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October 30, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Watching CBC news last night (all paraphrased) on the US election:

“Barack Obama, in an unprecedented move, spent 6 million on a primetime infomercial. (bla bla bla about his campaign.)”

“But the Republican camp hasn’t given up yet. Sarah Palin was in Ohio (interview with some supportive college girls). Republicans are angry with Palin for possibly campaigning for her own candidacy in 2012.”

Based on the CBC, it was as if John McCain didn’t exist.

So who has moved on to 2012–Palin? or the media? (I’m still wondering what Joe Biden is up to.)

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Brigitte shouldn’t be surprised but still: “Republicans” are angry with Palin? Which Republicans? All of them? Ah, er, except for Rush listeners (he’s a pretty enthusiastic fan), a batch of conservative commentators, and even Karl Rove, who wrote this morning that he had “already cast my absentee ballot in Kerr County, Texas — joyfully, enthusiastically marking the straight Republican column.” I’m sure there are McCain aides and supporters who resent Sarah Palin’s popularity. But good grief, isn’t that sort of why they drafted her in the first place? Why can’t the CBC (and most other traditional media outlets) see the grumblers for what they are? Oh, and have they talked about Wendy Button while reporting on the Obama campaign?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin

The fact massage

September 29, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

CBC apologizes for Heather Mallick’s Mighty Wind column.

Portions of Ms. Mallick’s column do not meet the standards set out in policy for a point-of-view piece since some of her “facts” are unsupportable. She may, of course, resubmit her column taking account of our editorial standards. The editors are free to, in fact obliged to, exercise appropriate editing standards.

I used to be a fact checker. Yes, magazines usually have a department dedicated to driving ambitious, young journalists to insanity, by having them confirm the facts as written by others.

There could have been no fact check that would have caused this column not to run.

Fact checker: “Having perused many pornographic web sites, I conclude that Palin does not look like a porn star.”  

OR

Fact checker: “Having called some male Republican’s wives… it would seem sexual satisfaction is, er, high.”

This apology from the CBC is grand, except it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. They entirely fail, consistently, to note there is another set of views out there and they monopolize the media with their views using my tax dollars.

On that note, if you want more bias…check this most recent “news” report on “women’s rights” and Bill C-484. How’s about interviewing those victims groups that support Bill C-484 instead of claiming there were none? How’s about challenging the opinion that abortion is a “woman’s right”? Yes, I know, it would have required research. And a fact check.

Or maybe the CBC has an official policy–something that goes a little like this: Slander now, apologize later.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, Heather Mallick, Jon Kay

She started it!

September 22, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

Oi ve. Some of these media commentators, Heather Mallick first and foremost, are like little kids.

The slurs continue. Here, and here we read about threats made against Heather Mallick, the result of her now infamous Mighty Wind column.  I decry those threats. But I can’t help but think that Mallick set the tone and can’t now pretend she is above the fray. Her words–certainly not an example of brave decorum in an otherwise alarmist world:

Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?”

Her response to the threats? She is quoted here as saying:

The responses to my column proved me correct about the extreme right in the United States: they have a great misogynist rage in them,” Mallick said in an interview from Toronto on Saturday.”

Not liking Heather Mallick does not constitute misogyny. If that’s the case–then the better part of Canada is misogynist, too.

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Rebecca adds: “What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?”

Again, I am struck by how crass and derisive the language the loony left uses to describe sex is. Has any conservative commentator characterized a consensual relationship in such vulgar terms? Aren’t we supposed to be the uptight prudes, while they are all in favour of anything at all, as long as it’s consensual?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, Heather Mallick, misogyny, Van Susteren

If Morgentaler isn’t sure, why are you?

July 23, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Just a question. Here’s the exchange, quoted from this article:

‘I’m like a newborn baby,’ Dr. Henry Morgentaler told the CBC’s Evan Solomon about surviving a recent stroke and heart operation. ‘I enjoy being alive.’ The irony wasn’t lost on Solomon, who then asked the Canadian abortion doctor ‘how does a guy who’s seen so much death (in Auschwitz and Dachau, where he was imprisoned as a youngster) fight for a cause which many people believe is a form of killing?’

‘I won’t deny there’s an inconsistency,’ Morgentaler answered. ‘Maybe I’ve deluded myself.’

Maybe?

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Important update: This from John Jalsevac writing in from Lifesite-

Unfortunately the author of the Starphoenix piece where you got this from rather irresponsibly pulled the quotation from Morgentaler in this interview WAY out of context. When Morgentaler admitted that there may have been an “inconsistency” and that he may have “deluded himself”, he wasn’t speaking about abortion at all. By that point in the interview, which comes some 15 minutes or so after Solomon asks this question about the holocaust and Morgentaler’s choice for a cause, they are talking about Morgentaler’s treatment of women. Morgentaler admits that his philandering ways may not be consistent with the love and concern he professes for the female sex on the whole. He’s not expressing doubts about abortion.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, Evan Solomon, killing, Morgentaler, Order of Canada

Good question

July 3, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Do we have the right to do what is wrong?

The real problem is ripping their bodies apart in what should be a safe place — their mothers’ wombs. Morgentaler’s award is simply a symptom of a more deeply rooted crisis. …

Across a period of four decades, more than 2.8 million human beings have been killed because of an assumption — that they were not human.

Case in point: Morgentaler claims abortion is safer, but to be accurate he must assume that the unborn aren’t human (because killing them certainly isn’t safe for them!). Morgentaler also claims abortion has decreased the crime rate — which may carry some weight if one doesn’t consider killing defenceless human beings a crime.

And so, because of one major assumption, abortion becomes legal and an abortionist gets an award. And as it turns out, the assumption is wrong.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, Stephanie Gray

Pro-life demonstrators? What Pro-life demonstrators?

May 9, 2008 by Véronique Bergeron Leave a Comment

Ottawa March for Life 2008

In local Ottawa news yesterday, 2 broken water pipes caused traffic nightmares. But if you were driving through Ottawa’s downtown core, as I was, in the afternoon, you could not miss the 8,000 marchers who paralyzed circulation around Parliament Hill. CBC radio was probably caught in some “ethical” dilemma, having to choose between reporting what goes on in Ottawa – 4 main downtown arteries filled by 8,000 people – and having to acknowledge pro-life demonstrators. Because driving down Metcalfe around 2 pm, I was shocked by the size of the March for Life. Up came the 2 o’clock local newscast and I was thinking “For sure, they’ll have to mention the march, if only to accuse it of clogging up downtown!” But no! Not a word! Not a word at 3 pm either. Not a word. The broken water pipes got the royal treatment.

See no evil Hear no evil
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Tanya adds: The Ottawa Citizen didn’t have a problem accepting money to advertise for the March for Life, though. Ahh, scruples…

http://shopping.ottawacitizen.canada.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=836404

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: 2008 March for Life, CBC, Media, Ottawa

Abstinence is not a dirty word

March 12, 2008 by Véronique Bergeron Leave a Comment

Heard a news item on the CBC about rising rates of sexually transmitted infections among young teens. (You can read about it, here.) And what would be the cause of this rise? They don’t get tested.

I would have laughed if it wasn’t so sad. How about young teens are having sex? On goes the CBC reporter: “While abstinence will prevent 100% of sexually transmitted infections…” — I never thought I would live to hear the CBC talk about teen sex and abstinence in the same segment — “… it isn’t for everybody.”

Abstinence may not be for everybody but if I had to take a wild guess at a likely population for abstinence education, 13-year-olds would be my second choice… right after 12-year-olds.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: abstinence, CBC, sexually transmitted infections, STI, teenagers

Castro mildly demurs

February 19, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

Fidel Castro is resigning from another “term” as President. The media report this as if he had been elected and actually had a democratic mandate. Now they’ll need a replacement, which is kind of like when the Liberals held a convention after Paul Martin stepped down, right?

Unbelievable, the way people discuss Cuba. This morning the CBC asked their “woman on the ground” (she was in Mexico, but I digress) what his legacy was, and she responded with talk of free public health care. They then pondered poverty in Cuba–whether it had been caused by Fidel or whether the American boycott was to blame.

I’m going to conclude now with a short lesson, Communism 101, if you will. And I’ll Keep It Simple, so the CBC can understand:

Communism=poverty

Now I have to go see whether some savvy stylist can replace the hair I just lit on fire.

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Update: I had not noticed this in the Post today, an article about a Montreal exhibit of Cuban art, which avoids and evades the “politics” of Cuba–namely the notion that Castro is and was a tyrannical dictator. Thank you, Robert Fulford.

¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today lacks both critical intelligence and historical honesty…

Still, its romantic, half-blind approach calls for a strong antidote. Fortunately, there’s one available. A visit to the MMFA show should be followed by a viewing of Before Night Falls, the superb film that Julian Schnabel made in 2000 from the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). As a teenager Arenas welcomed the revolution but later found himself classed as its enemy because he was gay and because he sent his poetry outside Cuba for publication. Schnabel shows Arenas (brilliantly played by Javier Bardem) brutalized by the goons of homophobic communism, which established prison camps for the punishment of gays. Exiled in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, Arenas arrived in New York. He killed himself in 1990, leaving a suicide note that blamed Castro for ruining his life.

Neither Arenas nor anyone who shared his fate gets mentioned in the Montreal show. The governing principle of the exhibition is neither artistic nor historical. What the MMFA has delivered on this occasion is a distorted and pathetic expression of cultural diplomacy.

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Rebecca adds: Orwell famously described his dystopia as a jackboot stamping on a human face, forever. The always-interesting John Derbyshire added a codicil: “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: CBC, fidel castro

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