61 Replies to “Free Ethical Oil!”

  2. Wow, she must be feeling the heat from somewhere. (Heh heh heh.)
    If she’s saying that was her question, then why didn’t she ask that as her bloody question?

  4. “Another Great CYA Moment in Journalism.”
    If she lived in Saudi Arabia she’d have to cover a lot more than just her posterior.

  7. 1) Please elaborate: How, Ms Milczarek, did your heroes Trudeau and Chretien/Martin support arab “dictators” for decades?
    2) I’m positive the discussion was concerning present-day treatment of gays, minorities, women, etc.
    Why doesn’t she come clean and admit she is wrong? And does not know anything about life in Saudi Arabia?

  8. That delighted smirk she had on her face when she said it spoke even more than her words.
    She can’t undo that look of glee with a few words.

  12. Two points:
    1. During the cold war we supported unsavory leaders and regimes muchas we did in ww2. We were at war sometimes the ethics of your allies have to be put on the back-burner. Is she saying we shouldn’t have been allies with stalin and the soviets?
    2. When someone is starving ethical considerations have a much lower priority in the quest for food. We need oil and gas inorder for our economy to function and feed and clothe our citizens. Buying some of our supply from despots is a necessary reality. Propping them up is a sometimes necessary to avoid the chaos and harm it would cause our own citizens. Note that we do nothing of substance to interfere with morocco – no oil – but do get involved in libya – lots and lots of oil.
    Having noted the above and the distasteful acts that such realities require, only reinforces the urgency that exists for us to develop all the oil and gas reserves from ethical jurisdictions as fast as humanly, economically, and safely as is reasonable with as low an evironmental impact as is reasonable.

  13. Reposted from BC Blue, my comment wrt to Ms. Milczarek remains the same notwithstanding her efforts at CYA. Do something simple like:
    “I am sorry, I was in error I shouldn’t have made a moral equivalence between Canada and Saudi Arabia.”
    Scott Reid should invite his new LIEberal masters from Saudi Arabia to a feast of ‘beer and popcorn’ at the local “Burkha-King” restaurant!!
    This guy is truly drinking the fetid eco-greeny bath water of the Saudi princes.
    Yep, this is how you keep your failed CO2 ideology going, when your failed Dionky can’t carry the load; Scott Reid mounts a Saudi camel!!
    This guy is laughable and so is the CTV ditz who questions whether Canada is more ethical than Saudi Arabia .
    Please, please Scott your CO2 exhalations are warming the cooling planet; save the planet and hold your breath for a long long time….
    Truly the guy is a stand up comic for Saudi oppression…what’s next, funding for Al-Qaeda?
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  15. If she meant “were” we any better rather than “are”we any better, then she should have said so. As she is a Ryerson grad who no doubt studied under the infamous Journalism “Doctor” John Miller, I have little doubt she meant “are”.

  18. are we any better when for decades we supported arab dictators?
    That kind of English just rolls off the tongue.

  20. Remember folks…this is the network that knuckled under to Saudi pressure and pulled the ad. Can’t get Sun news on my provider..sigh….I’m stuck with this stuff.

  21. Sent this email to CTV yesterday:
    “I am writing to express my absolute disgust at the question posed by Jacqueline Milczarek during a recent segment with Scott Reid and Tasha Keiriddin, in which Milczarek asked “Are we really more ethical than countries like Saudi Arabia?”
    Is it the official view of CTV that Canada is on par with a nation that outlaws women from driving, does not allow women to vote, does not allow women to run for public office, requires all women to have a male guardian, requires women to be fully covered in public, segregates women in restaurants and public areas, and condones violence and punishment to women who have been raped?
    I would like to hear from Ms Milczarek why she thinks Canada is not more ethical as Saudi Arabia, and a detailed explanation as to how their treatment of women and women’s rights is equal to that of Canada.
    I am awaiting your response.”
    Crickets.

  23. She should cover the next Arab “spring” moment in some Middle East city square (like Tahrir). Here she could experience the wonderful feeling of camaraderie expressed by freedom(Islam)-loving masses, unleashed as Mubarak was thrown under the bus by the West.

  24. Well it’s pretty clear then that she meant exactly what she said. Otherwise her tweet would have been something like “I was playing devil’s advocate” or some other such thing. You know say “well are we any better?” to which the pundit would say in response “well obviously, there’s no need to even establish that fact”.
    But no she says she was misquoted or it was out of context… except she wasn’t.

  25. Also, it’s kind of ironic here. Let’s take her premise at face value and say ok yeah Canada supported dictators. Ethical oil is saying let’s stop doing that.

  28. Do you ever notice how many times liberals/leftists/socialists/communists have to explain themselves by starting, said explanation, with the preamble, “what I really meant to say was……”?
    Of course, the true meaning is NEVER what was actually said.
    Hmmmm. I wonder why that is?

  29. You know there really should be a new term invented to describe these instances where female progressive journalists accidentally reveal their bizarre logic.
    It’s not fair to call it a ‘blond moment’ because so few of them are blonds. How about a ‘Joy Behar Moment’, ‘Whoopie Goldberg Moment’ or , for Canadian girls, we can specify a ‘Heather Mallick Moment’ or ‘Jane Taber Moment’.

  30. ok yeah Canada supported dictators. Ethical oil is saying let’s stop doing that
    james, a most astute observation — bleedingly obvious only after you said it!
    Black Mamba: Quibble: Journolizing is hard.

  34. Rule number one: in cases of perplexity, break out the embarrassing, pretzel-logic, highly-public pronouncements.
    Too funny.

  35. The Airhead is trying to recover from her bad throw. For one moment we got to see her as she truly is.
    I guess Quotas now extend to the mentaly challenged in broad casting.

  36. “Liar, liar, pants on fire!” (After all, she sounds like a six year old who hasn’t learned to say something at least a little bit plausible)

  37. The poster kiddie for supporting a mass murdering dictator has to be Pierre Turdoh hanging with Castro and requesting that scumbag be a pallbearer at his state funeral in Ottawa.

  40. What Arab dictators have we supported? She can’t make such a blanket statement without providing any substaniation. Oh we know what she meant, off to Saudi Arabia hon, go report the marvalous way women are treated in the world’s largest women’s prison.

  41. When people on TV take a line that undermines their own country, I wonder what kind of $$ they are raking in from the bad guys. That CTV gal may not sport a tent on her head yet but she appears to have sold a ‘pound of flesh’; one choice is literal, one is figurative.

  42. Just to jog memories, like mine was jogged.
    Obama literally bowed down to the Saudi dictator.
    h/t steynonline

  43. You know there really should be a new term invented to describe these instances where female progressive journalists accidentally reveal their bizarre logic.
    ~LC Bennett
    How about “Letting the Mask Slip” or “revealing her teeth”?(and she has a UK dentist)

  44. One needs an exit visa to leave Saudi Arabia. Many Palestinian and Pakistani laborers are thus trapped in servitude inside the Kingdom. These people literally trapped, homeless, and exploited. It is modern slavery.
    Yes, you dimwit “journalist”, yours is a good question – for fourth grade student assignment. Surely, exploitation of workers must rank high in your societal ethics metrics. Canada 1: Saudis 0.

  46. My take is that there are three possibilities:
    1: She is a bubble head spouting leftist talking points.
    2: She is a talking head spouting the lines her boss gives her to spout.
    3: She and her boss agree in spouting this nonsense.
    Not that I personally care as I have blocked all the CTV, CBC channels on my cable box. However it is too bad for the unsuspecting numpty that is going to take this kind of misinformation to the ballot box next time we have an election.

  47. “She” and her management at CTV, a part of Bell Globemedia including the Globe & Mail, are infested with “cultural marxists”. It is aptly described here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
    She is just a “tool” being used to grind you down and demoralize you. Want to fight it? Bombard her and CTV with questions on who wrote her lines? Don’t take no for an answer from them, hound them on it. Bell Globemedia are just advance guards of what is to come. Throw their other “agenda” the green one, back in their faces, too. It is a fraud.
    Demand the federal government cut their ties through CBC to Suzuki’s “Foundation”. CBC’s George Strombo sits on that “charity” board of directors with a direct pipeline into CBC to promote the green agenda. Where did David Miller go? The Board of Directors of Suzuki Foundation. Who resigned from the board? Swuzuki himself in order to not be tied to the Foundation while he stumps for the Green Agenda for McGuinty’s re-election.
    McGuinty is a cultural marxist and is hell bent on wrecking Ontario’s economy and social structure. Hudak the idiot, is oblivious to it all. So are most of the Ontario voters.

  48. Not bad , Oz, but I think your terms are lacking pizazz – that little something that accurately describes the mixture of disdain, I-can’t-believe-she-said-that snigger and feeling embarrassment for her. Obviously, from her Twitter, she too is feeling a little sheepish about her comment.
    Anyway, the little drama reminds me of Evan Sayet’s Unified Field Theory of Modern Liberalism:
    What surprised Evan – and changed him forever – was what he calls metaphorically 9/12: the days, weeks, months, and now years after 9/11 and the liberals’ response to the attacks. The idea that America deserved the attacks (or, in the words of Barack Obama’s mentor, the attacks were “the chickens coming home to roost”) and that the way to prevent further attacks was to be nicer to the terrorists, not only made remaining a Democrat impossible, it began Evan on what is now a seven-plus year quest to try and understand the mindset of the Modern Liberal and why, as he would quickly discover, the Modern Liberal invariably and inevitably sides with evil over good, wrong over right, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
    http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/author/esayet

  49. I watched that interview and Tasha looked like Milczarek had just dropped a three coil steamer on the set right in front of her.
    Now in retrospect, I guess she did.

  50. Of course the whole idea of ethical oil is dropping support for oil dictators. Her question is insanely self answering – d’ya think she’s really a blonde – double blonde?

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