Bob Rae?? Jane taber?? Good Gawd. How about George strombophonepolopopity? or Avi Lewis or some other commie.

I would be surprised if they replaced Duffy with someone who wasn't a left wing ideologue.

Should be a None of the above vote in there.

I voted for Don Cherry, he's the pick of the litter out of that list. Adler? No. There is no one to replace Mike Duffy. He is the last of gentlemen journalists. All of the rest are hacks, flacks and huge, vacuous egos.

And yeah, I caught your "drift", but the cost is too high...

What? No Dave Rutherford?

Syncro

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The Pillsbury Dough Boy?

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I won't vote for Adler if it means that he will give up his radio spot.

Actually I voted for Karl Heinz Schreiber, just to show contempt for the list provided.
I don't see one conservative (Don Cherry excepted, and Don's field remains hockey) voice in the Bourque list.
Adler on occasion comes across with a conservative view but I gave up on him as a solid conservative voice day after day. He's basically a sh*t disturber.

GlobeMedia at its corporate core remains leftist.
There are four names from out west who I would see as acceptable, Dave Rutherford, Rob Breakenridge, or John Gormley, but the best and only true conservative voice would be our SDA woman, Kate McMillan, and I strongly suspect that no media ivory tower has the guts to go with Kate.

I will repeat my assertion, there is no one single person in this country can match Kate as an absolute pure conservative voice.
NONE!!

This is not the time for critical media analysis. He has a national radio audience, people... think about it.

I'm not so sure Duffy was a "gentleman journalist". Chasing Margaret Trudeau down at her son's funeral wasn't very classy. Unless it's a criminal or gangster, funerals should be off limits.

I voted Charles Adler, because you asked me and I owe you big time, but I sure would like to see Don Cherry in that role. I know, I know - he wouldn't stand a chance.

Anyone but Romeo Dallaire. He's in Washington, right now, trying to get Omar Khadr brought "home". What a piece of work our great General is. He's made a career out of reminiscing about his failures. He, and the reat of Canada's peacekeeper era Generals need to fade into memory.

Currently, 57% haven't voted for Adler. Therefore, using coalition logic, he can't claim to be in the lead. ;)

Alan

Adler's my pick. But likely not CTV's...

They would go with someone like that hag Mary Walsh before they would pick a guy with conservative leanings.

Hopefully the one replacing Duffy would be objective, unbiased and strong enough to let full answers (opinions) be expressed by not allowing the shrill hysterics displayed (mostly by liberals) of those of different sides of the topics being discussed. ie- get Sheila Copps to STFU when others are speaking, same goes for the dingbat Judy Washawaymy-Lease of the NDP (have you noticed how their spokespeople are referring to their party as Democrats lately).

Ah, this is a vote thing.

Buttcrack Karl gets this vote for #1. 2nd choice: Barf Alert. 3rd: AbNormal.

Go, Joe.

It doesn't matter who we pick. CTV will be picking Giggles Taber. And, no, that doesn't mean a lady will replace a gentleman.

See what I meant when I said previously that it wasn't a good strategic move politically for the CPC to appoint Duffy to the Senate?

Bad advice again for PMSH.

BTW, on the CBC Newman last week, that guy Russo(?) was gushing on and on about Harper still losing the Budget vote and Iggy going to the GG and becoming PM of a coalition.

This Russo guy is pushing Iggy for PM when Iggy was essentially appointed as a candidate(won nothing), was not elected as leader of the LPC (won nothing), and now Russo wants Iggy to become PM without winning an election.

How bizarre can these 'journalists' in Toronto get?
What the hell do these guys drink/smoke in the AM.

Don Cherry is the HNIC?
I thought it was this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trbNiJcDMM

Maybe we should get an american in there, to help improve relations-lol
How about Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter.

Why would we want to subject someone as well reasoned, and lively as Adler to the tedium of the Senate?
He is far more useful and effective in his current role of telling it like it is.

What if CTV believes that SDA is freeping the poll in support of Adler; then they might not pick him.

What's a conservative to do?

rockyt (re Rob Rousseau): "How bizarre can these 'journalists' in Toronto get?"

Hey, watch it! We don't need to get any weirder here in Toronto.

I believe that Rob Rousseau is an Ottawa man, at least that's where Don Newman's show is BROA-OA-OA-OAD-CAST from. And it seems to me, Rousseau was in the studio.

How about the guy from ATV who did the interview with Stephane Dion?

Interviewer: "If you were PM what would you have done?"

Dion: "Can you repeat the question? I don't understand it."

Forget it. When did they ever ask our opinion?

They're probably not too pleased with Duffy leaving them in the lurch like that so anything goes.
Hell, they might even call upon Garth Turner. That would be the ultimate insult to Duffy but would be cutting off their nose to spite their face.

Chuck is on now and claims he would consider the job if he could handle it the way he handles his show. Fat chance CTV is gonna want anything to do with that.

The only shot Chuck has at this is because of his national audience as Kate pointed out but I think Rob Breckenridge is by far the best man for the job.

Rob has the intellectual chops to go toe to toe with anyone and is never afraid to call BS.

Alas he is too smart and too right...therefore too dangerous for CTV. Hell if Rob had the job the likes of Booby Fife and the rest would have to start acting like real journalists.

Syncro

Rick Hillier gets my vote! I'd love to see him bitch-slap some Lib/Dipper toadies.

Canada needs Charles Adler on radio and CTV. We need our own FOX news here also.

Giggles Taber to replace Duffy?

Good grief, no!

Dave Rutherford did a reasonable "sit in" when Duffy was recuperating last year.

By the way -

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be live on The Rutherford Show on QR77 January 13, 2009 following the 9 AM news. This will be the PM's only appearance on talk radio during his current Western Canadian swing.

Kate is currently THE ONLY REAL CONSERVATIVE voice Canada and if all goes well in the next 24 hours, she will be the best CONSERVATIVE BLOG in North America!!!

felis corpulentis: "CTV will be picking Giggles Taber."

If you're right, I'll never watch the show again. Ever.

CTV would be idiots to get this light-weight to replace Mike Duffy. She has no gravitas, she's obviously a political hack, and she'll drive viewers to, God forbid!, Don Newman's BROOOOOADCAST on the CBC.

Is that CTV's objective? If not, SOTT: Someone Other Than Taber.

I went with KHS. It will be a puff ball recplacing a PB.

I see that Liberal activist dickweed Graham Richardson is the Liberal man in charge for now. I recall Richardson in the last election stating on air that the problem the Liberals had in selling the Green Shaft was something they could have avoided by not mentioning it at all, and simply imposing it when they "got back to power". Richardson championing a Liberal secret agenda comes as no surprise, but was just as nauseating to hear as when Richardson's cult leader Trudeau use to do it. Of course CTV will pick the most Trudeauvian wack-job they can find.

Sean, I caught Graham Richardson too. Yuck. 'Last guy I'd want to see take over Duffy's "mantel." 'Cheerleader for the Librano$: smug, arrogant, and appallingly partisan. NOT what Canadians need in their media. NOT what we need at all.

The media should not be an unelected opposition party, nor should it be in cahoots with the elected opposition parties. If CTV chooses Richardson, this ignoble role the Canadian media has been playing since Trudeau will continue. No thanks.

batb: Please note, I don't make that forecast with any joy in my heart; it's just a nauseating intuition.

I wouldn't watch the show ever, either, but I can't say never again, because I have never watched it before, other than portions of episodes linked here (like the infamous Duffy on Duffy confrontation). I gotta get my real work done sometime!

felis c: "It doesn't matter who we pick. CTV will be picking Giggles Taber" -- If that happens I am done watching. I don't think she has sufficient gravitas -- too much of a political gossip-monger type. I voted for Ken Rockburn. (Not sure if he is still on CPAC or not.) He is an experienced, thoughtful interviewer -- who I think still has credibility as a non-partisan.

'Hear ya', fc.

I didn't watch MDL much, but the show was definitely superior to Don Newman's Politics. Newman is such a stuffed shirt -- and a clear Librano partisan hack, not to mention all of the other CBC talking heads he had on: And then there were all the shrill, yucky, Sucky Susans to contend with ... If Taber gets the job, I'll re-name her SUSAN. She's in their league.

Sorry batb, I don't usually watch cbc but had to get my political fix that day.

I'm not familiar with that crowd but the topic sure got my attention.

Maybe he writes for a TO paper?

"Yucky, Sucky Susans"; sounds like a good new name for Newman's blather-fest. And what did his dentist do to him to make his jaw flap like that?

Not that I ever watch that show either; he used to show up occasionally to have deep, insightful discussions with Peter and Wendy on Neverland, er, I mean "the National".