Liberal to keep the Tory menace at bay.

Mr Glavin is of what I would call the George Orwell school. Admirable men. Mr Glavin strongly supports our Afghan mission, moreover.

Mark
Ottawa

His piece points out a phenomenon previously identified on this site, namely that most liberal/leftism is a religion. Thus, the attacks are the attacks of believers directed against heretics. Behaviour is not the defining feature of liberalism/socialism; adherence to and espousal of the doctrine/creed are. Thus, true believers can commit the most egregious sins and yet remain within the faith, with or without confession and reform of their ways, whereas the heretic is damned regardless of the virtue of his/her behaviour. The attacks on Palin are perfect examples of this. She is doing all the things feminists espouse: holding down a career, being assertive, breaking the "glass ceiling"; but she is not espousing the lib/left/feminist articles of faith. Therefore she is is attacked as a heretic with demands that she be figuratively burned at the stake (with carbon offsets, of course).

It never ceases to amaze me conservatives ability to ignore reality.

Palin is lying right in the open. Claiming she never supported the bridge, yet she's on the record as doing just that, AND she never gave back the freakin' money!

She claimed to have fought against earmarks, and yet Alaska (alleged home of highly independent Americans) receives more earmarks than any other state.

She claims to have cleaned up the old boys club, and yet she sure has hired a lot of her old friends.

She voted to make women in her town pay for rape tests. (Bravo Christian lady)

She left her town massively in debt.

And finally, she has a teen daughter, knocked up by a boy who describes himself as "a fucking redneck. Now nobody is judging the poor kid, BUT when a parent who opposes sex-ed finds their kid knocked up, and that parent thinks they have the brains to run a country... sorry, but your private life is an open book.

hmmmm, "received wisdom" i could write reams. the left in all its forms, marxist, nazi, commie, ndp, green and at times the liberals are evil. they wish to control the population by any means they think they should use. the current mantra is the environment. if that doesn't work it will be something else. it has not changed throughout human history. the words have changed but the reality hasn't.

A jewish carpenter once said,

Luke 7: 31-35

31 "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, `We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.' 33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, `He has a demon.' 34 The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, `Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' 35 Yet wisdom is justified by ALL her children."

It is very easy to get self-righteous, but a little more troublesome to do some serious introspection. To really look hard in the mirror, takes humility and that isn't fashionable, at least in public. Hence the Democratic coronation attempt with the full greek columns.

It is a little trite for those seeking public office to parade around like Simon Pure.

The public reaction is likely to be something like Monty Python's stoning send up from the Life of Brian.

Which is also why the Judean Peoples Front skit is so hilarious. The Marxist overlay on the political landscape against the detested Romans was brilliant.

But rather than Pax Romana we now have Pax Americana. The difference today is the the Christian has been invited to the ruling club; rather than being hurled to the media lions.

This of course has the media in pretzels as they think that it is their received wisdom to anoint the next ruler, rather than the sovereign right of the voter at the ballot box.

Suddenly the media have found that the lions teeth have been put in the denture glass on the nightstand. The "McCaining" is about to begin.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

"The attacks on Palin are perfect examples of this. She is doing all the things feminists espouse: holding down a career, being assertive, breaking the "glass ceiling"; but she is not espousing the lib/left/feminist articles of faith."

DrD, do these "articles of faith" you're ridiculing include reproductive choice? And to get away from judging Palin by the personal, as opposed to the political, how do rate a politician who has fired two chiefs of police for political reasons, and replaced one of them with someone who had to resign a few weeks later because of a sexual harassment scandal? Is this part of your idea of good government and sound public administration?

It is a conceit of some (but by no means all) on the left that you are a racist if and only if you are a conservative.

As a consequence, such people believe that they are free to say anything whatsoever and there will be no political fallout, for by being on the left their hearts are pure.

People like Don Imus (a leftist commentator who called some female basketball players "nappy-headed hos") are thus stunned when they are called to task for their remarks.

david

""""" And to get away from judging Palin by the personal, as opposed to the political, how do rate a politician who has fired two chiefs of police for political reasons, and replaced one of them with someone who had to resign a few weeks later because of a sexual harassment scandal? Is this part of your idea of good government and sound public administration? """"

and you can prove this as FACT, and not just fancy?????

David , a leader has some responsibility to hire and fire incompetent "help", from what I'v read I would say that sarah should be held accountable for not acting fast enough on one account. As anyone who does not FIRE a drunken , gun carrying cop who threatens people should not only be fire but also charged with criminal dereliction of duty

Does the CBC not enjoy the same rights (freedom of expression) as we do?? I watched the bit by Neil Macdonald. Pehaps not what I wanted to hear, but I doubt that it will sway USA polls!

You're mixing apples and firetrucks, David. There's certainly a virtually endless cornucopia of specific instances and events and ideological battles out there, but I think DrD's point stands, and is more on the narrowed down topic: when people of any stripe become so convinced that they're on the side of (insert glowing, self-laudatory concept here) their behaviour can take on the hallmarks of a secular holy war, meaning, as DrD put it, "true believers can commit the most egregious sins and yet remain within the faith...whereas the heretic is damned regardless of the virtue of his/her behaviour."

If partisans make prurient, utterly false claims that the child of a politician is the product of incest, for example, in the interests of whipping up feelings of vilification for the *other* side, as a sort of limbic tactic that promises total victory, well, that's not really judging by the political. It's fine to judge politicians by their politics as long as you "get away from judging...by the personal."

DrD is also entirely right that Palin does all the things feminists espouse -- being strong, having a career, taking on and spitting out strong men -- but since, in certain feminists' estimation, she's not on the correct side, her family are brutally slandered and she is brutally attacked as being somehow bad for women, and not a feminist. If a certain tribe wishes to limit the definition of a feminist to a woman who votes Democrat, they should just say so in the first place, rather than behaving like such hypocrites by waving ideals they don't actually believe in.

Does the CBC not enjoy the same rights (freedom of expression) as we do?? I watched the bit by Neil Macdonald. Pehaps not what I wanted to hear, but I doubt that it will sway USA polls

yes. but its a publicly funded news agency, they could at least attempt to be balanced not appear to be the official opposition or spew a constant diatribe of hate to our nearest neighbour. sounds more like a north korean news agency.

CBCpravda "All Lieberal , And sometimes Green"

Right wingers generally tend to act like responsible adults.

Left wingers tend to have that "tear gas me, I dare you!" look - and think that they are the coolest people in the room.

Facts just don't matter to lefties, it's all about feelings and emotions.

As per the CBC, I must say that Rex Murphy is about the only person I can listen to without becoming angry. I don't know what his politics is - which is the sign of a reasonable broadcaster.

The CBC is in the business of defending itself because the REWARDS are great.Pensions,perks,the whole nine yards.I,as a farmer, see the same thing with the Canadian Wheat Board,no one is accountable if they lose money.The pensions and perks just keep coming.

David, she has made reproductive choices to be sure, but apparently not the reproductive "choices" feminists believe she should have made. As for her behaviour on those cases you identify, she should be judged on the basis of the facts pertaining to those decisions. Many of the appointments were political appointments. And bear in mind Bill Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys with nary a complaint from the left.
But the point pertinent to the topic at hand is that Sarah Palin and her family members were attacked well before those attackers knew or could have known about those cases let alone any of the particulars of those cases. The attacks were immediate and visceral -- nothing to do with firing public servants.

"tear gas me, I dare you!"

More like "Don't taze me bro!"

"And bear in mind Bill Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys with nary a complaint from the left."

The fact is, it is routine for an incoming US President to replace potentially ALL US Attorneys...they are POLITICAL appointments, not conventional civil service positions. That is just the way it works in the US. It happens all of the time...after each change of government.

One might as well complain about the fact that an incoming President decides to replace the existing Attorney General with his own choice...or the existing Secretary of Defence...Duh...

WHEN will the CBC be cut off period.
I mean EVERY election they are a one way monologue of leftwing 'shaping' of:
the news, pre-selected leftwing audience members for townhall meetings and focus groups, spun polls and an unending, cacaphonous anti-Conservative misrepresentation, smear, slur and innuendo on EVERY newcast at EVERY hour of the day and night...ALL on the radio and TV airwaves that we the citizens of Canada pay for with our taxes..and lots of us taxpayers are Conservative but the CBC does NOT reflect a fair picture to put it mildly.
EVERY election they do this without absolutely no compunction at all.
SOMEBODY HAS TO PUT AN END TO THIS!
Posted by: M N at September 16, 2008 2:29 PM
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Rex Murphy: the exception which proves the rule.

I've wanted the CBC to be turned into a true public broadcaster, like PBS in the U.S., that will carry programming that people are actually willing to pay for. I, for one, am tired of my tax dollars going to a quasi-official mouthpiece for the Canadian Liberal Party.

"the cultural fallout of a received wisdom that holds conservatism as a force for bad in the world and the left a force for good"

Liberating tolerance anyone?

Just wait until the last week of the campaign if the conservatives are looking like a majority old Peter Pan and Kneel Keith and the lefty Obama sycophants will be on their knees with flowery coverage of Harper.

Clean up, 8.48pm - urgent.

An interesting perspective from brilliant Bloomberg columnist Caroline Baum: "No, the real reason the Democrats are scared to death of Palin's popularity is because if they lose this election, it will mean they are bankrupt as a party. If the Democrats can't win a presidential election after eight years of an unpopular president, five years of an unpopular war, in the face of a lousy economy, a collapse in the housing market and overwhelming sentiment that the country is on the wrong track, it means something is terribly wrong. This is as good as it gets for a party out of power. A loss in November would be embarrassing -- no, humiliating -- to the Democrats.

"If they lose in '08, they will have no one to blame but themselves and Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has raised the odds of a Democratic loss. That's why she has to be destroyed."

And I agree with Tenebris: "Smith" at 8:48 has to be removed. How did that stuff ever get past the filter?

Thank you Bruce for reiterating my point (had you actually read my post). "Many of the appointments were political appointments. And bear in mind Bill Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys with nary a complaint from the left." You then go on to repeat that the US attorneys are political appointees which was exactly my point. Duh!

Does the CBC not enjoy the same rights (freedom of expression) as we do??

The role of the journalist is to present the events of the day in a fair, balanced, and unbiased manner. If they want to express their opinions on those events, they should declare that they are engaged in editorializing, not reporting.

We all pay for the CBC, they are not the sole and private property of the left. The CBC was intended to be the nation's broadcaster, not a mouthpiece for the Liberals, NDP, BQ, Greens, and the NDP. If they want to pursue their left of center path, they should get off the public purse, change their name, and apply for an independent broadcasting license.

The CBC used to be a public service, providing news and cultural programming at a time when private companies were not present in most of Canada. They have forgotten who they work for and have outlived their purpose. It is time for the CBC to go.

cj. public radio and tv are funded by the government in the u.s. hundreds of millions of dollars are granted annually.

"One might as well complain about the fact that an incoming President ..."

Oh cripes, look at how the Dems are tyring to savage Palin for firing an official who served at her pleasure. Give me a break on that one. What was being pointed out was the double standard.

I've certainly fixed enough vandalized Reform, CA, and Conservative election signs, and I'm sure the people doing it were self-righteously calling us intolerant. Maybe we should put mirrors on our signs?

And Us magazine lost several hundred readers over their antipalin article and i hope these lying news rags lose even more readers