How to NOT run a TV network like Fox News Channel: liberal*vision CTV’s liberal media hosts of the “Question Period” politics show today chooses the most important stories of the day—not to Canadians —but to themselves in the media.
The people don’t care— even the media admits that —and yet on today’s Question Period, Craig Oliver (of CTV) and Jane Taber (of the liberal Globe and Mail—both owned by Bell Globemedia) lead off their show today with the media-created pseudo-story about their petulant cry-baby fight with the Conservative leader of our country. Let’s make no mistake: to them, it’s all about the CONSERVATIVE leader of our country. To them this pseudo-story is the most important thing in the whole world, literally.
They brought in a whole panel of “experts”—three liberals —two of them from the liberal media (a former editor at Globe and Mail whom was apparently labelled as a “communist” by unknown Conservatives, and former editor Joan Crockett of the Calgary Herald), and Scott Reid, a Liberal Party hack (of infamous awe those stupid Canooks will spend it on beer and popcorn fame); and one Conservative Party advisor—a former advisor to the pretend Conservative, the liberal Joe Clark. I was shocked there were no leftist university professors, but then again it’s Sunday. Church day for them (get it?).
They all said “nobody cares” about the pseudo-story.
So why, if nobody cares, does the media choose to make it their number one story in the whole wide world? Because it’s all about them. They are so self-involved, with such a sense of self-importance, that they hijack the entire news universe and talk about that almost exclusively.
“Petty, partisan, petulant”, Scott (beer and popcorn) Reid said of our Prime Minister.
Reid said people don’t like Harper “whining” about the media. Joan Crockett defied him and said—no, sorry, you’re wrong, people do like that. Reid said, no no, they don’t. Of course we must remember that wily Reid fella said that you dumb Canooks will spend your money on beer and popcorn if the government doesn’t spend it for you, and therefore the government must take your money and spend it for you.
Reid then called our Prime Minister a “cry-baby”.
And it went on like this. Most respectful. Very mature. Not at all “petulant”.
Then the next story was interviewing Liberal Party leadership candidate Stephan Dion, and the first question from Craig Oliver was about how the Conservatives are ruining the Kyoto accord. “What do your think about that, Mr. Dion?” Gee. What a hardball, Oliver. My great grandmother could hit that one out of the park. Unfortunately I understood only about a third of the words coming out of Dion’s mouth due to his strong Quebec accent and inability to speak English properly. I hope he doesn’t win and become my country’s Prime Minister. Perhaps I, too, am being “petulant”.
The next segment was about the other Liberals running for the leadership of what I am now believing is the great Liberal Party. They brought in four Liberal leadership campaign staffers and Taber asked them questions about being yummy Liberals.
One Liberal said that he disagreed with something “vemanetly”. I believe the word he was looking for was “vehemently”. And Bush is a moron because he said “nucular” once.
The next segment was an interview with far leftist NDP premier Gary Doer of Manitoba. Oliver asked if the Conservative government wasn’t really dropping the ball on things.
Up next? Oliver announces: “Harper versus the media”! No—they weren’t done with that one yet!
Again, the (new) expert guests—a couple from the liberal media, one being from the liberal Globe and Mail again —agreed that the people don’t care. Yet they kept flapping their gums, on and on. They all agreed “the national media is a great source of information”. And, “the media serves a pretty important role, and is as important to our democracy as the government is.” I didn’t realize that the end of the media was at hand, and, by extension, democracy.
Then at the very tail end of the show, they gave short shrift to Harper’s set election dates plans, starting at 54 minutes past the hour; AND his plans to create an elected senate. All that starting at 54 minutes past the hour.
Then it was over. And I was dumber. And the grass on our front lawn was that much longer. Lesson learned.
Basically, the show was an advertisement for liberalism and Liberals and socialists, and a list of reasons provided by sundry liberals as to why conservatives and the Conservative Party are not to be trusted.
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