I watched Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday to see what the show would do now that Don Cherry is no longer there. And although I was happy to see that Coach's Corner has apparently gone down with him. I thought what Ron MacLean had to say was absolutely appalling.
It's been almost a week since Don Cherry opened his big mouth, let out another bigoted roar, and for once didn't get away with it. And while his supporters are trying to whip up support for him. So is Cherry, even more desperately...
I have been very moved by the sight of all those American football players kneeling in silent protest during the playing of their national anthem. And refusing to be intimidated by the racist bully Donald Trump. So you can imagine how disappointed I was to see this.
I knew Don Cherry was going to say something about his good buddy Rob Ford. For who can forget how that ghastly redneck hung the chain of office around Ford's neck? And used the occasion to attack the "left-wing pinkos." Which had to be one of the lowest moments in the history of Toronto. But while paying tribute to a friend is fine, this is outrageous.
I haven't been a regular viewer of Hockey Night in Canada for a long time. The thuggish goons, the concussion casualties, the grotesque Don Cherry, as well as the sad fact that a Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup for more than twenty years, having gradually turned me off the game. So I didn't watch the new Rogers version of the show with George Stroumboulopolos the other night. But after reading what happened on the broadcast, I think I can safely say that I will NEVER watch Hockey Night in Canada again.
It's not a good news hockey story. It's a huge blow to the CBC. For years, HNIC has been a cash cow that helped float many of CBC’s other news and original programming endeavours, with some estimating it was worth $200 million, and up to half of the TV network’s advertising revenue. And of course the CBC can't count on any help from Stephen Harper. The Prime Minister's Office has slammed the door on any bailout for the CBC to make up for lost advertising revenue from hockey broadcasts.
"CBC already receives significant taxpayer funds," PMO spokesman Stephen Lecce wrote in an e-mail. Because he would like to destroy it eh? But there could be a big consolation prize. It could be the end of Don Cherry.
Golly. How moving. I see that the old Con Don Cherry is standing by sticking to his fallen buddy Rob Ford. “It’s unbelievable how they have nailed him to the cross and only because of who he is,” Cherry said. “I feel for him because I have been there.” And sharing his paranoia.
Well I see the Royal Military College has decided to give Don Cherry an honorary degree.
And is sticking to it's guns blunderbusses despite what this professor said:
"On many occasions he publicly expressed his contempt for many groups of the Canadian population, notably for the French-speaking Canadians, for the (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) community and for the immigrants," said Lord's letter to the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper.
"What message will RMC send, in celebrating Don Cherry, to the students coming from these groups? And what will the Canadian people remember from RMC, as a serious and prestigious institution?"
As you know, I spend a lot of time trying to improve Canada's image abroad. And that's not always easy eh? Hey you !!! Gimme a beer !!! Or I'll brain ya with my hockey stick, or club ya like a seal. In my igloo.
But now it's even HARDER.
Because now, thanks to the Cons, most of the civilized world regards us as planet burners, human rights abusers, and American stooges. The sinister political thug Stephen Harper is about as welcome in polite company as syphilis is at an orgy.
But he doesn't care because he's living in a bitter nerd's paranoid fantasy world...
Only God-zilla tells him what to do. Ignorance is strength.
And of course rednecks RULE...
I try to explain to my friends all over the world that we're not ALL rednecks eh?
And that some of us think that King Pinko, Canada's Sarah Palin, is a teabagger.
I thought I had said all I ever wanted to say about Don Cherry. But lately, the man has morphed into Glenn Beck in sequins, out to prove that he who shouts loudest is always right. It's always the same thing: the rage, the name-calling, the complete absence of reason.
Who deserves to get the BOOT
The worst thing our national, taxpayer-supported network ever did, by far, was to allow itself to be taken hostage by Don Cherry. It's time for the network to show some spine and say "enough." Politics or hockey commentary, but not both.
The worst thing was that I recognized Cherry’s pink blazer. I had the same one in the 1980s. Mine was single-breasted and had bigger shoulder pads, but there were the same glazed flowers and the same dopey this-outfit-doesn’t-work brassiness.
Then I imagined myself at age 75 disgracing old women everywhere with my thoughts floating about like cigarette ash and landing in my beer puddles, all sticky and nasty and mean.
But then just when I think I'm convincing the world that we're NOT all rednecks. That we're a sophisticated society. That Justin Bieber is the most popular Canadian NOT Don Cherry. That Stephen Harper is only dangerous when there's a full moon. And we say ABOUT not ABOOT !!!!!
Just when I think I'm making some progress eh?
I'm NOT...
*Groan* Thanks a lot Alberta.
Oh boy. Some things are definitely true. Don Cherry is an asshole, Stephen Harper is a maniac. And both of them are PHONIES.
But some days you win, and some days you CAN'T....
Well it wasn't exactly the Royal Wedding eh? But the King of the Canadian Teabaggers wore pink, Mayor Princess Piggy was as pretty as a porker can be, and the redneck coronation was quite a spectacle.
“I’m wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I’d get it in,”
“This is what you’ll be facing, Rob, with these left-wing pinkos — they scrape the bottom of the barrel.”
You know... when I first saw King Pinko place the golden bling of office around the meaty neck of his beloved, the first thing I thought of was ... oh boy....Julie Fantino is going to be soooooooooo jealous.
But then I thought what a ghastly act, what a hideous thug.
Cherry’s swaggering performance was that of a classic bully. He rallied the winners against the losers and will no doubt shrug off any complaints about his graceless appearance as more evidence of what humorless drips liberals are in the first place. But when you’re paid eight hundred thousand dollars a year to opine for a few minutes a week about hockey it’s a bit rich to show up at city hall in a pink suit and claim to be striking a blow for the underdog.
How low we have fallen, after five years of King Harper and his Americons.
And how dare King Pinko use the CANADIAN Broadcasting Corporation to promote his AMERICAN values, with OUR tax dollars !!!!!!!!!
By associating himself with right-wing politicians to the extent that he endorses them and makes pronouncements about who should govern this country, Cherry has associated Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC with right-wing political views.
Because let's face it eh? The flowery freak can drape himself in the Canadian flag, or wear a beaver on his head, or give himself a maple syrup enema, but I know an American teabagger when I see one.
And this King of the Teabaggers, Canada's Sarah Palin, isn't standing up for our Canadian values. He's DESTROYING them.
This isn’t just a game, any more than hockey is just a game. The country is being peddled a right-wing version of itself with dollops of help from the intimidated elites and artsy people who control the CBC. What a brutal black comedy this has become.
The bottom line? The CBC should be ashamed of itself. Canada is not a right-wing country.
King Pinko is stinko. And should be reined in or FIRED.
The redneck coronation was an abomination.
The one thousand bicycle brigade is on its way.
And if Mayor Piggy wants a war, he is going to get one...
Wow. Rock me sock me. Who needs Sun TV and its right-wing garbage? When we got Don Cherry and Hockey night in CONada...
Yikes. What can you say eh? Except Don Cherry must be losing his marbles grapes. The CBC must have forgotten the difference between hockey and politics. And Stephen Taylor must be DESPERATE.
Winning an Order of Canada for spouting off like an AMERIKAN teabagger? OMG. What is Stephen saying ? TREASON !!!!!!!!
And how DARE he suggest that winning that precious Order of Canada bling, is as easy as becoming a Con Senator...
Because let's face it eh? If Puffy can become a Senator, and Cherry can win an Order of Canada, ANYONE can.
Moi, je refuse: I shall cough into my cupped hands until I lose the slight dexterity that requires and then I shall hack unashamedly into the public air. By that time, I expect, I will be well into the public farting years anyway, so I figure I might as well cough too.
As I approach those years, I still have no idea why it is that as one gets older, one grows more flatulent, but I do recognize it as a curious truth...
Have you ever read anything more revolting? It definitely belongs in the Ghastly Writing Hall of Fame. Right next to this one.
"Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her"
I mean it's bad enough having to read Crusty's columns. But the thought of her running around casually spreading disease, and becoming even MORE flatulent, is positively alarming.
The only thing more frightening than that would be if Puffy cut one in the Senate.
And brought the house down...so to speak.
Or if Julie Fantino looked even more like Mussolini...
OMG. Could somebody please give Crusty, and Don Cherry, and Mike Duffy, and Julian Fantino, a turkey blower...
Because enough is ENOUGH.
Oh boy. I don't know why there are so many right-wing buffoons running loose in this country.
But I do know this my fellow left-wing pinkos. The present may be STINKY.
OMG. I was so confused. When I first stared at this bizarre right-wing creature I just couldn't decide which was the head and which was the asshole.
Rob Ford, the alleged mayor of Toronto, or Don Cherry.
“People are sick of the elites and artsy people running the show. It’s time for some lunch pail, blue-collar people.”
And I figured it had to be Cherry, for being a loud tiresome redneck who thinks ignorance is a virtue.
While the grunting bully Ford is just naturally ignorant. And does what his brother tells him.
Exhibit A: Doug Ford. The Ward 2 councillor and older brother of the mayor is the supposed brains behind the operation, but he hasn’t been appointed to anything. Still, there he was getting his photo taken with the rest of the angry white men brigade in Ford’s cabinet and being scrummed by the media long after baby brother Rob had left the scene.
Question is, who made Doug Ford mayor?
But then I remembered. Wait a minute. Where had I seen that monstrous Con creature before?
And then, of course, it was brutally OBVIOUS...
The Con Tweedle doesn't have a head. It just has TWO assholes.
“I’m happy — it seems things are shifting around a bit to the right, with Julian Fantino getting elected, and Rob,” Cherry said.
Because let's face it eh? Only a Con asshole could call his opponents Nazis.
“ I think they [the Liberals] intended to hurt my campaign. The things they said ... a lot of them were absolute lies. They keep repeating [them]. I call it the Hitler Theory. You tell a lie often enough you hope that some people will believe it.
The moment they took his muzzle off.
Oh. My. Mussolini. Rock me sock me. What an IDIOT.
I mean what else can you say eh?
Except who made Don Cherry a politician?
The undisputed King of the Canadian teabaggers...
All hail The Flowered Messiah !!!!! Canada's Sarah Palin.
Golly. Do you think the CBC knows it has a rising Con star on its hands? And if so what is it planning to do about it ?
As for Rob Ford...he will do as he is told. If he stays sober. Either way it will be a disaster. And he'll be out of there in less than a year.
Julie Fantino will achieve the impossible: make Fascist talk both scary and HILARIOUS. And make the Con's law and order platform look even more ridiculous. In a sinister sort of way.
And of course, the lesson for the rest of us is, if we want to get our country back we will have to defeat them ALL.
One of the things I hate about being Canadian is having to listen to the right-wing redneck Don Cherry. I do my best to ignore him. I once pulled a muscle leaping across the couch trying to hit the mute button. But because my friends find him entertaining I usually have to grin and bear it. And his demagogic shite just keeps getting worse and worse. Cherry's latest stab at the spotlight came on Saturday's edition of Hockey Night in Canada, during an extended demonstration of his antediluvian world view. We all know how Don Cherry feels about things, if only because he's been shouting his opinions at us for three decades. But the act is getting tired. Tired, and worse. But it was the way Cherry presented his case that left the usual sour taste. Besides the usual anti-European bile - which should perhaps be toned down after Cherry's attempt to build a junior team in Mississauga without Europeans back in 1999, resulting in a team that won 16 games in three seasons - Cherry showed a montage of soccer players celebrating, and as it showed a group of four enthusiastic black players dancing close to the camera, Cherry said, "Now watch this, look at this - this is what we want our hockey players to act like?"
The charge of racism has been thrown at Cherry over his treatment of Europeans and Francophone Canadians, but because those aren't traditionally identifiable minorities, the charges don't seem to stick. But intentionally or not, this looked for all the world like a more familiar brand of racism. He has insulted Europeans, French Canadians, and gay people. He's a chickenhawk cheerleader who is always suggesting that other Canadians aren't as patriotic as he is. He is wrecking our national game and sending the wrong message to kids by glorifying violence. And now he's flirting with racism? You know once he might have been an entertaining redneck making a fool of himself in a klown costume. But now he's just a tiresome old bigot bore making us look like a nation of rednecks. And the sooner he takes a hike the better....
