The Murdoch scandal keeps growing and evolving into an epic HBO movie. So far, the people at the very, very top – James and Rupert Murdoch to be exact – have remained relatively unscathed. That’s to be expected. This dynamic duo is too smart and too rich to be caught.
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When the right whines about ‘free speech’, what do they want to say they can’t say now?
Conservatives on both sides of the border love to wail about how their right of ‘free speech’ is being curtailed. Yet it’s not clear to me at least what they are talking about. What is it that they want to say they can’t say now? Reading Conservative blogs one can
Continue readingCheney chickens out of visit to Toronto
Must be all those mandatory minimum sentences that spooked the skittish Mr. Cheney. Do the crime, do the time must be scary words to a man wanted in much of the world for crimes against humanity. Plus I doubt the recent slaughter of innocent Iraqis at the hand of a US soldier
Continue readingCheney chickens out of visit to Toronto
Must be all those mandatory minimum sentences that spooked the skittish Mr. Cheney. Do the crime, do the time scary words to a man wanted the world over for crimes against humanity. Plus I doubt the recent slaughter of innocent Iraqis at the hand of a US soldier might not
Continue readingMajority of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi believe Obama is a Muslim
There’s a reason the deep south gets such a bad rap and is so widely mocked. This is especially true in the definitive Southern red states of Mississippi and Alabama. PPP asks Republicans in Alabama, “Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not
Continue readingCanada needs one of these for Conservatives: Democrats unveil ‘Republican House of Scandal’
The Democrats have done exactly what the Liberals and the NDP should have done long ago. The centre-left US party has developed a site identifying all the latest in Republican scandals. Can you imagine what a similar site in Canada would look like? Then again, watching the daily moral and
Continue readingThe right’s euphoric reaction to US soldiers slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians
Whenever the right uses the ‘false equivalence’ charge for well, virtually everything when they are caught red-handed, especially when it comes to hate speech, we on the left just have to laugh. All one has to do is view, on any day on any subject, the comments on a right-wing blog
Continue readingHarper’s dream of a Republican Canada
I was checking out the site stats for LFR last night and discovered a sizeable number of referrals from Craigslist Vancouver and Craigslist Toronto over the past few days to a post on the infamous 1997 speech by Stephen Harper to American conservatives. This bit of interest in the post
Continue readingManning Centre’s inclusive policies: Stephen Maher thrown out of conference. Replies, “kiss my ass”.
This is disgusting. Stephen Maher, along with Glen McGregor, is doing a yeoman’s job of reporting the beginnings of the Robocalls scandal. For his honest work, which incidentally appears in the right-wing National Post, the Manning Centre has booted him from their conference. Must not have any reporting that might not
Continue readingManning Centre’s inclusive policies: Stephen Maher thrown out of conference. Replies, "kiss my ass".
This is disgusting. Stephen Maher, along with Glen McGregor, is doing a yeoman’s job of reporting the beginnings of the Robocalls scandal. For his honest work, which incidentally appears in the right-wing National Post, the Manning Centre has booted him from their conference. Must not have any reporting that might
Continue readingWhat George Bush hath wrought: 90 Iraqi youths stoned to death for ’emo’ haircuts
So this is what George Bush’s invasion of Iraq has come to. Gotta love the democracy of this bit of theological murder. Just think, prior to 2001 Iraq was a secular enemy of al Queda. Now it’s knee-deep in fundamentalist terror. Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers
Continue readingThe Great Christy Clark Sell-Out: The ‘Iron Snowbird’ embraces Conservative values at Manning conference
Nothing says ‘Liberal’ like a big dollop of Conservative values. Not just Conservative values but the more radical Reform, Alliance ones. The BC Liberals have always been accused of being Conservatives in Liberal clothing and nothing says phony and sell-out like Christy Clark and the BC Liberals. On Friday, he
Continue readingWhere’s the outrage from the right over Louis CK being dropped from Correspondent’s Dinner?
Whether he quit or was forced, Louis CK is no longer speaking at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Assn. Dinner. The reason? He has in the past referred to Sarah Palin as a cunt. Scrambling desperately to make up for their idol Rush Limbaugh being called out for calling Sandra
Continue readingFrom hot air to dead air. Silence welcomes Rush Limbaugh fans.
Now that well over 40 advertisers have dropped squawk box Rush Limbaugh, the silence on his show is deafening.
Continue readingMike Lester presents the south’s take on Obama and Sandra Fluke
From Georgia’s Rome News Tribune. Yeah, let that sink in. You’ve got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the “evil light-skinned brother” angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke’s statements to boot
Continue readingAung San Suu Kyi to John Baird: When it comes to voting, today’s Myanmar a lot like Harper’s Canada
She didn’t say that in those words of course but her sly mention of voter irregularities could not have been better timed and said to a better person. “We have just discovered there are many, many irregularities on the voters’ lists, and we have applied to the election commission to
Continue readingManning Centre’s voter suppression school
Must read article from the Vancouver Observer on the creepy Manning Centre’s 2010 ‘campaign school’. Here’s a little of what one attendee, John Fryer, discovered. (emphasis mine). The conversation that followed was deeply disturbing to Fryer. In a question and answer session, attendees discussed voter suppression tactics. They talked about
Continue readingPatrick Ross pens post on his suicidal tendencies
No matter what his appearance before a judge will yield, this post this morning from Patrick Ross is sad. It sounds like the judgement against him has finally hit home. I feel for Ross and his struggles with depression; it’s a killer disease that manifests itself most often without its
Continue readingAnonymous to Scheer: thanks for the legitimacy!
Why is this man smiling? The Department of Stupid Moves is at it again. This is going to be fun for someone and it won’t be the Conservatives laughing. I have carefully reviewed the online videos in which the language used does indeed constitute a direct threat to the Minister in
Continue reading12 advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander UPDATED
UPDATE: Three days ago, when this post went live, five advertisers had dropped Limbaugh. That number is now 12 and growing. Radio stations are also dropping Rush. Here’s the 12: Sleep Number Beds The Sleep Train Legal Zoom Quicken Loans Citrix Systems/GoToMeeting ProFlowers Tax Resolution Services AOL Carbonite Bonobos Sears/Kmart Allstate
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