"Oh say dear Kate, you may want to have that growth on your head checked out."
Ah Conservatives, so in love with our country. Not! Preferring to honour war and celebrate a couple of brainless twits from some other country, rather than honour Canada’s national news and entertainment network with 75 years . . . → Read More: On July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits
Continue reading“Oh say dear Kate, you may want to have that growth on your head checked out.”Ah Conservatives, so in love with our country. Not! Preferring to honour war and celebrate a couple of brainless twits from some other country, rather than honour Canada’s na…
Continue readingJohn Doyle has been doing a yeoman’s job of mocking Fox News North. Today’s gem is rife with true comedy, for which Doyle has a talent unlike his Sun News counterparts’ unintentional comedic style:Why, recently, Conservative MPs on the House of Co…
Continue readingYou won’t find the Sun tabloid chain – no stranger to hatchet jobs – siding with the ‘state broadcaster’ often. But when it comes to the Bill O’Reilly attack dog of the CBC, Sun can make an exception.
(I’m pretty sure Sun has also recently deified Don Cherry in light of the flack he’s . . . → Read More: Kevin O’Leary under fire for hatchet job on Chris Hedges. Sun Media rides to the rescue
Continue readingThe Ez won’t like it:CEP Local 87M launched a public organizing drive at Sun News Network in Toronto on Wednesday, hoping to add to Sun-related SONG membership. I’m too tired to write a joke about it. Make up your own if you like.
Continue readingGot this tweet from Ezra:Now, from the FNN wiki article, Fibe TV’s original deal with Sun TV was scheduled to end at the end of this month, so presumably what really happened is they could not come to an agreement with Ezra and Kory and the rest o…
Continue readingOK. So today probably isn’t the best day to defend the CBC. Not when I went to watch Question Period this afternoon, and discovered that their tabloid news network was covering the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor instead.Gawd. Where’s the p…
Continue readingBoys ‘n’ girls, the Harpercons want to hold a parliamentary hearing regarding the future of the CBC, basically. And guess who their star witnesses will be? Yup! You guessed it! Pierre-Karl Peladeau, Ezzy Levant, and of course, king McCarthyist of the CBC watch, Brian Lilley-white. Oh yeah! Like they’re going to reliable, impartial . . . → Read More: And Now, Introducing the Witness for The Harpercon Prosecution, Fox News North!
Continue readingWell, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes something like this:
Host: “Don’t libaries (sic) cause cancer”?
Atwood: “Of course not”.
Host “Oh, I didn’t realize you were a medical doctor? . . . → Read More: BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Continue readingWell, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes something like this:Host: “Don’t liberries cause cancer”?Atwood: “Of course not”….
Continue readingI haven’t had that much exposure to Fox News North but from what I’ve seen there’s obviously something fishy happening at that network which is symptomatic of a bigger issue with the North American right-wing male of the species. Listening to Brian Lilley’s chipmunk voice or recoiling from Mark Bonokoski’s lispy spittle or . . . → Read More: Sun News Network and the emasculation of the North American right wing
Continue readingI haven’t had that much exposure to Fox News North but from what I’ve seen there’s obviously something fishy happening at that network which is symptomatic of a bigger issue with the North American right-wing male of the species. Listening to Brian Lil…
Continue readingHarper could have said this himself on the CBC last night. In fact I think he did. It fit right in with his fear mongering about ‘Islamicism’. (Funny, it almost rhymes with ‘narcissism’.)
H/T: @AnonymousIRC
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In light of Mr. Bonokoski’s cry for civility from the left in a Sun column yesterday, here’s a post from last month that puts his whine into a little perspective (and no, this is not from The Onion). I’ve changed the title to match my tweet for the pos…
Continue readingLove ya Al, but the background?Watch the Fox News North snippet of the interview. Brian ‘The 50’s worked for Elvis, why not for me’ Lilley thinks Al Gore is comparing Climate Change deniers with racists, a meme he no doubt picked up from the far right …
Continue readingOh boy. This going to be embarrassing eh? Remember how in my last post I said people should ignore how Lezra Levant, in an interview with Michael Coren, mocked the way Canadians were reacting to Jack Layton’s death?Well I changed my mind…Because…
Continue readingI just had to feature this quote from another post because it so perfectly encapsulates everything that is sad, funny and totally mockable about the right’s reaction to Jack Layton’s passing. With the over-the-top indignation over the Layton coverage, …
Continue readingI’m stealing this directly from Dan Gardner. It’s too perfect to leave on the Twitter floor.
This video defines ‘blowhard’ – Mark Bonokoski in a jealous rage over the attention given to Jack Layton on his passing. These guys just can’t stand a lefty taking up media space they feel they alone deserve to occupy. It’s driving. them. insane.
P.S. . . . → Read More: The Onion comes to Canada. Sun’s Mark Bonokoski on Jack Layton.
Continue readingI thought the right couldn’t dive any lower but Ezra Levant and Michael Coren did just that on Fox News North. What can I say? Not even Fox News would ever go this low.
You still think Christie Blatchford’s opening salvo across the bow was a kindness? To all those journalists who . . . → Read More: “Put him in ground, for god’s sake”: Ezra Levant wears orange wig, drinks Orange Crush. Mocks Layton’s passing.
Continue readingI thought the right couldn’t dive any lower but Ezra Levant and Michael Coren did just that on Fox News North. What can I say? Not even Fox News would ever go this low.You still think Christie Blatchford’s opening salvo across the bow was a kindne…
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