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Please note that as of November 18 2004, the ban on Fox News Channel in Canada by the Liberal Party-stacked state-censor, the CRTC, has been lifted. There are lots of posts at this web site about the matter. See this post:
Fox News Channel ban lifted by state-censor.
Left-wing zealots always complain about censorship—like the ones I censure after they try to wreck this website with regular barrages of obscene hate-filled emails and posts in their effort to silence good right-thinking conservatives who are threatening to the liberal world inasmuch as they have, you know, “values”. It’s a strangely censorish attitude for lefties to take, but then they’re liberals and there’s simply no explaining them. (Typical counter-argument from a liberal: “You’re stupid!” -End of argument.)
Fox News Channel is banned in Canada by the left-wing zealots and Liberal government appointees who regulate what Canadians are allowed to watch using one of their favorite political tools, the state-run “CRTC” (which stands for the very typically Liberal government bureaucratic-sounding “Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission”). The CRTC is stacked with liberals. Duh. Most of the Canadian political institutions that control Canadian lives—what they see, how they think, how they’re taught—are stacked by liberals.
It may come as a surprise to Canadians that the TV they watch is only what the CRTC decides they will watch. It is not a free market. It is a fully state-regulated market. Unelected Canadian government bureaucrats decide what the people will see on TV, and what they will not be allowed to see.
In response to their customers’ demands, cable operators in Canada have tried unsuccessfully to be “allowed” to offer Fox News Channel to subscribers for a fee. But they have been refused. Cable companies cannot satisfy their customers’ demand even by offering it to them for a fee.
Again this week, as they have done unsuccessfully before, Canadian cable TV companies have filed an application with the CRTC to carry Fox News Channel, citing a growing demand from customers. Again the liberals will forbid it.
Fox News Channel is seen by the left-wing liberals in the CRTC as “right-wing”, and therefore a threat to the hitherto successful Liberal Party commercial otherwise known as the state-run taxpayer-funded media giant CBC, which regularly churns out pro-liberal, anti-American rhetoric, sometimes subtly, sometimes not. The hacks and Liberal Party supporters in the CRTC and the CBC feel threatened by conservative-thinking Canadians because they feel their jobs would be on the line if Canadians voted with common sense for a party that didn’t believe quite so much in social engineering.
CNN, the Cable News Network founded by Ted Turner who was formerly married to Jane Fonda the militant feminist and extreme left-wing liberal heroine, is decidedly not right-wing but is perfectly acceptable, as is BBC news, which is decidedly not right-wing to put it mildly. The CBC is left-wing to put it even more mildly. To put it less mildly, it is a left-wing joke. But because Fox News Channel is right-wing to their way of thinking (to my way of thinking it’s just “normal”), Fox News Channel is banned in Canada.
In a free market where Americans can switch to any channel they please including CNN and the BBC, Fox News Channel is America’s most popular 24-hour news channel nation-wide. It gets higher ratings than CNN. Far more popular than the BBC. Let me reiterate: More Americans watch Fox News Channel than CNN in America. So why don’t the social engineers in Canada allow Fox News Channel in Canada despite Canadians demanding it?
It’s no wonder Canadians are so liberal politically. Canadians have been bathed in left-wing liberal rhetoric daily, to the point where they see it as normal. Ask a fish “how’s the water?” and the fish will say “what water?”
Liberal-speak is churned out by the state-run media giant CBC on TV in many languages (8 aboriginal languages, French, and English) and on many channels, all for free even without cable (well, “free” inasmuch as it is taxpayer funded to the tune of billions upon billions of dollars); and all over the radio, and the internet. The dangerous so-called “right-wing views” as expressed by Fox News Channel are banned. So what do you think Canadians will become over time, but left-wing liberal voters?
Most Canadians naturally now see Fox News Channel as right-wing — or even “extreme” right-wing (code for “not liberal”), and so many don’t care that Fox News isn’t allowed in Canada. Yet they care a great deal when you dare speak up about being anti-abortion, or in favor of sending troops to Iraq, or, God help you, in favor of George Bush or “making a profit”.
To their credit, the liberal machine has been extremely effective. Of course, to their credit goes a good portion of my income, in order for them to brainwash me and forbid me to watch Fox News Channel. Unfortunately for them, conservatives have common sense. And word leaks out through private, unregulated (at least thus far) internet web sites such as this. Oh and also it’s obvious.
And it’s embarrassing for Canadians.
Note that if you repeat this line of thinking, liberals will dispute it all as “paranoia”, and as “conspiracy theories” from “extreme right-wingers”, then call you “stupid”, and/or “fascist”. If you’re really making sense, they’ll call you a “moron”.
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