Math isn’t one of the national media punditry’s stronger suits.
Andrew Scheer;
The Liberals did not ‘sneak one’ past the Conservatives. The Libs and Bloc cut a deal to force the vote when they knew some of our members were away.
As I mentioned in the previous post, a death in the family caused one MP to be away, and cancer treatments caused two others to miss the votes. With three of us away, there was no way we could have defeated the Bill.
Which is why the Liberals negotiated with the Bloc to invoke closure – to be sure there was absolutely no way that time could be bought through extended debate, to bring those three back to Ottawa. Read what you won’t learn from the MSM on this earlier post.
Telling the truth ain’t in their suit collection either.
That’s why I cancelled all newspaper subscriptions, rarely watch CBC or CTV (Global-what’s that?)and refuse to buy any national newspaper.
After reading Well’s drunken rants against Harper and his readers, I may delete Macleans too.
The conservatives must be real scary to the lazy, pill poppers in the MSM. Liberalism is sooooo easy to cover: just wait for the fax or blackberry messages.
Depressing aint it…………
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I personally find McLean’s to be one of the most offensive of the lot.
It is time for foreign investment of the media in Canada. This is long overdue.
Harper will have the last laugh. You wait and see.
Yep. When the Liberals make a deal with the Bloc is it being “sneaky”. When the Conservatives to it they threaten Canadian unity. What a joke!
I heard that the Bloc sided with the Grits on this one so they could get the weekend off to go home and party with John The Baptist(hey, I’m a squid not a linguist)
Kindergarten teacher in Ontario can make $80 000 / year.
They party for 3 months.
SOCIALISM IS FOR LOSERS
“Cue Ball” Duffy made reference to the fact on voting day that the Bloc had the “hammer”, if Stephen DID have all the bodies necessary, the Bloc would excuse enough of their bodies to make sure the vote was lost anyway, the Bloc wanted the SSM that bad for Quebec, who run the country anyway. Time to get out of this hell hole we used to call Canada. Why wait for spring> do it now?
Stephen ww 2 vet.
Lashing out is normal enough when you consider the situation is not good. It is very muddy, thus very frutrating as no focus seems to exist.
So Mike is correct. He is suggesting that Harper and advisors should provide a focus of action. In other words…*Leadership*
People are demonstrating in Halifax over animal rights. We have had demonstrations in the past for saving the StickleBack minnow.
What about demonstrating for CANADA??
There should be information pickets on the hill and in front of Rideau Hall and Governor General Clarkson’s mansion. [Which she just put up for sale, by the way. She’s smart. She will be gone, giving you no chance to demonstrate there.]
Demonstrators should all have well worded hand bills or news releases to hand to people and the press.
Peaceful demonstration is legal. Slogans like *4.6Billion- Not Budgeted*, *NDP not Elected*,
*Gov.Gen. Stop the House Now*, *Gov.Gen. Dissolve Govt. Now!* and *Throw the Bums Out!* are OK.
Better to bash outdoors with a placard. TV cameras will not pick you up on this or any blogsite. 73s TG BendGovernment.blogspot.com
Oh yeah. don’t forget *Bill C-11 Now*, *Whistle-Blower Law NOW!* Great for 100% of Canadians, not 1% as with SSM BillC-38.
Tony, if parliament sat for a month in Calgary, you would have the sort of protests you describe, but the MSM cameras would find the most stereotypical and ineloquent people they could find and hold them up as examples of what these good Canadians who form our embattled government are up against.
If Ontarians protested en mass, the coverage would be better, but the odds of Ontarians protesting against the Liberals are about the same as getting kids to protest against too much ice-cream. It isn’t so much the lack of protest that plagues this country, it is the coalition between the MSM and the Liberals. The media is the only source of information for the vast majority of people. They come home from work, and maybe have one eye on the TV, maybe flip through the paper during the day.
And the MSM coverage is absolutely disgusting. It’s insidious. It’s almost too much to take. Saw Gidget Taber today conver-smooching Tony Valeri — she was openly cheerleading, practically giggling at the excellence of Liberal tactics. When the Liberal/Southern Ontario perspective is broadcast coast-to-coast every day, seven days a week on the networks, there isn’t really a prayer for any non-Liberal party. Anselm has the right idea – ditch the Globe and Mail, MacLeans, complain to your local TV affiliates about bias. And I would add, give as many gift subscriptions to the Western Standard as you can afford. When you read it you become amazed at the scope of how much factual information is ignored by the national media.
SSM will kill the Liberals, if today’s Dale Goldhawk on CPAC was anything to go by. I’ll take my victories where I can get them. Is the country ready for a national alternative to Macleans? I’ve heard rumours that there is one coming. A national conservative magazine coast to coast with editorial content from across the country by conservative columnists. The folks on CPAC today gave the Lib hosebag a real tongue-lashing on lies, more lies, and Lib attempts to ram SSM down the throats of the majority of Canadians. The referendum we’re denied will be held at the ballot box, they said.
EBD: You flatter Ms Taber: not Gidget, but “Deep Throat” in at least two senses. Tee hee hee.
Mark
Ottawa
We already have some very efficient Conservative magazines, ( only now they are called ‘blogs’.
Dave, I agree. But lots of folks don’t blog, don’t even bother going on-line unless absolutely necessary. We can talk all we want about policy here, and some of the discussions have been of a quality you won’t see ANYWHERE in MSM in this country, but are certainly deserving of a widespread audience. At some point, somewhere, somebody will have to begin to dismantle the MSM’s stranglehold on Canadians, who really have no alternative than to read whatever pap their dishing up.
Mark, you’ve just ruined a perfectly good Merlot when you mentioned Gidget “Deep Throat” Taber and Tony Valeri. Sacre bleu!
Guys,
Slamming the MSM is a waste of time.
The truth win eventually win out. Blogs are an opportunity to overcome many of the lies. Let’s use them accordingly.
Two Cents: I’m not sure that magazines are enough. Too many people still get their news from TV; which means that we need a Canadian version of FOX. Between a TV news outlet that gives Center to Right commentary and blogs, we’ll take this country back over time. I think that that is what happened in the USA; other than the fact that the Conservatives in the States had the hated Karl Rove running campaign strategy… the man could get Himler elected in Israel.
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
……Now you know everything
royslade’s comments:
he should loosen up too many facts spoil my day do not confuse me with the factsits not right that the facts should be jammed like that ist not good for the lower colon comma apostriphes seems to me that the facts confuse the msm with e ssm rca and ccbs csisshoukld be advised that peep throat is gidget libarbnos snough of hti s going to the sideboard for port and stilton mmmmmm
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June 25, 2005
Ink-Stained Retches
Today’s unanticipated factoid: among the people increasingly “less trusting of the professional behavior” of journalists are . . . journalists! A survey of professional journalists by Euro RSCG Magnet, a PR and marketing outfit, and Columbia University, found that “45 percent of journalists are less trusting of the professional behavior of their own colleagues — up from 34 percent in 2003.” Many of these journalists were unhappy about the recent unpleasantness involving Dan Rather: “78 percent believe that Rathergate has profoundly altered the media’s credibility.”
The welcome news is that “93 percent of journalists said they are being ‘excruciatingly careful’ in fact-checking their stories in 2005 — a huge increase from 59 percent in 2003, likely a reflection of the press’s declining credibility.” The grabber here is here is that in 2003, 41 percent of journalists said they were being something other than ‘excruciatingly careful’ in fact-checking their stories.
The survey actually focused on journalists’ attitude toward blogs. “[O]nly 1 percent believe blogs are credible,” yet “more than half of journalists use Weblogs regularly, with 28 percent relying on them for day-to-day reporting.” Assemble those responses as you wish. Many pro journalists use blogs, the survey reported, to find story ideas and sources
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/06/inkstained_retc_1.shtml#009980
????? Retches or wretches?
A letter just sent to Steady Eddie Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief of the Globe:
“Dear Mr Greenspon,
The egregious giggling Ms Taber has outed herself politically. She was just interviewed (around 0815, June 27) on CFRA, Ottawa, by Daniel Proussalidis about the Liberals’ prospects for passing C-38 (same-sex marriage). She replied “What we’re hoping”, then went the equivalent of “Oops”, and went on to explain it was simply that she personally supported the legislation.
Ms Taber is supposed to be a reporter. In that capacity she should not publicly take positions on the substance/substance of contentious political issues.
The Globe should immediately confine her to a columnist’s role as a purveyor of opinion–what in fact she already mainly is.
Mark Collins
Ottawa”
Good one, Mark. Whether she outed her personal lifestyle or her personal bias (or both) is immaterial to the fact that she is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a reporter in the traditional sense of the world.
Maybe CPC needs to propose a bill preserving the traditional definition of news reporting?
Candace: Was only referring to her political bias, which has been obvious for yonks.
The last thing this country needs is legislation on news reporting. God save us from more of the nanny state, and one would hope no conservative (big or small “C”) would consider the idea.
Mark
Ottawa
Royslade,
Re your “facts”:
1. We don’t have a two dollar bill in Canada.
2. The old two dollar bill design did not have a picture of the Parliament Buildings. Neither did the design before that.
3. Even if it did, there is no way that it showed the U.S. flag flying.
Presumably all of your other “facts” are equally accurate.
Royslade,
“‘excruciatingly careful’ in fact-checking” indeed;
http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/English/BoC/Flag_Rumour.htm
The ‘US’ flag is actually the Red Ensign, no doubt secretly inserted there by a cabal of bloggers intent on having monthly meetings at the local Mason’s lodge.
Get your all new talking “Belinda Doll!(TM)”
Just pull the string and hear her talk!
” Mr. Speaker, it is a complex file………… Mr. Speaker, as I said before, it is a complex file….”
More from Andrew Scheer
Yeah, like a nail file is complex.