79 Replies to “Kudos to Sun News TV!”

  4. SUN Tv owes Kate and SDA their soul.
    SDA has been the ONLY NATIONAL Canadian conservative voice for the past five years….. National Post notwithstanding.
    And if the IVory Tower Brain Trust at SUN TV does not get Kate McMillan as a contributor VERY SOON the subcscribers like myself will not fork over extra money to SHAW to watch the current pap on SUN TV.
    Is any one listening?

  5. The Tories owe Kate nothing. They won by distancing themselves from the kind of fascism Kate peddles.

  6. LOL @ Lloyd. So small govt, fiscal balance and prudence, lower taxes, freedom of speech, revised immigration, efficient energy… these are what pass for fascism these days?
    Give your head a shake, man.

  7. How can Kate peddle fascism? She’s a conservative and we all know that fascism is a phenomenon of the left. You gotta stop projecting, sunshine

  8. @Lloyd
    I agree with part of your assessment, though: the CPC won because they have become the party of the Center. To do so, they abandoned (or at least shelved) many conservative ideals, the two greatest being dramatically lower taxes and balanced budgets, which would precipitate smaller government.

  9. Fascism ( /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology.[1][2] Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics.[3] Fascists seek to purge forces and ideas deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration and produce their nation’s rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity where individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood.[4] Fascists believe that a nation requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[5] Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the state.[6]
    Fascists promote violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality.[7] Fascists exalt militarism as providing positive transformation in society, in providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people’s character, and creating national comradeship through military service.[8]
    Fascism is anti-anarchist, anti-communist, anti-conservative, anti-democratic, anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-parliamentary, anti-bourgeois, and anti-proletarian.[9] It entails a distinctive type of anti-capitalism and is typically, with a few exceptions, anti-clerical.[10][11] Fascism rejects the concepts of egalitarianism, materialism, and rationalism in favour of action, discipline, hierarchy, spirit, and will.[12] In economics, fascists oppose liberalism (as a bourgeois movement) and Marxism (as a proletarian movement) for being exclusive economic class-based movements.[13] Fascists present their ideology as that of an economically trans-class movement that promotes resolving economic class conflict to secure national solidarity.[14] They support a regulated, multi-class, integrated national economic system.[15]
    Fascism was founded by Italian national syndicalists during World War I who combined left-wing and right-wing political views, but it gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.[16][17] The majority of scholars generally consider fascism to be on the far right,[18][19][20][21] while others claim it is the extreme form of a centrist ideology.[22]
    …………………………………………..
    Sun News: Milk toast at best…They are going to have to do better than that. I guess it’s a work in progress to bring regular Canucks up to par with internet political blog junkies like us.

  10. I generally like Sun News, but their morning show is weak. In the morning I prefer Fox News.

  11. terry tory – I don’t know where you got your definition of fascism from but it’s totally wrong.
    The key words that you and even the author of that definition are ignoring – are all based around one description: collectivism.
    So, the terms of ‘mass mobilization, commitment to the national community, singular collective identity, anti-conservative, anti-individual’..mean one thing: collectivism.
    Therefore, the summary that it’s ‘far-right’ is totally false and it’s fallacious to add that adjective of ‘the majority of scholars’ since this is untrue.
    The key descriptive term of the ‘right’ is: the individual. That is, political ideologies of the right privilege and promote the individual as the basic ‘modus operandum’ of a society. Thus, they acknowledge the individual as capable of governing, self-governing, reasoning, critical thinking, and a producer of wealth.
    The role of government for the right is to enable and empower the individual to carry out these tasks. As such, a ‘right’ government rejects collectivism, rejects a ‘singular collective identity’, rejects any notion of the state as an ‘organic entity’…and thus, focuses on small government and empowering the individual.
    What is the similarity between fascism and socialism/communism? There are three major similarities:
    Both are focused on the collective, on moulding and mobilizing the population into one typology. This is done by a forceful government control of the people and a rejection of individualism.
    Got that – rejection of individualism.
    Second, both promote an authoritarian government to enforce and engineer this commonality.
    Third, they are utopian. That is they consider that it is possible to attain a perfect society by controlling various human factors.
    There are lots of other similarities but those are the three key ones.
    They are thus both ideologies of the left.
    The only difference is that fascism considers the Collective Will to be based within an essentialist organic notion of the Nation. It sees the Nation as a pure a priori organic force that is continuously over generations expressed by the people ‘as one type’.
    Socialism/communism considers utopia to exist inthe future, it’s a state that is arrived at once the Collective Behaviour is moulded into one typology: no economic classes. Of course, this excludes the Leaders!
    The ideology of the ‘right’ is based around an acknowledgement of the capacities of the individual, and considers that the government exists only to enable and empower these capacities.
    Furthermore, the ‘right’ rejects utopia. This is a very important rejection. By so doing, it acknowledges that human beings are material, are finite and are thus basically, not Pure Platonic Forms but are fallible and finite. This fallibility and finiteness, by the way, is the source of man’s innovative capacity.
    And the ‘right’, with this rejection of utopia instead moves its governing mode to dealing with reality. Not utopia. Reality. And so, it deals with the real practical issues of the economy, transportation, communication, defense, water and so on.
    Get the difference? You should have read that blurb and seen the internal contradictions in it.

  12. SUNTV is great and even more so since it drives the Left crazy and is forcing them and CBC into a Rubber Room.
    As posted on BigCityLiberal – = “…SunTV does not even attract enough viewers to fill a junior hockey rink. LOL

  13. I see Loyd is not feeling the love, and don’t shake that head around a baby loyd. Sun news has a good lineup excepting some of Akins leftie ideas they are generally far superior to CTV and little Fife the newsfairy trying to make a national Ferdinand issue out of Harper going to a hockey game. When da proof is da proof attended a ockey game, well you know dese tings don’t matter in a deemocracy, and CBC and CTV were just gaga with that and, with every napkin reciept the old choker dug up. Sun news is telling CBC and CTV grow up or shut down, Canadas’s moved on, evolved, grown up whatever, the Depape smears mean nothing to a business person, go after the 19 year old female university demographic CTV, Sun/Fox is for adults who run the coountry.

  15. I’m from north of Toronto and spent three days in Ottawa at the Conservative Party of Canada Convention. At lunch on Friday I sat at a table with three members from Saskatchewan and Manitoba; farmers and small businessmen. Our conversation turned to Sun TV and, who else, Kate McMillan. So here we had four staunch (and I mean staunch) Conservatives enthusing about Kate and SDA. What a reach her unifying message has. Others around us were taking notes about this great blog. Kate should see an uptick in visitors. Keep up the great work SDA. Your making a difference.

  16. Terry Tory & ET you sure go the long winded way to say that most ism’s are based on everyone is equal but some are a lot more equal.

  18. Great topics on Sun TV and some interesting and in-depth discussions. Find it a little slow in the mornings but do watch it a lot of the time. Love Ezra who seems to be growing into the media just fine. Sure they will constantly tweak it as time goes by.

  19. Tony RoBC, I disagree. This discussion comes up constantly with those on the left as they follow the line that Nazis and fascism are right wing forms of government.
    This comes from, as Thomas Sowell notes in his book “Intellectuals and Society” the left in the 20’s and 30’s praising Germany and Russia as the most pure socialist countries. Once Hitler and Mussolini attacked other countries the left like DuBois and Shaw called them right wing to distance them from their continuing hero, Stalin.

  20. Sun News Network is apparently doing far better than the critics would have one believe. Sadly there does not seem to be a free web site that regularly posts Canadian cable ratings so I can check the numbers myself.

  22. Crap, didnt want to comment at work, but ET’s post was just too good.
    The Terry Tory definition of fascism is one you typically read in a book. To me, it doesn’t define fascism so much as it relays historical facts about early 20th century fascist movements. Its history, not a definition.
    ET is spot on. But I am curious if you consider yourself a right winger or a pro-individual? (or both?) As much as we all want to believe it, I have doubts about how pro individual most right wing movements really are.
    Certainly they are ‘more’ pro-ind than dippers and dems, but are they *really* pro individual?

  24. dave has it right @ 9:48. Take a look at the film The Soviet Story. There are a few choice clips of George Bernard Shaw talking about exterminating people groups. The teachers did not tell us while in high school that Shaw thought this way. I guess coming from a “liberal” that was just overlooked.
    Eagle, I am glad that you took time off from work to comment. Yes, ET is spot on and your wind up question is great. Here in Saskatchewan, the Wall government is just carrying on the NDP process of constricting individual freedoms in many areas. The same thing in Alberta. The point being is that “Progressive” Conservatives are almost as bad as Liberals and NDPers.

  25. “they follow the line that Nazis and fascism are right wing forms of government.”
    That’s what they taught us starting back in elementary school in the early 80’s. I’m sure I’m not the only one!
    I remember specifically several occasions where myself and most others in the classroom didn’t understand this logic. When questioned further each time without fail our teachers looked very annoyed, repeated the leftist dogma again then without explanation moved on.
    For myself it was one of those early epiphanic moments where as a child you realize your charismatic and extremely popular teachers aren’t necessarily wise and intelligent.

  26. I almost forgot. Yes indeed, kudos to Sun News TV, even if Aiken does come across as a little progressive on occasion, Caldwell and Lilley more than make up for this. Some of the ladies are no slouches either in poking the eyes of the left.
    It would be nice to have a short segment with Kate on an appropriate topic once a day. No doubt this would ruffle the lefty feathers.

  27. Eagle- I’d consider myself pro-individual.
    The term ‘right’ (as well as conservative) had an early meaning of attempting to preserve the old traditional social and cultural norms. That’s where some people mistakenly think that fascism is ‘right’ because fascism believes that there was a utopian purity ‘back in the old days’ before all those immigrants and etc came in to dilute and pollute the old way.
    This is an out-of-date definition of the right.
    The modern use is that ‘the right’ and ‘conservative’ is focused around small government, fiscal responsibility and empowering the individual. Example: the Tea Party.
    The key attribute that, to me, differentiates between the left and right political views is the simple question: does it privilege the collective or the individual? That’s it. Simple.
    Every society, because it is a society, must have societal rule of common law, it must have commonalities – such as language, economic mode, laws…But beyond this ‘collective adherence’ is the question: does the society empower the individual or disempower the individual? Obama for example is disempowering the individual, disempowering Congress which represents the individual, disabling free market economics..
    Empowerment of the individual includes free speech which includes the right-to-offend (but not advocate violence), habeas corpus, term democracy within a constitution, private property rights, minimal bureaucracy and regulations within living and economic actions, a government that does not move into massive debts..which require the individual to pay them; a safety net for individuals in need but no welfare state lifestyle…
    The state stays out of ‘collective ideologies’ such as religion, and focuses on the practical.
    Fascism, socialism, communism are all similar; their focus is to empower the collective, repesented by the state authority and to disempower the free will of the individual. They all, interestingly, embed themselves within emotional hyperbole about ‘their destiny’ and so on.
    Obama is an example of current emotional hyperbole and manipulation of the people..the oceans will cease to rise and peace on earth..and pass this bill or there’ll be an economic apocalypse.

  29. And in this corner we have the challenger, representing the limp-wristed, poncy, leftist light-weight class, Lloyd “The weeny troll” FISTER….
    And in the right corner we have the reigning heavy weight mind champion E “Troll Slayer” T,
    DING,DING,DING
    Fister (in the pink trunks) comes out of his corner yelping towards ET, there’s the shot…ohhhhh…Fister is down, looks bad, ref is giving the count…3..2..1..Fister out by a vicious nutkick in the first!!!!
    Once again good viewers, ET retains the title, against a pathetic opponent.
    With the current crop of mentally underdeveloped leftist trolls, will we ever see a bout go beyond the first round, this commentator…says..no.

  30. and then you have to add in all the people who watch it on the Internet/Live.
    If your cable folks don’t have it, the internet solves the problem.

  31. Y’er right.
    It’s easy to defeat the brainwashed (fascism is right wing) with the facts.
    No need to name-call. Just present the facts, as history has shown.
    Collectivism has never worked and never will work, no matter how many times it is repackaged in different names, in an attempt to fool the foolish.

  32. Gord,
    I’m going to have to start calling you the new ‘Dr. No’ after your performance in Ottawa. Was a rather sad coming out party for McIver though. I’m still trying to figure out what he went to the mic for.

  33. “Other than the nerdy Theo Caldwell, the lineup is pretty good.”
    I think he’s pretty good actually, entertaining, and has a unique style and show. I know several people who normally would never be caught dead watching any sort of “news channel” tuning in religiously for his segments.

  34. ET,
    I just copied Wikipedia’s definition of fascism…I’m glad to see many reacted negatively to it.
    Wiki is monitored and controlled by lefties just like Google is…Can you tell? hehehe!
    I tend to disagree that the “Right”, especially represented by “Conservatives” are not fascistic.
    The war on drugs is the best example I can come up with at this time. It tends to be supported by “Conservatives” more than “Progressives” for “moral” reasons IMO.
    The Libertarian is the furthest from being fascist IMO and if God’s primary gift to man is his own freedom, then Libertarians are the closest to God…And it’s the purest form of “individualism”.
    At the most fundamental level, libertarians have respect for individual decisions. Libertarians are different from conservatives and liberals, because both of those groups attempt to use government to advance their ideas of how people should act or behave, while libertarians think that individuals should be able to live their own lives as they see fit.
    Liberals favor government action to promote equality, whereas conservatives favor government action to promote order. Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order.
    Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty, and property-rights that people have naturally, before governments are created. In the libertarian view, all human relationships should be voluntary; the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those that involve the initiation of force against those who have not themselves used force-actions like murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and fraud.

  35. …And another thing: Corruption is the number one issue destroying western civilization at this time…corruption cannot exist at the individual level…It is a product that mainly thrives out of collectivism.

  36. For some reason, my addiction to Sun TV, Fox News, SDA, etc., has waned since the election. The Coservative majority in the house and senate lifted a great weight off my shoulders. By the time the political pendulum swings back to the left, I hope to be living so far from all this strife, I won’t be affected.

  37. Posted by: ChrisinMB at June 13, 2011 11:11 AM
    To each according to their tastes.
    I get the impression Caldwell fancies himself as some kind of Yoda.
    Example? Watch the end of every segment where his arms move back toward himself … as if to draw you in.
    That’s OK, if you like that kind of stuff.

  38. Terry; Conservatives see the damage that drugs do to the individual and their families and would like to stop the carnage.Progressives or socialists have built an industry based on drug addiction and the thousands of well paying govt jobs and votes that those addicts provide and would dearly love to expand the addiction to more people to further their hold on society.Progressives care not a whit for the individual drugie.

  39. My husband and I are big SUN TV fans, and have watched from day one. We don’t tune in as religiously as we used to, but we make sure to watch Ezra as often as we can. We’re fans! He’s into freedom of expression, and exposing the myriad ways the Canadian state is trying to undermine this freedom. He calls out the Conservatives when they need it—which, unfortunately, is far too often. His whacky skits are, in our opinion, entertaining and hit the nail on the head. Also, the lefties HATE humour: being mocked is something they can’t abide: yeah! GO, Ezra!
    Theo’s rather over the top and self-referential, and we’re a little tired of him. BUT, he does raise important issues and interview interesting guests, so we still tune in. Along with Ezra, Brian Lilley’s our favourite: we like his laid back style and the topics he covers, which have been important for decades, but are the kind that have never seen the light of day at CBC, CTV, etc. It’s good to see the truth given the spotlight and to see the utter duplicity of the left exposed.
    Yes, Kate would be a definite PLUS. I believe she said she’s been approached by SUN, but isn’t interested. Can anyone confirm that? If it’s true, I hope she’ll reconsider.
    BRAVO, SUN TV! We’re delighted you’re on the scene. Keep up the really fine work.

  40. terry tory – yes, I was aware that your fascist definition was from Wikipedia. However, you did not critique it for its fallibility.
    As for your remarks:
    You said: “I tend to disagree that the “Right”, especially represented by “Conservatives” are not fascistic.
    The war on drugs is the best example I can come up with at this time. It tends to be supported by “Conservatives” more than “Progressives” for “moral” reasons IMO.”
    No. Again, the ‘right’ and ‘conservatives’ is not fascism! And to declare that a ‘war on drugs’ is an example of fascism doesn’t make sense. Please explain. And prove that it’s for ‘moral’ reasons.
    The state action against drugs in both the US (and Obama is a socialist) and in Canada as well as elsewhere in the world has nothing to do with morality but with the well-being, both security wise and economic, of the population.
    Do you think that a drug addict is a productive benefit to society? The massive economic and social problems of addiction, of medical needs, and of criminality carried out by stoned-out people is a serious societal burden.
    I don’t agree with your society of ‘libertarians should be able to live their lives as they see fit’. You are forgetting that we live, because our species has no inborn knowledge, in a community.
    Therefore, the individual isn’t always the best judge and agent according to his own desires. He may indeed want to keep goats in his backyard in the city; he may consider that laws forbidding dumping of old chemicals into his local stream are ‘intrusive on his freedom’; and so on. It’s a balancing act between the requirements of common living and individual desires.
    You said: “Liberals favor government action to promote equality, whereas conservatives favor government action to promote order. Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order.”
    This simplistic reductionism is absolutely false.
    Liberals, and I presume you mean ‘the left’ reject equality in favour of an elite set of government bureaucrats..and the dependent population who are indeed defined as ‘all alike’.
    That’s a two-class structure.
    The left/liberal rejects advancement by merit, rejects the reality of inequality of work, intellect and productivity. Instead, it focuses on ‘equality of outcome’..so that everyone regardless of merit or lack, hard work or no work, productiveness or none..is supposed to live the same. Of course this ends up with disaster as the productive segment cannot support the non-producing.
    And the ‘right/conservative’ is not about ‘keeping order’. (Gosh you are trapped in these wiki definitions). Don’t you realize that ‘order’ is primary in a leftist society where all individual freedoms must be restrained?
    You said: “Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others. Libertarians defend each person’s right to life, liberty, and property-rights that people have naturally, before governments are created.”
    Wow. This is naivete at its height. So, if I choose to empty chemicals into that stream, and so does brother michael, then, it’s OK? And if brother simon objects..then what? Who decides whose rights are ‘equal’?
    And there is absolutely, totally, no community of people from the dawn of time without a government. None. Doesn’t exist. And that includes bands of hunters and gatherers. They have their normative rules – and if you don’t keep to them, guess what? You are kicked out of the band.
    So, only ‘force’ is outlawed? What about my building a lumber plant in a quiet residential neighbourhood? What about my selling stolen cars from my garage? What about my diluting the milk in the processing plant with white paint?
    Your naive view of ‘libertarianism’, which sounds rather similar to the equally naive view of the Noble Savage is just that: naive romanticism. And your definitions of liberal vs conservative are totally invalid.

  41. spike1 – exactly right on drugs.
    terry tory – whew – again, your conclusions, given without evidence, are ‘far out’. Corruption cannot exist at the individual level? It is only found within collectivism’?
    So, Madoff wasn’t a corrupt individual preying on other individuals. And there’s no such thing in Mexico and elsewhere as a cop taking bribes? How about Gagliano? Corrupt actions are always carried out by individuals. Against other individuals. Therefore you can get corruption in a left or right leaning government. You can get corruption in the free market..anywhere. It begins with the individual.

  42. The influence of Darwin is often forgotten when we speak of Fascism/Communism. Pavlov, who conditioned dogs was a hero of Lenin, in fact, Lenin told Pavlov that he (Pavlov) had saved the Revolution’. A society that believes that people are only animals will tolerate animal treatment; a society that believes that all people are individuals, loved by God as individuals and all possessing the spirit of God (their souls); will not.
    ‘It’s important to understand the reason behind Lenin’s violence and that underlay further examples of Communist tragedies. Why did Lenin and other Communist leaders we’ll examine later-Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot-become crazed murderers?
    Ivan Pavlov, known for his conditioned reflex experiments performed on animals.
    The reason is the materialist philosophy they held, and its view of human beings. As we saw at the beginning, Communism is basically materialist philosophy applied to history, in total harmony with Darwin’s theory of evolution-which, in turn, is the adaptation of materialist philosophy to the natural world. Some basic elements of this perverse philosophy can be outlined as follows:
    1. A human being is composed only of matter, with no spirit or soul.
    2. A human is a highly evolved species of animal. Essentially, there is no difference between human beings and animals. The only difference between a human being and other animals is that his environment has tamed him.
    3. In nature and in human society, the only unchanging law is the one of conflict. Conflicting interests result in struggle. At the end of any struggle, it is natural-even necessary-that one side lose, suffer and die.
    4. Therefore, from the Communist point of view, for any development to take place-for example, for the “revolution” to succeed-it’s inevitable, even necessary, that many people will suffer, be subjected to torture, and die.
    5. To legitimize these convictions, Communism-and every other ideology that adopts a materialist philosophy-resorts to destroying a society’s faith in God. Actually, the aim of materialism is to alienate society from its belief in God and in religious and moral values, and bring into being a mass of human beings who consider themselves an assortment of soulless animals. In this way, these ideologues believe that they can control the masses, establish their own power, and prepare a legitimate foundation for any immorality or cruelty they wish to commit.’ Harun Yahya
    Read the whole article at:http://www.harunyahya.com/communism03.php

  43. Lookout @ 11:49…I was told by Kory Teneycke that Kate told him she was not interested in appearing on Sun News Network….he told me to pester her about it!!! LOL….Kate! consider yourself pestered!
    You would be FABULOUS!!

  44. and someone earlier said something about the nerdy Theo Caldwell…..nerdy he definitely is, but WOW he covers all of the topics very well from a small c viewpoint and has impressed me very much. He’s a boy wonder, that’s for sure! There’s a lot going on in that noggin of his!
    Ezra is a HOOT and I love love love him! My teenage son is now a huge fan of his as well. Akin bores me a bit…Adler is great except for the fluff pieces he does have once in a while….that’s when I know it’s time to switch to a bit of O’Reilly. Lilley is top-notch.

  45. The issue of the definition of fascism is easily explained. Marxists view fascism as being “right-wing”, but then EVERYTHING other than their own Marxist idealogy would be to their right. Fascism is without question a creature of the left.
    “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” –Adolf Hitler-Speech of May 1, 1927.
    That same quote could have come out of the mouth of Jack Layton on May 1, 2011.
    And then there is this…
    “Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany’s bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.”
    (Source: Time Magazine; January 2, 1939.)
    Leftists are always busy trying to kick dirt over their own misdeeds.

  46. BTW, I do not know anything about the author who wrote the article I quoted from above; I followed Ken (Kulak)’s link from another post, ‘Soviet Society’, and then followed another link at that site. Does anyone here know anything about Harun Yahya?
    I watch Sun TV on my computer as Northwestel will not consider putting Sun TV on our cable. I like what I see; IMO, Sun TV is a thousand times superior to the taxpayer funded Bolshevik CBC and the Troika Channel (CTV) so criticism is only valid when Sun TV is compared to SDA. The msm in Canada has never addressed the Climategate or the Adscam crooks; hence, I believe nothing that they broadcast. I watch/read the msm only to find out what they are up to.

  47. Jema 54, the people in the film “The Soviet Story” talk about the philosophy of social Darwinism and its effect in the development in the leftist world view. The Communists thought the Nazis were heretics because of the fixation on eliminating races rather than classes, although there was and is an underlying Antisemitism as was evidenced by Stalin’s attack on the doctors after WW II and today’s Antisemitism by the left.
    Maybe Kate would consider some guest appearances on Sun News TV.
    It is interesting to read the commentary above about the definition and views on the various isms.

  48. I watch Sun TV, via Rogers. And I watch FOX and CNN. I do not watch CTV or CBC. Never.
    I think that Sun has a way to go; I’m not sure what is missing. That bothers me; I feel there’s something missing and I don’t know what..so it’s almost silly of me.
    I like Caldwell..and Adler and Ezra. But I sometimes think they go on too long on a topic. And I wonder why the constant (at least in my view) criticism of Harper.
    Again – I can’t figure out what I feel is missing..

  49. I am a charter member of the NAZI’s ARE SOCIALISTS/LEFTIES faction.
    IMNSHO communism and fascism are merely different flavours of the same thing.
    ET has enlarged upon the aspect that Fascists are collectivists….supremacy of the state at the expense of the individual.
    There is however some merit to the notion that even conservatives exhibit fascist tendencies….an inescapable result of organizing into a political movement…the necessity of surrendering individuality to even the concept of individual rights.
    Where confusion reigns is the libertarian notion…all too often morphing into anarchy.
    This was somewhat imperfectly expressed by Oliver Wendal Holmes comment about yelling FIRE in a crowded theatre…..not yelling FIRE when a fire is present is not a successful/wise option either.
    Back in the day, I had the sad experience of seeing the KILLING FIELDS of Cambodia….as a tempory ally of Vietnamese Communists…..the support of the lesser of 2 evils.
    I often ponder/wonder whether the Vietnamese were more motivated by nationalism, ideological or humanitarian issues.
    I suppose that just makes me human………

  50. ET, I’ve felt that a nightly newscast is missing from their lineup. Weekends are useless as its mostly all repeats and not much new content. But they are new, there will be much improvement. More revenues will bring in more content. I’m sure the embryonic Fox was not as polished as it is today…As for constantly criticizing Harper, they are coming at it from a small c viewpoint….constructive criticism for Harper from that perspective is warranted in some cases….he gets criticized from a liberal left ideology on the other nets, and he gets it from the right on Sun. I look at it as constructive criticism.

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