The Hypocrisy of the CBC’s Mark Kelley

94 Replies to “The Hypocrisy of the CBC’s Mark Kelley”

1. What do you suppose he meant by what has happened in Arizona in the past year and what could it possibly have to do with Sarah Palin? Perhaps she’s been trashing AZ farms on the border, smuggling criminals and drugs, etc. No connection to the shooting but Kelley must have had some kind of point. What was it? Maybe his mind has wandered into Loughner territory.

2. Time to privatize the CBC. Show your support with a bumper sticker:
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3. The CBC’s head is so far up the CBC’s own patoot they don’t understand the light they see is coming through their gob.
   An utter wast of $1.5 billion taxpayers dollars.

4. Holy crappola!! Jeff, if you’re reading this, forward that exchange to CBC’s ombudsman AND to your MP AND to the PM.
   We have to get organized. The beast does not deserve one cent of our money.

5. Mike, I assume he was referring to the Arizona law that allows policemen to check whether someone is in the country illegally. It of course “must” be racist because:
   1. It duplicates a federal law.
   2. Allowing policemen to enforce laws against minorities is racist, by definition.
   Kelley is emblematic of the cancer that resides within our nation’s mainstream media. Think about all the damage he & his ilk have done to brainwash millions of people into thinking that it is actually patriotic and noble NOT to obey laws.
   Such nitwits are a riddle within a riddle within . . .

6. The interesting thing about Kelley’s response is his reference to the GOP abandoning the Tea Partier Dan Maes in his run for governor.
   The reason for this was Maes’ problems with debt and some kooky statement about the UN planning to destroy US sovereignty.
   My question for Kelley is what does this have to do with an assassination. Maes’ problems are silly rather than violent and according to the left-wing website TPM the Tea Party abandoned the guy too.
   http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/flying-solo-everyone-abandons-dan-maes-after-mistake-riddled-campaign.php
   “The Tea Party base is turning against him, too, with numerous Tea Party organizers telling Maes that it’s time to get out of the race.”
   So, Kelley argues that there is “context to mine” in Arizona but the context he cites has absolutely nothing related to the murder spree. The fact that he thinks it does relate is clearly proof of his inability to reason objectively on this issue. In other words, yes, he’s biased.

7. Mike, Not everyone gets to live in Calgary. I’d suggest a more subtle bumper sticker for the rest of us.
   CBC, THE JOKE IS ON US, eh!
   $3,000,000 a day
   (Liberals read it as “the joke is on USA.”)
   Any suggestions?

8. Robert W. – I kind of figured that even though the law would have applied only to people who had been stooped for a legit reason. Might have even bagged a few Canadians or perhaps, God forbid, a terrorist, a rapist, a murderer, a human trafficker … lefties don’t understand that people who break laws are, well, people who break laws.
   Still don’t get what that has to do with Sarah Palin’s target map.

9. Hmmm, maybe they should stoop more bad guys.

10. I’m still waiting for the proof which shows that “heightened rhetoric” directly influenced Loughner to commit the shooting.

11. I especially love,how the cbc ‘hosts/reporters’ like to inject their own opinion into everything.If not by verbal means,watch the body language,the facial expressions.Carole McNeil is the ‘Queen’ of the nostril-flare,indicating something distasteful..usually connected to anything Conservative.Just the other day,the light-loafered Andrew Nicholl did an update on the Arizona shooting,all guns and bad Americans..then swung from that,to the story about the US banning Kinder surprise eggs..he sneers and says,”quite a country!”

12. If it’s impossible to privatize the CBC, could we at least prohibit it from doing any news programming? HNIC, Jian Ghomeshi, etc would continue. The CRTC mandated news quota could be filled on a rotating basis by non government media.

13. Let’s not be too hard on the CBC. If not for its existence, the intrepid Mr. Kelley would no doubt face the prospects of long-term, if not permanent unemployment.

14. Thanks for posting this, Robert and a very late congratulations or your, er, promotion.
    I thought I would point out to commenters something that was contained in one of the linked-to sites in your original post:
    Sarah Palin’s map, now cited by liberals everywhere as responsible for the attack on Congresswoman Gifford two days ago, because of its “rifle crosshairs”, in fact uses the proper Surveyors Map symbols, exactly as per the US Geological Survey:
    There is, to be sure, a juxtaposition at the poiticalforum site if someone wanted to point it out. (Hint.) That is, it is not just that the Dems did it too; in fact, the Dems are actually guilty of much worse – if we use their own measuring stick.
    A lot of this talk is somewhat nonsense. I think all reasonable people are aware that even if Palin had used rifle crosshairs – which she did not – that it would be just a joke. An argument could then be made that it was a joke made in bad taste, but a reasonable person would not take it any further than that. It reminds me of a Senior Manager I once worked for. We were working on a project and he wanted one responsible name for each part of the project. Often a Senior Manager will want a backup responsible person and when we asked if this is what he wanted, he declined. Upon questioning, he revealed his rationale. “I want just one neck to strangle.” No reasonable person on the project thought his life was in danger or that there would ever be a physical confrontation. In fact, we were endeared to him for his sense of humour.
    Now on the other hand, if one is inclined to believe that this type of humour is out of bounds, then most reasonable people would conclude that rifle and archery targets are much more suggestive of violence that are electronic surveying instruments and that any efforts to stop this out of bounds behaviour should, rather obviously, start with those using the more violently suggestive metaphor – in this case, the Democrats. After the most violent suggestive behaviour has been addressed, the topic of the electronic surveying instrument metaphor could be discussed.
    This is not the only time that the left has the facts exactly backwards.

15. I don’t think you can privitize the CBC. What value does it have? Been on the website waiting for something to load? I get locked on the comment page when I log in. Nope, the technology isn’t there or no one knows how to use it.
    We would have to re-invent the radio portion as it is the only game in town in places you don’t want to be. The TV? Heh heh heh. Fox North!!!!

16. When you go to work at the CBC or even tune in to the CBC you must leave your brain at the coat check in the lobby, just like when you go into a church.
    It’s all about beliefs, no evidence required. And the messages drone on and on as though you have no ability to think or remember anything on your own.
    And, sadly for the most part, that is true.
    The only system or philosophy I know of that requires facts, truth and evidence and also respects the individual above all else is Ayn Rand’s Objectivism.
    One of Conservatism’s biggest detractions is religion. Liberalism’s biggest detraction is the deifying of the state.
    WE ALL NEED TO GET REAL.
    What are they odds?
    How did we ever make it this a far?
    I think we have reached the end of the road.
    The wall is approaching fast.
    Are you prepared?

17. The CBC serves little purpose aside from swaying public opinion towards the left; hence, Republicans are bad, Democrats good. Mark Kelley is a left-winger with socialist leanings.

18. Whats a CBC?

19. CBC radio has only three things worth listening to: The Debaters- Saturday afternoons 1 p.m., Stuart Maclean- Sunday noon and Rex Murphy. The rest is oh so thoughtful rubbish from out thoughtful elites. I tired of them years ago. Their announcers all sound the same, their news is an hourly melange of cherry picked liberal world view nonsense (at least the news at 1 p.m. on Saturdays is). And can they get rid of the annoying background sound clips. You know- where they report on say a snow fall and we hear snow shovels scraping against the sidewalk as the reporter gravely intones on the probable cause of the storm (global warming er change).
    Now I listen to CFRA which offers a well balanced range of commentary and astonishingly, news you can use. Like Fox, CFRA is branded as a right wing hell hole. The reality is it offers a wide range of commentary and opinion. Unlike the CBC.
    Shut them down (the CBC). They do not have the ratings and the billion bucks could be put to far better use.

20. I noticedCBC didn’t report the tweeters that wanted Sara killed, I noticed CBC didn’t report all the hateful things the left hurl at the Tea Party. The only side of the story they reported was a fabricated OPINION based not on facts and not on evidence. Due Dilegence at CBC is despicable, American media makes stuff up and CBC reports it as fact.
    Notice how no one at Liberal MSM seems to care about the other victims, well they walk on them daily whilst smearing the right.

21. If Mr Kellley feels he has’t “politicised” this event, if he feels it’s ridiculouse for him to be labeled as a lefty, if he feels that only the shooter is to blame—why attach only conservative examples of heightened rhetoric to this story? If his aim is so pure, he’d want to really examine the both sides. And he’s not doing this. He is, in fact, making the climate worse. For example, I now despise him. Cheers,

22. Every assassination plot in my lifetime has been either from the radical Left or from radical Muslims, and Loughner will probably not prove to be the exception. Unless, the Left succeeds in its blood libel against Sarah Palin, and in its claim that Palin’s “hatemongering” made Loughner insane. (By the way, the “insanity” claim is the oldest trick in the book – back in the day the Mafia was famous for using it to excuse their own from testifying in court.)
    Four of the most notable assassination plots – in all four cases there was an attempted cover-up by the Left media of the perpetrators’ real political affiliations:
    1/ President John Kennedy (Democrat), murdered 1963 – the assassin Oswald was a long-time activist with the Communist front organization “Fair Play for Cuba” and a one-time defector to the Soviet Union.
    2/ Senator Robert Kennedy (Democrat), murdered 1968 – the assassin Sirhan Sirhan was backed by the “Black September” Palestinian terrorist organization, which later kidnapped U.S. diplomats in Sudan in an attempt to obtain his release from prison.
    3/ President Ronald Reagan (Republican), shot 1981 – assassins were incited by the violent racism whipped up by the Democratic campaign: “…one of [Jimmy] Carter’s main black supporters, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young tried to whip up black opposition to Reagan by stating that if he [Reagan] were elected, it would be ‘OKAY TO KILL’ [him]…” (Pocket Wikipedia). A few weeks after he took office the White leftist Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan.
    4/ Pope John Paul II (Vicar of Rome), shot 1981, other attempts 1982, 1995 – of the three attempts on the Pope’s life two were by Muslims and one by a disgraced demented priest. The last attempt on John Paul’s life was by an AL QAEDA funded operation in the Phillipines in 1995.
    Testimony from Loughner’s schoolmates characterize him as a Leftist, and in his Youtube video he mentions “revolution”, the abolition of private property rights, and he makes anti-religious statements. I’m not claiming the guy is “Leftist” or ruling out the possibly that he may be mentally ill, but “leftism” and “mental illness” are not mutually exclusive either. The evidence so far at least demonstrates that there is one thing that Loughner WAS NOT: influenced by or connected in any way to Sarah Palin, et al, much less that ridiculously vague campaign map that the media is representing as the irrefutable “smoking gun” condemning Palin, who in turn allegedly caused Loughner’s alleged insanity, and hence allegedly caused his murderous spree.
    That’s a heck of a lot of causation to prove, stretched to the ‘nth degree of the imagination. And under the “unbiased” assumption of course that there can never be a reason for a Democrat to put a bullet in the head of a fellow Democrat unless “a Republican made me do it”.
    Sarah Palin lives in Alaska – thousands of miles from the crime scene. She doesn’t even hold public office anymore – she’s a housewife. The humungous multi-billion dollar North American media has mocked her and attempted to defame her for years, and now it has clearly libelled her by falsely connecting her to a mass murder and assassination attempt in Arizona, and has broadcast its blood libel around the world. And when housewife Palin attempted to defend herself – on her little Youtube mini-cam yesterday – she was met with another wave of defamatory messages broadcast around the world by the media giants such as CTV: “Sarah Palin is inciting more hatred”. Now they can blame any political murder in the world on Sarah Palin!
    Does anybody else smell what I’m smelling? Aren’t the Democrats using the same blackmail tactics the Islamic Jihadists used? I.e: “If you Americans say something critical about Islam in the U.S. then we are going to kill innocent Americans in Afghanistan — your free speech is killing innocent Americans in Afghanistan”. The Democrats’ version: “if Sarah Palin says something critical about Democrats in Alaska then her free speech is killing innocent people in Arizona”.
    Their cowardice is breathtaking. And Palin’s bravery is something worth fighting and dying for.

23. Robert, your problem here is that you are watching the CBC. If you shut it off, you’ll have no problem.
    You’re right about Mark Kelley of course, but he’s just fitting in and doing what he was hired to do. He works for the CBC, his job is Leftist propaganda.
    Sad that we still have to pay for it.

24. What an oily disingenuous reply. This little CBC wiggler thinks that non bias is resisting openly stating all things evil come from right/GOP/Palin/Conservatives – as long as they use stark innuendo and snide indirect insinuation to demonize the right, the left media donks think they are the paragon of balanced unbiased ‘opinion’.
    On a larger perspective Kelly is doing the bidding of his masters in CBC’s iron-fisted editorial agenda. Public funded or not the CBC is still a corporate vehicle for ruling class control of public awareness.
    The primary objective of the corporate, establishment owned/controlled media is to neutralize any individual or political group that threatens the hegemony of the ruling elite.
    The CBC is right in there pimping for the smug lib-left establishment political class with all the other vulgar cable news propagandists.

25. Mark Kelly, Evan Solomon (whom I’m watching now BTW) are all the same. I saw Kelly several weeks back doing his closing “disconnect” segment where he chastised the gov’t on, what he claimed, was their thwarting of AIR’s from the information commissioner, knowing as he did that the CBC is thwarting AIR’s itself — a story that he and his network have whitewashed. How one can look into the camera and keep a straight face in spite of the glaring hypocrisy is truly an art form. Or simply takes someone with no moral compass. Solomon has done the same on that issue BTW.
    And more omissions from Solomon on today’s program, reading a viewer response e-mail from Errol Mendes, who predictably crapped on the gov’t on the funding of political parties issue. Solomon only disclosed that Mendes was a University of Ottawa professor and not that he worked for the Martin Liberals. The intent was clear: to have uninformed viewers believe that the comments came from a position of neutrality.

26. I received an interesting email today.
    “I am writing to invite you to participate in a FRIENDS’ national telephone town hall meeting. The event will take place this Sunday, January 16th at 4pm EST.
    I hope you will be able to join us for an important update on FRIENDS’ I Love CBC campaign and to tell us what you think. It’s easy to participate. All you have to do is answer the phone at 4pm EST. We’ll do the rest to connect you to the tele town hall.
    Since the shocking pre-Christmas news that a high ranking MP in the Harper government publicly mused about killing our CBC, we have been working hard to mobilize public support. To date, more than 68,000 Canadians have signed FRIENDS’ I Love CBC petition. If you have not already done so, please take a moment to sign the petition now: http://www.friends.ca/ILoveCBC/
    With the town hall telephone event on Sunday, January 16th at 4pm EST we will kick our campaign into high gear! The purpose of the tele town hall meeting is to bring FRIENDS’ supporters across the country together for a briefing on the latest developments in the campaign to save the CBC and to plan next steps.
    We want to know what you think about the latest, and perhaps greatest, threat to the CBC. Please join the call to make your voice heard!
    Ian Morrison
    Spokesperson
    FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting
    PS If you would rather not receive the call for the telephone town hall, please let us know by 5 pm EST on Friday, January 14th by clicking here.”
    This was forwarded to me so I may not be on the phone list but they wouldn’t air my comments anyway.
    Jim

27. The NDP website is ‘targeting’ Stephen Harper.
    Why isn’t the CBC up in arms over that?

28. I don’t get it. You are all saying it was an disingenuous, oily, etc. I can’t see what is disingenuous about it, but that is easily explained as I can’t seem to find a copy of the email to which he is responding.
    Did you forget to print it? No, you couldn’t have, I am just not finding it right? Because if it is not also shown, that would be about as disingenuous as it gets.
    And that would make it Pretty creepy stuff! Would it not?

29. Since when does the CBC have the right to use taxpayer money to lobby the government for itself?
    Surely the CBC is breaking lobbyist rules here. In other words the taxpayer has to pay for the CBC to lobby the government to make the taxpayer continue to pay for the CBC!
    Vicious circle — reminds me that sucking watery vortex in the Niagara River downriver from the falls. What do they call that thing again?

30. Agree with The Phantom; I dont know why many even bother listening to CBC. It angers up the blood, in the words of grampa Simpson. And the solution to any privatization of CBC is to say your giving that annual money to healthcare instead. That oughta flummox ’em!

31. CBC hypocrisy, selective news that favours the left? Who would have thought…well maybe most of us here. Occam fingers what is really going on.

32. I came across the Ed Schultz radio show out of New York one day, and the man makes no bones about being a liberal or a lefty. If you think the CBC’s gang is bleeding heart, his show will make you throw up.

33. GaryinWpg,I couldn’t agree more! Now you know why Rush refers to Fat Ed as ‘Sgt.Shultz!’.There is no bigger idiot on talk radio/msnbc than him.just brutal.

34. CBC’s question of the day has to do with the vote subsidy. So far it looks like the majority of Canadians enjoy paying for the BQ,Greens,etc.

    http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2011/01/question-of-the-day-268.html

35. In August of 2009 I was within 20 feet of Mark Kelly and watched him record a clip for a CBC “informative” news segment.
    Mark and his crew of about a dozen we’re torquing up the Kelowna forest fires – trying to induce a sense of panic to be used on The National. Even though it was a dead calm day, and forecast to remain calm, which it did for long enough that the fires we’re no longer a threat, Kelly opened his spiel by throwing some dust and saying the wind was picking up and the whole city was in danger.
    He was spewing absolute BS and when he finished recording I told them so. I said ‘nice trick there with the sand’, Mark.
    A few heated exchanges took place between Mark, his producer and I. Mark knew damn well that he had been caught red-handed embellishing the news, not simply reporting it.
    Kelly walked off in a huff. His producer claimed that local news outlets torqued the news but the CBC did not. I said you have got to be effin joking – right ?? I gave him more examples from the past – no response, just walked off and said have a nice day.
    They are smug because they are part of The Ruling Class.

36. “the intrepid Mr. Kelley would no doubt face the prospects of long-term, if not permanent unemployment”
    You know I just can’t see a down side to that~

37. Robert…how about posting Mr. Kelley’s, and the ombudsman e-mail addy’s here.
    Someone suggested Jeff’s original e-mail too. (A troll I think…but not a bad idea)…what do you think Jeff?
    You know what kind of traffic there is around here. We should let Mark know what we think about ‘news media’ twisting and influencing, instead of sticking with the facts.
    Yeah…and I’m too lazy to go to the CBC for the addys.

38. Kim Leaman @ 6:49 PM sez:
    “I don’t get it.”
    Obviously. And obviously you either don’t watch CBC opinion based programming or you are oblivious to the long and obvious CBC bias against the right – or, if you are aware of this blatent biasm you are being oily and disingenuous about it, like Kelly.
    BTW it wasn’t “You are all” sating Kelly’s denial of obvious bias is “oily and disingenuous”, it was just me – to insinuate otherwise (that tis is everyone here’s opinion) is well, oily and disingenuous and betrays a bias.

39. ron in kelowna ∴ at January 13, 2011 7:35 PM: “Mark and his crew of about a dozen we’re torquing up the Kelowna forest fires – trying to induce a sense of panic”.
    The CBC did the same thing in 2009 with the flu virus and did in fact create panic — the clinics were flooded all at once beyond capacity and it was total chaos. In Ontario The Medical Officer of Health went on a live TV interview with CBC reporters and publicly rebuked the imbeciles.

40. Mark Kelley is rude and self-absorbed. I thought that was a requirement for working for the CBC.

41. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20028458-503544.html
    Death threats against Sarah Plain have dramatically increased.

42. The comment made about using the CBC subsidy and arts funding then redirecting to fund healthcare sounds like a good campaign plank.
    Hopefully, someone at CPC HQ is going to pick up on that obvious hint.

43. Give it a break Occam. The author here did not Quote the email he received only the one he sent. Is that fair? Mak’s email is a response to what exactly?
    And anyone who thinks the CBC is Liberal Biased has never seen Evan Solomon at work. And probably thinks Flanagan, Teneycke and McVety are Left leaning too.
    For your Information, Canada is Left Biased! As it damned well should be! What private citizens see in Harper’s vision of Canada is a mystery to 68% of Canadians.
    Sheep though, seem to believe that giving tax cuts to the rich (even though those companies that are American pay the difference back to the USA Treasury) is going to produce jobs. They are delusional!
    There is absolutely nothing in the Right’s agenda that benefits anyone other than the Big businesses that wrote it! Stop and think!
    The CBC becomes more Right wing everyday. Harper has infultrated it to the point that it is his tool, as are his followers.
    p.s. Who wrote this blog? Is it even attributed to a writer?

44. For evidence that leftism is indeed a mental disorder,see above post by Kim,talk about being out of touch with any kind of reality.

45. I have neither watched CBC television nor listened to CBC radio for years due to their agenda-driven social engineering. It is a shame since I am old enough to recall (many many moons ago) when I could feel proud of CBC.
    Were the CBC a private institution paying its own way, I could not care about their agenda-driven social engineering attempts, but I strongly object to being forced to pay for it. If a private outfit, I would retain the choice to change channels without paying for it.

46. Anyone know where this pro-conservative CBC is on the cable menu, because all I get is the pro-Liberal CBC here?

47. Ricardo, no crown corp directly lobbies its shareholder. That’s what organizations like Friends of Canadian Broadcasting are for.
    There’s a universal problem with government these days, and it’s not confined to Canada. The CBC is one of a host of organizations where this problem is manifest. It’s the notion that government can create an ‘independent’ organization or agency. Government pays the bills but takes a hands-off attitude to its day to day operations.
    This of course completely violates any sane notion of proper governance. If its shareholder exerts no control, then the organization is controlled only by its own line management and thus accountable to nothing and no one.
    The CBC represents an extreme case of this. If you think CBC is out of control, think again. CBC doesn’t have any meaningful control over its large subdivision Radio Canada. Despite its status as a federal institution, Radio Canada personnel were heavily involved in the ‘yes’ side of both Quebec referenda.
    This situation has been growing for at least three decades. It’s arisen because governments, particularly elected officials, want to defer responsibility for events or decisions. So, we now have independent environmental review processes where before it was simply approval by the Minister. We have the CRTC, where before it was simply a function of what is now Industry Canada.
    And the voters have been complicit in this, readily believing that somehow some independent tribunal can be more even handed than partisan elected officials. The problem with all this is that you can readily understand the agenda of elected politicians, but it is far more difficult to understand the agenda of unelected, appointed officials not formally accountable for their actions.
    This in turn has an effect on Parliament. With so much of governance and government bodies removed to independent commissions and tribunals, Parliament is much more removed from the day to day business of running the country than it was half a century ago. And, because of this independence, the elected politicians cannot be readily held accountable when things go wrong.

48. Kim Leaman, How do you read Solzhenitsyn and keep your left wing arrogance? Btw, right wing has little to do with big business. It’s about individual rights, including minimal intrusion from government.

49. Kim, is this the same Solomon who accused former Harper advisor/secretary of “torking things up” on set when Fox merely stated last spring that the maternal health vote Iggy lost further erodes his credibility as leader, but who sat in abject silence when fmr. Liberal strategist Susan Smith said PMSH had “drop-kicked” Geurgis out of caucus? Just wondering.

50. CBC should be less selective in its reporting. CBC falls behind other broadcasters in ratings because we don’t get the truth or the real story from any of its news outlets.
    One aspect I really like about CBC is that Ezra Levant is sometimes on it. He tells it the way it is; something that CBC deosn’t do. I am a feminist, much like CBC’s Heather Mallick, but i don’t agree with her one bit. Here’s the CBC’s Modus Operandi of lies:
    Homelessness? it’s because working people don’t pay enough taxes and don’t give welfare moms enough money for their 7 kids.
    Islamophobia? It’s because muslim countries are peaceful and misunderstood, and we should welcome and celebrate middle-east barbaric culture.
    USA? Evil.
    Western Europe? Good. (But don’t report on their immigrant problems, oh no..)
    George Bush? Evil.
    Obama? Good.
    Harper? Struggling.
    Elizabeth May? Graceful beacon of hope.
    Gun-owners? Evil.
    Wikileaks? Truthful goodness.
    Climategate? Evil provocateurs.
    See why Canadians have tuned out? CBC needs to include rural/working/traditionalist people in its programming and stop the waste. They must also stop the left-wing bias. These are my suggestions.