Oh Peggy, Your Anti-Quebec Bias Is Showing!
Peggy Wente first goes into her commentary over Patrick Brazeau and Justin Trudeau’s boxing match last week-end and saying that Justin Trudeau would not be a good leader for the…
Media Fail
Don Martin woes: When telling Dimitri Soudas and Bell boss to “go fuck yourselves” can get you suspended from CTV.
Don Martin: badass I would have loved to been a fly on the glass. I wonder how many free speech warriors from the right will race to Don Martin’s defence?…
Word to Peggy Wente And Comic Relief: A Cheesy Cartoon And Latest From Montreal Icons, Bowser and Blue
Keep thinking you live in a democracy, dear. What’s happened to my country? I went away for a couple of weeks and all hell broke loose. I came back to…
What Rush hath wrought: 16-year-old harassed for being a “slut, a prostitute, a horny piece of trash that is out to sleep with every guy in school”
The fallout from Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke has more far-reaching consequences than the public humiliation Fluke received at the hands of the radio star and the subsequent withdrawal…
Five advertisers drop Rush Limbaugh after Sandra Fluke slander
After Limbaugh called the woman refused at place at Darrell Issa’s birth control table ”slut” and “prostitute”, the media and the progressive blogosphere and even Republican presidential contenders (save Romney…
Globe & Mail dips its toes into Robogate
Globe & Mail editorial office The Globe & Mail, that dusty old Miss Havisham of a newspaper, has been notably silent on the Robogate scandal, dancing around it like a…
L. Ian MacDonald quacks: “Even if there were robocalls, Stephen Harper won fair and square”
Old MacDonald had a wank I, L. Jymn Parrett, almost spit a mouth full of Cazadores over my PC reading that headline from Postmedia. The lede is just as good:…
Long-time Conservative operative Keith Beardsley demonizes social media
Shorter Keith Beardsley: Social media is full of dirty fucking hippies who are not nice to Conservatives. You know what I find the most egregious about our Conservative-dominated media? It’s…
Perfect combo: Pamela Geller and Ezra Levant on Zombie Muhammad. Sharia!
I was scouring Memorandum last night and I see Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller is posting about her convo with Ezra Levant on Sun News (she calls it ‘Sun TV’).…
Why Did Bob Rae Apologize?
Indeed! Why the hell did you, Mr. Rae? So it was a Liberal staffer behind the Twitter moniker of vikileaks. So? Glad someone was fighting back. Also, once again,…
The new Conservative journalism: we really want to get to the bottom of Robogate. Stop laughing. We do!
Funny how fast Canadian Conservative writers and operatives can turn on the ethics charm offensive as they quickly close their bag of dirty tricks and begin concern trolling for truth…
US cable and the contraception debate. Male guests dominate the airwaves 2 to 1 over females.
Last week, at the height of the kerfuffle over Obama’s regulation to include free birth control in health insurance plans, cable news networks featured an overwhelming number of males. Out…
Flat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and…
Sun News Network + Jason Kenney = frothy mixture
If you ever wanted to combine the worst of Conservatism – that frothy mixture of deceit, barely-veiled racism and amoral opportunism – look no further than the perfect marriage of…
Vic Danger – Third Eye. Toews doesn’t know ‘statistics’. But he sure knows fear.
Vic Toews doesn’t let reality get in the way of a good ideology (emphasis mine). “I don’t know if the statistics demonstrate that crime is down,” he said. “I’m focused…
Today’s Conservative: afraid of debate, emboldened by a docile media
For the 13th time in nine months, the Conservatives have stifled debate on an issue important to Canadians, especially those approaching old age. “Enthusiastic support”, indeed. When the public is…
The Pension Plan fiasco. Who cares? There are few jobs for someone 60, let alone 65 or 67.
I’ve been watching bemusedly – and with no little horror – the arguments waged between elite media types, celebrated authors and lowly bloggers over Stephen Harper’s hint about raising the…
Tanker Safety
There is much talk these days about the safety of transporting bitumen via tankers in the Douglas Channel and out into Hecate Straight. The proponentspimps of the project insist that…
From a First Nation contrarian: Breaking the spell, a call for unification NOW | rabble.ca
From a First Nation contrarian: Breaking the spell, a call for unification NOW | rabble.ca. Filed under: Aboriginal Issues, Media Fail., Progressives
Canada’s Energy Future
Pressure mounts in the Media, as Canadian Petroleum Producers bombard us with propaganda to forcefeed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it’s associated Tanker traffic in the most dangerous and pristine…