Rupert Murdoch, the man who has done so much to poison politics, is now trying to defend his “honour”, after a scandal with one of his tabloids.News of the World routinely hacked phone lines and even bribed cops to allow them to track 9/11 calls. And i…
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: When Hatred Goes Mainstream
Jolly Berlin crowds in the brightly-lit Kurfürstendamm nightlife district had more fun last week than these beery, sausage-stuffed revelers have had in months. Well-dressed German women and their swank, duel-scarred escorts vied with shopgirls and mec…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So You Want to Return to the 1950s? OK. I’m Game.
In reading books and essays written by, and not just about, the neoconservatives, I’ve found many common elements, from the philosophers they quote to the people they hate.One common desire most share, is to return to the 1950s, when women knew their p…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Don Cherry Should Stick to Hockey and Stay Out of Politics
My right-wing followers keep sending me links to Sun TV and to articles by right-wing columnists, but this interview with Don Cherry on Fox News North just makes me incredibly sad.This is so beneath him.I have mentioned the wonderful memory we have of …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Death to diplomacy!
I’ll give Sun Media this much: they’re being slightly less partisan than I’d have expected in their bombast, following up their demand to fire a diplomat for the crime of following the alphabet with Brian Lilley’s equally vituperative screed against an…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die: Theo Caldwell’s Internet Presence Is Threatened
Since Fox News North sacked him, he’s on the verge of being deemed not notable Someone please help:Or, on the other hand, if nobody bothered to improve, source, or rename the page, it would disappear as though it never had been, which might repli…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North DeadPool!
Glen McGregor says that Lilley (By-Line) and The Ez (The Source) aren’t doing bad, …but if you look at the numbers, everyone else is pretty seriously on the bubble. Canada Live is the bodacious but no-talent Ms. Erickson; the Daily Bri…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North Death Spiral Continues Spiralling Towards Death
..but perhaps a wee bit more slowly.Looks like Theo Caldwell (who?) is out and Michael Coren is in at Sun TV. Once thing about Michael Coren: while I can’t stand his writing, he is a smooth and quite genial talk show host. T…
Continue readingFox News North In Trouble–Again!
First, Remember this?
If you don’t care to view all of it, it was basically Krista Erikson in her best Harper blue dress berating Montreal dancer and long time cultural icon, Margie Gillis on her Fox News North show. How she would flail her arms, basically mocking dancers, twist Ms. Gillis’ words . . . → Read More: Fox News North In Trouble–Again!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North In Dutch With CBSC
I’ve never played through the youtube clip of that interview Sun TV’s Krista Erickson did with interpretive dancer Margie Gillis, but I’d already been told that it got the Canadian arts community up in arms. Apparently, more up in arms…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Harperite Pal Geert Wilders Acquitted of Hate Speech Charges
The man invited by the Harperites to speak at this year’s Tulip Festival, Geert Wilders, has been acquitted of hate crime charges.Wilders has also appeared on Fox News North and had Ezra Levant in such a tizzy they had to administer smelling salts, in …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What Gets You Banned From Fox News North
Saying “dildo”. Not being a Nazi. Meanwhile, its official: on average Sun TV doesn’t have enough viewers to fill a junior hockey rink. But that’s better then Kory Teneycke expected. Because presumably Kory Teneycke expected to be back working …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Sun Nooz TV : The Con Comedy Show
When I heard that Kory Teneycke was going to be the big boss of Sun Nooz TV, I knew it would bomb eh?
But who knew it would be such a comedy show?
It’s important to bring to your attention, though, the fact that Sun News is providing…
Continue readingFox News North: 7,000 viewers. 7,000!
Despite the charity work by Shaw and Rogers, nobody wants to watch Canada’s version of Fox News. Only relatives and Con pols are tuning into what’s turning out to be Canada’s version of Comedy Central.
Here’s why. John Doyle thinks Krista Erickson sh…
Continue readingbastard.logic: (Long) Guns and Butter, Meet Fox News North
by matttbastard Over at his humble pad, Progressive Bloggers head honcho Scott Tribe warns NDP leader Jack Layton that his party may face electoral consequences if his maddeningly milquetoast stance on Canada’s Long Gun Registry leads to its repeal: Rather then … Continue reading →
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