Yesterday, Christie Blatchford wrote a column for the National Post full of back handed compliments to Jack Layton on the day his death. Between the lines, however, lay a great streak of right-winged opportunism, attacking the man and his party for their beliefs and actions. Using terms like ‘vainglorious’ and ‘sophistry’, Blatchford used . . . → Read More: Jonathan Kay defends Christie Blatchford’s indefensible column on Jack Layton
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The right reacts to death of Jack Layton
Stephen Taylor must be so proud.
“By the end of today’s news cycle… …there will be no part of his anatomy left unkissed… “
Small Dead Animals begins its discussion of Layton’s passing begging for civility from commenters. Commendable but the fact that it is even necessary is a sad commentary of its own.
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Continue readingNo Jane Taber, Harper is NOT reinventing ‘patriotism’ in Canada
He is destroying Canada’s greatest and most loved attributes that used to define us around the world – “the Charter, the flag, peacekeeping and multiculturalism”. Instead Harper is hawking war, exploitation of minorities and the poor and an unseemly devotion to US and British heritage. Taber does her best Harper fluffing by continually tying . . . → Read More: No Jane Taber, Harper is NOT reinventing ‘patriotism’ in Canada
Continue readingBut I Thought The CBC Had a Two Year Cooling Off Period With Ex-Politicians-Juxtapose!
I know I’m going to need to be heavily sedated after writing the first sentence, but I find myself in agreement with the Blogging SupposiTory resident McCarthyist, BC Blue today. I am asking the same question he is today:
Why is CBC allowing Stockwell Day to break their 2 year cooling off policy?
However, . . . → Read More: But I Thought The CBC Had a Two Year Cooling Off Period With Ex-Politicians-Juxtapose!
Continue readingAnother blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
While QMI outlets like to brag about how Fox News North (AKA Sun News Network) is ‘smoking‘ its news rivals, things aren’t looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel. This October, the network will lose its over the air free access; it will only be seen by those subscribers whose cable company . . . → Read More: Another blow for Sun News Network. Loses preferred access to more than three million Canadian TV screens.
Continue readingHarper loves movies! Jane Taber’s desperate fluff piece to make our PM seem human.
He loves cats! He loves pop music! Now we learn our beloved leader loves movies, too! Not only that, Stephen’s a ‘cinephile’ (no not that, you dirty mind).
Dear Jane
Thank you for all your hard work on behalf of the party.
XXOO Conservative Party of . . . → Read More: Harper loves movies! Jane Taber’s desperate fluff piece to make our PM seem human.
Continue readingRupert Murdoch fear mongers Robert Crumb from visiting Sydney
You don’t have to be under criminal investigation for tapping voicemails to be a corrupt organization. If you’re a news outfit, all you have to do is print yellowed, sensationalistic profiles solely intended to demean anything or anyone outside your ideological world view.
Such is the case with legendary 60′s icon and . . . → Read More: Rupert Murdoch fear mongers Robert Crumb from visiting Sydney
Continue readingMichael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Dawg posted a video tonight I wish I had never seen. No, not a clip from the latest slasher flick. Worse. Michael Coren, using the meme begun by disgraced ‘historian’ David Starkey that it’s ‘not racism, it’s culture’, went on a riot of his own on Fox News North with Brian Lilley gleefully cheering him on. His rampage . . . → Read More: Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.
Continue readingWho knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Dan Gardner calls this an “indecently enjoyable read”. I wholeheartedly agree. Too bad there is not more reporting like this about Fox News North (it really is).
The summation (emphasis mine):
Oh, and remember the news about Conservative Transportation Minister Denis Lebel being a Bloc Québécois member? I asked the folks at the media monitoring service Infomart . . . → Read More: Who knew Sun TV News was such a welfare queen?
Continue readingOh Mr. Nicholls! I Do Believe Your Freudian Slip is Showing!
Oh, Mr. Gerry Nicholls, what have you done?
Do you live or work in an Ivory Tower, completely isolated from any sense of reality?
I know I don’t live in an Ivory Tory, but perhaps you do? And so do most of those living in the Sun Media Batcave and their readers it . . . → Read More: Oh Mr. Nicholls! I Do Believe Your Freudian Slip is Showing!
Continue readingMore Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
It’s been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They’re all pissed but none more so than Fox News. There were African American people at the party! And no jobs were created. Can you hear the dog whistle? Be . . . → Read More: More Onion than the Onion. Fox News reports on black hip hop birthday for Obama.
Continue readingGuardian: Canadian government lobbying Europeans to protect tar sands
Nice to see the Guardian doing the heavy lifting while our media snoozes (aka doing Harper’s bidding).
The Canadian government has been accused of an “unprecedented” lobbying effort involving 110 meetings in less than two years in Britain and Europe in a bid to derail new fuel legislation that could hit exports from its tar . . . → Read More: Guardian: Canadian government lobbying Europeans to protect tar sands
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Fair and balanced Brian Lilley in CTV News segment
Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor writes about Brian Lilley’s wife and family taking centre stage on CTV in 2005 endorsing the Conservatives move to scrap the national child care program. Read the whole post; there’s much, much more – Commies, Fox News North and how Lilley’s . . . → Read More: Our liberal media part XXVVX
Continue readingJane Taber’s one-sided column unleashes Dean Del Mastro on Margaret Atwood
In a column worthy of her nickname ‘Tory Taber’, the Globe writer gives all kinds of space to the Con spokesperson to insult and lie about Margaret Atwood. Only one thing missing – Margaret Atwood’s response to Mastro. Because Tabor doesn’t provide any. Another day at our Con media office. All Con all the time.
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Continue readingWitch Hunt On Nycole Turmel Shows How Much of Canada Really Doesn’t Get The Bloc Quebecois, Forgets Certain Precedents, And Priorities Screwed
I’m still on the road, in Ford Nation. I thank my co-bloggers for keeping Sister Sage’s Musings current while I’m away. I have quick access to a hotel computer, so I will be brief. The title pretty much explains how I feel about the tweets and the general reactions from the blogosphere and . . . → Read More: Witch Hunt On Nycole Turmel Shows How Much of Canada Really Doesn’t Get The Bloc Quebecois, Forgets Certain Precedents, And Priorities Screwed
Continue readingSchmuckraker Breitbart caught doctoring video AGAIN?
Legendary media charlatan Andrew Breitbart does it again. One of his blogs put up an edited version of a video seemingly showing MSNBC talking head Norah O’Donnell saying, “…you gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing” in a question to the WH’s press secretary. Makes it sound like O’Donnell is using . . . → Read More: Schmuckraker Breitbart caught doctoring video AGAIN?
Continue readingThings North American Corporate Media Would be Sure To Suppress But Would Be Crazy Enough To Work
Not to mention, no doubt, things to drive American Homeland Security Batty and drive the McCarthyist Tea-bagger paranoid types off to the fainting couches. Norway’s response to the recent terror attacks, quite different from Dubya Bush’s “We’ll smoke ‘em out!” vengeance speeches following 9/11 or those crazy security measures like airport body scanners . . . → Read More: Things North American Corporate Media Would be Sure To Suppress But Would Be Crazy Enough To Work
Continue readingWell, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Wassamatter, Mr. Penninga? Somebody’s having a bad day, I see. Doncha just hate it when people when folks ask questions and think outside the box?
Before you have a hissy fit, I live in Quebec, and thus, not eligible to vote in Ontario and I am fortunate to live in a province, where . . . → Read More: Well, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Continue readingNo Jonathan Kay, Mark Steyn is not a “thoughtful, mainstream thinker”
Today’s NatPo column by Jonathan Kay shows how he is as guilty as any right wing journalist in exploiting the current climate of fear and hate against the left. He is not the only one. His paper promulgates hate for the left on a ongoing basis. It unabashedly promotes the Conservative party 24/7. But today’s . . . → Read More: No Jonathan Kay, Mark Steyn is not a “thoughtful, mainstream thinker”
Continue readingCNN’s Erick Erickson: “Secular leftists and Islamists are both of this world. Christians may be traveling through, but we are most definitely not of the world.”
Yep, he said that. And I must say, I agree. At least about the ‘leftists’ part. We are definitely of this earth. As for those non-leftists floating around in the ether, good luck to you! Hope you arrive at your destination in one piece. Oops, that was supposed to be . . . → Read More: CNN’s Erick Erickson: “Secular leftists and Islamists are both of this world. Christians may be traveling through, but we are most definitely not of the world.”
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