Power & Politics The extreme right own the CBC edition

Agreed.

Also did you hear Kevin O'Leary last evening on Lang and O'Leary report? Banks need to be bigger so they can compete globally, business is war -- or words similar.

Not taking in the CBC so much these days.

I heard Evan Solomon try to attack Terry Eagleton in a radio interview becuase of his Marxism. Eagleton calmly made mincemeat out of him. Solomon, whom I hated the first time I heard his show "The Contrarian," is a first-class idiot.

I doubt I'm going to watch P&P any longer - because of Evan Solomon, it's a piece of shit. How is the CTV equivalent - Tom Clark - faring these days?

ETA: Don Newman was 100 times more interesting and 1000 times more knowledgeable than Evan Solomon is on his best day.

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The CBC is the state media

 

I read that first as "the state meds". I quit CBC long ago.

CBC: Your publicly funded corporate broadcaster.

So, did anyone notice who was advertising on P&P?

I note that  (lang) and O'LEARY  are proudly sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia's I-Trade. 

I'm sure you've seen the fake BP add, with the BP icon underwritten by the slogan "Bringing Oil to America's Shores".

If the people who advertise on P&P like to support Solomon's take on things, then they wouldn't mind having their logo and brand combined with the things Solomon or his guests say, I suppose.

The CBC is meant to suck up to whoever's in power.  The National Post ilk have hushed down on their calls to privatize the CBC because their guys call the shots.

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You people have nerve questioning the actions of Isreal.

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Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many liberals, especially in the secular Jewish world, people deeply devoted to human rights for all people, Palestinians included. But the two groups are increasingly distinct. Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. One reason is that the leading institutions of American Jewry have refused to foster—indeed, have actively opposed—a Zionism that challenges Israel’s behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and toward its own Arab citizens. For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism’s door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead.

The most liberating act I've undertaken in the last decade has been cancelling my cable and giving the TV away. We read more, we spend much more time outdoors, and we no longer perceive the world through a lens so brutally shaped by consumer marketing and corporate thought control.
TV is like smoking for the brain except the cancer is certain and far more pervasive. I encourage you to give it up.

"Finally found were they hid yesterdays show. Don't know why I torture myslef watching this , but I do."

It's pretty sad, what we have to watch for political coverage.

Frustrated Mess wrote:

The most liberating act I've undertaken in the last decade has been cancelling my cable and giving the TV away. We read more, we spend much more time outdoors, and we no longer perceive the world through a lens so brutally shaped by consumer marketing and corporate thought control. TV is like smoking for the brain except the cancer is certain and far more pervasive. I encourage you to give it up.

That has also been my experience...for nearly two years now...but we really must stop meeting (minds) like this.  :)

As media is the key to any country's voting decisions, I believe the CBC needs to see a nation-wide protest against its increasing right-wing bias.

Progressive groups have thus far been afraid to criticize the CBC, thinking it might lead to further cuts or that their spokespeople might be ostracized, but I think it's time that the elite at the corp realize they are turning off their own demographic base, en mass. The political programming has been increasingly biased these past few years, and I for one, am sick to death of the same-old right-wing guests, week after week, spewing their poisonous opinions as part of a so-called "balanced" panel - this is true in TV and to a lesser degree in radio. I would have less issue in letting the draconian dinosaurs regurgitate their ludicrous opinions nightly if the other side is allowed equal and fair air time; instead, we merely have smaller dinosaurs singing from a similar song sheet, in their place.

Nothing will change unless the directors and exec producers hear this from a good number of its progressive listeners. Ian Morrison's Friends of the CBC, which I've donated to in the past, needs to change its tactics.

Hey Pat Martin got a lot of air time today.  Long enough to infer that the Priest who heads Opus Dei in Canada is a fascist.

Cool.  Well, Pat Martin was cool.  The guy from Opus Dei was creepy.

I missed the later segment, where Solomon had Jaime Watt on.  We might remember Watt from such heroic deeds as the character assasination of Darcy Allen Sheppard.  

I know what you are saying, Boom Boom. It was very much Pat Martin on trial, and the Priest got lobbed some softballs while Martin got the high heat. 

But then, Martin throws them high and inside himself, and if Solomon thought himself the CBC's Tomas de Torquemada, he had a rude awakening.

Martin always expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I've found Ceeb radio coverage of the Israeli\floatilla story to be decent.  AIH's Off grilled the Israeli spokesperson and The Current has had on a variety of stories on this, all well handled.  I don't think the Ceeb itself should be in the business of denouncing Israel.

CBC TV?  Couldn't tell you.  I haven't had a tv in a long time.  I see PandP when I'm at the gym.

I met Evan Solomon in the winter.  He was speaking at an Ag conference I attended.  He seemed like a genuine and sincere person, in person.  His speech was really good, clever.  Does that mean he's suited to P&P?  Can't say.  I imagine CBC TV hosts are often chose for reasons other than their skill and knowlege.

Cool thread idea, Thorin. 

Hi alan smithee, welcome to babble.

I understand that you post mostly to the rabble main page and maybe don't quite have a handle on babble's culture. To refresh your memory, take a look at the babble policy (you agreed to it when you registered for rabble), which states:

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You understand that racist, sexist, homophobic, classist (e.g. poor-bashing) and other excluding language is not appropriate on babble

That means that sexist terms like "douche-bag" are not allowed on babble, nor is commenting, like you did in this thread, about how "hot" you think certain women are. babble is an inclusive, anti-oppression space, and I would encourage you, if you aren't equipped to interpret the babble policy yourself, to read babble and get a grip on what is acceptable to this community before you employ gendered language here again. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

Thanks for that thoughtful response, alan. Believe me, I'm not trying to shut you up.

To be clear, as it says in the babble policy which you agreed to when you registered, this is not up for debate. "Douche-bag" is sexist because it uses a feminine hygiene product as a pejorative term. Objectifying women by commenting on their "hotness" is also sexist. Again, this is not up for debate. If you can't abide by the rules of this forum, stay out of it. If you can't do either, as a moderator, I will be happy to help you.

@Catchfire...It's individuals like yourself that is killing the progressive cause.Hypersensitive with an obsession with political correctness that borders on outright paranoid hysteria.

Calling me a sexist is going to get me angry because it's clear you have no idea who I am..Sexist?..Yeah,and I'm also the the King of Spain.Clearly you don't know what you're talking about.

If there's one thing progressives can learn from the right is that there is nothing to gain by not rocking the boat or worrying about who you may or may not offend.I suppose your answer to any quarrel is to blow kisses at your adversaries and sing Kum Bai Ya.

Just look at the 'leaders' who are supposed to be representing progressives...They're all bland,passionless push-overs..I for one am not.If I get pushed,I'll push back twice as hard and am not afraid to actually FIGHT for my freedoms.I'll never turtle..When it's time to fight,it's anywhere,anytime--even if it becomes bare-knuckle.

Hitting the high road,trying to be bipartisan and trying to appeal to the opposite side DOESN'T WORK..Just look at what's been going on in Washington for the last 18 months.

You want to ban me over calling a spade a spade...Feel free...You'd only prove yourself as a stereotypical wishy washy wimpy FAUX progressive.

BTW,remember who you're defending the next time you're watching Saturday night hockey and you get to hear a clown in a loud suit go on about you 'lefties' and 'left wing kooks' with YOUR and MY tax dollars paying this person.

And again,I used the term 'hot' in making a point of that woman's bosses and co-workers who have clearly objectified her.

Oh but yes...acknowledging a person as being sexy is something a sexist chauvinist pig would do...I forgot...To be a progressive,you must also be a freakin' ASEXUAL.

I find your threats and your objectiveness plays right in the hands of the people out there who believe liberals are ELITISTS.

Ban me...And the next time you bash the Reform Party as fascists,you will then be forever a hypocrit.

alan smithee wrote:

Hitting the high road,trying to be bipartisan and trying to appeal to the opposite side DOESN'T WORK..Just look at what's been going on in Washington for the last 18 months.

Speaking of faux progressives, if you're so down on the Right as you say you are, then why do you insist on employing their demeaning terminology to prove your point. For all that you are attempting to gain with this level of intensity, you lose in needlessly assisting capitalist patriarchy with barricading victims behind walls of demeaning vitriolic. Political correctness is also a term used by the Right. We should insist that the lexicon of oppression be discarded, and new narratives and definitions take their place.

This thread is now about you apparently, due to your choice of words that are anything but benign.  Why don't you just clean up your act, learn from the error of your ways, and move on to the substantive discussion underway.

Hi alan.  Seems catchfire's diplomatic approach isn't effective, and you refuse to grab a clue.  Catchfire really does the diplomatic thing well though, doesn't he?  I taught him everything he knows.  I'm so proud.

Anyway, I'm suspending you pending further discussion for mysogeny and general orneryness.  Oh, also that you admit upthread that you're the King of Spain.  I thought our side cleared up that infestation of Bourbons over 200 years ago, but I guess it's time to spray again.

Cheers

Oops, clearly my vacation was too long.   Close the account, THEN write the pithy little comment, not the other way around.

oldgoat, damn you really need to brush up on your world leaders... Spain is still a monarchy and, coincidentally, Juan Carlos the 1st actually can claim Bourbon descent. And general orneryness... oh, just imagine the typos that could generate (not to mention how quiet the place would be if that was uniformly enforced).

Welcome back from vacation.