CPC Director of Political Operations Doug Finley has written an official letter of complaint to the CBC Ombudsman.
On the TV program Mike Duffy Live, Mike Duffy stated the following.
“Liberal researcher Jay Ephard approach him and say, no, Jean, it’s not true. The CBC didn’t write those questions that were asked by the Liberals. We wrote them. Yes, the CBC phoned us up and suggested questions we should ask but we actually typed them out ourselves.”
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Update – CBC has announced search for sacrificial lamb.
Comment at Andrew Coyne:
In addition to her Rockliffe mansion I read that Green Party leader Elizabeth May is the proud owner of a Nova Scotia compound. I’m no real estate expert but that’s gotta be $1-$1.5 million in property right there.
Pretty impressive for a single mother who waitressed her way through university then took a succession of not-great paying nonprofit sector jobs and now pulls down a cool fifty grand a year. Hell, even I make more than that, and if I asked my bank to finance a Nova Scotia compound they’d tell me to pound sand.
Where did single mother\nonprofit sector employee Elizabeth May get the money and the financing to pay for a Rockliffe mansion and a Nova Scotia compound?
If Harper started buying condos in Banff left and right we’d start asking questions so I think it’s only fair that the media investigate this matter thoroughly. After all, $300,000 paid to a long retired politician surely pales in comparison to an active politician and her unexplained multi-million dollar real estate deals, no?
I agree with WL. It’s time to take the kid gloves off and spit in their eye.
Only in Canada can we have the ethics committee committing the unethical act act of accepting questions from a biased news agenecy (known as the standard for yellow journalism in Canada) and knothing is said about it across the country except in cyberspace.
Only in Canada can we have the ethics committee committing the unethical act of accepting questions from a biased news agenecy (known as the standard for yellow journalism in Canada) and knothing is said about it across the country except in cyberspace.
Fred has hit the nail on the head. Part of the need for a public inquiry has been the coverage of Muldoons business dealings. Coverage that has been hostile in the past and still is. As PMBM has requested a public inquiry, INCLUDING THE 5TH ESTATE, this could get to be spectacular.
SO is this the first time ?? Are the Liberals declaring this taxpayer funded support as part of their funding ? Does Elections Canada know ? Did they declare the support in the year it was incurred?
How long have the CBC and the Liberals worked hand in hand to defeat a legally elected government ?
I DEMAND a Public Inquiry.
PabloScam, also known as CBC Gate demands answers.
But if we turfed the CBC where would all the boho hippy lefties get their beloved and necessary kinky sex/transgendered/gay/swinging television programming they depend on so much every night on Newsworld? And how about all those filmmakers of said programming who depend on the CBC to purchase their crap (because no one else will). Have pity on them!
The CBC is has morphed into the Liberal Kinky Transgendered Gay Television Network. And as taxpayers, we should not be subsidizing them. Enough already.
I really think we deserve better, and think we must continue putting pressure on the CBC. It is okay for Pablo to slander Mr. Mulroney, but did not notice when Mike Duffy asked him directly, did anyone from the CBC contact you and ask you to present questions to Mr. Mulroney, he said definitely NO and said he did not like the Tory Member of that panel slandering him with statements that were not correct… He had stayed up all night and made up his own answers….. Well, that wasn’t the case… he outright lied… and I think we deserve to keep the pressure on and demand more answers, not only from him, but also the CBC…. What is going on here… It is okay for the “Fifth Estate” to slander Mr. Mulroney… but don’t slander the liberals, the CBC will run you out of the country… This is not right… we have to continue this investigation, if we have to do it ourselves… Let’s all write the CBC and demand a more truthful response… and demand the names of the reporters who are contacting the liberal panel members…
I really think we must continue putting pressure on the CBC. It is okay for Pablo to slander Mr. Mulroney, but did not notice when Mike Duffy asked him directly, did anyone from the CBC contact you and ask you to present questions to Mr. Mulroney, he said definitely NO and said he did not like the Tory Member of that panel slandering him with statements that were not correct… He had stayed up all night and made up his own answers….. Well, that wasn’t the case… he outright lied… and I think we deserve to keep the pressure on and demand more answers, not only from him, but also the CBC…. It is okay for the “Fifth Estate” to slander Mr. Mulroney… but don’t slander the liberals, the CBC will run you out of the country… Let’s all write the CBC and demand a more truthful response… and demand the names of the reporters who are contacting the liberal panel members…
I really think we must continue putting pressure on the CBC. It is okay for Pablo to slander Mr. Mulroney, but did not notice when Mike Duffy asked him directly, did anyone from the CBC contact you and ask you to present questions to Mr. Mulroney, he said definitely NO and said he did not like the Tory Member of that panel slandering him with statements that were not correct… He had stayed up all night and made up his own answers….. Well, that wasn’t the case… he outright lied… and I think we deserve to keep the pressure on and demand more answers, not only from him, but also the CBC…. It is okay for the “Fifth Estate” to slander Mr. Mulroney… but don’t slander the liberals, the CBC will run you out of the country… Let’s all write the CBC and demand a more truthful response… and demand the names of the reporters who are contacting the liberal panel members…
The CBC is a cartoon. It is time to tear that thing to pieces….the money would be better spent on MRI’s in this country rather than buildings full of Che admirers.
The CBC seems to be a collection of low life totalitarians that would really, really like to run the country.
Maybe they have, you never know what they have on the liberals that they can actually direct them to ask questions they would like manufacture some news to.
Have they done this before? More likely than not.
The discussion between Ephart and who ever Jean is, is something to behold.
So the CBC dictates the questions, they write them down, what the hell is the difference who wrote the questions down. Could be their grandmother, the point is they were dictated by the CBC.
You really can’t talk about ethics here, you would be insulting ethics.
Seems that there is not much anybody can do, you get that damned voice mail and you can’t talk to no one. You send email, they send it to their spin department and everything goes on as usual. Talking to a brick wall may get results.
The one good thing is that a blog like this will expose them and the more people read blogs for actual happenings the better. The people need to know and be firm in dealing with politicians and their apparent masters in the CBC.
Talking firm, though decent, with knowledge behind it, does get results, first hand experience here.
Kudos to the CBC for launching an investigation into this isolated incident! In my eyes, at least, they have completely rehabilitated themselves as a credible news agent.
I no longer suspect that they have a liberal bias. They have completely regained my unqualified respect.
How utterly irredeemable is the person who suggests that they might not observe themselves with complete honesty and zeal!
The very idea that the task force would simply play cards for two weeks, and then announce that, after an exhaustive, ruthless investigation, has found that the CBC is as without bias as the driven snow is without colour, and — holy shit! A PIG just flew by my window!
Too bad the HoC is on break . LACK OF QUESTION PERIOD would have been a riot .
I certainly do hope the CPC MPs start referring to Pablo as the Member From The CBC during question period.
…. wonder if they get acting advice as well ….. Ralphie sure has the projecting righteous indignation look down to a TEE !
No mention of the flap on The National tonight.
But see if you can spot any other signs that the CBC is committed to promoting the party of le Petit Green Machine:
A story on the resignation of the head of the AECL: After Liberal Omar Alghabra — “the government needs to accept responsibility for the national medical crisis that we’ve had” — a Greenpeace activist has his say.
A story on climate change. Protesters in polar bear suits; the French environment minister criticizing Canada; environmental activist Steven Guilbeaut, “who accused John Baird of skipping a crucial meeting of ministers” says his bit.
Later, a climate change story: Guy who bought hybrid car in US can’t get rebate. “I don’t think the minister of transportation specifically on an environmental program should be using an environmental program to dissuade people from…”
Later, a long story/lecture on…climate change. Excerpt: “It’s a cold winter night on the University of Toronto campus. Inside, Danny Harvey is speaking to the converted: a familiar group of climate change activists…”
All Armageddon, All The Time, ever since the Conservatives were elected. Why, you’d almost think the Liberal leader is running on an environmental platform, or something…
‘The Cellular Spectrum Auction’ appeared to be of particular interest of the bearded Lib guy, (CBC’s questions?) and tying it to Bernier and Harper was an obvious fishing expedition with nothing to do with Schreiber/ Mulroney / Airbus.
Blatant political sewer tactics obviously meant to move the CBC’s agenda in this mess.
Recall Larry Zolf’s pronouncements many months ago about the media breaking Harper at election time?
I would say it’s well in the works right now with CBC in the forefront.
The RCMP is going to be overhauled, head chopped at the AECL, why not the CBC as well?
Clean out the CBC Augean Stable.
“.. wonder if they get acting advice as well ….. Ralphie sure has the projecting righteous indignation look down to a TEE !”
Would that be Ralphie Goodale you’re talking about?
Mr. Huff’n’Puff seems to be going for the Teddy Kennedy look these days.
If so, be careful girls, you might want to take an Aqualung along on any dates.
Would that be Ralphie Goodale you’re talking about?
Of course it was …. but now that I think of it HR Puffin’such is more like it …. Ruby can be Wichypoo and Churniak can play flute ( Jimmy ? ), Dion , naturally , being the flute .
How much does CBC cost the taxpayer?
Read this and prepare to be shocked and outraged:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation#Funding
We get junk like Little Mosque that promotes hijab wearing as “real Muslim” attire (with tragic results) and wildly biased reporting and programming for:
For the fiscal year 2006, the CBC received a total of $1.53 billion from all revenue sources, including government funding, subscription fees, advertising revenue, and other revenue (e.g. real estate). Expenditures for the year included $616 million for English TV, $402 million for French TV, $126 million for specialty channels, a total of $348 million for radio services in both languages, $88 million for management and technical costs, and $124 million for “amortisation of property and equipment”.
Neat eh!!
Heh…a few funny images from people here of a sinister legion at the CBC.
Truth is, most are bearded bald or balding guys, with a hint of wimpiness about them. The stink would be coming from the upper middle and top. Mind you they are all pathetically tarded to the left of course and they behave as though they strode in the elysian fields of academia instead of a broadcasting company. You don’t need to shut it down, just set it free by putting it up for sale in the market place. They will adjust or die very quickly.
Is it possible to petition for the privatization of the television network? I would back that.
Good one, Soccermom,
Rick Mercer couldn’t say it any better!!
Wow, Pat, that’s a $270 million shortfall in FY2006 – even with a billion dollars of taxpayer funding. They’re sinking faster than the New York Times.
If there ever is an inquiry into the liberal/cbc connection, I want it to go back to Trudeau’s win of the leadership of the liberals. That was the first time the cbc would be using computers and they were bragging how they would have the results first etc. Much later, on a cbc program, a female reporter, whose name I am not sure of so wont use it, talked about how they got the results so fast. First, they wanted PET to win, she admitted that. Computers were preprogrammed with various results. During convention, parties, hospitality suites etc cbc people (very young then) spread out to talk to delegates and told many of them that so and so was dropping out and
going to PET. Others were going to switch votes, and wouldn’t you want to be on the winning side.
It was rigged from start to finish, and yes, they were announcing the winner first. I watched that convention. The reporter telling this went on to bigger and better things with the cbc, but never made GG. The program was the Journal, before Barbara Fraum. It must still be in the archives somewhere. Most of the reporters then are still with the cbc and still love PET. What other events have they manipulated, scandals they have initiated by twisting coverage.
The cbc is terrified of a majority for PMSH, these things might see the light of day and many might have to go get a real job.
PMSH warned of where an inquiry could go and did the liberals really want him to have such power.
The liberals and cbc might end up wishing they had encouraged the govt to deport KS asap.
All those complaining about reporting the pymts and paying tax should go to the govt web page and read the info there on taxes, reporting income, etc. Make sure you read the page on voluntarily reporting past income, and being caught not reporting income. Big difference in penalties, interest etc. Brian was never asked if he still has copies of his tax assessments for those years, just if he had his returns. As for them still being on file, remember the numerous times boxes of tax returns have been discovered in warehouses, garbage etc. Remember the stories of discared computers with hard drives still in them. Easy to say Brians records no longer exist.
Finally, phone rev can and ask for copies of your assessments from 1980 to 2006. I recently called for a copy of the 1998 T1, and guess what, it wasn’t available. They would have to search for one and photcopy it for me. Still waiting for it.
No one seems upset that KS had bank accounts all over the world, but Brian having money in a SDB in the US needs to be explained. Thousands of cdns have money in the states for various reasons.
With bloggers and 24 hr news the cbc can’t manipulate like they did for years.
Hope this doesn’t come thru as a double post.
I do not understand all the shock. I have always thought of the CBC as the proproganda arm of the Liberal Party! Right?
Going back a ways but when I was phone canvassing for Stockwell Day in Toronto several times the people that I spoke to when I asked if the Reform Party could count on their support responded that they worked for the CBC and would have to vote Liberal. It seemed no different than a teacher saying they always vote NDP or Liberal. It was only later when talking to the other canvassers that we got a “Wait a minute” flash about our supposedly unbiased national newsbroadcaster.
Nothing has changed as even the trolls on SDA still insist the MSM is not Lieberal biased. If Harper can’t shut them down he should clean house and watch them hop around in their Birkenstocks in the snow.
The Harper government should reduce the CBC’s handout by 25-50% next budget and dare the opposition to defeat them on it. It would put the Liberals in a very difficult defense-of-CBC footing and would only further re-enforce the Liberal/CBC alliance in the voters’ minds, thereby deteriorating their collective credibility further.
It would also get at the root causes directly – the structure/philosophy that drives the CBC’s piorities and behaviours. Less money means less bandwidth to pursue their agenda. Public dollar reduction would incrementally force CBC management (what an oxymoron that is…) to have to find private dollars or scale itself back. There’d be alot less time, money and tolerance for politicizing.
Yeah, there’d be a hew/cry on CBC service cutbacks. But with the amount of choice in media today, the impact would likely not be widespread. In fact, the impact lessens daily as choice grows.
This type of move on the CBC is long overdue and frankly I don’t see much downside for the Harper government in executing this.
Already the cover up is in full swing…in blanket statements out of CBC exec. offices it appears they are spinning this as the personal actions of a single parliamentary reporter…toss a victim to the wolves to save Mothercorpse.
Crap this is getting all too predictable.
If they shut down the CBC where will we get our Governor generals, senators, crown corp commissioners and sundry PMO appointments from???
Don’t we need a pool of conceited, dogmatic mediocre journalists-cum-partisan ass-kissers to draw from to provide the mortar for Trudeaupia?
Pablum Rodriguez is hardly worthy of mention at the best of times but he sure got his ass in a sling this time. He certainly didn’t appear to be familiar with what the he was asking Mulroney aside from the fact the questions had nothing to do with this particular committee’s mandate. That in itself should raise suspicions as to the source of the questions.
We’ve been accepting for many years the fact the CBC is an organ of the Liberal Party, it’s nothing new. The problem is more pronounced since the Conservatives took power because the inbreds are getting more obviously desperate.
@Mary T:
That reporter was Barbara Amiel: she ‘outed’ herself a long time ago. The story’s in her early autobiography Confessions.
George in E.O.
Nice thought george, Problem is though that the CBC would play the cuts in programing card, So the favorites would be in jeopardy. EG: they would annouce that they could not longer afford to purchase Corrie St. (Which has a loyal following in Canada) or Hockey NIC they would pull the Liberal twist & turn outrage & would be throwing blame to Government Clawbacks, which in turn would not be favorable to the PM.
A thought though: Hit them in the pocket book where it hurts the most Revenues after Government Contribution, write to Advertisers that you will not purchase their products if they continue support of CBC, Call your cable provider ask for rebates or ask if the CBC can be pulled from your service, Remember you are paying for it Twice(Taxes & cable provider) so it should be either Free or Just if you wish it.
If this cannot be provided maybe you will consider a different provider, When cable providers get complaints re: a certain Network they start to listen, they do not like to lose out to their competition.
…When all media carry the same story-line it seems like the truth even when it is not.
—Ron in Kelowna
Exactly!
and that is why this story will be ignored.
The MSM know too well the power they have.
They “under-report” their own liberal bias so the average Joe thinks it is not happening.
Simple and evil.
I wonder what motivated LaPierre?
Was he “mistreated” while he was in the liberal party, and this is sweet revenge?
I’d be curious to know…
Send the communist cbc bastards back to the attics where they started out from, course all these years later we would have to include the closets for this horde of lieberal commies.
Instead of cutting funding, they should shift it to the overseas news services. Any shithole Canadian troops are stationed, CBC is there. When the English world (and the French world)is looking for news on Kosovo, Kandahar or Haiti, the wire services should be buying the Canadian coverage… because CBC will be so embedded in the area. Any snot nose journalist wannabe that wants Mansbridge’s job has to spend a couple years in Cyprus or wherever. This would impress on the Canadian public the importance of our overseas work, but the journalists produced would promote up to Parliament Press Gallery. They’d be world travelled and not incubated in Toronto, Quebec or Winnipeg. Maybe they’d come back a little more curious about the strange things that slide in Canada. After you watch some kids get trampled by starving people grabbing bags of rice, Greenies protesting in Bali would seem a little less impressive.
I think most Conservative supporters are too quick to want to destroy the CBC. It is obviously a powerful propaganda tool. It can be rebuilt to serve new masters. Need patience. How long can Harper stick around, realistically? CPC will not lose until he’s gone.
Not that I’m trying to discourage slamming CBC, maybe rethink destroying it?
Thanks Daniel, see what I mean about getting info today. I thought it was her but wasn’t sure of my memory. Think I will borrow her book from the library. I am positive there are other bits of info out there re cbc manipulation, all it takes is a little nudge and someplace to bring it to the public. Every little tip helps.
Since this story broke I think we will all be watching coverage of QP, news etc more carefully and report suspicious commentary.
Either CBC has a death wish or is going for broke, literally. The point was made that CBC feared Tory majority, so they are actively working against it, in familiar territory, with the Grits (so the allegations go).
If Harper does get a majority, he will be within his rights to take a good look at CBC. The CBC has proved themselves to be self-interested rather than informative many times before. When the Grits cuts their funding, they reported on themselves for days on end.
The CBC has been reduced to the network that “tells Canadians stories, by people you’ve never heard of, to nobody watching. If people were watching, advertisers would step forward. Why in this day and age would we subsidize this type of network, with seriously low viewership (except for their “hit” Little Mosque on the poliically correct Prairie – watched it a couple of times to give it a chance, but the story line is so insipid and devoid of any reality whatsoever, that I gave up, as I’m sure many others did).
“right now CBCpravda and the liberal party have burning questions on the lawns of Prince George even as we speak” Hot Cross Hedy Fry.
The truly sad part of the CBC’s anti-right bias is that when a lefty-liberal states there is no bias there….they honestly believe it to be true.
I watched the coverage of this witch-hunt equally between the CBC and CTV.I tried very hard to keep an open mind.
What I found was the CBC being overtly biased from their line-ups of pundits skewering Mulroney to the grainy slo-mo shots of the ex-PM(a proven negative ad technique)in the background.
On the other hand,I found the CTV to be quite fair,to the point where almost all their invited talking heads agreed the whole affair was little more than a sham to tar the current day conservatives.
The problem with the CBC’s agendized selection of soundbites and guests is that far too many people actually swallow it as a fair assessment of the days events.
When did they stop teaching integrity in journalism school?
Jean LaPierre is far too neutral these days to be a friend of the Liberals. He’s really doing a good job as a TV journalist, one of the better ones IMO.
It seems almost like he has an small ax to grind with the Liberals.
Mulroney can’t win respect or fair treatment in this country, just as Conrad Black can’t get even any sympathy or fair comment from most of the press.
Both of these men contributed substantially to the Country in different ways, however the one fault they have is their politics, they’re CONSERVATIVES. No matter what penance they serve, how much they bow down and be humbled and shamed for less than many pay for murder, they can’t win.
According to the perfect people who never cheat on the tax man or tell a lie, which apparently is most of the MSM and all Liberal, Dipper and Blochead politicians, they should be hung, drawn and quartered.
IT’S ALL DIRTY, FILTHY, ROTTEN, OUT OF CONTROL POLITICS.
How have we come to this? How can we treat a former Canadian PM or Canadian Icon like Black so disrespectfully for all the world to see?
An overview of the MSM ignoring the latest CBC scandal with a reminder of an earlier piece about the PPG.
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2007/12/trust-us-cbc-liberal-collaboration-not.html
George in E.O.
The Harper government should reduce the CBC’s handout by 25-50% next budget and dare the opposition to defeat them on it. It would put the Liberals in a very difficult defense-of-CBC footing and would only further re-enforce the Liberal/CBC alliance in the voters’ minds, thereby deteriorating their collective credibility further.
I’m afraid that what will happen has already been mentioned that that is that the good programs on CBC will vanish, the sound stage techs., the carpenters, the lighting people and on and on will be let go and the same chattering class will stay till the bitter end.
Reorganizing the the CBC makes sense and to do that would require a serious steam cleaning of the upper floors, and that would be a good thing.
Pat
Watch for the cunning of the CBC. It seemed to me at the last Federal election, with just two weeks to go, CBC seemed to do some mild appraisals of Harper’s boys and girls. Certainly this is arguable. I felt that the CBC somehow was hedging their bets. A minority Conservative government had been hinted at by those wretched polls. If, prior to the next election, the trends showed a Harper majority, watch for CBC to deliver moderate observations.
This would soften the Harper government up. I have said before that Harper should speak softly and carry a big stick. The CBC is a snake in the grass, yes, cunning and able to slither away.
Just give them a chance and they will strike and strike hard.
Harper must not be deceived. Many Canadians are sent out into the real world, because of cutbacks. Let the CBC elites taste what they are really worth in the market place