I watched an election special on CBC Newsworld on Friday evening. The topic was about gaffes and stumbles along the campaign trail and the CBC's Suhana Marchand took calls on the matter. One caller, named "Larry", got on and brought up the comments by Brent Fullard, the Liberal candidate in Oshawa running against Flaherty, who made comments comparing the rise of Harper to that of Hitler. As soon as this caller brought it up, Marchand snapped and said, "Oh, I don't want to go there!" The caller also noted how it, as well as the Oka comment made by a liberal candidate, got little media play. Again, Marchand dismissed the claim and switched gears back to Ritz' comments.

Stephen Harper said he expected this would be a dirty campaign and that was be more than just an educated guess. It was going on before the election all throughout the entire duration of the last parliament.

The Liberals and their friends in the Media across all it's disciplines and government bureaucracy are out trolling for dirt to feed their game of Gotcha Politics. They have nothing else to run on in the sad mess they've put themselves in.

Any bureaucrat who would stoop to that level should be ashamed yes, but that less than upstanding individual should be sought out and fired. It won't happen of course, protection is all around him/her in "The LPC Network" which is a perfect descriptive of fact. It's the reason Harper is fighting this election with one hand behind his back and still doing well.

Dirt slinging has a tendency to fly back like a boomerang, Canadians aren't that stupid, even though some politicians have said so and think so.

I can't find any clips from the show, but from the CBC's webpage on the show that aired, it's pretty telling how they're trying to suppress Liberal gaffes in the campaign...

"With reports of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s Listeriosis comments, Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon’s aide’s remarks to an Algonquin constituent, and the resignation of the NDP’s Dana Larsen (for a less, ahem, ‘pot-ty’ mouthed behaviour), the voters have surely had a week to question the good sense of some of our politicians, or the company they keep. We took a look back at the week that was (and that some wish wasn’t)."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/yourturn/2008/09/friday_september_19_1.html

Again, no mention in the CBC's narrative of Fullard's comments and the Quebec Liberal candidate who made disparaging comments about natives. So, yeah, they're trying to mitigate damage to the LPC.

Awfully glad I'm not watching. Realistically, the CBC will never be shut down -- too much in the warp and woof of Canadian culture. And it's funding won't be dropped much, except perhaps for some short-term political retribution. And there's probably no chance of making the CBC beg for dough like the US public channels.

BUT, maybe it would be possible to change the CBC mandate to take it OUT of the news and current affairs business altogether; restrict it to cultural matters including our national sport.

Surely the case can be made that a "government broadcaster" -- if we must have one -- should be kept out of news biz.

Dion's comment about the media making the greenshift a major part of his platform is not a gaffe ? The cbc knows that a Harper majority will be disastrous for their cushy jobs and they have dropped all pretense of balanced and fair reporting.It will only get worse. I would bet that Dion will have a list of the debate questions a few days before the event. He will not be seen as he 'prepares' for it.

Anon, when a Liberal says something that would be a five-alarm scandal for a Conservative to say, it's just a case of good people making honest mistakes. When a Conservative says it, it's evidence of his backwards, un-Canadian, American-style true self escaping, and the CBC needs to warn Canadians as a public service.

(BTW, sorry for the temporarily disappearing post, for those who noticed. Think of it as a Luddite special, Sunday Edition.)

"the end result of dirt about non-Liberals being handed over, by individuals who remain unnamed," (ibid).

The 'rats in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) are prime suspects.
...-

"An account (with photos) of the now infamous chicken and egg raid here."

"Carmichael first gained regional and national attention last March, when his poultry and egg operation near Shanly, in the northeast corner of this Grenville County township was the target of a raid by the CFIA and the Egg Farmers of Ontario (EFO), trying to confiscate his chickens. But that was interrupted by the Ontario Landowners.

Carmichael’s egg grading station had been registered since January 17, 1995, but the CFIA had ongoing complaints over the operation.

On May 11, 2006, the CFIA found fault with the temperature of Carmichael’s egg cooler, but he would not allow the inspectors to examine the eggs on his truck. On May 16, Dr. Bashir Manji, then director of the CFIA’s Agri-Food Dividion suspended his operating license. Carmichael was sent a letter explaining the suspension would be lifted when inspectors could show he had complied with the regulations. A failure to do so could result in cancellation of the license. No time line was set, although a date of May 24 was established for the cancellation hearing."
http://justbetweenusgirls.blogspot.com/2006/05/battle-of-carmichaels-farm_01.html

...-

"Carmichael wins federal court decision against CFIA
By Catherine Thompson - AgriNews Staff Writer

SHANLY – Shawn Carmichael has won a judicial review of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) decision on July 17, 2006 to cancel the registration of his Cardinal-Edswardsburgh Township egg grading station.

On April 19, Judge Maurice Lagacé announced his judgment from the April 11 hearing in Federal Court that set aside the cancellation of the egg station license and referred the matter to the CFIA for a new hearing and decision before a different director.

At the hearing, lawyer Judith Wilcox had represented Carmichael and the CFIA was represented by Alexander Gay. After the announcement, Carmichael said "there were 20 occurrences where we felt natural justice had not been carried out. It showed the CFIA was biased towards us and did not carry out their own rules and regulations."

Since his troubles began Carmichael has lost his livelihood and now that the Federal Court has vindicated him, he is rethinking the $500,000 claim against the CFIA he had put on the back burner pending the results of the hearing.

"I feel we have the grounds now." he told The AgriNews."
http://www.agrinewsinteractive.com/archives/article-8407.htm

It is interesting how the CBC doesn't have the same standard for itself as it does for the people it reports on. Heather Mallick's slagging of Sarah Palin is way over the line - and this was information she chose to put out there.

Dion promises to increase funding to the arts and bashes the Conservatives for not liking the CBC.
This is part of a CBC news story.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/20/dion-green.html
The CBC is in a conflict of interest position, the liberals just bought a bunch of advertising with our tax dollars.

"Surely the case can be made that a "government broadcaster" -- if we must have one -- should be kept out of news biz." Me No Dhimmi. That won't help. Most other MSM broadcasters are in the Liberal camp. It's just good corporate insurance is my guess. CTV, Global, and even our local radio stations trounce the CPC and Harper with vicous disregard. The Cristy Clark show on CKNW, the Chorus network, Friday was just a joke. The trashing of the NDP (and CPC) on Global is so obvious you would have to be Rip Van Winkle to miss it. And the Green Party is also taking a licking.
Anything goes when the precious Libs are in trouble. Does anybody care what someone did 8 to 10 years ago in his foolish college days? I guess the issues just don't matter unless their Liberal.

You'd think by now the CBC would have noticed that we are on to their little game...instead, they've ramped it up so blatantly they have no journalistic integrity left.

If they had cleaned up their act, maybe there wouldn't be so many Conservatives screaming for them to be defunded. Now the screaming is getting louder. We need a majority.

restrict it to cultural matters including our national sport.

Yeah but those latte-sipping leftist limp-wrists couldn't even get that one right, as evidenced to the fact that the rights to the HNIC theme song are now controlled by CTV/TSN!

CBC has been a boar's nest of leftists since it's inception along with the communist infested National Film Board.

Along with a federal civil service that has a culture of Liberalism ingrained and their hatered for conservatives and Harper is palpable.

"Gotcha" is the CBC watchword, fair and balanced reporting is an American FOX cable network concept and doesn't apply in Canada.

In defence of the cbc,a gaffe does not become major unless it is publicized.Take Garth's little misleading of the cpac crew and the lies afterwards,for an example. No coverage,no gaffe.

From Stan's (1:00 pm) link:

"Dion also said the Conservatives would attack the CBC, citing a question the party posed in a letter as part of the Conservatives' fundraising campaign. The letter was released by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, a lobby group.

"The group said the letter asked: 'The CBC costs taxpayers over $1.1 billion per year. Do you think this is a good use of taxpayers' dollars or a bad use of taxpayers' dollars?'

"Dion said the fact the Conservatives posed such a question indicated they had 'something in mind.'"

(Emph. mine)

Aye-ep, the nerve of those Conservatives, asking the toothless proles -- aka non-Liberals -- how they feel about giving thousands of millions of dollars to the CBC?

Have a little humanity people!

Consider that, for the many misguided minions if the CBC life just got very uncertain.

A C-C-C-Conservative PM with a majority? From the West? Alberta? Calgary? National Citizen's Coalition?

Less Government? Lower Taxes?

All their nightmares come true.

Try to understand how scary it is for them.

After you chuckle.

EBD: Thank-you for posting about the obvious biased 'scandal mongering' by the media in this nation.

Sane citizens, who love this country, must ask the begging question: 'what is in it for them'? What is the media involvement in egregious, criminal activities like Adscam, if any? If the msm are not intertwined with the Puffins/Dippers on a very personal/economic level; why do they care so much about the outcome of elections?

I have never understood the freaky hatred the media has for President Bush and I recoiled, in horror, when I read that spewing of hatred and vitriol that Heather 'whats her name' put to paper in a mini mind attempt to attack Governor Palin. Heather Mallick works for the CBC, she is a pubic servant, by the virtue of being paid by taxpayers: she writes for all the people of Canada. Do Canadians think that it is O.K. to attack a Governor of a foreign country, though condescending, mean, sanctimonious smearing of the Governor's family? Governor Palin is very popular here in the North, we value the long standing friendship we Yukoners have with the Great state of Alaska. How are we to react when a freaky public servant takes it upon herself to attempt to slander our good friends, their families and our families via the Governors family from our side of the border?

The brain challenged Mallick has compromised Yukoners. She has not apologized to us or the people of Alaska.

The msm has yet to learn that the door swings both ways. They have been sitting on nice, comfy Liberano furs for so many years that they have no integrity - and neither do many of the civil servants.

Most people, who have ever actually done anything in their lives or have made any decisions under stress understand the gallows humour of Mr. Ritz. Most of the media don't understand that most Canadians do not have nice comfy furs to sit on; we live in a real world where bad things happen. The media are smearing all of us via Gerry Ritz - they have earned our contempt and they have it - most of my friends don't believe anything that the media says anymore.

The question is 'why are we paying these fools who risk our nation's relations with the Governor of Alaska who is running for Vice President?' Why are we paying, TWICE, for the Puffin propaganda in this election?

BTW, EBD I want to congratulate and thank-you for your posts here at SDA. I have read your posts over the years and my admiration and respect for your astute opinions and observations has only grown more positive with the passage of time.

CBC is running with the Liberals in this election campaign more than ever before. The Liberals and their network are trolling for stories in the bowels of the Public service looking for squealers to feed the Gotcha game. They've had it going since the Harper Conservatives took power. It's not working for the desperate fools, Canadians are not that stupid outside of Toronto if we can believe the polls.

We can't give CPAC a whole lot of praise, they're just as biased . If anyone needs any proof tune in to the Dale Goldhawk call-in show on Sunday evenings for an example.

Watching Heather Mallick's piece become a point of contention for O'Reilly the other night was downright embarrassing, but David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen induced more damage by trying to reason that such putrid garbage spewed would bring about positive debate. It seems there is not end in sight of idiot journalists. The piece was a disgrace and there was not one defendable sentence in it. To even suggest it could promote dialogue is laughable.

What's missing in the commentary following Mallick's anti-woman hissy fit is that it wasn't just Americans who were enraged by her. A lot of Canadians were, too. I haven't seen a Canadian media outfit represent this fact. More skewering of the truth.

Gunney99 at September 21, 2008 1:01 PM
Oh, I completely agree with everything you say here, except to remind you that we are coerced into funding the government broadcaster.

I should also add that the licencing power of the CRTC is an issue too. How bold could you be if you knew that your business could be shut down if you express the wrong views. Recall that Quebec radio talk-show host.

SO, we have a influential government broadcaster and a make-or-break government licensing body. A compound disaster.

The problem is that we live in a society that is weened on soundbites. No matter what we may know about the CBC, people DO watch it and eventually will come around to the Liberal's way of thinking. I've always maintained that anyone who discounts the Liberal as being weak has a thing or two to learn about them. Remember that during the Sponsorship Scandal there were Liberal Ministers that were tied to the Mafia. Not that they all Libs are bad but it goes to show how low they can go and the connections they can and will use. If the Conservatives come through this election unscathed and with a majority it will show how astute Canadians really are. If the Conservatives are successfully torpedoed, that to will illustrate the collective IQ of the Canadian populace.

By the way, I got a flyer from the Conservative Party asking me to fill in a questionaire and donate money. One of the questions is, ""The CBC costs Canadian Taxpayers over 1.1 Billion per year. Do you think this is:

1.A good use of taxpayer dollars.
2.A bad use of taxpayer dollars.

Do you suppose the Libs and the CBC noticed that? Perhaps they are trying to sink the CPC to save their oily hides?

Whooo-hooo!

Thanks for this post, EBD. Kate's posted a lot of play-by-play CBCrap but it's good to see the pattern up front.

I've been "monitoring" the CBC for over 30 years and they seem to grow more entitled by the year. I guess that's what happens when the doh-re-me just keeps rolling in, no matter what drivel they BRAWWWWDCAST. Add to that, the fact that the CBC Ombudsman is a former CBC employee, and you've definitely got a stacked deck.

What keeps me from despair is to see where the CPC and PMSH are in the polls DESPITE the CBC and the rest of the Canadian MSM's being shameless shills and cheerleaders for the Librano Party of Canada. Most Canadians are smarter than to allow the blatant propagandizing of our MSM "overlords" to make up our minds for us. Most Canadians are smart enough to have stopped reading our major dailies and to have turned off the TV. The smartest Canadians (!) have turned to the blogs for their news.

As others have pointed out, the pro-Librano propagandizing on the part of the CBC and other media is beginning to work against the LPC (in addition to the utter embarrassment of Dee-Yawn's campaign).

I wouldn't be surprised if the CPC is polling ABOVE the figures we now see. Remember the last election? The polls consistently showed the CPC further down in popularity than they ended up being on election night. The actual poll is how well the parties do on October 14.

If the CPC does get a majority--and the CBC-types are **itting bricks at the thought--I hope they clip the CBC's wings real good. It's time for this federally funded agency to be accountable to those of us who fund it.

The piece was a disgrace and there was not one defendable sentence in it. To even suggest it could promote dialogue is laughable.Posted by: Nicole at September 21, 2008 1:57 PM

I am of the belief that people, a good majority of them, are reasonable and mature. Sometimes reactive and emotional, but reasonable. They know a rat when they see one. It takes time, but people will form an opinion that is ultimately result in the 'wisdom of the masses'.

Having read Mallick for many years - and giving up on her after a particularly brutal G&M piece some 3 years ago - her fringe views and personal commentary are becoming more explicit. Probably one of the reasons the Pail dropped her.

But more, I am happy to see this piece widely known, and Mallick's supporters coalesce as the radical leftist fringe. People in general sense this: that she is truly an embittered and angry person, driven by (her) un-reconcilable failure of the left wing to capture the broad consensus of the public. I suspect, her stock has dropped in most quarters, excepting the extremists.

Good to see. She wears it well.

b baby.

Pass it on.

I've called for it before, I'll call for it again: remove the billion dollar annual taxpayer subsidy from the CBC. Let the network sink or swim like its private counterparts. In an age of hundreds of channels, a taxpayer funded channel simply doesn't make sense anymore.

The fact it is also a verifiable mouthpiece for the Liberano party should make this a no-brainer for a conservative majority. Do it early in the mandate, so when the next election rolls around, the average joe on the street will see his life didn't explode when the CBC was cut back (or failed!). And, for the people impacted by the cutback, they'd never be CPC voters anyways.

wallyj...your last sentence strikes fear in my heart.This is not unbelievable,the puppet masters have to figure out how to make Dion acceptable to the electorate,no small task.While I was entertaining the notion that the questions that will be posed to the leaders during the debate would be Liberal friendly,I never even considered your theory.

The CBC has been under the gun for some time now. But now that bloggers are gaining such a foothold, the CBC isn't only under the gun, it's under the microscope. The publically funded broadcaster is smelling it's own blood and fears the Corp may soon become a corpse.

I like some aspects of the CBC - a few of their shows but they could be produced by and for any network that does not get corporate welfare from the taxpayers.

I was really upset when I found out that CBC's new fall lineup includes a whole raft of American programs which could have also been bid for by any network. So, we are now subsidizing American TV programs with taxpayer dollars.

The other aspect of the CBC that absolutely rankles me is their "holier than thou" elitist attitude. Wouldn't it be a hoot to do a series of programs about the personal and private lives of such hoity toits as Peter Mansbridge, and what's his name with the braaaaaawcast.

How do you think they would stand up to the kind of muck raking about conservatives they seem to enjoy ? Smacking and pursing their entitled lips to tut tut and destroy fellow Canadians with taxpayer dollars.

Doesd it not seem obscene somehow?

"it's" (sic) sorry about that.

For some good cbc commentary,read Norman Specter's piece in G&M,,'The big loser after two weeks?CBC'
And more on the useless,biased cbc,Blatchford's Fri.column is gold.See,msm,we are noticing..and so nice for some honest journalists to help point out your bias!

We deserve truth in reporting from our Publicly owned CBC. In fact we deserve truth from all networks who report news. Skewed news, especially in an election period is tinkering with our democratic rights.

Opinions and news are so mixed together we can't tell fact from spin. This is from far too many twits and talking heads in our media outlets, and the journalists in print media, we have to do our own investigations. Thank God for the blogoshere!

Christie Blatchford wrote a superb column, A bit of private black humour has the sanctimonious seeing red about the Ritz issue. First, she describes a few examples of the ridiculous uber-sensitivities she's recently encountered, and continues --

"And now, or should I say still, this Gerry Ritz business, which for the third consecutive day was yesterday dominating the election news in print and on the airwaves.

"(Lest you doubt me, Thursday's broadcast of The National, and this was Day 2, remember, devoted five minutes and 10 seconds, an eternity in television, and no fewer than three reporters to its coverage -- chief political correspondent Keith Boag, on the so-called main story, Susan Ormiston reporting on the reports from blogland and Laurie Graham interviewing those whose relatives died in the listeriosis outbreak.)

"The whole thing - Mr. Ritz's black humour and the attention it continues to receive - is the epitome of the insufferable, sanctimonious orthodoxy which now reigns in the land, and which makes me rue for my country far more than any looming world financial fiasco."

She's just getting started -- read the whole thing.

All employees of the CBC should be fired and the assets sold with the proceeds to be put toward the national debt. Th one billion or so a year that the CBC has been getting should be put towards further funding of the armed forces for Arctic sovereignty capital purchases.

Time to shut these idiots down. I can handle bias in a private broadcaster, but in a public network it is completely inexcusable.

George Strombowhatever did a comedy bit on Ritz and the listeriosis thing on the Hour.
Should George resign?
It's no different than their outrage over Lewkiske and Brad Wall doing an accent.
The Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minute does all sorts of accents and stereotypes, that's a big part of their show.
Mike from Canmore, Joe Crow, the cab driver on RCAF, there are plenty of examples.
But that's different.

I noted some time ago, when the Krista Erickson scandal emerged (a CBC reporter feeding irrelevant 'gotcha' questions to a Liberal MP during a Commons enquiry), that while for a long time it had been said the CBC was the mouthpiece of the Liberal Party, it now seemed as if the Liberal Party had become the mouthpiece of the CBC.

The Ritz affair is now a Liberal TV ad running on CTV...

EBD, Christie Blatchford is the indisputable, no nonsense,tell it like it is journalist in the business. She's sure right on the mark in her column.
The media are keeping this going long past it's best before date. It's just the latest grub for their Liberals gotcha game, the ONLY game the Liberals have, fed from a Liberal squealer, disgruntled bureaucrat or whatever the hell IT was. It's a very low form of politics and it's fitting it's coming from the Liberal camp. It's also proving they're not fit to govern a two-holed privy. They've reduced themselves to Guttersnipes.

I'm surprised the G&M still employs Christie,it flies in the face of everything else that comes from that fish paper wrap.

I just saw it, Skip. If > that ad doesn't turn people off of the Liberals I'll eat my hat.

Prurient, disingenuous, shameless, appropriating -- it's just not going to work for them. They're putting on gaudy display the very quality that has turned people off the Liberals. Can you imagine anyone who didn't intend to vote Liberal changing their mind because of that ad?

Just...remarkably desperate. Last time I checked, a political ad isn't supposed to make viewers feel disgust for the party that approved it.

No doubt the CBC is pro-Liberal and isn't afraid to show it blatantly.

They want the Liberals to see that they are willing to bend over backwards for them, secure in the knowledge that, no matter how many folks they turn off with their hit pieces on Liberal rivals, there's, at least under the Liberals, always the tax dollars coming in to keep them going.

Of course, the CBC is also shooting itself in the foot, gambling that the Conservatives wouldn't ever dare axe them, no matter what, failing to realize that many Canadians really, really want to get rid of that Liberal propaganda spewer so as to end the waste of over a billion dollars a year in confiscated taxes and will reward the Conservatives by continuing to support them in elections.

Now, speaking of protecting Liberals, I have irrefutable proof that the entire MSM has protected the Liberals from scandal whilst picking the tiniest of nits and using them to bash the Tories.

C'mon... Where's the Outrage?

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/cmon-wheres-outrage.html

The Gerry Ritz tongue-in-cheek dark-humor crack about Wayne Easter? Some Tory flunky saying folks shouldn't be going around drunk? Certainly careless remarks chalked up to the common brainfart which everyone has, but hardly anything much compared to a Liberal candidate saying the army should've massacred the Mohawks at Oka, just blown 'em all away at will.

Am I the only one who noticed that?

The National Post has a story about Garth's blog having a 'Deathwatch' for his opponent Lisa Rait. This has since been taken down. I won't hold my breath waiting for the cbc to report on it.

The entire MSM, save perhaps for some, mostly in the French-Quebec MSM, is guilty of bashing the Tories while protecting the Liberals from far, far, FAR worse:

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/cmon-wheres-outrage.html

As far as I still have a problem with biased producers and other individuals in the CBC, it should be noted it was the Canadian Press that broke this story. The Canadian Press has a history of bias against the Conservatives imho.

And there's no question there are bureaucrats who openly despise the Conservatives and Harper, and feel entirely justified when they use any tactics to attack. Take it from someone who knows. On the positive side, it's far less common in Alberta (go figure), and it seems a majority of those who would be on a seek-and-destroy mission are retiring.

The crowning irony? Those relatives of victims the media digs up, who have been deeply hurt by these comments, would never have heard them if it wasn't for the media and a self-righteous bureaucrat. Then there's the Liberals, who are doing everything they can to stretch this out, milking it all the way.

Now what's the greater sin:
a little black humour in what was supposed to be a private conversation? I doubt there's any adult on the planet who hasn't used that kind of humour.

or, making a private conversation public in order to score political points, causing, exacerbating, and exploiting pain felt by victim's families, and doing everything possible to ensure it hurts as much as possible, for as long as possible, in order to get as much mileage out of it as possible.

Shameful behaviour, but on the part of the media, bureaucrat, and Liberal Party, not Mr Ritz.

...h.ryan, it's quite possibly Christie Blatchford who's keeping them out of the take-out fish markets and bird cage bottoms. They know they need to have some semblance of common sense to balance things out, even if only slightly, to keep themselves afloat.

"What's the greater sin?"

I agree, Jimbo. When it gets down to brass tacks, most Canadians are a lot more decent than they are political. If asked to choose which of these two is more sickening: a) someone in a very stressful situation using black humour in private, or b)this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0T4Hfbi18&eurl=http://canadaconservative.blogspot.com/2008/09/liberals-are-first-to-go-negative.html

...I think option B would be the pick nine times out of ten.

I have never seen a worse Canadian political ad. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. The Liberals are either in the final stages of a fatal panic, or they're completely shameless, or they're tone deaf to irony. Pick one.

And what's more disturbing is that in every hotel,on every floor,every lobby,from coast to coast,the G&M is readily available for free.Even in the major hotels in Alberta.

What I forgot to mention was if you want a Post,you'll have to pay for it.

From Christie Blatchford's article, referenced by EBD:

"So, we all know that this is how, in private and among those we trust, many of us talk, and that it betrays nothing of our core beliefs. But the orthodoxy now dictates that if and when someone - politician, TV personality, movie star, baseball player, anyone - indulges, even in private but it somehow makes it into the public domain, he is fair game. We all rally 'round to condemn, cluck our lips, and shake our heads, denying what we know is our shared weakness, indeed our shared humanity.

Welcome to Canada, where being inappropriate is the new worst sin.

I remain yours in full foul black humour, peanuts in hand, and stinking of perfume, etc."

Bravo!

I think the Conservative's list serve has been hacked!!!

Here is the email I just received from the same address I get Conservastive news updates from:

Hi The Average Canadian,

Stephen Harper wanted to tell you...

My name is Stephen Harper. I am an ALBERTAN, here me roar! My goal is to make Canada America's 51st state and destroy health care that all Canadians cherish by infusing my propaganda with hard core ad hominem attacks. Please vote for me, because if you do, I promise you'll be able to vote for McCain 2012!

We are a tar sands level party, not a grass roots party. We consider anything with the word \"Green\" offensive, except for the almighty American dollar, which we hope to be able to implement in the coming months! We shall first have to make sure that American and Canadian jelly beans have the same standards, and then we shall proceed.

I hope everyone has a great weekend,

Take care,

Stephen \"I can lead you to Hell but not back\" Harper

If you agree click he
When I clicked it took me to the "Will you be tricked" header but the site is not available.

Sick huh.

Hi Kate,
Just wanted to let you know that it was not a CBC crew which shot the Ritz airport scene, but rather Canadian Press (most major media outlets are subscribers and therefore have access to print and broadcast material). I am in no way discouraging your discussion about the CBC or media in general, nor commenting on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the story...just trolling the blogs as is my habit, and thought you may wish to know that.

Respectfully,
Carolyn Dunn

Human foibles in an election campaign, is just grist for the media. It does nothing, save to garner ratings which translate to advertising dollars.

CBC is just the LIEberal cheerleading choir. Most Canuckleheads have figured that out. There is nothing objective about them. Only a tatoo on their foreheads in the shape of an "L" could make the connection more explicit.

Heather Mallick's tripe, scraped from the entrails of swine, is hardly what one consider's journalism.

It is screed in the same league as "DER STUERMER".

Let the LIEberals continue their "Harper is Hitler" diatribe, as it will only cement in people's minds how insipid and inane the commentary has become.

No one in their right mind, is going to take that hysterical twaddle seriously.

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”

lmf...not a surprise,they probably got the idea from that Kernell kid who is being investigated by the FBI for hacking the Republican Veep's e-mail.It turns out he's a Democrat Senators son.

CTV Newsnet just gave big city lib a platform for a lenghty interview about the Cons.candidate that just stepped down.NO balance,just all Lib views..nothing about the Hitler stuff that the Libs do,nothing about Turner putting up a 'deathwatch' for Lisa Raitt(the Cons candidate).Fair and balanced MY ASS.

And what I really would like to know is, what happened to all those polls indicating a too close to call result regarding the Libs and Cons chances of forming the next government.Now Mr.Harper is polling near majority numbers?Could the MSM be trying to tell the electorate to vote Liberal even if the leader of the party is less than palatable as to avoid a Conservative majority?Rhetorical question I suppose.

I believe 2008 was a watershed year for the death of the MSM in North America . We have seen all the tricks of the trade used to disparage the Conservatives while real scandals & gaffes by Liberals go unmentioned. I AM SICK OF IT! FIRE THE CBC. MAKE IT PRIVATE, THAN SEE HOW LONG THEY LAST? Smears will back fire, as its doing in the US against Palin.
This "everyday a new made up or misquoted piddling scandal" campaign is so obvious it hurts.

The press in Canada as well the media in general is running its own election for the Slimy Liberals. I guess a few still want to be Senators. These are the same folks who have shut up over the HRC's. The thousands of liberal scandals whitewashed over by these sycophants of Neo-Marxism for 40 years now. They have even in there hate of all things conservative gone along with there own censorship & loss of free speech. Journalists today can only be compared to cattle waiting for slaughter at the farm Liberal, while eating more to be fatter. The culling is already happening.

Mr. Ritz unfortunately under stress did what health care professionals , fire, police, EMS, or any grim job where people die or are injured do. To stay sane they make macabre jokes to ward the horror of the situation. Heck they did it too me as I was being wheeled to surgery having a heart attack. I laughed along, it eased us all. Hell I even made a few myself from tension.

In the end the Media have shown us just how biased with misinformation if not ignorance they radiate. This type of yellow journalism is the kiss of death to an ailing industry. No veracity ,no, reliability, no objectivity, in the end, no trust left of our information outlets. The fall of the media conglomerates is nigh.

JMO

Canadian Sentinel;

No you where not. This Nation , needs a complete overhaul of ALL it institutions. They have become hives for malcontents or fanatic activists. We need a dividsion of powers & equal laws for all & real Bill of Rights. Grow up Canada, time to be a real Democracy not play pretend!!!

Does anyone have any info on Krista Erickson? Isn't she supposed to rejoin the CBC's team as a correspondent any day now? Will she be filing reports for the CBC on this election alongside Boag, Hunter, Van Dusen and co.?

The CBC mentioned that Dion said the CPoC hates the public broadcaster. My question is does the CBC hate the CPoC? If not, then why havn't they revealed the names of the 2 Liberal MPs it even had to admit colluded with Erickson. Assuming one is Pablo, who is the other? Is it Szabo? Is it Brison? Is it Dryden? And doesn't the CBC believe that the constituents of that other MP running in this election should have a right to know that info, especially all the negative stuff it's running against the CPoC.

Four far-left parties and one centrist party and the CBC is confused. Ha!

They want to get their Order Of Canada, or Governor Generalship, but are losing confidence. Could they get one from the Conservatives? Noooo. Well, then, we must work against the Liberal enemies, the Greens and Knee-Dippers.

I am outraged to hear that Halton Tory candidate Lisa Raitt has posted a "deathwatch" about Turner on her blog. This is DISPICABLE! It should not be allowed to stand and I beleive that as we speak, the MSM, led by the CBC, are hot on this story with full details to follow.

Oh, sorry. I misread. It was Turner who had the "deathwatch" against the Tory candidate.

Well ... then, what can I say? There's no story here. We need to cool our jets on this minor indiscretion. What's Ritz been up to anyway?

Liz J, I expect forgiveness toward the federal bureaucracy after October 14th. Certainly many bureaucrats will be grovelling :^)

How do you spell: "Oh, we never did any such thing; we are neutral; the horror!! we are mere servants of the liberal party public".

Anon, she may be good for sex; not much else though IMHO. Is that what you wanted to know?

Some have mentioned that in spite of the best efforts of the Liberal Broacasting network the CPC is still climbing in the polls.

This is an economic issue my friends not an ideological one.

Do you suppose that perhaps the reason its not going so well this time is because their viewing audience has declined?
In the old days before cable and the internet, news was provided to Canadians from the source that was available via the antenna or rabbit ears. The CBC basically could broadcast whatever it wanted no questions asked and they knew there wouldn't be any blowback because there was nothing there to do a fact check. Times have changed.
Now we have multiple sources and frankly an uncompetitive body such as the CBC can't survive without a generous "contribution" each year to pay the mortgage on that big honking building in prime downtown TO real estate.
This is the elephant in the room around the CBC head office, and clearly understood from the very top exec. right down to the most lowly clerk. They have a spending problem. A problem which would be quickly irradicated by the introduction of private ownership.
In private hands they can broadcast the most leftwing spew all they want, but if it doesn't bring in the ad revenues, the creature won't survive. They know that, but its the fact that we know it that makes them very nervous of a Harper majority.
Harper wouldn't cut them loose over a difference of opinion, he would cut them loose because their product isn't selling.
Its called economics 101.

Cbc has backed Heather Malice. It is an opinion piece. Therefore journalistic integrity,common sense,and the golden rule do not apply. I wonder if the cbc would publish the opposing point of view?... Bob Rae has a website up. It mentions his time as premier of Ontario. It also lists his accomplishments. Apparently he did not accomplish anything during his years as premier. Kudos to that,me mum has always said that if you can't say anything good about someone,then shut your yap. I think the website is www.bobrae.ca.

I myself truly hope dion wins his seat in the house of commons,but only he wins no other librano mps.
Can you just see it poor little dion sittin there all by his lonesome. Maybe Harper will let him be hall monitor.

At the Slop-Mail:

" D. MacKay from Atlantic, Canada writes:

OMG !!!

Truly pathetic!

3 hours ago , this story* ran with 100 comments.

90 comments made fun of the fact that the G&M was reporting on $14.00 lunches as if it was a scandal.

Suddenly the article is reprinted with the comments deleted.

This is a blatant attempt at a smear attack while Betty May rides the rails on her Diefin-journey.

No doubt the blaring headlines in Central Nova newspapers tomorrow.

Canadian Press --- pathetic ."
http://tinyurl.com/3f2g94 (Comments)

SlopMail headline:
* "Passport Canada's hospitality tab cost taxpayers $16,8000: paper"

Boag, Hunter,Van dusen, Mansbridge, Kneel Macdonald, Sooohanna Merchand or whatever, then swing over to the talking head tools at CTV and you have a lovely bunch of Liberal toadies. Different channels, same mission. All part of the Liberal Network.

I just got a second hacked message from the PM's list serve:

Serbia's Southern province of Kosovo declared independence in February 2008. Harper's government recognized it's independence. Does this lead to slowly accepting sovereignty for Quebec? Here's why Canada must follow International Law, the UN Chart, UNSC Resolution 1244 and the Final Helsinki Act of 1975.

concerned citizen

What the h e l l - this is the list serve for government of Canada news releases!!!!!!!!

What should I do????

imf, the truth will come out eventually and we'll find out who's responsible. Then again, if it's the Liberals, we may never find out ;-)

CBC is a Liberal Sink Tank and has been since the Trudeau years. Nothing will change other then the fact that the problem for the CBC is in venues such as this where the bias of the CBC is hashed out and hopefully the end result will be for the CBC to mend it's ways.

I had never seen bigcitylib before but as soon as I got a look at it my first thought was oh yea he fits. As he was siting there red faced beakin and off getting 15 seconds of fame I found it quite humorous to watch. What a dork.

QUOTE

"Cbc has backed Heather Malice. It is an opinion piece. Therefore journalistic integrity,common sense,and the golden rule do not apply. I wonder if the cbc would publish the opposing point of view?..

Remark:: If she had said those things about Hillery Clinton her days with the CBC would have ended before her article ever hit the media circuit. In fact she might have been happy to be eating dog food with an Alaskan sled dog the CBC would have black listed, her so badly.

Stupid is as stupid does (maybe the CBC will take the hint). This reported on their own Web site...

Conservative Lead Widens, poll suggests

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/09/21/poll-harris.html

Percentage of respondents supporting each party:

Sept. 17-20

Conservative 39
Liberal 23
NDP 17
Green 11
Bloc 8

Source: Canadian Press Harris-Decima polls

. . The Canadian Press has a history of bias against the Conservatives imho. . ..

Posted by: Jimbo at September 21, 2008 4:19 PM

Bingo Jimbo.

Most of the torqued, editorially larded "stories" about the CPC originate in the Canadian Press. They are far worse than any other outlet for anti-CPC bias.

CTV/SlopandPail/CBC usually rework, further spice up, and re-release these stories. The worst of all was the fabricated "native slur" story about the woman in Cannon's office.

To catch Lib/NDP gaffes you really have to be good with Google.

At the Slop-Mail:

McKay....what a joke... that is hilarious... 400 people, 3 weekend lunches to work overtime in the period of the worst Canadian passport crunch in our country's history since 9-11... and calling it a scandal and waste of funds... Are these clowns that starved for news...

G&M here's a thought... go write a real story on what the campaign promises are for each party... how much each party's promises will cost... how they will fund them... and what the impact will be on Canadians living above the poverty line ... and while you're at it where something like green shift will move the poverty line to.....

Obviously the "reporter" writing the article already had there passport before the USA enforced the change at the border and hasn't got a clue of the 12 hour plus line ups that existed for over a month in Vancouver with the last minute submissions people that didn't have passports or renewing were going through...

Guess they didn't pay attention to the news that month...or read their own damn rag or pay attention to the news their buddys wrote about... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/12/22/bc-passports.html

Watch for the scoop when the Canadian media dig up the long lost video of Stephen Harper running with the scissors in grade four!
Film at eleven!
He scares me!

Hold me.

I'm here, Stan. C'mere, big boy.

No?

Well, in grade five, he got a BB gun.

There, that's better. The full scandal is on tonight's National.

Here, put on your Italian frames and try the crusted crab.

The Canadian MSM - with the CBC leading the charge - has been enthusiastically heading down the Road To Yellow Journalism for decades. I travel a lot for my work, and have often heard from others that Canadian media are actually funnier than they are pitiful. What is pitiful is Canadians continuing to pay for and READ/LISTEN/WATCH Canadian media. That's one of the reasons that Canada is SO FAR BEHIND the rest of the West in wireless telecommunications, for example. Canadians don't realize how they are being ripped off by providers with Cdn government endorsement because those employed by the Canadian mainstream media seem to live their entire lives within a 500-mile radius of their birthplaces.

There was a time when I felt a degree of pride when I described myself as Canadian. That ended about 20 years ago. Finally, I took out a "second citizenship" with the intention of retiring to a country that doesn't embarrass me at every turn in the road. The plan hasn't changed - except that now most of my siblings and other family members have copied my strategy.

Shall we get a fair and balanced brigade going and take on the CBC,CTV, Liberal Rags,Globe & Mail and Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen etc,etc?

Too much of the stuff they're reporting amounts to tinkering with the facts, giving one version of stories when the truth lies in the facts they're hiding to protect their Liberals in too many cases.

Two recent examples being the Ritz gotcha where he did not say it for public consumption and the Cannon gotcha where his Aide said nothing wrong given the circumstances.

They're also spending much of their time trolling for supposed gaffes to feed their Gotcha game instead of reporting just the facts and the platform announcements.

Surely we have a right to honesty in reporting during an election in a Democracy. We don't have that at this point because too much of our media is an accessory of the Liberal Party. This is what we'd expect to find in a Third world countries.

This was the opening day out of the gates first mistake by Dion.

http://thestar.blogs.com/decoder/2008/09/dion-errs-in-gr.html?cid=129784328#comments

Strange how the old Green Shift worked out on opening day . I have serious concerns about what is really going to happen after a Liberal Victory if it were to happen. Remember always how the CBC presents marginalization of why Tories offered some Nation Building political platforms which were ridiculed by CBC and the win at all cost liberals. I listed some examples on the link that should bring back some bitter memories and make us aware of how Liberals sell one story before election and then change the format after the election. The Green Shift is one such example and I am quite aware that it will become the Green Shaft after the Election with a Liberal Victory. Thus I will be voting Conservative though I have a personal friend running for the Liberals here.

BTW , I think you will enjoy the poker face remark against Harper in the link and my answer to it. Anyone with a memory for Politics will get a chuckle out of it.

International Traveler, there was also a time when we afforded the utmost respect for our Prime Ministers regardless of Political Party they represented.

Now the media in this country tear down and criticize the Prime Minister because he's Conservative. Proliferating the Liberal's Gotcha game and telling only half the story in many cases, hiding the parts that tell true facts, it's distortion of the truth. Is that not Third World tactics?

Our present Prime Minister is well respected abroad where our media have no say and can't interfere with facts.

Yeah, Liz, it's this interference in our democracy that really pi**es me off. It's tantamount to tampering with the election process and there really ought to be some kind of law to regulate this kind of skanky election coverage.

It's outrageous and the members of the MSM who are piling on the CPC, who are deliberately spinning the news to cover up what's happening in their political Party of choice (all Librano, all the time), while they constantly highlight (rather minor) gaffes in, and slag, the political Party they'd like to see bite the dust should be having their leashes being pulled very tight--by Elections Canada.

Canada = Deranged Dominion = Banana Republic = Dumbed-down Country = Disgrace.

Our only hope is a CPC majority, so that principled grownups can again run this country, in the place of infantile, me-first, me-only, thugs who've been doing a great job of pulling Canada down into the ranks of countries run by tinpot dictators (do Chretien and his puppet masters come to anybody else's mind?).

ENOUGH IS REALLY ENOUGH. The MSM needs to lay off the spin and report to Canadians what is happening in all of the parties. As it is, they're driving the nails further into their own coffin, as most principled Canadians aren't buying their lies and propaganda.

It's almost criminal that we have to search for the truth from the TV news broadcasts and print media in this democracy. It's really quite serious.

It's gotten to the point where many of us are relying on blogs to get to the truth. It's the comments and information from people who are paying attention.

I for one am so sick of looking at and listening to the likes of Mansbridge and his crew of news skewers and CTV's cabal of talking heads and outright twits like Jane Taber, passing themselves off as journalists presenting the facts. It's the facts as they see them, their opinions have become the facts well skewed to manipulate opinion.

Thanks for all your great comments, batb, your definitely a leader in the truth seeking Brigade.

Liz: Thanks for your thanks! And thanks for your contribution to this truth in the news issue, so important to a vibrant democracy. At the moment, Canada's just limping along.

Until the blogs came along, keeping an eye on--and asking for accountability from--the CBC has been a lonely and thankless task. The reward was simply calling them on their biases and leaving a paper trail so that in some misty future no one could say "No one said anything."

The other reward: My being able to look myself in the mirror every morning knowing that I had spoken out--and knowing that I was doing it for my children's future.

btw, the CBC did NOT shoot the "dramatic chase-down" of Gerry Ritz. That was done by a Canadian Press reporter.

The opening premise in your post is wrong. The hard-working journos at CP would likely appreciate a clarification.

where o where is the intelligent debate amongst individuals who are vying to lead our country?

we will all lose in this election

Would the Canadian Press origin of the footage shown on the CBC of the "chase-down" of Agriculture Minister Ritz be apparent to a viewer of the CBC news?

I rather doubt it.

The problem with this footage is how often it was shown; obviously, an editorial decision was made by the news team at the CBC to show it repeatedly. You'd think Mr. Ritz was some kind of criminal.

CBC for the inquiring minds or is it for the easily swayed minds that they waste our tax payer dollars as they roll out the Liberal Bandwagon. What are the odds that Justin Trudeau will be getting more positive air time towards the end of the campaign in the hopes of setting him up as a future Prime Minister, as the good ship Dion sinks into Green Oblivion.

Oh, now I get it!

The reason the media had to keep the Ritz "gaffe" going all last week, over the weekend, and into today--and the CBC did a great job keeping it in front of viewers--is because the Librano$ needed the issue to be "alive" so that their ad, out today, on Ritz and the "standing by" CPC and PMSH would seem topical.

The ad, actually, is really weak and the "news" is stale, stale, stale. As Rick Anderson pointed out this afternoon, the public isn't as fascinated by what the Agriculture Minister has to say as are the party insiders and members of the MSM.

A wasted effort, a wasted expense, and nobody's listening anymore.

It's gotten to the point where many of us are relying on blogs to get to the truth.
Posted by: Liz J at September 22, 2008 10:53 AM
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Liz, I think you're onto something here. It's my own personal perception, but I'm seeing 2008 as a watershed year where a tipping point has been reached. The MSM and their handlers are losing control of the "message" -- whatever the message may be.

More and more people are seeking information on the internet and blogs either exclusively, or as follow up to stories they read and hear in the MSM.

This loss of control is manifesting itself in the ever more shrill and hateful attacks from the left, on both sides of the border but particularly in the U.S. I hope I'm right ... I foresee the MSM/LeftWing political-media complex entering a vicious spiral. The more the lose control, the more shrill they get. The more shrill they get, the more they lose control.

Gods, I hope so. It will look good on 'em. I'm a Canadian conservative who came of age in the early 90s -- as such, I've been in the political wilderness a long time.

Neat admission last night by Warren Davis of the Ottawa Citizen. Heather Mallik is claiming that she is a victim because emails are coming in from people noting their disgust and shame that she wrote such a vulgar article about Palin. He summed it up quite well. He did note that our Main Stream Media is leaning far left and also that those media persons can't handle the back lash when they are taken to task for articles written in bad taste. Reason he noted was that they actually got away with it for so long that they can not understand the realty that their left wing rhetoric isn't making them many friends because their views are so far left that people are going to be upset when they write as Heather Mallik did. He also admitted in another interview (Sept/22/2008) with Greta Van Susteren that the main stream media on both sides of the border is bias towards the left. Yah THink!!!!!!!!!!

It was Canadian Press, not CBC, you moron.

Who are you calling A Fool, Kaplin?? Maybe you should do a bit of research.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/columnists-labeling-palin-backers-white-trash-spurs-review-at-canadian-tv/

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.”

The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention.

The CBC is an acronym for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hope I was helpful.