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George Wallace
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Will they have the SUN Girl? >
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The sad part is that these folks who say such things would castigate you if you dared to criticize the Mother Corp.
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I hope they have an internet channel. I don't subscribe to cable or satellite.
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This is what I am looking forward to (so are others, checking the comments at the end of the piece): http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/mark_bonokoski/2011/01/04/16762171.html
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Comment Columnists / Mark Bonokoski
Harper Tories' 'stupidest decision'
By MARK BONOKOSKI , QMI Agency
Maybe it's the air in Ottawa.
Maybe it's because much of the national press gallery lives in a subliminally gated political community where the pack mentality is nurtured and then contained by a white picket fence so high that the rest of Canada, over time, becomes foreign.
But it must be an explanation for its distance from reality.
A case in point was Sunday's edition of Question Period, a CTV panel show where the Top-10 political stories of 2010 were being "discussed" by five political correspondents with long imprisonments in Ottawa -- the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber and Gloria Galloway, CTV's Craig Oliver and Bob Fife, and the Toronto Star's Jim Travers.
There was, however, no debate, only discussion and wholesale agreement.
People in small-town Canada -- meaning anywhere outside a 100-km radius of insular Ottawa -- must have felt their blood pressure rise when Travers went unchallenged as he described the Conservatives' end of the mandatory long-form census, supposedly the fourth most-important story of 2010, as an "act of public vandalism."
Or when Fife, CTV's Ottawa bureau chief and once-upon-a-time Sun Media's conservative-minded man in Ottawa, emphatically pointed out the 492 Tamils who arrived uninvited to our shores aboard a smugglers' ship from Sri Lanka were "not queue jumpers."
If they were not "queue jumpers," then what in hell were they?
Again, no one on the panel asked Fife to explain.
This is due to being Ottawa-ized by institutional liberalism.
Venture beyond the 100-km radius that insulates Ottawa from the rest of us, however, and the good folks who sit in the coffee shop in Griffith, Ont., for example, or further down the road in Saidie's Eagle's Nest Restaurant in Bancroft, Ont., (which is my rural haunt) would have no trouble calling a spade a spade, and a "queue jumper" a queue jumper.
Nor would any of them put the end of a mandatory long-form census on any Top-10 list. The survival of the gun registry by a close vote, maybe, because rural folk hate it for all the right reasons.
But not the long-form census.
Full disclosure: For 10 years I lived in insulated Ottawa, first as editor and then publisher of the Ottawa Sun, followed by a stint as Sun Media's national affairs columnist, and then two years of self-imposed sabbatical.
Today we live in Ontario's near-north, equidistant to both Ottawa and Toronto, while I maintain a basement apartment in a rather dodgy part of downtown Toronto for times when the office calls.
This arrangement provides the best of two worlds -- no picket fences so high that the rest of Canada becomes foreign, plus a blending of
helter-skelter urban with common-sense rural.
It also provides a perspective lacking by many of those who, over time, are infected with the liberal spin of institutionalized Ottawa politics and explains why the best commentary usually comes from outside Ottawa.
During that particular episode of CTV's Question Period, for example, Fife called the end of the mandatory long-form census the "stupidest decision the (Harper) government has ever made."
The stupidest decision ever made?
If that was the "stupidest decision ever made" by our government, and the long-form census was the fourth most important story of 2010, then what a great country we must live in.
mark.bonokoski@sunmedia.ca
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Comment Columnists / Mark Bonokoski
Harper Tories' 'stupidest decision'
By MARK BONOKOSKI , QMI Agency
Maybe it's the air in Ottawa.
Maybe it's because much of the national press gallery lives in a subliminally gated political community where the pack mentality is nurtured and then contained by a white picket fence so high that the rest of Canada, over time, becomes foreign.
But it must be an explanation for its distance from reality.
A case in point was Sunday's edition of Question Period, a CTV panel show where the Top-10 political stories of 2010 were being "discussed" by five political correspondents with long imprisonments in Ottawa -- the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber and Gloria Galloway, CTV's Craig Oliver and Bob Fife, and the Toronto Star's Jim Travers.
There was, however, no debate, only discussion and wholesale agreement.
People in small-town Canada -- meaning anywhere outside a 100-km radius of insular Ottawa -- must have felt their blood pressure rise when Travers went unchallenged as he described the Conservatives' end of the mandatory long-form census, supposedly the fourth most-important story of 2010, as an "act of public vandalism."
Or when Fife, CTV's Ottawa bureau chief and once-upon-a-time Sun Media's conservative-minded man in Ottawa, emphatically pointed out the 492 Tamils who arrived uninvited to our shores aboard a smugglers' ship from Sri Lanka were "not queue jumpers."
If they were not "queue jumpers," then what in hell were they?
Again, no one on the panel asked Fife to explain.
This is due to being Ottawa-ized by institutional liberalism.
Venture beyond the 100-km radius that insulates Ottawa from the rest of us, however, and the good folks who sit in the coffee shop in Griffith, Ont., for example, or further down the road in Saidie's Eagle's Nest Restaurant in Bancroft, Ont., (which is my rural haunt) would have no trouble calling a spade a spade, and a "queue jumper" a queue jumper.
Nor would any of them put the end of a mandatory long-form census on any Top-10 list. The survival of the gun registry by a close vote, maybe, because rural folk hate it for all the right reasons.
But not the long-form census.
Full disclosure: For 10 years I lived in insulated Ottawa, first as editor and then publisher of the Ottawa Sun, followed by a stint as Sun Media's national affairs columnist, and then two years of self-imposed sabbatical.
Today we live in Ontario's near-north, equidistant to both Ottawa and Toronto, while I maintain a basement apartment in a rather dodgy part of downtown Toronto for times when the office calls.
This arrangement provides the best of two worlds -- no picket fences so high that the rest of Canada becomes foreign, plus a blending of
helter-skelter urban with common-sense rural.
It also provides a perspective lacking by many of those who, over time, are infected with the liberal spin of institutionalized Ottawa politics and explains why the best commentary usually comes from outside Ottawa.
During that particular episode of CTV's Question Period, for example, Fife called the end of the mandatory long-form census the "stupidest decision the (Harper) government has ever made."
The stupidest decision ever made?
If that was the "stupidest decision ever made" by our government, and the long-form census was the fourth most important story of 2010, then what a great country we must live in.
mark.bonokoski@sunmedia.ca
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From Small Dead Animals: Llisten to Charles Adler and Bonokoski: http://coruscjobam.media.streamtheworld.com/audio/adler_jan_100941501.mp3
Bonokoski says hopefully Sun TV will be up in March.
Bonokoski says hopefully Sun TV will be up in March.
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Another reason to watch Sun TV:
Since Steve is apparently not confident that he can go one to one in a debate with Sun TV personalities, this is a pretty telling admission to how weak his position really is.
The last line is a laugh riot; does he really imagine that Sun TV personalities or Sun's viewers are part of the >7% of the national audience that watches CBC?
Since Steve is apparently not confident that he can go one to one in a debate with Sun TV personalities, this is a pretty telling admission to how weak his position really is.
The last line is a laugh riot; does he really imagine that Sun TV personalities or Sun's viewers are part of the >7% of the national audience that watches CBC?
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When there is nothing else worth watching on TV, The Weather Network usually has a few....talented....weather girls on.GAP said:
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The really talented ones are over at Naked NewsJim Seggie said:
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recceguy said:
I fully concur with that statement however, leaving something to the imagination is always good.
Besides, TWN is free.......
Mods, feel free to put this thread anywhere you see fit. Thanks.
Sun News Network is making a do-or-die pitch to CRTC to get basic cable coverage, at a much lower support level than CBC to boot.
This is the only network that represents the silent majority, and will side with law abiding gun owners, honest policemen, private sector wealth creators, and Canadian troops, over the latest in vogue politically correct narrative. Sun has changed the landscape here in Toronto for the better - a Herculean task - and is the only defender against a partisan media monopoly.
Writing a letter, signing a petition, or posting these links on your Facebook and Twitter is a small price to pay for the service Sun has brought to honest and (somewhat) free people of all creeds.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/
http://canadiantvfirst.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/CanadianTvFirst
https://twitter.com/CanadianTvFirst
CRTC - Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N2, reference #2012-0687-1
Sun News Network is making a do-or-die pitch to CRTC to get basic cable coverage, at a much lower support level than CBC to boot.
This is the only network that represents the silent majority, and will side with law abiding gun owners, honest policemen, private sector wealth creators, and Canadian troops, over the latest in vogue politically correct narrative. Sun has changed the landscape here in Toronto for the better - a Herculean task - and is the only defender against a partisan media monopoly.
Writing a letter, signing a petition, or posting these links on your Facebook and Twitter is a small price to pay for the service Sun has brought to honest and (somewhat) free people of all creeds.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/
http://canadiantvfirst.ca/
http://www.facebook.com/CanadianTvFirst
https://twitter.com/CanadianTvFirst
CRTC - Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N2, reference #2012-0687-1
I stopped actively supporting the Sun when years ago Earl McCrae came to the CFRC for a an interview. He wanted to know what initiatives recruiting was up to, generic stuff. Turns out he turned it into an anti war article about how we would bring nothing but death to young Canadians.
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It is evident that Sun News is unfamiliar with the concept of cognitive dissonance. How a small government, fiscally and socially conservative and borderline libertarian organ can put out its hand for a taxpayer subsidy is completely beyond me.
What ever happened to the "marketplace of ideas"?
As to this:
If they are silent, how do you know they are a majority? :facepalm:
What ever happened to the "marketplace of ideas"?
As to this:
If they are silent, how do you know they are a majority? :facepalm:
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To be fair, this would put Sun on a level playing field with other news networks (including foreign ones like CNN); since the CRTC isn't likely to unbundle cable packages and allow viewers to select and pay for the channels they want (and shun those they don't) Sun is at a huge competative disadvantage under the current system.
From a doctrinaire viewpoint, I would be against Sun being subsidized, but since they are the only network that is being penalized that way I will support a lavel playing field.
As a BTW, the technology to eliminate cable "packages" and select your own channels has been around for a long time, it is companies like Rogers and the networks that benefit from the enforced payments that fight against it.
From a doctrinaire viewpoint, I would be against Sun being subsidized, but since they are the only network that is being penalized that way I will support a lavel playing field.
As a BTW, the technology to eliminate cable "packages" and select your own channels has been around for a long time, it is companies like Rogers and the networks that benefit from the enforced payments that fight against it.
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