Media cafe waitpersonage: And how much pork would you like with that coddled Liberal?
Me: No, no pork. I’m just a
citizen
Canadian. And I’d like my Liberals fried. Well done. Scrabble ‘em. Boil ‘em. Cook ‘em.
Media cafe waitpersonage: Yes it will be coddled. No, you cannot have it fried. Just eat it. EAT IT NOW.
Me: Visit ProudToBeCanadian.ca!
Media cafe waitpersonage: La-la-la-lala-la-la! I can’t hear you! Now. For desert? In Canada, the Fraser Institute is “right wing”. Radically left-wing organizations are just “normal”. Eat it NOW.
As the liberal media fumbles through the end of what was a weekus horribilis for Liberals inside and outside the media, in which they had to come to the Party’s rescue almost as if it were a replay of the 2004 election when the Conservatives were gaining on them—they must have thought they could take the day off today.
But no. Yesterday a report from the socialist outfit Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA—and let’s make no mistake: the “Alternative” is “socialism” and “ending capitalism in Canada”) was released (and fully covered by the media!) which proves (proves, I tells ya!) that despite repeated government studies on gas price fixing (five since 1990 alone) and despite international free market forces which govern these things, and despite all the obvious-to-a-two-year-old wind and rain events which were apparently caused by U.S. President George W. Bush, them oil companies is, yes, yawn, gouging us.
Gee, hey, I could never have predicted that the CCPA would come up with that. No I’m just kidding. In actual fact, this “story” (and I use the word advisedly) wrote itself long before the CCPA released or even began any “study” (code for leftist political propaganda that the media sucks up like a state-owned sponge, I think, but I could be wrong). Except for the annoying fact that the government is totally relied upon to save their very souls, the liberal-left always blames everyone but the government—unless, as we know, the government is conservative of course. This despite the fact (yeah I know liberals—facts are annoying!) that up to 40 percent of the price of gas is government taxes. But that ain’t “gouging”, see, that’s “progressive”.
As I documented in my blog this week, the liberal media had to strain all week (‘twas funny at times!) to NOT type the words “liberal Party” or even “liberal” in any of their softball stories about the Liberal-friendly Paul Coffin sentence (by “Liberal-friendly” I mean both Paul Coffin and the sentence), which as smart people know was directly related to the Chretien/Martin Liberal Party Sponsorship/Adscam scandal; or stories about the Liberal David (“Mint-head”) Dingwall resignation amidst his scandalous, arrogant spending of our money.
However the liberal media cannot help themselves (apparently they, like all Canadians, now rely totally upon “the government” to help them—Eureka!). As most intelligent people in Canada know, the CCPA is among the most radically left-wing-biased organizations in this already left-wing, overly liberal-left, overly governed and controlled country of ours. Yet much like the painfully funny effort from the media to NOT use the words “Liberal Party” in any of their Coffin stories or related Sponsorship/Adscam stories, they never once indicated the “leanings” of the CCPA in today’s CTV.CA story about the CCPA report.
By way of reminder, the CTV is seen by those on the left—much of Canada—as “the right wing” TV news channel by virtue of the fact that it ISN’T state-owned and run like the state-run CBC, providing us in the intelligent set with all we need to know about how liberal-left many Canadians have been trained to become (Eureka Eureka!). Or as I said in a Blog entry this week, “I hear the same thing from Canadian liberals about the Globe and Mail. “Right wing!” they say, proving they’d only just recently smoked crack.”
In the “right-wing” CTV story, the CCPA is not “left-wing”, nor “left-leaning”, nor even “center-left” as they are sometimes hilariously soft-peddled by the media. Honest media would go ahead and stick with “extreme left wing” or “socialist”—because that is in fact what they are.
When was the last time you read a story that included the words “Fraser Institute” without seeing these words attached: “right-wing”, or “far right wing”, or “extreme right wing”, or “clearly another of the right-wing think-tanks”, “conservative think-tank”, or some such descriptor? They issue plenty of warnings in their stories—they could officially be in charge of the hurricane warning system they are so adept at warning Canadians of impending right-wing thought. “Warning! Take the following with a HA-YUGE grain of salt because it’s “right-wing” junk!”
The word “left” does not appear once in the story. Not once. “Socialist” does not appear once. “Progressive” does not appear once. “Leaning”, not once. Rendering them “normal”. The new “normal”. The new face of Canada, they hope.
Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry, which I’m not paid to protect, had these words to say about the hideously left-wing biased report on price gouging from the overtly political left-wing Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Note that they haven’t cottoned on to the “Alternative” to the free market, yet, and sound almost incredulous that an organization like that socialist CCPA could get so much serious ink in a hitherto capitalist country. And so also note that they see the need to literally re-teach fundamentals of 3rd-grade level capitalist economics to liberal media folks who are—to them and me—apparently entirely bereft of such elemental market thinking:
“We’re in a market-based economy where supply and demand typically determine the value of our commodities, especially for finished products such as gasoline, which trade on a North American basis,” Skowronski told The Canadian Press.
Faith Goodman, vice-president of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute’s Ontario division, agreed, calling the study “severely flawed.”
“First of all, it ignores a foundational principle that Canada’s energy policy is based on a notion that says commodity prices are set by the international market. Canada is a price taker. So whether it’s crude oil or gasoline, we don’t make markets,” she told CTV’s Canada AM.
When Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, about 10 per cent of the U.S. refining capacity was wiped out, she said.
“So you have a tremendous supply shock…The price on the international market, the wholesale price ratchets up.”
This weeks’ unreported scandals: Canada’s decrepit liberal-left ideologically-based North Korean-style healthcare system; Canada’s treasonously reduced military and nation defences; and the amazingly left-wing-biased news media, much of it state-run and/or sponsored.
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