Canadian Journalism Imitates Daily Kos

Is there truth to rumours that Bruce Cheadle conducts 911 reconstruction experiments utilizing chicken wire in his spare time? The evidence mounts

… Stephen Harper … secret agenda … radioactive … sweeping American-led initiative … new nuclear club … closely guarded secret … no public debate … nuclear … hover like a plume …

You be the judge.

38 Replies to “Canadian Journalism Imitates Daily Kos”

  1. So many thinly-veiled potshots in that article. You can almost see the smirk on the writer’s face as you read that drivel.

  2. A true idiot of a writer, a plume would fall to the ground, a plume of smoke on the other hand would float. I guess it would be too much to expect Mr. Cheadle to know the difference.

  3. A delightful example of the MSM falling just short of suggesting that Stephen Harper was going around the globe with a suitcase nuke.
    The speculation laden article demonstrates next to negligible assessment of any facts. But why deal with facts when your job is to ‘shape public opinion’.

  4. If you look closely at the icons and links surrounding the story content you will see one with a pencil and the words “Write News” proving that any idiot (like Cheat-le) can make up shit and call it so-called “News” Jeesh what a bunch of big time losers.

  5. It was Trudeau’s regime who really developed the Canadian uranium industry and escalated it’s exports to unstable nations…maybe Harper’s keeping that secret too…or at least as secret as the revisionist left media

  6. So did I get that straight? The government has been invited to a meeting to discuss a proposal to create a group that would include nuclear energy using and uranium producing countries (Canada having clearly been one of the latter since the mid 1940s) and when a government representative essentially says, it’s all a bit vague, then we have a major cover up? Pity the reporter. No good airplane crashes today I guess.

  7. Kate said: “You be the judge.”
    The piece is certainly filled with negative messaging and supposition from unnamed sources ( actually the writer’s own personal bias tarted up as; “inside sources are saying”)
    The innuendo is thick and the plot is thin and the facts support neither…would be better labeled as lame pulp fiction rather than journalism.

  8. This is a bit off topic, but is still about the MSM and their take on events from the vantage point atop their massive egos.
    This statement, by Peter Worthington, is from a column he wrote about Canada considering a version of the “Purple Heart” for our wounded troops. He ends the column with this astonishing paragraph:
    “Canada already dishes out more service medals than in WWI, WWII and Korea combined. Our soldiers have always tried not to get wounded, and kept casualties low. If a medal is authorized for being wounded, that tradition may be about to end, with some individuals seeking light wounds in order to get a medal.”

  9. That could be one of our SDA trolls writing! Well, edited for grammar and spelling anyway.
    Really, its the owners I blame for this kind of crap. If they didn’t encourage these pinheads we wouldn’t be seeing it in the paper.
    Where do these schmucks think electricity comes from anyway? The guys that work for Ontario Hydro pull it out of their butts?

  10. “We have a big problem here in Canada and in the world: how can we manage the waste produced by nuclear (energy)?”
    I would suggest sending the nuclear waste to Ottawa for long term storage. That place is already so toxic no one will notice.

  11. *
    oh my god, how could i have not see it before now…
    stephen harper is… an evil extraterrestrial…
    bent on destroying life as we know it!!!

    *

  12. dmorris said “some individuals seeking light wounds in order to get a medal”.
    Or, perhaps, to be the Democrat candidate in the 2004 US elections.

  13. Why do the media think they have the right to be in on anything the government is thinking about doing? Such arrogance! who elected them? Let them eat their sour grapes. Harper is right to keep his mouth shut.

  14. First the article and then this poll in the side bar:
    Should all cars be equipped alcohol detection devices so that you couldn’t start your car if you’ve been drinking?
    1. Yes, it will make the roads safer.
    2. No, I drive fine with a couple of drinks in me.
    3. Unsure.

  15. Nuclear Energy and France.
    Yep, France, that self promoted country of “greens” and other “high morals”.
    Anyone out there care to take a quess at what percent of France power is nukey ??
    How come greenpeace, Suzuki, Pembina, EW are quiet ?? (Not that they shouldn’t be)

  16. Kate – it’s at times like this that I’m furious that you don’t permit me to express myself in my normal manner. Tin Blair provides a lot more leeway.
    This article was a ***** disgrace. Nuanced ****, laced withe ******* leading terms and implications.
    **** Mr Cheadle and the **** he rode in on.
    What a m*****f*****

  17. Kate – it’s at times like this that I’m furious that you don’t permit me to express myself in my normal manner. Tim Blair provides a lot more leeway.
    This article was a ****** disgrace. Nuanced ********, laced with *******, leading terms and implications.
    **** Mr Cheadle and the **** he rode in on.
    What a m*****f*****

  18. As far as the medals comment, I think now I have heard it all. To suggest that any soldier would purposely get wounded(any little wound could lead to death if not treated properly, infections, etc)is probably the stupidest thing I have ever read. It is times like this that I would like to take a few reporters out back and beat the crap out of them. And, yes, I am a tough guy. And yes, I am prepared to go to jail for said beatings. F@#$ing a$$holes! GO ARMY!

  19. Peter Worthington, another academic like ‘Iggy’ where in their topsy-turvy liberal world their brain storms come out the wrong end.

  20. Re: Peter Worthington, Antenor. I suggest you read up on the ex-Patricia and adjust accordingly. He is definately not an “Iggy”.

  21. Sorry about the outburst, and I would never hit any reporter. Especially him. It just gets under my skin lately when ANYONE attacks the troops. GO ARMY!

  22. Worthington is the opposite of Iggy.
    Worthy has big brass ones. Iggy is just another Liberal latte loving champagne socialist academic who has none.

  23. I don’t know about today’s wars, where the presure isn’t as great as in the ghastly trench warfare of WWI but, in that war, a wound just serious enough to require evacuation was called a “Blighty” and was welcomed by soldiers to whom two or three months away from the front meant a vastly increased chance of survival.

  24. That comment by Worthington seemed out of character to me when I read it. He usually writes about the military with understanding and support, probably one of the few that will in this country.
    Maybe he was thinking of john kerry and his magical array of purple hearts. As one Vietnam vet said – three purple hearts and he doesn’t even limp…

  25. “It’s time for them to come clean on this.”
    That’s hilarious.
    The Puffin Party indeed.
    Busy hiding their own sh*t while pointing out other’s imaginary piles as a diversion.
    Only with the MSM’s complicity could the tired old LPC STILL be caught ‘crying wolf’ regularly and face NO consequences in the public eye.

  26. Congratulations to Canada’s Bruce Cheadle for his unique “hover like a plume” simile!!!!
    According to Google, this is a world-first!
    Top ten Google alternatives to hovering like a plume: Hover
    1. like a bee
    2. like a flying carpet
    3. like a helicopter
    4. like a hummingbird
    5. like a wicked witch’s spell
    6. like a thousand vericose flies
    7. like a butterfly
    8. like a ghost
    9. like a stranded submarine
    10. like a spaceship
    But wait, there’s more!!!
    The basic meaning of plume is “a large, long, or conspicuous feather: the brilliant plume of a peacock”; a secondary meaning is “a… featherlike token of honor or distinction…”
    When Bruce talks about this large, long, conspicuous, brillaint token of honor and distinction hovering over the meeting is Bruce’s inner Conservative trying to say that the secret Dr. Evil nuclear discussions are going to be a proud “feather in his cap” moment for Stephen Harper?!!!!!
    Or, in echoing the “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” of Mohammed Al, is Bruce really trying to say that Stephen Harper is the Mohammed Ali of 21st century politicians?!!!
    Stay tuned for the next exciting installment of…
    The Secret Agenda Files.

  27. More MSM highjinks: Canwest story by Eric Beauchesne about the ineffectiveness of the GST cut is about a study by Global Insight but in the usual suspect MSM way neglects to tell us who paid for the study.

  28. I know that this is tough for a MSM reporter, probably from central Canada, to understand but uranium is a natural resource, and so is under provincial jurisdiction.
    Would the reporter expect PM Harper to go to a world meeting and spout off the feds on the feds controlling oil and gas production, thereby running roughshod over ALBERTA’S jurisdiction?
    Don’t think so.
    And besides the bureaucratic feds are too busy worrying about the western farmers selling a pail of wheat, and making, gasp, MONEY!
    What I want know, is why was Lord Calvert not invited to the nuclear meeting?

  29. Oh come on, we all know that the only item that will be discussed is the standardization of jellybeans.

  30. we must give these pathetic reporters a break, imagine working for the peanuts they get for running around lying and annoying people all day, while conservatives run their own businesses and make actual money to feed their familys these three time divorced, alcholic and drug crazed losers must put to paper their loathing of conservatives every day, when the ones they really loath are themselves. Pity these fools that have to run to an idiot like jack u layton and stepon dion for a 2 cent quote from a 1 cent mind.

  31. You might be able to get away with something like this if it was clearly labelled an editorial, but since there is no indication of that anywhere on the page, I have to assume it was genuinely intended to be a straight news article. As such, it’s thoroughly unprofessional and an embarrassment to the media organization that allowed it to be published. Canada has the worst paid media in the English speaking world. Or, actually, following jlc above, the f—ing worst.

  32. I think the flip-side of the coin would be for Harper to say that he really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what happens with nuclear waste.Could you just imagine the hooey that the eco-elite left would be spewing if that was the case? The conservatives cannot win with the media in Canada. They are the unofficial opposition,ready to question and denigrate anything that Harper and all say.

  33. Posted by: ron in kelowna at September 4, 2007 1:15 PM
    70% of France’s energy needs come from nuclear power.

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