70 Replies to “And Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead”

  1. Related topic:
    The Saturday G&m (it was left at my hotel rooms doorstep this am – I had some time between playing with the kids and reading the news and blogs on my iPhone) has a big layout in it’s focus section on newspapers failing .
    Not one word that I could find on bias. Just lots of gloom about how those that are beating their brains in cannot possibly do as good a job.
    When the nyt hires michael yon to be a special war correspondent and pays him on a par with it’s more traditional journos then they have a chance, otherwise the quicker they die the better for everyone particulary their current readers.

  2. Canadians hate the CBC.
    They’re not indifferent. Canadians actually hate the CBC.
    How the hell can they possibly fail when the cost of their “productions” comes from another welfare plan for Canadian culture.
    The Canadian Television Fund is a slush fund for liberalism and media whores.
    $1.1 billion a year for radio and television which is of no interest to the largest majority of Canadians.
    There will be no sympathy from Canadians for the CBC’s inevitable demise, just a footnote in the history books.

  3. Does this mean Ralph Benmurgi will finally get the boot? (Answer … don’t bet on it. He must have some incriminating photos of Pastor Mansbridge because he appears to be bulletproof even though he is a thoroughly unlikeable host)

  4. Please get rid of Radio Canada. My husband is French and my kids bilingual and we have no cable so we sometimes watch this network.
    If you think CBC is bad, try Radio Canada. And the same actors are on all the prime time soap operas, kiddie shows and interview shows. They are all insufferable, full of themselves and never a kind word for anglos or the rest of Canada. The news programmes are, needless to say, completely Quebec centred for national news and again, never a good word for federal initiatives. Of course Ignatieff gets a free pass on the talk shows with his high-browness. They never show big Conservative rallys during the federal election campaign and rarely say where the rallys are being held (or just do close-ups of the stage and not the crowd).

  7. With all this talk about the demise of the Mother Corpse, there must be a G*d!!
    No wonder they’re headed for a spectacular fall: They’ve never fulfilled their mandate to provide reporting on issues of importance to ALL Canadians. The only issues they cover are the ones dear to their hardened lib-left hearts.
    As I used to tell them when calling to complain about yet ANOTHER biased item: “A balanced panel at the CBC is someone slightly left of centre, someone more left of centre, and someone totally out in left field.” Needless to say, the CBC toady at the other end of the phone was never very impressed.
    This is called hubris. The CBC is the author of its own demise. Cry me a river.

  8. This is called hubris. The CBC is the author of its own demise. Cry me a river.
    Posted by: batb at March 14, 2009 8:03 PM
    Well said, batb. You pretty summed up my own sentiments. While the financial crisis has decimated my investment portfolio, I can at least smile when I see the ceeb slowly dying on the vine.

  12. “But apparently the Confederate Air Force HE 111 crashed in July 2003.”
    They have PC’ed the name. It is now called the “Commemorative Air Force”
    Had trouble finding one of its museums in January, because the web site says Commemorative, but the Brownsville street map still says Confederate.

  13. Why fund the propaganda wing of the Liberal Party, with tax payer money?
    At one time it may have had a reason to exist when we didn’t have so many moral morons. Activists now with a social agenda at odds with what Canadians believe.
    Now its just a scarlet women peddling oft used charms of a dying City’s decaying culture.
    JMO

  14. Turn the CBC into the PBS (Public Broadcasting System) of the north. Let the lovers of CBC support their cause and not the taxpayer. And think about it. Without the 10 minutes of commercials every five minutes, they might actually get people to stay tuned in.

  16. Any one ever watch tHe “At Issue Panel” on Thursdays during the National. This is where Mansbridge discusses important political issues with 3 Journalists.
    The At Issue Panel consists of one from Montreal and 2 from Toronto.
    I guess Mansbridge knows that no one west of Toronto watches his program, thus why they don’t have anyone from the west.
    Maybe they would increase their audience if they had Rob Brekinridge or Dave Rutherford on as regulars. At least we would get some Western views on topics.
    The only good thing to watch on the National is Rex Murphy.
    RL

  17. Yes, RL, a good balanced panel voicing central Canadian views from both Toronto and Montreal. Now that is balance you can believe in. The only thing slightly conservative is the blue collar work clothes usually worn by the guy from Montreal.

  18. RL: “Get rid of Mansbridge… No one will howl.”
    That’s for sure.
    I’m-Peter-Mansbridge-and-You’re-Not is way past his sell-by date. You’d think he’d have the grace to get out of the way and give a younger person a chance at the BIG SEAT. But, as he seems to live in a hermetically sealed bubble, oblivious to anyone outside it, I guess he’s incapable of seeing how stale his brand of reporting has become.

  19. It’s not so much Peter Mansbridge, it’s the muslim, gay and global-warming content that really creeps me out. Even George the Greek who’s on after the news is such a wretched gay-muslim-lefty that I almost vomit when he starts gushing about David Suzuki and a “Million Acts of Green”. Don’t even think about getting me started on “The Little Mosque on the Prairie” or the endless suffering of the Palestinians!

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