Remember Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty the Rooster from The Friendly Giant show, even if with a forced smirk now that we’re all so grown up?
But we’re not all grown up. According to the Toronto Star, their brethren over at the liberals’ state-run CBC division illicitly allowed the use of those icons of Canadian youthful innocence in a way that only the CBC and like-minded liberals would—to once again help bash some of the few remaining icons or institutions of innocence and morality left in this country (they’re still working on Christianity), and use them to produce yet another lame sex ‘n drugs-type clip. A picture of anything but innocence. Or so-called “comedy”, which is what they call everything when it’s otherwise indefensible.
The CBC let the Geminis awards-for-liberals show producers (broadcast on CBC and hosted by a CBC so-called “star” and federally-funded left, right, and center) borrow the puppets from the so-called CBC “museum” in CBC’s massive government edifice—its Toronto HQ—without permission from the owners. Thus they could exhibit them in a more modern, progressive light. You know, as more modern Canadian puppets and icons: smoking, drinking and having sex while living in retirement.
Way to guard and properly represent and explain our Canadian heritage as I understood was your mandate once, a long long time ago! That’s “progressive”!
They did this without permission from its owners, which isn’t the state, darn the luck, huh CBC? I imagine that in the minds of the socialists at the CBC, this is why everything should be state-owned. It makes it so much easier to get your point across.
The star of the show, Robert Homme, was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1998. He died of prostate cancer in 2000, at the age of 81. Richard Homme, his son, and his sister have now taken back the puppets from CBC’s massive Toronto headquarters and museum so they can be properly taken care of in a way the CBC apparently cannot owing to it being a cabal of uncaring total idiots who couldn’t care less about our Canadian heritage and care more about their “progressive” agenda.
I imagine every single other thing could similarly be taken from the CBC and done better in the hands of private citizens, while also saving our nation from embarrassment, saving icons from being shamed and fouled, and saving a whack of cash to boot —like over one BILLION dollars of taxpayer cash per year.
But don’t worry—the CBC apologized ever so earnestly for the fact that the Hommes feel like the CBC screwed them over and fouled their father’s legacy and icons of Canadian heritage: “We have apologized … and certainly regret that they feel any trust was breached.”
Now if they could just give us everything else back and apologize to all of Canada for everything they have done.
Let me re-state the obvious: State-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion enshrined in our constitution.
(Hat tip to several emailers)
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