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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Saints and standouts 2006 - Mallick

While searching the CBC website for some reference to PM Harper’s Christmas message to the nation (I found none) Heather Mallick’s article “Saints and standouts 2006” caught my eye. I wondered if his name might appear on her compendium of greats. In her list of thirty names it was quite obvious Stephen Harper’s name was less likely to have crossed her mind than such greats as Volpe, Gagliano, Ahmadinajad, Kim Jong Il or Castro. Our Platoists of the CBC, see themselves as akin to the potential philosopher kings of Plato’s Republic, and luminaries among them such as Heather Mallick should not be questioned by mere plebes such as readers or writers on this blog or almost anyone else for that matter. Like Plato seems to advise, those who are farmers should stick to farming, carpenters should be carpenters only and knitters should stick to their knitting. They would like us to believe that members of our greatest national resource should not only be paid handsomely by tax dollars, but their dictums and whims (such as not playing Stephen Harper’s address to the nation, if it was their decision not to play it) should be accepted as beyond our capability to understand or speak up about.

Here is her sixth choice:

Stéphane Dion will be our next prime minister. I'm quite pleased. He should do a climate change deal with the NDP and the PQ, since the Tories think it's bad science. The planet deserves it.

To read the rest click here: http://tinyurl.com/yl2z8z

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Clearly hoping for reform of the CBC to bring about balanced reporting is a waste of time. The time is way past due to cut all funding of this wasteland of Leftists.

It is indeed sad since I can remember a time (long ago granted) when our CBC provided some of the best in-depth and balanced news reporting. Much better than anything from the U.S. at the time.

Posted by: Alain | 2006-12-26 5:54:35 PM

I, too, was browsing and came across Mallick's Saints and Sinners. The two that struck me were the journalists:

George Monbiot is one of Britain's greatest crusaders for justice. Read his new book on climate change, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning.Go to www.monbiot.com to read his latest newspaper columns. Good writer, great reporter. "

Now, anyone who thinks that pathological liar Fisk is a journalist, let alone Britain's "greatest", is in need of serious help. And George Monbiot makes the boy who cried 'Wolf" look like a reclusive mute. Even some Guardian "journalists" flinch at his columns.

"Heather Mallick" is surely a parody by bored CBC newsroom types, thought up to make themselves look half-way responsible. If she isn't, the CBC has some explaining to do.

Posted by: Patrick B | 2006-12-26 6:36:52 PM

Heather Mallick looks like she's in drag, so who cares what she thinks. :-)

Posted by: anonymous | 2006-12-26 7:28:58 PM

Thank you for the post. I read it and it was almost laughable to someone "too stupid to have the right to vote". Some of the quotes I quite enjoyed.
"Amnesty International backed Arar when Canada wouldn't. Give generously, please. "
Was it not under the liberals, that Arar was sent to prison and who sat by and did nothing. I always find it laughable that the CBC expects us to for get that and blame the Conservatives.

"Robert Fisk is Britain's greatest journalist. You cannot understand the Middle East without reading his history of an agonizing century, The Great War for Civilization. His personal bravery is astounding; I did not think he would survive covering the latest Israeli attacks on Lebanon. "
Yes those bad Jews, its so Un-Canadian to fight back against terrorist who shoot missiles at your people, that is not what John Lennon would do.

"Linda McQuaig is the only journalist whose analysis of the Iraq Study Group report made me sit up and take notice. Presented as a grenade in Bush's lap, it is in fact a plan for the U.S. to maintain rigid control of Iraq's oil. McQuaig is as valuable to this country as, well, black gold, Texas tea. (Mum, that means oil.) "
I guess unlike China and France who did not want Iraq oil? Do not worry folks, I have it under good authority from one of my class mates, at DeVry that if the US ever attacks us China well save us due to their ever present commitment to freedom around the world.

Posted by: freedomisnotfree | 2006-12-26 7:29:17 PM

After reading this article, I will look forward to seeing the CBC headquarters burn to the ground. What a total and complete waste of the taxpayer's money! At least the Tronna Star looks for a profit when publishing its garbage.

Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2006-12-26 8:04:37 PM

And here I thought it was only the Liberals caught in a denial spiral.

Posted by: missing link | 2006-12-26 8:16:22 PM

Who is Heather Mallick? Keep in mind that the CBC has only 5% of TV viewers. Most Canadians pay for the network but don't bother to watch. Time for it to go!!

Posted by: westerner5 | 2006-12-26 8:39:10 PM

For years, I have passively defended the CBC because of its better than average, adult coverage of important events. I usually watch the National (albeit with my CBC bullshit filter turned up to maximum setting). However, in the last few months the propaganda arm has gotten completely out of hand. People like Heather Mallick are the STDs of journalistic intercourse. Time to sell the damned thing for whatever it will bring and save a billion dollars a year.

Posted by: Zog | 2006-12-26 9:21:59 PM

Heather Mallick is the "new dumb"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20061208.html

I have a fantasy. I'm invited to a Heather Mallick dinner party. I arrive with a bag of my own feces and a garrishly dressed street hooker. I begin a lively round of insults directed at her guests, and watch with glee as her "inner southerner" emerges. I'm quickly shown the door, but not before recording the entire event on film. Nuff said. ;)

Posted by: Ken | 2006-12-27 12:10:56 AM

Paying attention to Mallick is a waste of time, except as a touchstone to reassess your own. If you find you agree with something she writes or says, reassess.

Posted by: murray | 2006-12-27 5:30:55 AM

I love the CBC radio Toronto morning show hosted by Andy Barrie. It's not for the content. It's for the action. We bet on which comes first; the anti-capitalism story, the global warming story, or the pro-homosexual story. The smart money has been on global warming for the last 6 months.

Posted by: rp | 2006-12-27 5:35:08 AM

Posted by: rp | 2006-12-27 5:36:31 AM

Stopped watching and listening to CBC Radio One
many years ago, Listen to Radio Two and classical music only. CBC has reached the stage where it has become redundent. If we were undertaking a Business Plan focused on it, we would recommend immediate disposal of all public owned assets to the private sector. So called CBC talent today, is not marketable. If I watch TV at all, PBS ex Boston via University of Maine is impressive most of the time.
CBC will remain focused on destroying the Harper Government as long as it functions. MacLeod

Posted by: Jack MacLeod | 2006-12-27 5:52:46 AM

Jack: Sad but true. CRTC needs to go as well.

Posted by: Brent Weston | 2006-12-27 6:41:29 AM

There is no way to clean the Liberal/Lefty bias from the CBC without a total purge.
To scrap the funding from the public purse may be one solution. Let those who's "songs" they're singing pay the piper and see how long they endure.

All people should not be paying for them to spout Liberal/Leftist dogma, snidely or otherwise.

Posted by: Liz J | 2006-12-27 7:07:08 AM

Liz and Brent: Friend is a senior Planner in Ontario
and approached CRTC to remove both CBC and CTV TV
from his Ontario based service provider. CRTC flatly
refused. We found the same thing when we approached the Federal Competition Bureau to investigate CBC
unfair broadcasting and marketing practices. Flat refusal. These are in fact public owned resources.
Happy New Year - MacLeod

Posted by: Jack MacLeod | 2006-12-27 7:16:08 AM

Oy vey: Heather Mallick and the CBC...what a toxic brew. Be kind to yourself and don't listen or watch the CBC, except to see what the enemy is up to. You know: the best offence is a defence?

Like Jack MacLeod, I listen only to the music programs on CBC2 (which means I still have to put up with the hourly propagan...er, news, a constant put-down of PMSH and the CPC government and a rah-rah show for the Librano$).

A complete purge is the only answer because these guys are so up to their eyeballs in **it, they can't smell it.

Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-12-27 7:18:45 AM

The problem is that the CBC gets a billion dollar subsidy from the taxpayer that we know of, it’ probably more if a proper accounting was done.

The CBC is like the New York Times in the US, it is large enough to generate leads on stories that smaller outlets can only afford to plagiarize. So CBC in fact impacts all Canadian news, even if you don’t watch it. It shapes opinion in favor of Dion and against Harper.

We must get ready for an election and prioritize. Harper will have his 5 new points to campaign on. We must support him on whatever he chooses to fight the election on and leave the other issues that bother many of us on the sidelines for this election.

For example, our getting sidetracked by issues like the waste in bilingualism will not help Harper get a majority. The waste in bilingualism is a problem but not nearly the problem that Dion as PM will be. If he gets elected he’ll be spending on Kyoto transfer credits instead of actually doing something about the environment. Mallick and the CBC will support Dion on that and attack Harper on whateveer he does to clean up our environement. Dion did nothing about the environment while in office; the Liberals are all emotion and no action but the MSM prefers emotion to real action and solutions. So we have our work cut out for us to get a majority.

Conservatives need to stay very very focused on a handful of key issue in 2007 and leave the rest for later.

Posted by: nomdenet | 2006-12-27 7:44:56 AM

nomdenet: Je suis d'accord, totalement.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-12-27 7:50:48 AM

Pat you were too kind to the CBC and its denizens...they may think they are some lofty "philospher kings" of the airwaves enlightening the unwashed masses...but the reality is that they're just axe grinding hacks with a one dimensional approach to the world.....and most people see through it and tune them out....only your hard core dogmatic liberal-left utopian disciple can stand a large dose of the CBC's leftist mewlings on a daily basis...this is used by that cult as faith confirmation "sermonizing"...just to reaffirm their belief system mythology that Trudeaupia is running as planned by the designers of "modern Canada".

Posted by: Wlyonmackenzie | 2006-12-27 8:07:05 AM

Did I mention the high brow tone eninating from these low brow messengers of truth as only they can know it is also pretentious? ;-)

You gotta admit that many tune in for a laugh at the comical single mindedness of the stilted CBC sloganeers...but then you recall Mallick's wishful projection of Steadman's "new dumb" thesis and you see she is playing to the right audience.

Posted by: Wlyonmackenzie | 2006-12-27 10:34:37 AM

Heather Malice put up a list of leftist scum that all would look just fabulous with a stake through each of their oh-so bleeding hearts.

Heather, IT IS about the texas tea and it is a good thing someone is keeping it coming. can you imagine what would happen if American would wake up one morning unable to ship us our food because our middle east pals decided to sell to everyone but North America?

Can you imagine what would happen to China's economy if Americas didn't have gas in their cars to go shopping at Walmart?

Can you imagine what would happen to Western Canada if that became America's only source of oil and gas?

Can you imagine what would happen if half of (armed) Americans lost their jobs because the wheels of industry suddnely ran out of oil?

I may not understand Fisk's Iraq as well as Heather does, but I do understand our country and I understand our great neighbor right next door.

If Heather's list of scummers had their way, America would be a nation of homeless losers. The only problem is with the vortex that would be created in that scenario. We would be placed with most of the world, right at the event horizon and thus the free world and some of the not-so-free world would all be sucked directly into a horrid dark-age that even the CBC may not enjoy.

Heather you would indeed look better in a Burka complete with your Birkenstock sandals. Hey ... double burk attire for subjugated leftist women. Could be a fashion statement around the old Sunday goat roast.

Posted by: Duke | 2006-12-27 10:38:31 AM

Further to Malice's "Saints & standouts 2006"

Do you not have to believe in some sort of religion or deity to be a saint? Odd for a pack of Atheist freedom haters to be likened to saints.

And finally F.Y.I. Heather ... the greatest scribe living today is Mark Steyn and not that idiot Fisk or any other illusionist you can name.

Steyn is definitely the standout of the year for telling it like it is in the most entertaining ways, while you and your silly John Lennon fans roll up another one while wishing all us horrid icky, capitalistic, freedom-lovers go away.

Posted by: Duke | 2006-12-27 10:56:46 AM

Many of the comments so far have basically said: "Ignere Mallick, she's an idiot".

Daniel Pipes thinks differently on this issue:

"Osama bin Laden celebrates by name such leftists as Robert Fisk and William Blum. Self-hating Westerners have an out-sized importance due to their prominent role as shapers of opinion in universities, the media, religious institutions, and the arts. They serve as the Islamists' auxiliary mujahideen." http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1206/pipes2006_12_27.php3?printer_friendly

We3 must not ignore Mallick et al.
They have the megaphone, they have the influence. This is the real problem: the CBC self-haters, the BBC editors, especially Tony Burman, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail, CTV and so on are infested with people who cannot believe they are wrong, who cannot believe any other opinion could be valid, and who condescend at best, and vilify as a matter of routine, anyone they despise, misunderstand or are plain ignorant about.

The Globe and Mail is Liberal Central for propaganda, and between it and CBC/CTV the chances of Harper getting a working majority are non-existent. Unless, that is, some way is found to lance these festering boils.

The war for western culrue is not in the Middle East, it is on Front Street, Toronto; in Shepherd's Bush, London; and in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. I fear we are at the eleventh hour.

Posted by: Patrick B | 2006-12-27 11:46:55 AM

Heroes of 2006

Fidel Castro - hang in there buddy, save Cuban health care !
Maher Arar
Stephane Dion
The Dixie Chicks
Bon Jovi
Al Gore - not only the true President but now a Hollywood celebrity to boot
Peter Mansbridge - just for being Peter Mansbridge
Jean Chretien for his riveting speech at the Grit convention
Lawrence Blackburn for appointing an additional slate of anti-discrimination federal officers to monitor private businesses across the nation (oops, which nation would that be now?) - God knows it was the country's top priority. Common law, multiple Human Rights Codes and Tribunals, federal and provincial legislation and the like were certainly not good enough, people !
Garth Turner for sticking to his principles (like the reverse mortgage) against the ultra-neo-con party line. Wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be nice. Hand over your children's inheritance to the big big banks. Now that's nice.

Did I miss anyone?

Posted by: Howard Roark | 2006-12-27 10:39:49 PM

Give the CBC one little kudo. They have played a lot of REAL Christmas Carols this year. (I don't think I was hallucinating!!)

Posted by: bg | 2006-12-28 1:49:06 PM

Patrick B, you are indeed correct in your assessment, and Daniel Pipes covered it extremely well in his article to which you referred: How the West Could Lose. Those interested in understanding the deadly danger we face should read his article which can be found in the link you provided.

On all accounts we are losing big time at present thanks to the internal enemies Mr. Pipes named: pacifism, self-hatred and complacency. Furthermore as he pointed out the jihadists are being greatly assisted by Muslims within the West who pursue Islamification of their host countries through educational, political and religious means without recourse to illegality or terrorism.

Unless the majority of us have a serious wake-up call and muster the courage to make the required radical changes, we shall surely lose our freedom and culture.

Posted by: Alain | 2006-12-28 3:05:00 PM

CBC bites, and Mallick is the Queen of writing sweet nothings into the ears of Liberals. She gives them, not what is journalism, but what they WANT to hear!

Daniel Pipes is right on the mark.

And terrorists will put down their arms and participate in democracy when?

By definition, terrorists are terrorists because they participate in terrorism. We have been aware of their attitude for decades, and still, to this day, liberal writers CHOOSE to go soft on terror. The other day I was reading CBC, and there was an article on the fact that Israel may start retaliating against the terror attacks, by firing at the rocket launching sites, therefore breaking the month long cease-fire. Since the so-called cease-fire, the terrorist palestinians have fired 68 rockets into Israel, wounding 1,300 civilians, and killing a few. In my worlkd, this means THEY have broken the cease-fire, NOT the other way around. But, CBC still chooses to write anti-Semitic garbage as if Palestinian terrorists could NEVER be in the wrong.

And that is why Liberals suck.

Excuse my language, but I simply cannot do the subject justice with plain language.

Happy tax New Year!

Posted by: Lady | 2006-12-29 2:35:25 PM

Wait!! Terrorists are those who commit terror?!?!?!!?

It's so simple.

Lady, you know there is no excuse for languge like that. But sometimes you have to let loose.

Here goes: Hoodinny!!!

Take that hippies!!

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