Enter the Not Rex contest!
Have you got what it takes to counter Rex Murphy?
Tens of thousands agree: We have had enough of Rex Murphy and his reactionary, mean-spirited attacks on all the things that make Canada a great place to live. Since CBC hasn't put any balancing voices to Rex on their flagship news show The National, rabble.ca will do our part.
We are pleased to announce the Not Rex Murphy Contest. The winner(s) of the Not Rex contest will be featured presenting a video commentary on rabble.ca on the same nights as Mr. Murphy presents commentary on CBC.
You can join the contest in two ways: 1) You can simply nominate yourself as Rex's replacement, or 2) if you think there is someone out there who would be a great replacement, you can nominate them and we will contact them to see if they are willing to join the contest.
Only those who actually share the values and aspirations of the majority of Canadians; who trust that a genuine democracy would actually deliver what Canadians want, who don't think it's a good idea to give corporations almost unlimited and totally unregulated power and who - unlike Rex - understand that there is no serious scientific debate about humans' role in the climate crises, need apply or be nominated.
Too bad I wasn't prettier. Alas though I look best on radio and when I type.
I'm saddened for Rex. I wanted him to be our next king. I wanted to see D.G. Rex on our coins. I just wouldn't know if his image would show his head or "tail."
I already added my submission here.
Also, to enter, your hair must look like this:
Nice to see Rex eviscerate Pat Robertson
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/01/16/...
Yeah, that's such a difficult stand to take! ;)
Just the first few paragraphs are cringe-inducing:
Over the centuries, the question has absorbed great minds. Milton’s Paradise Lost, written to “justify the ways of God to men,” is the example nonpareil: theodicy in 12 books and (glorious) iambic pentameter.
It’s an almost archaic inquiry these days, but if anything could revive the subject it might be the puzzling existence, in a putatively benign creation, of Pat Robertson, the egregious televangelist and sometime politico south of the border.
Hey, over here! I'm *not* Rex Murphy? Can I play?
Of course!
Okay, assign me a task and I will go at it like a rabid border collie. Please.
A business organization in Kamloops is bringing Rex here. They are charging $72.45 for his speech. They have been advertisig the "event" for several months. I wonder if they have any takers.
$72.45 TO LISTEN TO REX?!! LOL
I'm sorry. Who the fuck is Rex Murphy? And why do we hate him, again?
Here you go G.M.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Murphy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Murphy
Thanks, Caissa. From wiki:
Rex Murphy (born March 1947) is a noted Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters.
Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy. He graduated from Memorial University in 1968, and promptly went to England to study at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. He did not, however, receive an Oxford degree.
I agree the guy's a fucking loser.
Hmmmm....did not know Rex was a Rhodes scholar.....
That's where he picked up all them fancy words. :)
Found another good picture of not-so-sexy Rexy:
Listening to Rex on Cross Country Checkup on Sunday, I decided that he needed his own Goo page.