Tag: Don Cherry
Montreal Simon: Ron MacLean and the Horror of Cherry Nation
I watched Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday to see what the show would do now that Don Cherry is no longer there.And although I was happy to see that Coach's Corner has apparently gone down with him.I thought what Ron MacLean had to say was absolutely appalling.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Roy MacGregor and Don Cherry’s Ultimate Epitaph
It's been almost a week since Don Cherry opened his big mouth, let out another bigoted roar, and for once didn't get away with it.And while his supporters are trying to whip up support for him.So is Cherry, even more desperately…Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Don Cherry’s Firing Is Good For Hockey and Canada
I'm not surprised that Don Cherry could not bring himself to say sorry for his most recent racist comments “I could’ve stayed on if I wanted to and knuckled under, and turned into a simp, but that’s not my style,” Cherry said Monday night in an interview with Toronto radio station
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Don Cherry Should Be Fired Immediately
Don Cherry has always been a crass, loud mouthed bully and buffoon, and a terrible example for young Canadians.He glorifies violence, he is a Trump groupie, he calls decent progressives "pinkos" and those who believe in climate change "cuckaloos."But now he is suggesting that immigrants are less patriotic than other Canadians because
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Keith Olbermann: How To Save Sidney Crosby From Donald Trump
I have been very moved by the sight of all those American football players kneeling in silent protest during the playing of their national anthem.And refusing to be intimidated by the racist bully Donald Trump.So you can imagine how disappointed I was to see this.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: O Canada? Sorry, no ad libbing, please! We’re Canadian!
PHOTOS: Don Cherry, Canada’s best-known right-wing weirdo, wearing a suit that ought to be illegal. (Toronto Star photo.) Below: Boston-born tenor Remigio Pereira, the man who fiddled with the words of O Canada, much to Mr. Cherry’s distress, and B…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Don Cherry’s Outrageous Attack on Rob Ford’s Opponents
I knew Don Cherry was going to say something about his good buddy Rob Ford.For who can forget how that ghastly redneck hung the chain of office around Ford's neck?And used the occasion to attack the "left-wing pinkos."Which had to be one …
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 5: Death and the supreme court; the comeback of measles.
The big story of the week was a Supreme Court decision allowing physician-assisted deaths in certain cases. Polls have shown Canadians solidly in favour of allowing Canadians to die with dignity when all hope is lost, but politicians have treated the issue the same way they’ve treated the abortion issue
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Maybe fake soldier didn’t understand only Tory politicians and TV stars are allowed to play military dressup in Canada
Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans were outraged when this man allegedly passed himself off as a Forces member at the scene of a flood in Calgary, Alberta. As you can see, he seemed to have a couple of civilians fooled. However, his weird haircut gave him away to keen
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Abominable Horror of Harper Night in Canada
I haven't been a regular viewer of Hockey Night in Canada for a long time. The thuggish goons, the concussion casualties, the grotesque Don Cherry, as well as the sad fact that a Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup for more than twenty years, having gradually turned me off the
Continue readingTrashy's World: If Peter Mansbridge or Jian Ghomeshi…
… were rabid cheerleader against the oil sands or any other conservative darling, you can bet that there asses would be on the line! But Rex Murphy can exult in the virtues of the massive western projects all he wants and with impertinence without fear of reprisal. He can take
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The CBC and the End of Don Cherry
It's not a good news hockey story. It's a huge blow to the CBC. For years, HNIC has been a cash cow that helped float many of CBC’s other news and original programming endeavours, with some estimating it was worth $200 million, and up to half of the TV network’s
Continue readingZorg Report: Don Cherry Inaugurates Rob Ford in 2014
I jes wanna, jes wanna come down here and tell you kids, you kids out there, what a great guy Rob Ford is. Now, now, maybe you’re sayin’ he’s a big crack smoker. Maybe ok. But I seen this guy smokin’ crack, and lord love ‘im, he smoked crack. Heh, heh, I put him out there once at the BBQ in Mississauga, an’ boy that kid loved to smoke crack.
But he did it—you know why, you know why? BECAUSE he loved to smoke crack; that’s why he did it, kids. And doan let anyone tell you anything else in life. You wanna smoke crack and get to be mayor, then you do that. Doan let anyone tell you. You coaches out there, I toald you. . . . . Dis guy, dis guy. . . .
Well, c’mon c’mon what else I got?
But hey, I know I’m gonna get in trouble for dis, you people, you people who like to say—an-an-anyway—stop interruptin’—I say he’s a good boy, and geez I used to see him. Saw him play waterboy for the tiny-mite Ice-Hogs.
Thing about Rob—the thing about Rob is–is he just don’t like these, these people, callin’ ‘im names ‘n everyfink. Get me mad too. And you know, you know what you just doan wanna do, it’s get these boys mad atchew, ‘cuz then there’s gonna come some boys stick up for ya.’ It’s like Wensink I had. He wannent no mad dog—got 20 goals for me–but boy, you doan wanna mess with him, alright!s I seen Doug Ford, I ‘member Dougie Sr., guys’d rip your throat out, but anyway, just sayin.’ That’s the way we did it back then!!
Alright, what else we got? So like I’m sayin,’ guy comes down to the City Hall, buncha weirdos down there an’ I dunno. Guy just tries to make it right, take care a business!! That’s all. You’d think, you’d think, these people’d say “thank you,” but whadda we get? Whadda we get?? Hoa people.
I’m just sayin,’ if it was you people. Fine broth of a lad, Robbie. Maybe Chunky like I did with this stiff ‘ere, anyway. What else we got?
So this guy, this guy, is the kinda guy you wanna go to war with. Smokin’ crack, whatever. You people, you people just don’t get it. Kids, everyone wants an obese idiot who drinks vodka and drives and smokes crack. You coaches out there, you gotta stop sayin’ “oh, I’m the hoity-toity.” Come off it!! Nobody else wants to be around there when he is. You wanna have ‘em ridin’ shotgun, just like Semenko.
Now, now, now I wanna get to something that really breaks me up here, it’s about a guy, fireman guy, lord love him, he was just 28, 2 kids, comin’ home, tried to help somebody when he was off duty, turns out some crack-smokin’ pinko run ‘im down when he was just tryin’ to help, off duty an’ everything. So this one is for major-sargeant-brigade-major-reserves-princess-patricias-firemean dude—lord love him. Thumbs up.
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Zorg Report: Don Cherry Inaugurates Rob Ford in 2014
I jes wanna, jes wanna come down here and tell you kids, you kids out there, what a great guy Rob Ford is. Now, now, maybe you’re sayin’ he’s a big crack smoker. Maybe ok. But I seen this guy smokin’ crack, and lord love ‘im, he smoked crack. Heh,
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Sober second thought: A half-hearted defence of Don Cherry, Stephen Harper and Julian Fantino in military drag
Stephen Harper in his cool green Canadian Forces flight jacket. With him, Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, during last June’s flooding, both looking as if they wish they had cool military togs too. Below: Don Cherry in a tailored camo suit and Julian Fantino with a
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Hoist with their own petard, Harper Tories face veterans’ Remembrance Day protest
A typical Canadian Remembrance Day ceremony: the scene in St. Albert one year ago today. Below: B.C. Conservative MP Mark Strahl, on-air Conservative partisan Don Cherry, and NDP Veterans’ Affairs Critic Peter Stoffer. No Canadian government in living memory, and probably no Canadian government in history, has worked as hard
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is “statist” and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems:Rex Murphy, seen here writing an absurd polemic attacking Rob Ford’s critics using a series of cliched strawman…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is “statist” and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems: Rex Murphy, seen here writing an absurd polemic attacking Rob Ford’s critics using a series of cliched strawman puerile caricatures of his opposition
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is “statist” and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems: Rex Murphy, seen here writing an absurd polemic attacking Rob Ford’s critics using a series of cliched strawman puerile caricatures of his opposition
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