I see that Rex Murphy has finally responded to complaints that he is in a conflict of interest when he attacks environmentalists on the CBC, while shilling for Big Oil.And that he has done it in his usual fashion, by trying to bury the inconvenient truth under a mountain of
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The Disaffected Lib: Rex Murphy’s Best Friend and Staunchest Defender – Why That’d be Rex Murphy
Wherein Rex assures us all, soiled linens aside, he has not been sleeping with Big Oil and, indeed, always says what’s on his mind, unfettered though that may be by facts. Rex, what’s that line about “thou doth protest too much, methinks”?
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Future bleak for Brent Rathgeber’s CBC disclosure bill; perhaps less so for Rex Murphy’s commentaries
Your blogger with CBC commentator Rex Murphy, quite possibly on his way to a speaking engagement with the oil industry. Below: the same blogger with Edmonton-St. Albert Member of Parliament Brent Rathgeber, who has a date with history next week; the controversial Press Progress Rex Murphy info-graphic. ST. ALBERT, Alberta
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Leading Exemplar of The CBC’s Policy Of Conservative Appeasement
Thanks to Montreal Simon, DESMOG CANADA, Press Progress and others for alerting us to the true extent of Rex Murphy’s egregious conflict of interest in his role as CBC commentator. Murphy is yet another sad but solid indication of the policy of appeasement the Corporation has adopted toward the Harper
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: Rex Murphy and the Con Broadcasting Corporation
About a week ago I wrote a post demanding to know why the CBC hadn't fired Rex Murphy for being a shill for Big Oil.And I assumed that because so many others had complained, and it was such an obvious conflict of interest, that the CBC would at least take
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the CBC Should Fire Rex Murphy Immediately
I've always known he was a vociferous climate change denier, a wordier Ezra Levant. A shabby little demagogue who lards his windy diatribes with Con talking points.I recently found out that in addition to his gigs at CBC Television, CBC Radio, and the National Post, he also moonlights as a shill
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Neil Young and the Message That Must Be Heard
Well I guess Big Oil and its rented pimps in the Harper regime must be getting desperate eh?Neil Young is just too popular. They just can't stop him. Or silence his message.And now his show is rolling into the heart of Albertonia. And it's SOLD OUT !!!!!!So today the oil pimps deployed
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
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rex Murphy’s Caustic Comments Cause Senator Mike Duffy To EscapeThrough The Kitchen
I just hate it when conservative commentators poke fun at other conservatives. I hate it I tell you. Hate it!
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: In Case You Missed It
Here is Rex Murphy holding forth on the current ‘troubles’ in Ottawa: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolygonic: Alert: Rex Murphy disgruntled!
It’s been a while, folks! But on the eve of the NDP’s big conference, I had to just make a somewhat-related comment on Rex Murphy’s latest pontification on Tom Mulcair’s popularity conundrum. Which isn’t as much of a conundrum, or a crisis, as people will make out in the midst
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Where’s Wuffy?
Where’s Wuffy? From Rex Murphy report on CBC TV last night about the location of the residence of Senator Duffy
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Rex Murphy is a high-paid troll with an extensive…
Rex Murphy is a high-paid troll with an extensive vocabulary. Murphy’s latest predictable, propagandizing public love letter to perpetual politician Stephen Harper is simply sickening to anyone who has been paying attention to what the HarperCons have been doing to their country. The snobby, elitist, preachy pundit must genuinely believe
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Murphy’s Conundrum
Pity poor Rex Murphy. He doesn’t understand what he calls the “unbalanced and disproportionate” antipathy Canadians feel for Stephen Harper: For, step back a little, make a little space, and you will see that in his personal and domestic conduct, Harper is almost stereotypically Canadian. He’s a mild, unobnoxious, hockey-mad
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Message to Canada’s media: OK guys, you can stop campaigning for that Romney guy now …
Romney Defeats Obama! U.S. President Barack Obama – perhaps not exactly as illustrated – holds up a copy of the Toronto Globe and Mail after his election victory last night. Or something like that. Maybe they just missed it that we don’t get a vote. Most Canadians don’t get to vote, that is, in the …
Continue readingLeDaro: Rex Murphy on Standard of Conduct in Parliament
Once in a while Rex Murphy provides good commentary, as the following on the standard of conduct in Parliament – especially he talks about big-mouth Rob Andres. “Mr. Rob Anders, Conservative MP, whose reckless mouth is hardly news (he once wanted Nelson Mandela to be labeled a terrorist) went to
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Adoration of Peter Lougheed moves beyond canonization into deification
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s message at Peter Lougheed’s state funeral. Below: Premier Lougheed with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who haunts us still. With his state funeral yesterday afternoon, the official adoration of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed moved beyond canonization into deification. If other Canadians happened to pause and listen
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