This is why we despise you.
Richard Ball writes from Charlottetown;
Like all meetings of its kind, last night’s Conservative Party meeting on the Charlottetown waterfront began with the singing of the national anthem. The national anthem is not a Liberal anthem or a Conservative anthem, it is the anthem of Canada, for all Canadians.
Everyone in the room rose and sang, with one apparent exception: the Canadian media.
I didn’t notice this directly as I was busy singing, but we were seated right beside the media area, and the person next to me did notice and told me about it afterwards, saying she felt like asking them if they didn’t know the words.
I had noticed something. When the national anthem was announced, one of the young women in the media group broke into the first line of the American national anthem. At the time I dismissed this as a juvenile attempt at being clever, but, given the media’s left-wing bias and working assumption that Stephen Harper is a puppet of E. A. (Evil American) George Bush, I suspect she was making an in-joke for her media brothers and sisters that she knew would be well received.
In defense of the media, I suppose they consider themselves “not there” as participants in the event; they are there as outsiders, as objective observers. But if that is so, the fact that one of them broke the media oath of silence and sang the American anthem when the Canadian national anthem was announced is a stain on their claims to journalistic integrity.
Or, maybe they just can’t sing.
If anyone can identify this “reporter” or the organization she works for, I’d very much like to provide her the recognition she deserves.
Typical of the media. Many of the MSM imagine they are the intelligentsia of society, and are “above” us peasants, who need to be led, not informed.
I was at a Reform party town hall meeting a few years back, in a small town with three newspapers. At the media table sat a young reporter from the biggest (circulation) paper.
Just before the meeting began, a well known left wing reporter from one of the other papers came in a spoke quite vehemently to the young reporter, and after a few minutes, they left, leaving the media table empty.
Next day, there were columns on the meeting in both those papers, negatively slanted, yet neither paper had a reporter there to hear and see what went on. They simply made it up.
Truly contemptible. I’m sure that if a bunch of liebs rose to sing the anthem, the press would join in wih a full-throated roar.
“This is why we despise you”
Damn straight
I’m beginning to think the mass media are a bunch of Aliens hired by the Lieberals. How could they possibly be Canadians and not stand, if not sing, the Anthem of their Country?
It was probably Lisa LaFlemme… or Gloria Galloway!
Patriotism is never an easy thing for liberal minded media type to warm up to . Because they are to busy bashing all the institutions that instill those sediments.
Timothy Coderre
And the liberal left-wing news media must wonder why the public dont trust them anymore they have earned the notorious left-wing reputations THOSE DIRTY LYING VULTURES HAVE DONE IT TO THEMSELVES AND THEY DESERVE IT
who is richard ball?
Our national anthem represents our pride for our nation and the brave Canadians who died for it.
If you’re a libtard transnational progressive, you, Canada and your pride, are a joke.
They piss themselves on Turtle Bay over this hilarity.
Seriously, you’re scaring the normals.
When I went to the Liberal leadership debate in Kitchener we sang the national anthem. I assume it is par for the course at a political gathering.
MSM are vermin scum. This is outrage 1,000,001. Outrage 1,000,002 has most likely occured about 30 seconds later.
I look forward to the day when these degenerate, propagandist liars are all unemployed.
Jeffie, it doesn’t matter who Richard Ball is, an attendee of the conference. Apparently a witness. Its not about Richard Ball, you twerp.
Its long past time to identify individual members of the media for outrageous acts of bias. Lets not let them hide within the label, ‘media’. Every media question should include who asked it and the organization they work for. If they are ‘on the job’ their behaviour is perfectly admissable as evidence to their biases, just as interview subjects are on the record.
Jeffie, it doesn’t matter who Richard Ball is, an attendee of the conference. Apparently a witness. Its not about Richard Ball, you twerp.
poor misguided skippie, there’s no link to post, simply the 2nd hand version of a non-event that may or may not have happened.
do you swallow everything kate spoon-feeds you?
This seems to be a problem with the MSM independent of the country of origin. Some years ago, Bernie Shaw, then an anchor on CNN, was asked whether if he came across information which would save the lives of American soldiers, he would report it. He was somewhat scandalized at the suggestion that he would violate his journalist’s ethics to be above such petty matters. It is sometimes referred to as the “Shaw Doctrine.”
I’ve said it for some time, the media are more content to “create” the news, rather than “report” the news! They pout like hell when someone {Stephen Harper} tells them that and spew their verbal diarrhea on us. There’s no such thing as “professionalism” in “journalism” any more but rather biased “reporting” and personal opinions if you don’t kiss the “reporters” back side! Just watch those dunces on Canada AM if you don’t know what I mean.
To not stand for our national anthem and to break into the American national anthem instead demonstrates exactaly how childish/inmature these dolts that call themselves “reporters” are!
Jeff: There is no link because this is the post.
In similar disgusting vein..just now on ctv ‘news’net,watched interview with Kate Wheeler,and David Aiken regarding a green announcement by PMSH,to be made about Nat.park in the far north.The truly mocking tone by Wheeler,left no doubts as to her political leanings,and her smirk was just vile.How to complain about this bias?
Must be another slow day at jefftard’s blog, let alone any inquiries into hiring him as a ‘photographer.’
Jeffie boy, the non-events are those which the Liberals are attempting to introduce Dion to Canadians. Trouble is when the event is over they leave scratching their heads, with no idea what the man said in garbled Anglais.
Must have been a series of phantom, cross country, get-to-know-moi BBQ’s, not a word in the Liberal ass-licking press about them. Not a good sign.
They are obsessed with fabricating stories about the Conservatives because the truth is too good to report.
Your Liberal reporters are the story here, not the messenger, Richard Ball.
Who is jeff davidson?
In the past, one of the best things about Canada was that we weren’t patriotic. We loved Canada but we weren’t patriotic.That’s our tradition. The kind of patriotism you guys “stand for” (as you would doubtless put it) is one aspect of the loss of our country and its traditions. It’s a sad irony.
Who is jeff davidson?
lol.
anyhow, why should anyone believe richard ball? who is he? a conservative party member? a member of the press? kate’s cousin? who is richard ball?
ps. irwin daisy, business is just fine thanks.
still waiting for the links to your alleged body of works.
“poor misguided skippie, there’s no link to post, simply the 2nd hand version of a non-event that may or may not have happened.
do you swallow everything kate spoon-feeds you?”
[Posted by: jeff davidson at August 7, 2007 11:18 AM]
Therein lies the crux of the difference, in a liberal mind.
The sequence of events should be to investigate, verify and report.
Jeff expects that sequence to be rigorously followed by Richard Ball and Kate. No second hand versions and no spoon feeding allowed; never, ever, under ANY circumstances.
Yet the Jeffs of the world will allow the media to violate EVERY aspect of their work ethic and then will readily pay for the privilege of reading and watching and listening to the results. In their mind if it isn’t reported by the credentialed media then it can’t possibly be an accurate representation of an event.
They will accept spoon feeding of tripe, while insisting it is fillet.
That is why “fake, but accurate” works for them.
there’s no link to post, simply the 2nd hand version of a non-event that may or may not have happened.
Hey, jeff, that’s pretty much the same story with the MSM, isn’t it? I hate to shatter your universe, but, ever occured to you that MSM articles have no links for verification either, what you read may or may not have happened as recorded and could be second hand.
well folks, i’ve just been to richard ball’s blog and i now understand why kate is reluctant to link to him.
just a little biased huh kate? he lists his occupation as communications/media and is so utterly partisan that it’s laughable.
what’s the message? you can’t trust journalists…unless they’re conservatives. heh.
richard ball’s blog.
Jeff Davidson: If I recall correctly, there is a Richard Ball who drops comments in to SDA on a regular basis. His blog is called something like “On the Ball” or something like that. He’s a regular here at SDA.
So…presuming it is the same Richard Ball, does that change the impact of the story in any way? Not to my way of thinking.
Jeff,
Aside from ad hominem attacks, what’s your point?
Do you understand your double standard of proof? I guess you wouldn’t be a leftard if you did.
Logic isn’t really important to photographers at least. I guess you chose your career well. I’d hate to think you’d chose a job that requires you to think (or add.)
It’s hard to get unbiased reporting from our MSM ‘reporters’ when half of them are either married to liberal insiders, on the payroll, or govonors general in waiting…
Out the reporter who sang the first verse of the U.S. anthem..
There is no “reluctance” on my part to link to him. I received the account via email.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s always a bad sign when a commentor can’t find the shift key.
All the professors, in all the universities in Canada are either liberal or communists, so what do we expect when their little trained stooges plop out of their molds and hold the same contemptible biases against conservatism as their masters.
A little off topic but timely. Just watched a press conference on CNN, with the head guy from the mine disaster in Utah. He took the media to task in a big way, for their false reporting, using so called experts who have no knowledge, and a few other lies they are feeding the public. He named Fox news, the AP and even named names. About time these media people got blasted.
As for Jeff, how much verifying did you do when you made very unkind remarks about me, when you outed Lemons. You are a perfect example of Do as I say, not as we liberal blockheads do.
“In the past, one of the best things about Canada was that we weren’t patriotic. We loved Canada but we weren’t patriotic.That’s our tradition. …”
[Posted by: exile at August 7, 2007 11:52 AM]
I am American who has worked on a number of projects in Canada in the past and actually lived in Toronto for a while. I have worked for, and done consulting for, a number of Canadian firms operating in the US in the last twenty years. I have always found most Canadians to be patriotic toward their country.
Did I completely miss something, or totally misunderstand these people, or has there been a rewrite of history?
Perhaps a recent change in the definition of patriotism in the Canadian dictionary?
I too have a bit of a beef with that song commonly known as “the national anthem” in Canada. It isn’t much of a reverant piece. Forgive me if this is a bit of dusty point of view, but join me in the National Anthem:
In days of yore from Britain’s shore,
Wolfe a doubtless hero came
And planted fair Britannia’s flag on Canada’s fair domain…………
I am with Kate on this one.
It’s an opportune time to “out” the smartass typist labouring in the guise of an unbiased reporter.
The built in bias against Conservatives (if verifiable) was made manifest in that very gesture of singing the first line of the US Anthem.
Any thing that person put on paper or blackberry from that point on should be viewed as jaundiced, tainted and slanted.
Anyone in a position of confirmation to the story, please “out” the typist/ reporter for the internet.
And let’s not be sidetracked by Jeff the troll.
Canuck: The Maple Leaf Forever should be our anthem. But isn’t it, Wolfe the dauntless hero came and planted firm, ——.
Personally, I quit singing O Canada when they added the french wordsl.
Another day another 20 or so examples of Canadian media types being asses……
Almost redundant!
Almost………..
If a particular journalist sang the opening line of the US anthem during the Canadian anthem at a CPC meeting,I think the meaning of their insolence is quite clear.
But,no offense to Mr.Ball,I believe another confirmed source would add some validity to a very serious allegation.I am not inclined to believe ANYONE who is partisan making accusations of their political foes these days.
And if proven true…it is yet another CLEAR example of the msm’s open contempt for the right.
I agree,this individual must be named.
Maple Leaf Forever, anyone?
Shame we can only hearken back to the greatness that -was- the British Empire, frickin’ Brits have well and truly killed it.
Union Jack soon to be replaced by the All-Seeing Eye on a field of cowardice yellow. Maybe a little bloodshot pink in there, not to put too fine a point on it.
MaryT: your lyrics are correct. I guess I wouldn’t win “don’t forget the lyrics”.
I grew up with “Oh Canada” but it never really did anything for me.
I bet dollars to donuts, it was Gloria Galloway…. She was there, her husband being a liberal strategists, was quite upset Stephen Harper didn’t allow her and Jane to listen outside their door so she could report to her husband when she returned…. she is so liberal, on Question Period now, they are not allowed to have Western reporters comments, they are too in favour of our Prime Minister…. Jane whined and groaned on our local T.V. she wasn’t allowed to listen in on the talks…. she loved that idea, trying once again to have the point brought to the front..poor deal little media…. I would like to know what Gloria Galloways husband would do if O’Connors wife was a reporter and sent around the country to report on Dion…. I would think that would be conflict of interest….
Observer, you want video? Can we get it stamped with the Pope’s heel for you? Can’t be too careful, y’know.
I think Richard Ball’s word is good enough, thanks very much. Chickens come home to roost pretty fast on the web these days, that’s enough of an insurance policy for things like this.
Dare I say, grow some SPINE man.
Personally, I quit singing O Canada when they added the french wordsl.
Posted by: MaryT at August 7, 2007 1:27 PM
Actually Mary “O Canada” was originally composed in French before being translated to English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Canada
That said I get goosebumps when I stand up and sing it.
I think the next time the media is at an event where “O Canada” is being sung they should be handed sheets with the lyrics and then the singers should look directly at them while singing it. I guarantee every man & woman of them would feel shame.
Snort! If I had a blog, this would be my quote of the day.
On a bitterly cold day during the last federal election campaign a friend and I were standing in the hangar at the Edmonton Aviation Museum waiting to see Stephen Harper speak. One woman, out of the perhaps one thousand people in attendance, was trying to create a stir — something about her daughter being abused in foster care, or something like that anyway.
Her personal situation had absolutely nothing to do with the federal election, and since she was so short in stature, and with a tiny voice, I don’t think hardly anyone would have noticed her if not for the gathering of prurient scent-hounds around her with their cameras and note pads.
It goes without saying that if this woman had stood outside a mall instead of using Mr. Harper’s visit to get the word out about her daughter, it wouldn’t have been “news”.
We found out later that this teeny stir was the cause for the more than one hour delay in Mr. Harper’s appearance, and that his people had been trying to talk to and placate the woman.
What just killed me was not just the way the local media devoted as much time to this woman as they did to Mr. Harper’s appearance (The local CTV affiliate’s coverage was cursory at most) but the fact that they essentially fictionalized what happened. I can’t ascribe their motive, but they described the woman as having been mistreated, and they reiterated her apparently-made claims that people had been manhandling her and pushing her missing-daughter-placard out of the way and/or knocking it down.
Now, my friend and I had been standing within eight or ten feet of her the whole time; it wasn’t until the reporters descended that we got any hint that she was conceivably newsworthy. She certainly didn’t seem to have made a big fuss.
Perhaps someone touched her sign with their hand at some point because it was too close to their eye, say, or blocking their view, but she was treated courteously — overly courteously, in my view — at all times.
In effect, the coverage that night, based on her fictional plaint, was a fiction.
What made the local “news” aggravating to watch and read was that anyone who had NOT attended the rally would have had no reason to that the report should be taken at face value, along with it’s implication that Mr. Harper doesn’t care about little victimized women and their victimized children.
There was, though, another media moment at Mr. Harper’s appearance that was even more memorable for me: Susan Bonner of the CBC National News team was in attendance — but only physically. While Mr. Harper spoke she sat on the rear-end of the riser, where the TV cameras were perched, facing away from the stage and clearly not listening at all. She wasn’t even looking around the room at his supporters; she just sat there not even trying to hide the fact that she would rather be anywhere else, and she just generally gave every appearance that she was being put upon by being asked to cover the event.
Perhaps she had a really bad flue or something, or maybe her boyfriend just left her, but as I watched her I couldn’t shake the feeling — actually, I’ll call it an understanding — that if she had been sent to cover a Stephane Dion campaign appearance in Toronto, she would have certainly been face-up, working or watching the room. Or at the very least, not sitting by herself, completely ignoring what’s going on, and looking bored.
I don’t know if CBC aired any of her coverage of the event (I stayed in town that night and socialized) but it seems likely that if her coverage was aired, the story was well-written before the event.
What is a veteran?
Veteran – whether regular forces, reserve or retired – is someone who, at one point in his or her life wrote a blank cheque payable to Canada for an amount of “up to and including their life”.
That is honourable…..and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
— Author unknown —
Every citizen who refuses to rise and sing our national anthem as did these dispicable media personnel are not only a disgrace to this nation, they are forgetting the sacrifices made by our veterans who serve today or who fought and too often died in order that they could do so in the first place.
Welp, I want to thank you Canadians for singing the American National Athem first at the Busch Race in Montreal this past Saturday and offer an apology, as I was in the fridge digging for a cold Miller when the Lil Gal sang the Canadian National Athem.
If it’s any consolation later in the evening I did mix some Canadian Dry with my Crown, but you have to understand the carbon footprints put down by delivering such luxuries to N. Louisiana.
Oh yea, I also went to The Ball Bounces and yep, it seems Richard Ball is Conservative and Christian, no problem there, if it’s a choice between a Christian Conservative and a Bleeding Heart Liberal Socialist Puppet Trumpet Lying Scumbag Journalist I’ll take the ChrisCon anytime.
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Yet another example of msm open contempt for the right. Yet you need more proof?
Reid, with due respect, you really think, “every [media] man & woman of them would feel shame”?
These people don’t know the meaning of the word.
It’s kind of funny when someone cuts himself off at the ankles when attempting to slice someone else. I’m referring to Jeff Davidson, who delivers, as if it’s a coup de grace, this line: “There’s no link to post, simply the 2nd hand version…” etc.
In other words, nothing exists unless it comes from the traditional media. If you can’t link to Gloria Galloway or Jane Taber or Keith Boag, then what you’re describing couldn’t possibly have occurred.
This “where’s the link” sneer is more than just unintentionally revealing; delivering such pearls in a didactic tone is hilarious in a way than Jeff D. will ever be able to understand — otherwise he wouldn’t have delivered such a pearl as an “aha!” in the first place.
Tough to live that one down, Jeff D.