26 Replies to “Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!”

  2. I was a long-time As It Happens, starting in its early days when it was live to air on Monday nights for 2 hours in each time zone.
    The show went downhill after Barbara Frum left and went over to The Journal. It limped along for a few years with a variety of hosts, though Alan Maitland stayed on. I recall, though, that it was fairly balanced during that time, even when it interviewed General Romeo Dallaire when he was penned in the U. N. compound in Rwanda.
    I quit listening about 20 years ago when Michael Enright was host. I haven’t heard a program ever since. From what it sounds, it’s not the AIH of the old days.

  5. The propaganda of convenience…’its not rigged’ to ‘its rigged’; accomplished twaddle peddlars.
    Say whatever you have to make the ‘other team’ look bad and always be politically correct.
    Just more cultural marxism, where truth is malleable to fit the ‘narrative du jour’.
    YER FIRED!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  6. I thought it was Trump who disgracefully would not accept the result if he lost?
    Well, no I didn’t really, I just heard this on some noice making device called “a media expert”.

  7. If privatization is too big a battle, the fall back should be to put Conrad Black and Mark Steyn in charge of all staffing and budget allocations. Shouldn’t take too long to bring back balance, then sell or give it away.

  9. I disagree. Getting government out of education is the most pressing issue for freedom. Take away the cash. Close the madrasas of marxism. Get out of student loans, out of accreditation of universities… There will be no free world until that happens. Until then, we live in a world populated by flesh and blood tributes to their indoctrinators.

  11. I would not do well playing chess with Donald Trump.He has outmanuvered the Democrats on the Rigged election theme. As well he totally distanced himself from past actions of the Republican Party. It is interesting times.

  12. Ditto here, including the timings and time periods you mention. They believe their own propaganda.
    “As It Happens”, as Hans says, ‘Twaddle peddlers’.
    We wish “Yer fired!” could be put in place.

  13. From Jian Ghomeshi to Jimmy Savile the Liberal government propaganda ministries of the CBC & BBC will always take care of their own.

  14. Capt.Bob;
    Sorry but keeping the CBC was NOT the only mistake Harper made.
    Progressives in Canada absolutely control education, the government unions and most management and most media. IMHO the CPC never exposed or seriously tried to undermine that control in the 10 years of their governments. At best they tried to co-op this process to no effect.
    If nothing else has been learned over the past 3 decades conservative should realize by now that progressives view their ‘struggle’ as generational. Most, even with the Trump victory, are smiling as they are winning their struggle. As a conservative my ongoing frustration is a political movement that cannot clearly identify its values and explain them. It is a movement that is constantly infiltrated by progressives as they try to either moderate the message or actually sabotage it.
    The big question about the Trump presidency is whether Trump will succumb to this same process. One only has to watch CNN for 10 minutes to see what the progressive game plan is.

  15. Before the election, I told a libtard co-worker that Trump was genius because when he came out with the “the election is rigged” gamit.
    Simple, really: the Democrats would have to use all the reserves of hypocrisy in the universe to then claim the same thing AFTER they called Trump an idiot for even thinking that it was rigged.
    Turns out we haven’t come close to “peak hypocrisy” yet.
    Other example: Hillary was going to “crush” Trump in the Electoral College, which was the only important vote, as the popular vote didn’t count because Trump was only saying populist things to get elected, and the Electoral College vote was a tried and true check against such things. Seriously, I read this all on the same website as I scrolled down past the “the transition is in trouble, to the “Electoral College needs to be reformed” to the “Hillary is gonna reach Reaganish numbers in the Electoral College”…

  16. “Electoral College needs to be reformed”
    Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.
    But that’s a constitutional issue for future presidential elections, not past ones.
    Oh, and good luck trying to reform the EC by 2020. We’re not just talking about simply amending (i.e., refining) the Constitution here, we’re talking about completely reconfiguring Article Two – or even deleting it entirely.

  17. What isn’t exactly clear is how much institutions like the CBC believe their own propaganda, or how much they are deliberately lying about it.
    Having been proven completely wrong over election predictions and analysis, they have doubled down on anti-Trump stories in the transition period. Not only CBC, they are merely the worst offenders but national news outlets both here and in the US.
    NP for example, has 4 or 5 negative articles daily to continue their uniform (almost) anti-Trump campaign from before the election.
    What is the purpose of running the Jill Stein story about raising money for a re-do of vote counts in significant states? I had to look up who she even is; the voting is over, there will be no do-over, time for liberals to accept that.
    No one has taken a bigger hit in the election, than liberal media, continuing their irrational fight only makes their credibility worse.

  18. Butt Martin, I read in the comments section at a post article were some lefty dimwit stated that 90% of news media was conservative controlled:-)))

  19. “”Electoral College needs to be reformed””
    “Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.”
    Oh, I agree with your points. My comment was only towards those who are ok with the system as long as it works for them. I know that it will take 38 states (I believe) just to reform the EC. And by the time the Dems control more than the 26 states they do now (as if)…they’ll want to keep it because they “won” using it. Count on it.
    I’ve been telling liberals for years: what goes around, comes around. All those powers they are ok with the government having when they are in charge will eventually be in the hands of their political opponents eventually.
    They don’t get it. They never do.

  20. I wonder how many precincts in places like Cincinnati voted 100% democrat again, a couple of weeks ago. They have voting machines and my experience in the polls in Canada tells me that that is impossible. People are not infallible – they screw up! The will mark the wrong box or in the case of the machines they will hit the wrong button or whatever. Count on it – there may have been issues but they will be on the ‘other’ side.

  21. “Electoral College needs to be reformed” NO
    If the President was picked by the popular Vote… That vote is already available. The “House of Representatives” is the USA popular VOTE…and Republicans dominate the Popular vote… But we don’t want them picking the President…(like what is done in Canada)
    A direct vote for President, using the same rules of the Congressional representation, is not only fair.. it is brilliant. The Electoral Collage will survive or the USA will fail

  22. CBC seems to have forgotten why As It Happens even started. Its purpose when it first aired back in the late 1960s was to get students interested in current affairs.
    I started listening about a year and a half after its first broadcast. That was when William Ronald and Harry Brown ran the show. (I was still in junior high school then and I was quite impressed with what I heard.) Eventually, it became a weeknight show and I listened faithfully, even while I was in university.
    It offered perspectives and details that few of the other CBC news shows did, particularly about events that didn’t get much coverage elsewhere.
    For example, it covered the civil war in Lebanon and the eventual intervention by Syria. It covered the Angolan civil war, especially after Fidel Castro sent Cuban troops there, conducting interviews with a number of the officials on both sides. It covered the war between Ethiopia and Somalia in the Ogaden region of the horn of Africa, something that was scarcely mentioned elsewhere. I think it even interviewed Robert Mugabe during the jockeying for power in what was known back then as Rhodesia.
    As I mentioned earlier, Barbara Frum eventually left and it continued with hosts such as Elizabeth Grey and Dennis Trudeau, but the dedication and frequent irreverence (such as how far a given location was from Reading) was lacking.
    I stopped when Michael Enright hosted the show. He came across as pompous and condescending, behaving like he knew it all and knew it better than everyone else. He had already demonstrated those tendencies when he was on the old Sunday Morning (another one of CBC Radio’s flagship news programs, starting in the mid-1970s), but I’d had enough of his attitude by the time he was on AIH. I simply stopped listening one day in the mid-’90s and haven’t heard one of its shows ever since.

  23. I listened to AIH yesterday evening as I was driving. Kevin O’Leary was devastating as he cut the obsequious female host down to earth.

  24. “Electoral College needs to be reformed”
    No it doesn’t, not unless you want to hand the decision making to California for the foreseeable future.
    Each state gets a say in who gets to be President, weighted according to their respective populations.
    California gets 55 electoral votes and those go to whoever gets the most votes, whether it be 51% or 99%. That already gives the democrats a huge advantage (over 20%).
    This whinging about popular vote totals is NOT to make the outcome “fair” it’s to tip the field in their favour. Don’t be fooled.

  25. short memories…..this is the liberals claim to fame….changing the rules after the fact..when they don’t like the outcome

  26. Canada is full of decent, law-abiding people who trust that their government will act in good faith and in their best interests.
    The Liberal party prey’s on these values.

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