John Doyle compares attacks on the CBC to, erm, “beating up a sick puppy“:
… As I write this, CBC NN is on in my office and Suhana Meharchand is cackling with unbounded glee about the premiere of the movie Iron Man 2. She just said, “Wow!” And then along comes Jelena Adzic, and she and Suhana go all girly and OMG about footage of the star-studded premiere of Iron Man 2. Adzic has just announced breathlessly that a block of Hollywood Boulevard was closed to traffic for the premiere. Much cackling and near delirium has ensued. I’m not sure what Liberal bias is afoot here.
Well, if that’s the way you want to play it, guy: Air-headedness is liberal bias.
(Honestly. How else do you explain the president of EKOS describing a Canadian “culture war” as “Obama versus Palin”?)
See ….. If the CBC are exposed as Liberal shills and their pollster advocating “Cultural War”.. the distinguished and diligent Canadian MSM just fluff it off as criticism of “puppy abuse”..!!!!
Had a Conservative declared the same on CTV, the Canadian pit bull media would be screaming “nazi nazi nazi”….. believe it.
The CBC News Network is an overt goebbellian propaganda organ for the Liberal party … and everybody knows it … sooooo obvious.
I think most people would have a sick puppy put down rather than keep it alive to the tune of $1 billion year after year after year…..
I’ve always called CBC employees sick puppies.
Another incoherent rant from Doyle, who is long past his best-before date.
Canadian conservatives are loud; normal Canadians don’t like loud people, who remind them too much of evil Americans; ergo Canadian conservatives are winning the culture war.
??
Doyle writes like one of those zzzzzzzz veteran columnists who just types until he gets to the 750 word mark, then hits “save” and “send”.
IronMan 2 wouldn’t be described as ‘culture’ but rather benign entertainment pap.
And hey if yer gonna have a ‘culture war’ where is my unregistered Long Gun to shoot my TV set?
Hows that fer changin the channel?
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So the point is… I’ll take a stab at it: The CBC is lame, but that’s the Conservatives’ fault for picking on the CBC, which is actually pro-Conservative, but only because it is cowardly, yet still the Torys want to destroy it because they think there’s a liberal bias there: Also all CBC employees are giggling morons who are too thick to have political opinions. Save the CBC! C’mon people, how obvious could all this be!? Hello!?!
Maybe Doyle’s trying to get fired.
I was going to have another try at reading that article, but Shaidle just convinced me not to bother; for that I am grateful.
He actually called the Globe & Mail a “great newspaper”!!!
“Second, CBC has bent and twisted so much to accommodate conservative views ”
At first I thought maybe he had poor judgement, now I believe he’s delusional as well.
As we like to say,”CBC,all Liberal,all the time”.
Apparently, we Canadians consider government funded abortions “a given.”
I’m not exactly a pro-lifer, but yet this somehow comes as news to me. Perhaps Doyle needs to spend some time outside the ol’ echo chamber.
Why do people on the left always think financial shows or even financial news should count as ‘conservative’ programming? The stock market report isn’t ‘conservative’ any more than the sports or the weather are. It appears that Doyle can’t stand Dragons Den (full disclosure, I’m not a fan either) because A) it has icky capitalists on it and B) the past great CBC has been humbled and oppressed into putting on such popular drivel. I agree John, let’s get the CBC (or at least a portion of the CBC; lets call it CBC gold) to the user pay, PBS/NPR model. Then the CBC can broadcast all the highbrow stuff, John deems worthy of a national stage, and the Canadians that enjoy it can further enjoy the fact that they directly support it, and they won’t ever have to gaze upon Sarah Palin or even Suhana Meharchand.
One G&M commenter said, “polls always show that the vast majority of Canadians generally support the CBC”.
Hmm. I would have thought that eyeballs determine real support for any network. Yet the ratings for CBC viewership are consistently abysmal.
Apparently the “vast majority of Canadians” are busy watching the CBC’s competitors.
First quibble: writing the way one speaks. Not on.
Second quibble: “Second, CBC has bent and twisted so much to accommodate conservative views that, with the shot-up foot and all, it is staggering around, bleeding, disoriented and struggling to figure out the way forward.” What. The hell? Since when has the CBC accommodated ANY view other than its own?
Third quibble: there is nothing wrong with Iron Man 2. There is something wrong with forty something women giggling like schoolgirls.
There’s more but… you know.
Oh; so that’s why it’s called the Glob and Pale!
Well put! After reading the original ‘Culture War’ post over the weekend, I found the ‘Obama vs. Palin’ reference odd too. Honestly, I actually wanted to go out and buy a ‘Palin 2012’ t-shirt, but I don’t think they’re printing those yet. When you really think about it, America’s cultural presence in Canada is strongest in the urban centres, most notably in places like Toronto and Vancouver, Liberal/NDP strongholds. Who embraced negative attack ads first? Remember soldiers with guns in our cities? And think of their hostility to our Britannic heritage, hell, even Andrew Coyne now wants to rename Wellington Street in Ottawa! And yet all their efforts at destroying that heritage have resulted in it being replaced by the gutter culture that is Hollywood.
The point I am trying to make is that the left in this country has a love/hate relationship to American culture, that probably runs along the conscious/subconscious divide in their minds. Think about it, they like to publicly claim that the Conservatives want to “roll back the clock” on abortion or multiculturalism, and yet word for word, this is the exact same charge the Democrats make against the Republicans! They ape the Democrats, and think nothing of it, air-headedness is a liberal biasis!
Speaking of Ekos, got a call this afternoon that went something like: “This is an Ekos computer generated phone survey we are doing for the gubmint of Canada regarding family situations. First, is anyone in your household divorced or sep..” Click.
Prof positive that doyle is as much a bubble-head as the NN people he is describing and a partisan one at that. Yet another MSM name that when I see it in the the byline I will skip it reflexively.
Do these guys really think that any thinking person really takes them seriously. Personally I don’t think the worst thing about the CBC is their blatant bias. The wost thing is that they have simply outlived their usefulness but like all government programs that have they continue to exist. If they are a sick puppy then I think they should be euthanized for the good of the country.
John (Douchebag) Doyle is also a Libturd shill. Whats he afraid of ? The Canadian MSM are bully’s who want to ram their deranged Libturd/Separturd P”er coalition ideology down evryones throats. Douchebag Doyle gives us all a great example of the bullys mentality, they cry and whine and sh#t their pants whenever the target of their bullying fights back. Doyle demonstrates what cowards bully’s really are. Douche bag Doyle loves to bully his target, (Conservatives) but pee’s in his pants and goes crying home to mommy at the prospect of his target fighting back. What’s he afraid of ? Is Douchebag Doyle afraid that exposing the CBC as the Propaganda arm of the Libturd coalition will also expose the anti-Conservative bias in the rest of the MSM, including his own personal anti-Conservative bias ? Lefties can dish it out, but they just can’t take it, typical bully’s.
The sick puppy is Central Canada mentality trying to hug to itself all power. money, control.
It will break the rest of the Nation to do it . Whats a Depression to a bureaucrat from Ottawa? Most particularly who cares if they rape the West as has been done three times?
Thats the culture war. European Canada, versus a North American West.
One commits to statist collectivist Marxism, the other American individualism mixed with a free market.
From the Wests patch of woods , it looks like Eastern Canada has fallen into tyranny. Trying to enforce their wee fascist thinking on us. Who actually believe adults have God given rights not by an addled Government that thinks its infallible. Equality is NOT an eastern virtue. Individuals are only preserved as personality cults to enforce policy. Identity politics are.
Race is all to a Liberal, we now see.
Thats the problem. Eastern Canada has no values except socialist moral revisionism. In the West we still believe in evil & human nature is not kind or caring. Its selfish!
Its why their ideology is always damned to create death camps.
JMO
“polls always show that the vast majority of Canadians generally support the CBC”.
and reality shows that only a very small fraction of TV viewers actually watch CBC.
Reality trumps a poll any day.
Years ago, my beagle got into the neighbour’s compost pile and we had to pull him out by his back paws after he had gorged himself to the point where he could barely walk. Funny sight, really. Huge pile of rotten veggies and that signature white beagle tail sticking out after he ate a tunnel into it.
We just tied him outside to let him suffer through vomiting it all up and kept enough of an eye on him to make sure he didn’t die.
I have no problem treating the CBC in the same way.
No need to get rid of the CBC. Just restaff it, hire Roger Ailes (the most sucessful cable news broadcaster in the western world) as a senior advisor and let him come up with a programing plan, including on-air talent. Severence away the current staff and reporters. This could result in CBC getting an audience larger than just rural seniors without cable!
The institution of the CBC would be ‘preserved’ (the number one goal of the left). If the left didn’t like the changes, they would have to call for an end to public funding of the CBC. There is no way to lose for capitalists if this is done right.
When I read Doyle’s column this morning, I wondered how far left on the political spectrum you’d have to be to see the CBC catering to conservatives.
I agree with Mark Peters, the only humane way to deal with an incurably sick puppy is to have it put down. Speaking of dead canines, Doyle’s bizarre article makes as much sense as Dion’s Bam, the Dog Joke.
Mr. Dion replied by asking whether he was familiar with the world’s shortest bedtime story.
“Do you know Bam, The Dog?”
Mr. Lagacé admitted he did not, so Mr. Dion recited it for him: “The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep.”
CBC, bam, now go to sleep.
CBC…. BLAM!…. now go to sleep.
It gets much, much better. Yesterday with Chuck Adler, Doyle announced that funding foreign abortions was a “traditional Canadian value”. That’s worth going into the show archives to grab for a youtube feature.
(waiting in Vancouver between flights….)
The sick puppy is Central Canada mentality trying to hug to itself all power. money, control.
It will break the rest of the Nation to do it . Whats a Depression to a bureaucrat from Ottawa? Most particularly who cares if they rape the West as has been done three times?
Thats the culture war. European Canada, versus a North American West.
One commits to statist collectivist Marxism, the other American individualism mixed with a free market.
From the Wests patch of woods , it looks like Eastern Canada has fallen into tyranny. Trying to enforce their wee fascist thinking on us. Who actually believe adults have God given rights not by an addled Government that thinks its infallible. Equality is NOT an eastern virtue. Individuals are only preserved as personality cults to enforce policy. Identity politics are.
Race is all to a Liberal, we now see.
Thats the problem. Eastern Canada has no values except socialist moral revisionism. In the West we still believe in evil & human nature is not kind or caring. Its selfish!
Its why their ideology is always damned to create death camps.
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In the West we still believe in evil, do we? Well {LOL}, if you say so!
Really, this is quite something, one of those unintentional masterpieces.
The culture of death is a ‘traditional Canadian value?’
The column by Mr. Doyle appears to have been written mainly to allow him to criticize the Government because it won’t fund pregnancy terminations in it’s health initiative for third world countries. I’d like to suggest another possible headline to Mr. Doyle: “Canada proposes the G8 start providing basic maternal health services to mothers and their children who are alive today”.
Perhaps before Mr. Doyle continues his “Canadians accept as a given” schtick, he should step outside his office door and go ask a few of the many, many immigrant Canadians living in Toronto for their opinion. I seem to remember reading recently, on some blog I think, that many of those people’s kin in the old country look rather unfavorably on abortion.
As for news reporting, we don’t care if “Peter” stands or sits or that he and “Neil” engage in witty repartee. We want them to give us the news; what happened, where it happened, when it happened, who it happened to. If why, is clear and unambiguous, we want to know that too. Otherwise, we can draw our own conclusions. Oh, and we want them to give us all the news (Climategate), not just news they want us to have (OMG, that cellphone video shows the PM pocketing the communion wafer!).
That column was kind of fun to read. It was as twisted up, confused, and ‘sick’ as the writer claims the CBC is!
When it does happen I don’t think I’ll be crying like I did at the end of “Old Yeller”.
Canada Lives Here. Khadr against, more government against, Liberals against, NDP more against, 70’s activism against, climate scan against.
CBC has one position and the Canadians they speak for have another.
No time to read the comments.
I don’t want a beaten CBC, I want a dead CBC.
Get it?
Excellent! Another myopic paleolithic creature who can’t see the asteroid coming.
CBC? Oh Yeah I seem to remember blocking that on my television about ten years ago. Are they still around defecating on truth?
I thought we made it clean they need to be SHUT DOWN! …and I want ever penny back from those shills as well.
Watch the first video, “the stu hughes show”.
Around the two minute mark of the monologue he sums up the CBC’s attitude regarding “climategate”.
http://funnyfest.com/video/index.html
The CBC is more like Old Yeller except I don’t think Yeller was a bitch and the CBC hasn’t saved anyone since WW2 (or maybe Korea) and it should meet the same fate.
David :
Gee David glad you liked it.
Now explain why its wrong?
Or is it just more easy to act the bored pompous ass?
The whole day passed and none of you picked on this?
“..it might be the height of hypocrisy for a Canadian government to decline to provide in developing countries what Canadians accept as a given.”
Gotta give that a big WTF.
When I read his column this morning, I thought it was a parody,it made me laugh, no way could it be a serious effort to defend the CBC. Never gave it another thought, until now. He’s serious?
LOL Blam. Heard of life imitating art, but a bad joke? Oddly fitting though.
Sadly sick puppies infected with distemper and other such rabid conditions, must be put down asap.
Got to wonder why these progressives are so interested in women in developing countries have ‘access’ to abortions, guess an outright sterilization plan is the next?
“Eastern Canada has no values except socialist moral revisionism”
On behalf of Easterners who visit this blog, I’d like to point out you’re an ignorant, narrow minded fool. Fortunately, I’ve met few Westerners as dumb as you are.
“Why do people on the left always think financial shows or even financial news should count as ‘conservative’ programming?”
Indeed.
So, I wonder if NDP-come-lately, Liberal, and wealthy, Baby-Point, Bob Rae thinks that money and financial news are conservative.
Isn’t it bizarre that wealthy lefties seem to think (do they think?) that anyone who makes money is a c/Conservative and that making money is a nasty enterprise?
They seem perfectly happy to live the high life — with NO idea how they’re able to do this: “Let’s just pretend we don’t drink the finest wines, enjoy the most contemporary h’ors oeuvres and entrees (no dessert, please, but, yes, I will have a cognac and a Cuban cigar)” — while pretending that they REALLY care about the homeless and downtrodden, all on the taxpayers’ dime, of course, not their sheltered funds.
What Bob Rae and company conveniently forget or ignore is that hard-working, middle and lower middle class taxpayers are the ones paying the way for far too many “downtrodden” Canadians who have simply learned how to play the violin and heart strings of the system. Nor do we enjoy the vintage wines, gourmet meals, fine wines, and Cuban cigars the monied lefties do.
If liberals were smarter they would be conservatives.
You want bias? You want kultur war?
Go read Adolf’s mentor/socialist pal at Pravda.
Go to Uncle Joe’s socialist Pravda. It’s a tale of:
Lenin/Stalin/lberia’s: Shoot the Kulaks.
Brought to you nightly by CBC/Pravda.
…-
“Joseph Stalin – Total Warfare on the Internet ****
Stalin returned to the Pravda on March 25, 1917. Joseph Stalin’s … Stalin also backed Lenin throughout his campaign the overthrow of the government, even”
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/totalwar/Stalin.html
“I’m not sure what Liberal bias is afoot here.”
Airheadedness is Liberal bias.
Always amused by those defending the CBC, deeming it to be balanced an fair, such as Doyle does… while identifying themselves as haters of the Conservatives as they do, complete with ad hominen attacks.
BTW, I watched the National last night with Mansbride to watch him NOT do a piece on the Montreal Gazette story. Hooray! I was vindicated because he didn’t. Since Graves is the CBC’s “neutral” pollster, and because stories from the Gazette have been referenced by the CBC in the past, it should have been mention. If that type of omission isn’t reflective of a cirling-the-wagons-around-our-Liberal-friends apprach, I don’t know what is.
Here’s how CBC caters to conservatives:
— in a panel discussion, instead of having three people all in Toronto, they send one to Calgary so he’s in Calgary.
— they defer to doubts about global warming by getting a quote from a guy pouring a barrel of oil into the Athabasca River
— they make funny jokes about what it will be like after Chantal Hebert is governor general.
— they don’t execute Rex Murphy (but you know they have a plan).
If a public broadcaster can’t defend itself —
it must be in the last phases of death by
incompetence.
Air Headedness is a condition.
In a just world it would be terminal for anyone without other actual redeeming qualities.
In the world of LIberals … it is the normal state.
this is sort of funny. the biggest story in Khadr history. a chance to plea bargain and CBCpravda , the propaganda arm of the lieberals suddenly grows quiet. more than 1200 stories on Khadr and suddenly they on the wrong end of a conservative government rant , find themselves quiet as a prius without gas. \
they are scared $hitless . \
good on you CBCpravda , one year till sale day.
a bid of a dollar will same the canadian public a billion one a year. present value – friggin near infinite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KDDKbfhmI