Just long enough to regurgitate this astonishing display of urban bigotry;
…Sarah Palin … fit of pique … the white trash vote … sexual inadequates … she isn’t even female really … Alaska hillbilly … “white trash” … trailer trash … rural, loud, proudly unlettered … toned-down version of the porn actress … overtreated hair, puffy lips … “pramface” … roughneck fuckin’ redneck … prodding his daughter … ratboy … fizzing with rage and revenge … vicious and profoundly dishonest … good fast listing… nervous wreck with deeply strange hair … the hick vote … ordinary hillbilly … racism? … racism … “rectal fissure” … tense no-hoper ladies … white female marginals …
And we’re forced to pay for this crap.
*Any offense to swine is purely unintentional. Pigs are, in fact, both intelligent and useful – traits that cannot be convincingly attributed to Ms. Mallick.
Bill, I think I conceded in my original comment that your “it’s on my nickel” was a very justifiable response. However, I think more is going on.
You resent the CBC and I think, possibly quite rightly, it has more to do with the fact that you don’t see yourself reflected in its views (what about Don Cherry, a personality more synonymous with CBC than anyone else I can think of?) than its lack of balance. I may be way off, but you’re argument sounds a little like the betrayed speaking to the wandering lover (It’s not that you had sex with that other person, it’s that you lied to me). I believe usually the issue is precisely the one person had sex with another and not the deception.
Again I think what’s being missed is that many here are not reacting as reasonably as you but with faux righteous indignation. Secondly, Ms. Mallick contributes a “Viewpoint” piece. It is meant to be opinionated, one sided, and incendiary and not necessarily balanced. Lastly, I think she should be commended for breaking out of the politically correct, unassuming, nice tone typical of the CBC. I think she dared offend everyone equally. There are as many Liberals riled at this moment as there are Conservatives. Notice how few people have come to her defense. If she had made the same point in a different tone, Liberals would have been all over the CBC defending her.
Well said ET!. I would like to add that in the 3 years that I have been reading SDA’s blog. I have yet to see anything put out on Kate blog-site even with guest bloggers like Heather Mallick comment.
I see that Star Choice dropped the CBC Regina station from its satellite TV line up. Great! Just another dozen or so to go, and the public interest of Canada will be well served.
I’ve mentioned before here to not feed the trolls and I generaly try to abide by that but I’ve seen enough of Bill Stewart’s words of wisdom. Most of the commenters here are angry that the taxpayers of Canada are helping to finance the arrogant verbage that the CBC broadcasts in this country as ‘news’. Heather Mallick did not write and broadcast her rant on a private blog site, her editors did not edit it for content and as such we should not be paying it. The CBC as a national newscaster should hold itself above partisan politics, unfortunately this is not the case. The CBC spews nothing but left-leaning propaganda, truly worthy of a Goebbels award, and like almost thirty percent of Canadians, as your initials indicate, you have swallowed this B*ll Sh*t for most of your life. By all means keep reading independent blogs as you may eventually see where the CBC has been leading you on behalf of the Liberal party of Canada, but in the meantime restrict your inane comments to liberal blog sites where they truly belong. (PS, Don’t bother responding as I don’t play that game, I made this exception to try and help you.)
What the… pramface?
From the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pramface
“A word used to describe young women who err, push prams. Often labelled as chavs for having children so young; as it has suddenly become acceptable for the middle classes to openly mock the working classes.”
There you have it in a nutshell: “…it has suddenly become acceptable for the middle classes to openly mock the working classes.”
The new tolerance, openness, and diversity, I guess, for which Heather Mallick is the poster girl. But I’d change that line a wee bit: “…it has suddenly become acceptable for THOSE WITH NO CLASS to openly mock the working classes.”
I read Ms. Mallick’s article and my first reaction was that she was concealing her envy in a “bitchy” diatribe. I get that feeling a lot from a type of fem-inist who has entirely lost her sense of connectedness with women as well as any sense of humor. This fem-speak has become a pose wrapped in a predictable formula which accords no dignity, understanding, or identification with the people they pretend to respect and represent. It’s very patronizing this assumption that women need to be instructed and led into a “higher plane” of awareness–one which is mean-spirited and rather vicious. And as far as men, well if they have anything resembling testosterone, they had better reform themselves very quickly into a kind of acceptable fawning subservience. Heaven forbid that he might actually make a living with his hands and brawny back and might prefer a beer at the end of the day instead of a glass of chilled white wine. Mallick sounds like such a lightweight when she wanders into political commentary, that I’d rather let her speak for herself. The fact that CBC publishes it on my dollars doesn’t bother me in the least. It would be a lot more insidious if someone truly intelligent were espousing such thoughts. Her columns are there for shock and entertainment value. She’s provocative and that can be an opportunity for everyone to think about issues.
As far as Governor Palin, she will forge ahead with or without Ms Mallick’s approval. I agree that there are many folks at CBC (and indeed in Ottawa/Ontario) who adopt a superior and mocking attitude to the folks who make the economy roll, who grow their food and plumb their homes. Again, it shows a great vacancy in spirit and an astonishing conceit. As far as Ms Mallick’s vitriol goes, it’s because Governor Palin is powerful, attractive, men like her and many women (those who work, raise a family and deal with the challenges of doing both) find her easy to identify with. That’s 4 strikes right there.
As far as balance…yes, I think CBC should obtain a response from someone like Kate. I also notice that most of the responses they published to Ms Mallick’s article were sycophantic in their agreement. The few token disagreements I’m sure were not in their true proportion.
I’ll have 2 requests for the new govt.
Lower taxes and do something about the CBC.
As for Mallick, she deserves nothing but pity.
Do you know how messed up you have to be to write that kind of garbage?
The CBC is a national disgrace.
bill stewart – you are defending the indefensible.
There’s no need for a ‘viewpoint’ to be ignorant, biased and nothing but a litany of ad hominam insults? There weren’t any opinions in it; insults aren’t opinions. That’s not a viewpoint!
No, people here aren’t reacting in ‘faux righteous indignation’. The indignation is real, because Ms Mallick is being paid by us. And she is not presenting a viewpoint, or an opinion. Merely a litany of personal insults. We shouldn’t be expected to pay for someone doing that.
Nor is she ‘offending everyone equally’. Her name-calling is against one political party and one woman.
The CBC is hardly politically correct; it is biased. It takes specific political stances; it is openly anti-American, anti-science, anti-Conservative, pro-Liberal.
Again, a slew of personal insults is not an opinion piece. It’s not a ‘viewpoint’. It’s purely nothing but empty insults.
I’ll have 2 requests for the new govt.
Lower taxes and do something about the CBC.
As for Mallick, she deserves nothing but pity.
Do you know how messed up you have to be to write that kind of garbage?
The CBC is a national disgrace.
Well, no surprise there. Mallick has a history of idiotic commentary and she does not disappoint this time….
Antenor thanks for the advice and the pronouncements on the CBC. You clearly missed that I too an not a fan of the CBC, what with your haste and chauvinism that’s expected. You also must have been absent in grade 8 civics class when students were taught that just because an ideology is situated to the left of Conservatism (where else could an ideology be situated) doesn’t make it part of “The Left”. I have as much in common, possibly less, with Liberals than I do with you. Similarly Obama is as Socialist as you are. I sense, not at all! Now I don’t have exclusive right to defining what is considered the Left, but I certainly have a right to try to shape that definition and not allow it to be hijacked by people with no vested interest in the term. As all of you do with shaping “The Right”.
You must think that Lefties are easily intimidated. Wrong. I will post here, there, and everywhere I choose. If Kate chooses to censor my comments then fine. Hypocritical but it is her choice. Until then you will not be the arbiter of whether or not I post here or anywhere else. I’m just glad not everyone around here is like you.
btw rita, I scanned the first 25 or so responses on the website and 2 of them supported Ms. Mallick, and of those two, not sure they were “sycophantic”. I’m not sure that qualifies as “most of the responses they published to Ms Mallick’s article were sycophantic in their agreement”.
As vile as Heather’s writing is, what bothers me more is the certainty that the CBC would never even consider publishing a column expressing similar sentiments towards a Democrat or Liberal candidate.
Freedom of speech means putting up with garbage like this. I wish the tools at the CBC understood what freedom of speech means.
Mallick’s article about Palin reminds me of one Michelle Landsberg wrote about Ronald Regan in th 80’s. The leftards are very, very scared.
Head exploding in isle 1.
Bringing the little chillin into it was all elitely nuanced and progressive.
Nice touch; here’s hoping Fox News gives this gubmint employee the coverage she so richly deserves.
“She isn’t female”, “Rectal Fissure” aaaaand “sexual inadequate”.
Did your Master Of Farts pogrom at The University of Toronto teach you this prophetic tome?
“I’m rubber you’re glue, It bounces off me and sticks to your big-ugly-catchers-mit-face.”
This article is the journalistic equivalent of a turd. I hope Ms Mallick feels better now. Could I be so bold as to suggest more roughage in the diet?
Bill Stewart wrote, “Lastly, I think she [Mallick] should be commended for breaking out of the politically correct, unassuming, nice tone typical of the CBC.”
I beg your pardon?
Mister Stewart obviously wears rose coloured—as in pink—glasses when listening to the left-wing propaganda and vitriol that’s a regular feature of the CBC, where “balance” is nowhere in their lexicon—just in their nightmares (and our dreams).
Bill, you come across as very naïve (or very biased) and not very good at processing CBC junk. Heather Mallick doesn’t have an original bone in her feminazi body: she’s a bitter, unattractive, on all fronts, has-been and a total feminist sheep. Her views in this article are, chapter and verse, those of the left-wing juggernaut whose agenda is to obliterate any original thought or action. She’s a radical feminist clone: the media are packed with doctrinaire women like her. Original? I think not.
Now, Sarah Palin . . .
Out-of-the-box [for the media] thinking: she’s the real McCoy and speaks for the millions of us—ordinary, independent thinking, accomplished women, many of us wives and mothers (some home and some not), who are sick to death of the social engineering and dirty tricks of the left-wing elites, who have been in power for the past three decades and have nearly wrecked our social contract and society, to boot. Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air. She’s a woman who knows who she is and, without the usual feminist rancour and BS, just gets on with it.
Brava, Sarah. Tough luck, Heather and Bill.
Get used to it!
Girlie Manny
I’m not sure how Malick’s diatribe brings onyour usual spew about farmers but if you don’t like what farmers have to offer… Eat shit.
Apparently she has had a lot of unsatisfactory sex with conservative men and now hates them for it. I suggest she should go after sober conservative men for a better ride. Although what sober man would screw this piece of shit.
“It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.”
Somebody call the HRC.
Manny.Please tell us just what you have against the people(farmers)who put the food on our tables? Did you step in a cowpattie as a kid or something? You almost make Mallick sound literate.
BS- Mallick is not rebelling against PC, she is wallowing in it. It has always been politically correct to bash whites, Christians and conservatives. Socialists have never given quarter to woman or minorities who deviated from the Left’s narrow path of righteousness. To be Politically Incorrect she would have had to give praise to the historic nature of having a woman nominated as VP, even if she disagrees with Palin’s politics.
CBC 1-866-306-4636
A gentleman who had not read the article stated he thought the article was strong but did not see hate speech.
Manny, you’re welcome to your ignorant opinion of farmers, you’ve insulted a lot of hard working people. Best advice to you comes from “Grandad”@ 12:36PM.
Heather Mallick = “Blueneck” ?!?
This is to be expected from the CBC. Yes we can ignore it and not read or watch it, but we still are forced to pay for it. As Mrs. Palin so eloquently stated to the media in her acceptance speech, “I’m not here to seek your good opinion…” She is above the lowbrow name calling and mud slinging, it is very sad to see her family dragged through the mud by the very people who claim to be our betters.
“It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman.”
I don’t know about how they vote but women will defiantly pick movies based on what hot dude is in the show; therefore, women can not be trusted to make the right choice at the movie house:)
Bill Stewart…I rechecked the Mallick article and yes there are quite a few more comments when I checked the first time. So you are right.
On second reflection, I was disappointed because Ms Mallick has written better and more thoughtful articles in the past–edgy and to pointed effect–even though I seldom agree with her. But in this article, I thought she let everyone down, and mostly herself, by indulging in this sort of cheap claptrap. Perhaps she served CBC’s purpose–raise the temperature and raise the readership. I can’t think of any other reason for such a shallow and mean-spirited article.
I beg you Canadians to haul Mallick’s butt before the HRC, as she has insulted all Anglos by her use of the racialist term “white trash”.
This combination of the pejorative “trash” with the skin tone “white” is prima facia racism, and insults all parties of that skin tone. I am sorely distressed, but I live in the USA.
It’s worth the close examination by the HRC.
I am not joking here — the best defense is a good offense.
I referred the hate piece to Jonathan Kay and he wrote a brilliant response to it this afternoon.
In further correspondence with him, he assured me that he will widely publicize the documents of anyone who decides to file a Human Rights Hate Speech complaint against Heather Mallick and the CBC. Send all pertinent info to him here: jkay@nationalpost.com
On a side note, a growing list of women are compiling “I AM Sarah Palin” videos such as these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h-4eYveEVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4xlsYGmCI
I would be more than happy to help anyone who wants to film a short clip of themselves saying this and allow me to compile a bunch of such videos together into one long video segment.
I just sent this off to the CBC ombudsman’s office and recommend as many as possible do the same.
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I am appalled at reading the latest garbage being put out at tax payer expense by your columnist Heather Mallick.
This is not what tax payer dollars are mean to subsidize – sexism and verbal abuse in the extreme.
These are some of the terms used in what is supposedly an analysis of John Mc’cain’s Vice Presidential Pick.
“Sarah Palin … fit of pique … the white trash vote … sexual inadequates … she isn’t even female really … Alaska hillbilly … “white trash” … trailer trash … rural, loud, proudly unlettered … toned-down version of the porn actress … overtreated hair, puffy lips … “pramface” … roughneck f*ckin’ redneck … prodding his daughter … ratboy … fizzing with rage and revenge … vicious and profoundly dishonest … good fast listing… nervous wreck with deeply strange hair … the hick vote … ordinary hillbilly … racism? … racism … “rectal fissure” … tense no-hoper ladies … white female marginals”
Is this what is supposed to qualify as analytical opinion at the CBC these days ?
I will be forwarding a copy of this complaint to the Prime Ministers office, my riding MP, my riding MPP, and the press ombudsman’s office.
I will do my utmost to rally like minded people to contact the authorities to have the plug pulled on the CBC which abuses tax dollars to produce garbage like this.
Please let me know what action you intend to take in this regard.
Heather Mallick’s diatribe boils down to this. Palin will be the first woman in the White House as VP and ultimately president. In Mallick’s twisted mind, Palin represents the wrong party and she (Mallick and her ilk) just can’t stand it. It’s all based on fear. Many pundits and many people right here at SDA prdicted this would happen. The snot nosed, elitist left wingnuts are in the midst of a bi-polar meltdown and cannot control themselves. The viscious war on Palin will go on, even after the U-S election is over.
Heather Mallick usually puts some political spin into her stuff, but I remember a column in the Blubb and Wail which was just about shopping. She mentioned finding a wonderful something or other in the gift shop fo the Muse’e de Cluny, which gift shop she said was the best in ther world; without further explanation. I thought, “how utterly graceless and snobbish”. The Mus’e de Cluny in Paris is not among that city’s best-know tourist sites, and it would have taken little on her part to explain that it is the former late-mediaeval residence of the CLuniac abbots in Paris, is an important mediaeval museum, holds the “Lady with the Unicorn” tapestries and is built on the ruins of a Roman bath. Usually the Mallick puts enough politics in her discharges that dislike can be attributed to political differences; but that particular column showed her pure vileness.
BTW that particular gift shop is nice but there are equally nice museum gift shops elsewhere, including in Canada.
“Any white trash out there want to volunteer to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commision about this bit of hate speech? :)”
White men can not complain about hate to anyone because they are not “historically disadvantaged”.
It should also be noted that Canada’s exclusively liberal media is totally consumed and fixated on the American election.
Harper calls an election and the only election reports are vile and slanderous attacks on Sarah Palin – who is exclusively responsible for McCain’s jump in the polls.
The Heather Mallicks, Connie Woodcocks, Michael Corens, Rosie Dimannos et al are doing their evil best to discredit Sarah Palin and her conservative values.
Let these low-life Canadian liberal hacks know what you think. Make them miserable. Contact their editors. But most importantly, give Harper a majority government.
After reading this screed I can only make one comment: The woman needs to be restrained and medicated for everyone’s own good! Heather is clearly deranged.
The smell of “flop sweat” has been emanating from the DNC ever since Mrs. Palin’s nomination and the lefttards are responding with, even for them, uncommon hysteria.
Hey people – take a deep breath. Your insanity is all too evident!
Go figure. Liberals howl when we point out Obamanation’s America-hating wife…but have the gall to spew this unadulterated hate our way?
Hip-O-Crites.
Does anyone know what Zoo they keep Heather locked up in ?
I’d like to toss her a chunk of raw red meat.
Talking about pitbulls with lipstick, that article makes Ms Malice look like a pitbull with no brains.
I beg you Canadians to haul Mallick’s butt before the HRC, as she has insulted all Anglos by her use of the racialist term “white trash”.
Sorry but no.
1) That would give HRCs a legitimacy that many of us believe they are not entitled to.
2) They would never agree to hear such a case anyway. As someone else has already pointed out, Whites are purported to be “historically advantaged” and are therefore not entitled to make claims of racism or hate.
I don’t understand why you are all so upset? Don’t you see the comedic value of it?
It is an awful lot like what appears on this site at times, so could be seen as the anti chri** of redneck female bloggers / journalists.
The first half was good for a laugh then. I’d had enough at that point. Maybe its a good example of why people who live in one country shouldn’t say a great deal about politics in another.
hugger – it has nothing to do with people from one country talking about the politics of another country.
Furthermore, it wasn’t satire, it wasn’t comedic, Heather Mallick meant every word of it as ‘fact’.
And it certainly isn’t representative of what is posted on this site.
Remember, bloggers are not paid by the CBC, or taxpayer. That was a posting by an official representative of the public broadcasting system of Canada. She ought to be fired.
Ann Coulter loves to shovel the vitriol yes, but she is at the end of the day creative and funny. Mrs. Mallick is slinging American slang terms in a common fashion. Not too witty.
Whew “anal fissure” I really have no experience in that uh.. area Heather.. I guess we will leave uuh…. looking into that to you-all Heather,expert reporting and all that, perhaps uuh… expanding on that “star wars” theme you know “going where no(wo)man has gone before” My tax dollars at work. I’m guessing your are voting Liberal, good luck with that. A fine article like that should get you-all a complimentary seat on Air-Inuit you know “Pollute-t-Air” one.
cheers Bubba
If Mallick gets fired by the CBC, though that’s unlikely, she could always become a “community leader.”
Then she’ll have to make a tough decision. “Sit down at the desk or use the cell phone.”
Typical, vitriolic, left-wing ad hominems to substitute for the integrity and substance the elitist hypocrites don’t possess. Boy, are they running scared.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving crew!
Like everyone else who has a sense of fair play, I am absolutely fed up with the personal attacks against Sarah Palin and her family! This vile bile from Heather Mallick was the final straw.
Several people have suggested that I launch a complaint with the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission. Clearly she has violated the hate speech rules of that organization. BUT I do not believe that a government body should be allowed to silence citizens, so I will not go down that route.
Instead, I’ve launched a grassroots initiative to create an “I Am Sarah Palin!” video, comprised of a series of short video segments sent in from women & men and girls & boys from around the U.S. and around the world.
You can participate too: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-am-sarah-palin-video-initiative.html
Free Speech is a beautiful thing!
I have wrote to the ombudsman at the CBC. I suggest you all do the same. Mallick does not have to like Palin but the hatred she spews is disconcerting and it is high time the CBC be told.
ombudsman@cbc.ca
From the looks of it, the left has been able to compensate for the loss of GHW Bush.
Failed ideologies always need a scapegoat, and symbolism.
Jenn @ 6:26, I also sent a note to the CBC ombudsman. It probably won’t help much, if at all. They have their agenda and it in no way relates to me or anything I hold dear. However, since I am still forced to pay for it, I will state my opinion and state it strongly, without calling anyone horrible names. Hmm imagine that.
Posted by: ET at September 9, 2008 4:32 PM
Well ET, you say tomatoes and I say tomawtoes.
What I find most amusing about it is that someone with her list of credentials would think it worth publishing. You might not share my view but that’s ok.
I expect Ms. Palin could care less what a CBC journalist?? wrote about her. Overall, Americans have much bigger fish to fry at the moment. Have you been following the Fannie / Freddie bailout? Sends shudders down my spine.
With further thought on the hate article, have to wonder if she’s in her right mind or on something mind altering. That over-the-top sort of thing about someone one would doubt she knows the personal life and history of is not normal.