Taxpayer-funded trash
Jonathan Kay has just published a story on National Post’s Full Comment about how CBC irresponsibly latched onto the Sarah Palin rumour circulating in the lefty blogosphere about Trig being her grandson instead of her own son. - The CBC’s appalling smear on Sarah Palin.
Not only that, but they put the story out after the rumour was proven to be incorrect:
…This is more than just a tiny factual slip-up. This was a marquee segment on the CBC’s crown jewel — The National — delivered by the network’s Washington correspondent at a major political event. How is it that McDonald would base his whole story on a political hoax that thousands of humble Web surfers like my friend had debunked a full two days earlier?
Your precious tax dollars hard at work.
Or as Ezra would say, "Fire. Them. All."
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Update : Via Freedom is my Nationality - Meghan McCain’s blog.
Good discussion going on at Jack’s Newswatch.
Friday Update: Please check out this response from CBC’s Jeff Keay.
How does that hit you?
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Gee, no wonder women stay out of politics. This whole thing is disgusting.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Those 33% of female liberal candidates Dion wants better make sure they were virgins on their wedding night, have no children, have no job, have no relatives living common law, have no members of their families who have ever used drugs, been arrested for DUI, had an abortion, been divorced, because if they have, the cbc will be all over you. LOL.
Oh, and make sure you have never lived in a small town, been on a town council, PTA, a mayor, and are not a hockey mom.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 pm
You really have to stop watching CBC - doing so gives them the impression they are a legimate news source. I don’t buy the National Enquirer because I know it is full of half baked, trash filled items. I don’t watch the CBC for the same reasons. Allowing the Liberals and their PR department to irratate you is a waste of time, effort and energy.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
This is exactly what I was referring to earlier Joanne.CBC and Niell McDonald reported rumours and innuendo on our public funded broadcast network during the National News. As a female Canadian I felt shame and fear. Yes fear, for all women in Canada. With a smirk on his face he smeared all women who welcomed an unplanned pregnancy. I quess in the view of CBC women bear the responsibility for all unwanted pregnancy. I feel very sorry fr women in Canada and all the equalities that we have fought for were washed down the drain. The CBC obviously do not respect women.
As usual CBC is accountable to no one and will say and smear who ever they feel like.This organization is an out of control old boys club!!!!!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Fay, it is beyond disgusting. And we pay for the ‘privilege’ of having this kind of garbage on the public airwaves.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Barbara you hit the nail right on the head.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Neil MacDonald is Norm MacDonald’s (the comedian) brother. I wonder how they can be so different. Cheers.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I was holding this thought in the back of my mind for quite some time now, but this latest stunt by mothercorp has put it front and center.
Put it up for sale and if Fox wants it, sell it to them at a discount.
Its a very profound statement I heard on Glen Beck yesterday.
“The media isn’t mainstream anymore”.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
This is a copy of a letter I sent to Vince Carlin Ombudsman of CBC
Mr Vince Carlin
I will not attempt to improve on Jonathan Kay’s factual commentary on actions of Neil McDonald and the CBC, in specific reference, to their actions and deliberate misrepresentations of facts about Governor Sarah Palin.
I am very distressed and embarassed by these actions, and feel Neil McDonald and the CBC owe a profound apology to the people they have slurred, and I feel I should also have an apology because it is my CBC that has tried to pervert the news that they give me.
Please keep me informed so I know what actions have been taken to correct this serious breach of CBC reporting integrity, and who all was involved in this sinister plot.
Thank you
Orville ——-
If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion as to how you should act so it is decisive and fair, I believe the CBC should remove Neil McDonald from his Washington Post immediately.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I breifly saw Henry Champ on CBC Newsworld and he stated: “Sara Palin is anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, a long time NRA member and an Evangelacal Christian. Therefore, she is out of step with the beeliefs of the majority of Americans”. I shook my head with disbelief because while it may be out of step with the beliefs of many Canadians, I am pretty sure that the majority of Americans would agree with her stance on many of those issues. Henry has been the CBC Washington correspondant for some time now, but clearly he doesn’t know squat about Americans.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I think we need to take Orville’s lead and email Vince Carlin with our complaints. It will only get worse if we don’t.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This from Jonathan Kay’s blog today.
Jonathan Kay: Let the CBC know how you feel about Neil McDonald’s appalling smear on Sarah Palin
Posted: September 04, 2008, 2:26 PM by Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay
Following on today’s column about Neil McDonald’s appalling CBC report on Tuesday night’s installment of The National, I’ve been cc-d on a lot of angry emails to CBC Ombudsman Vince Carlin (Ombudsman@CBC.CA). What follows is a good example of the genre …
To:
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman
Thursday, September 4, 2008 (6:00am EDT)
Dear Mr. Carlin:
This letter is a complaint against Neil McDonald’s Tuesday September 2 report concerning
VP nominee Sarah Palin. I make three specific complaints:
1. Neil MacDonald suggested that Sarah Palin might be the true mother of a child that in fact was borne by Palin’s 17-year-old daughter. McDonald relied on debunked internet rumours for his false reporting. See the essay by Jonathan Kay in today’s National Post:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/03/jonathan-kay-the-cbc-s-appalling-smear-on-sarah-palin.aspx
2. In McDonald’s same report, he also repeats the completely false story that Sarah Palin used to be a member of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP).
3. On the Wednesday September 3 CBC National, Peter Mansbridge attempts to correct this second of McDonald’s fabrications, stating that “there have been news reports claiming that Sarah Palin used to be a member of the Alaska Independence Party…”. Mansbridge
then goes on to correct McDonald’s false report with factual information. My complaint is that Peter Mansbridge was not forthcoming in stating that (a) it was Neil McDonald who made the latter false statement, and that (b) Mansbridge was correcting a false CBC report. Mansbridge leaves the false impression that he is correcting the reporting of other news media, and not the CBC National.
The three above complaints suggest that the CBC National is not only seriously biased, but that it is actually deliberately misleading its viewers in its crusade opposing the Republican Party in the U.S. election campaign.
On a positive note, I notice that the Wednesday CBC Morning news show did not re-telecast Neil McDonald’s shameful news reporting. I appreciate the good professional judgement of the news editor at CBC Morning to realise that McDonald’s Tuesday reporting was false.
I demand that the CBC suspend Neil McDonald for deceptive and false news reporting.
I would like you to convey my compalints to Neil McDonald, Peter Mansbridge of the CBC National, senior personel at CBC News, and John Cruikshank, publisher of CBC News.
Sincerely,
David Murrell (PhD)
Department of Economics,
University of New Brunswick
September 4th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Orville. Please let us know if you hear back from Vince Carlin.