Well as you can imagine it wasn't easy saying goodbye to the balmy breezes of the Caribbean. After my amazing sailing adventure where I once again showed the sea that I am its MASTER !!! And then returning to the grim reality of Harperland and this arctic nightmare.
But I have to admit I almost wish I could have returned sooner, so I could have watched The Sun News Network sink gently plunge suddenly to the bottom of ocean.
I never thought Ezra Levant could stoop as low as he did when he donned a red wig after Jack Layton died to mock his supporters. But his recent attack on Justin Trudeau shows that he is still crawling through the gutter. Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is refusing to speak with Sun Media until the company responds to his allegation it aired an "offensive" attack against his family. Because let's be clear eh? This is nothing less than political pornography...
Uh oh. Somebody call a plumber, or a mortician. It looks as if Sun TV News, also known as Fox News North or Harper TV, won't be able to make us pay to keep it on life support. Sun News Network has been denied a guaranteed spot on basic cable TV packages in a CRTC ruling released today. Maybe. But the CRTC suggested Thursday it isn't happy with the status quo and proposed "a new approach" regarding the distribution of Canadian national news services. Which has Kory Teneycke, Harper's old flak, clinging to hope that his stinky fish might survive...
Well I'm glad to see that Ezra Levant has apologized for his hateful comments about the Roma. Although it did take him forever to put his lips together and spit out the words I'm sorry. And knowing him, I'm pretty sure he's even sorrier that he had to write this formal apology.
Golly. Call me Nostradamus eh? Almost three years ago I wrote this about the outhouse gang at Sun News Network aka Fox News North: They don't have the money, or the infrastructure, or the talent, to compete for even a small part of that tiny news market. Or even to be taken seriously. This is going to be the biggest bomb in Canadian network history. And sure enough, it was a bomb or a lead balloon. Nobody was EVER able to take those Con Klowns seriously, and now they're trying to save themselves by picking our pockets.
OK. So I admit I was a bit worried about this one eh? In fact, to be perfectly honest I thought that Patrick Brazeau was going to KILL Justin Trudeau.
And so did the Ezra Levant...
Because in the minutes leading up to the match he was in a frenzy, raving like a crazy man about how he had always hoped somebody would punch Trudeau in the face. And now it was LEGAL !!!!!
"Look at the tats !!! Look at the shoulders on the man !!! " the fleshy nerd screamed as Brazeau made his way to the ring with his entourage. Only to hurl insults at Trudeau as he entered. "He's a shiny pony !!! He's in a trance, it's all that dance training, that ballet training. !!! He skips like my four-year-old daughter !!!! He wanted to use pink gloves but the Sun News network didn't let him !!!!"
It was so grotesque, and so clear he thought Justin was about to be executed, and he couldn't wait to see him carried out on a stretcher, and hopefully bite his ear. But sadly for Ezra, and happily for me, we wuz both wrong.
I suppose I should thank James Moore, for putting some bimbo from Fox News North in her place. After she tried to claim that the CBC was a porn network.
According to Sun TV, CBC is producing "state broadcaster smut."
They sent a reporter to Parliament Hill this week with an iPad loaded with steamy clips from a program called Hard, a French drama about a woman who discovers after her husband's death that he has been secretly running a pornography business, which she must then run.
Heritage Minister James Moore, though, declined to take the bait.
"I know you're in the business of just going after the CBC, but I can't comment on something I haven't seen," he told a Sun TV reporter.
Then, off camera, he expressed skepticism about the issue, pointed out that Sun papers run bikini girls, and said the Sun TV reporter is being used as a "pawn" by Quebecor CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau, who wants CBC de-funded so he can get a larger share of the French language TV audience in Quebec, after which he will shut down Sun TV.
"You know that's going to happen right?" he said.
Even though he was forced to get down on all fours and crawl backwards like a lapdog, after being spanked by the PMO.
Sometimes you have to focus on the big picture. Sometimes you have to see the forest for the trees. Or just smell the manure.
But here are the facts as I see them:
(1) Jason Kenney, a grotesque member of the sinister Harper gang commands civil servants to organize an immigrant show for his friends at Fox News North.
Documents released under Access to Information legislation show that just a few weeks before Canada's Citizenship Week last October, Kenney's staff directed departmental officials to add a last-minute citizenship ceremony at the network to their list of scheduled events.
A network that pimps for Big Oil, attacks programs designed to help bullied gay kids, never misses a chance to bash Muslims or immigrants.
And was set up for the sole purpose of destroying the CBC...
Jumping Jiminy Cricket. I must have had too much booze soaked plum pudding eh? But when I saw that Pierre Karl Péladeau says his war on the CBC isn't a vendetta, I couldn't help thinking that his nose must be growing.
The media magnate insists that his crusade to force the CBC and its French-language arm Radio-Canada to release confidential data about their operations – including the salaries of Peter Mansbridge and other network stars – is not about politics or ideology. It is about taxpayer dollars, and how they impact Quebecor’s bottom line.
Because while it may be true that he's not political, he just wants to be the Citizen Kane Citoyen Péladeau of Quebec. And he doesn't care whether those who work for him are Cons, separatists, or former FLQ terrorists.
Surely he can't complain about taxpayer dollars, when his ruthless media octopus gobbles up so many. And surely he can't deny that his tacky little news network's main purpose in life is to destroy the CBC.
If they ever make a Canadian version of the classic movie Chicken Run, they're definitely going to have to give the lead role to Fox News North's Brian Lilley.
Because not only does he look the part, with an absurd pompadour instead of a cockscomb, but he's as cowardly as they come.
A few months ago when he was going on about how Nycole Turmel was a "separatist" and the CBC was the root of all evil, Martin Patriquin made him look like an idiot.
Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn't for them I'd never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging.
Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar.
More like scary Lezra, and the never ending War on David Suzuki.
Although the hairy hoary windbag Charles Adler has tried to escalate the situation, by spouting off ad nauseam about "self loathing white liberals." trying to crucify Christmas.
OK. So today probably isn't the best day to defend the CBC. Not when I went to watch Question Period this afternoon, and discovered that their noisy news network was covering the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor instead.
Gawd. Where's the propofol, or the so-called milk of amnesia, when you need it eh?
The Conservatives are calling on some of the CBC's harshest critics and competitors to testify about the broadcaster at a parliamentary hearing on access to information.
Some of the witnesses requested by the Tories include Sun Television/Sun Media pundits Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley, and the president of their parent company Quebecor, Pierre Karl Peladeau. Quebecor's television networks compete directly with the CBC for viewers in Quebec.
Because is this a hearing or a LYNCHING? And since when is anybody who works for Fox News North considered a journalist? I mean I know if you give a monkey a typewriter, and enough time, it can theoretically write the complete works of William Shakespeare. But I bet the Sun monkeys couldn't.
On the other hand, I do see the bright side eh?
Lezra should look FABULOUS...
And so totally ridiculous, Dean Del Mastro will have to turn up in a tutu if he wants to be noticed.
You know...why IS his organization in bed with separatists and former FLQ terrorists? Why IS a private company getting OUR hard earned tax dollars? Allo police?
And as for Pierre Karl Peladeau, he might finally be forced to answer the most embarrassing question of all: Did Quebecor really create a network for the sole purpose of destroying another?
So it can have total control of the Quebec media, or even MORE than it has now.
Hmmm....I think I change my mind eh? This could be the most entertaining lynching EVAH.
And who knows who could end up looking REALLY bad? Apart from the McCarthyite Cons.
Hey Del Mastro !!!! Fetch me a pizza...or a poll. After you put on you tutu.
Remember how in my last post I said people should ignore how Lezra Levant, in an interview with Michael Coren, mocked the way Canadians were reacting to Jack Layton's death?
Well I changed my mind...
Because after screening the interview in question I now feel it may very well be...in fact almost certainly is...
And the most RIDICULOUS. So EVERYBODY should watch it eh?
Because if Sun TV News had any credibility left, which I doubt, it's all gone now.
You know... somebody should tell Lezra that the makeup person didn't work for six long hours to make him less ugly, only to have him put on a wig. Hint. Hint.
But they never tell those bitter nerds the ghastly truth, because they're afraid to hurt their feelings. Or cause them to spit when they talk...even more than they already do. So they never learn. And without that crucial feedback they are LOST.
Oh well. At least there's a bright spot eh?
Since Lezra is now doing the show in drag, in an obvious attempt to improve his dismal ratings.
At least now we can call him DIVINE...
Although, sadly, unlike the real Divine, there is nothing beautiful about Lezra.
You know I wouldn't be surprised if he dresses up as Ann Coulter next. And challenges the head of the CBC to eat a heaping portion of scrambled eggs off his ample behind.
While Michael Coren plays his limey organ grinder, and Christie Blatchford plays his monkey.
It’s important to bring to your attention, though, the fact that Sun News is providing a much-needed service in Canada. If you’ve got a devilish sense of humour, it is the most hilarious news channel you’ve ever, ever seen. You want weird comedy? You got it by the bucketful with these people.
And how about that Krista Erickson?
Recently, the channel’s Krista Erickson accosted dancer Margie Gillis on air about arts funding and tried to beat her up, verbally. This was comedy of the raw sort.
Erickson then went wacky. She waved her arms around in a lame attempt to mimic dance movement. Not a wizard at the arm ballet is Krista, believe me. She looked like the Martin Short character Ed Grimley getting excited. “This whole thing,” she barked, while frantically waved her arms, “Why does it cost $1.2-million over 13 years?” Then she shouted at Gillis to try to drown out the response.
And then it got worse.
Then Erickson went full-bore Monty Python. She denounced Gillis for being a dancer and having an opinion about Canada. The thrust of her argument was expressed as this: “We have lost more than 150 soldiers who have served in Afghanistan! They have put their lives on the line and, you know, it is, frankly, quite a serious business compared with people dancing on a stage!”
But my advice is take John Doyle's word for it, because life is too short, they pay him to watch this stuff. And he has some good advice for Erickson.
Memo to Krista Erickson: Get out of Sun News now. Before your name becomes synonymous with Monty Python-style TV gags and the hilarity that ensues. But, before you go, do that attempted arm ballet thing again. Man, that’s funny.
Because when they start laughing at you it's OVER.
And Ezra Levant is funny enough...
As for Kory Teneycke, my advice to him is to start polishing his resume, like he used to polish Stephen Harper's fleshy buttocks. Because this has to be the biggest bomb in the history of Canadian television.
And goodness knows who he'll hire next...
Sun Nooz TV, the lonely voice of the conservative movement.
I always knew he was a monster. You know I did. I always knew he would do ANYTHING for a majority. We all did.
But now I think I can say this categorically: Stephen Harper is to the Canadian body politic what syphilis is to the human body.
Jack Layton accused his opponents of launching a smear campaign after a report alleged the NDP leader was found naked in a Toronto massage parlour long before he got into federal politics.
A political thug who would infect our democracy with the disease of American politics, cripple and blind it, and drag our country into the gutter.
I see the Con Death Machine is denying any responsibility.
Conservative party officials declined comment Friday night.
“All I can say is it wasn't us,” said one senior Tory insider.
“We have no interest in this and, if anything, this kind of a story benefits the Liberals not us,” said the source.
But since just a few days ago a top Con operative, they flew in from Chicago, was accused of peddling a ridiculous story about Michael Ignatieff.
And since we now know from which stinky swamp these Con operatives come from.
Opposition parties have long suspected that the Tories use U.S.-based and (likely) Republican Party-affiliated political consultants to develop campaign strategy. But determining which consultants are on the payroll is difficult.
Do they really think anyone will believe them? And would YOU trust these RepubliCon sleaze monkeys with a Canadian government, let alone a majority?
Oh boy. My parents prepared for a lot of things, they warned me about all kinds of bad people. But they never could have prepared me for this. And for a moment when I first read the story, I thought I was going to vomit.
The good news? It's probably going to backfire. Jack Layton will have a far easier time denying that he did anything wrong, than Stephen Harper will have denying he is a sleaze artist, or a political pervert.
And of course it only reinforces what I have come to believe at the end of this election campaign. Vote smart, but if you can join the orange wave join it.
Let it roll across the country like a democratic tsunami, wash these filthy Cons into the sewer of history.
Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn't paying for it eh?
And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant's show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who watches this low budget production is going to need it. Glug. Glug. Glug.
I mean I always knew it was going to be bad. But who knew it would be so BORING?
The overall look of SNN, at least in these early days, is of a network trying to do more with less. The sets and lighting are Spartan, and the fact that the hosts of various shows keep popping up on other hosts' shows leaves one wondering if we're watching a news network or a sketch-comedy show (seriously, when is SCTV's Earl Camembert going to take a turn behind the anchor desk?).
Levant, sensing that Canadians might be ill-prepared for Sun News, cautioned viewers: "Don't hide under your beds ... This is not an invasion of Martians ... We're about truth and freedom ..."
Enough. We get the point. Levant seeks to polarize - that is his agenda. He is self-aggrandizing and sanctimonious - also his agenda - but he runs the risk of becoming tiresome real fast. That could be his tragic flaw.
Because let's face it, that nerd is EVERYWHERE.
His stream of consciousness ravings are so absurd, the spittle flies so furiously. The only way to safely enjoy The Sauce is to hire a screen cleaner.
Mute the sound, and laugh at his funny faces.
And if that wasn't bad enough, or the set wasn't garish enough, the supporting cast of this Con klown network is so ridiculous.
The anchors shout a lot for people who mostly agree with each other, as if music someone else had chosen was playing too loudly. The women smile and nod a great deal. They all wear bright short skirts. None of them have sleeves. About 70 per cent of Sun TV’s programming feels like being trapped at a second cousin’s wedding reception.
Even a kid can see through them.
My son came downstairs while I was watching Sun TV. Fifteen minutes into his oatmeal, not five years from voting age, he laughed and said, “Wow, they’re like little kids who’ve built a cardboard fort, and now they’re pretending dragons are attacking it.”
Yup. Just as I predicted.
Sometime, in the next SIX months. (I'd say three but I don't want to discourage them)
Starting Monday, the Canadian family restaurant fires up a constant televised loop of 12 roasters turning on a spit to promote the chain.
The Rotisserie Channel will feature two rows of chickens roasting in an open-flame oven.
OMG. What a fowl move. They get on the air while the Fox News North gang is still counting its pencils, and steal half their audience before they even have a chance to FAIL.
Because Cons aren't too bright eh?
And are easily hypnotized by the sight of chickens going round and round.
Oh well. I'm sure Kory Teneycke will find some cheap way to lure them back...
I mean he lured himself back eh?
And I suppose when things get DESPERATE.
As they will. Very very quickly.
They can always try Turkey Tuesdays...
Mmmmm...TASTY. And obviously ALL you can eat.
But will it be enough to stop their dumb redneck viewers from flocking to the Chicken Channel?
Golly. I don't know.
You don't think Ezra Levant could do the weather dressed in a fish suit do you ?
Oh he CAN?
Oh well. That changes EVERYTHING.
A Chicken Channel AND a Con Fish Channel. Canada's back !!!!!!
Gawd. If the rest of the world finds out about this, our BATTERED image will never recover.
Well I see that Fox News NorthKory TV Sun TV News has finally got permission to beg the cable companies to put them on the air. According to this Sun News report bloated PR release.
As soon as they can...um... get their shit together.
Officials had originally wanted to begin broadcasting on January 1, but equipment logistics and building delays have pushed back the clock to March.
And I also see that some progressive bloggers are going hip hip whatever.
But then so am I, if only for ONE simple reason. This is going to be the biggest BOMB or lead balloon Canadian television has ever seen.
I'm not going to dwell on the obvious. They don't have the money,or the infrastructure, or the talent, to compete for even a small part of that tiny news market. Or even to be taken seriously.
I'd rather concentrate on the even bigger problem...the unfortunate cultural misunderstanding. Because to understand what kind of a channel they are probably going to get, Sun TV News' supporters shouldn't bother looking south, they should just look at Quebec.
Because what they're going to get is a Made in Quebec production. With its petty vendettas...
As a British Columbian, Heritage Minister James Moore may not understand – as do those of the Québécois nation – that Pierre Karl Péladeau has a propensity to use his Quebecor media properties to advance his economic interests.
However, Mr. Péladeau, and the journalists he employs see themselves as David battling Goliath, and the war now includes Anglo journalists who’ve been drafted in support of Quebecor’s war against Radio-Canada.
And its unique brand of media politics.
Here’s something else that he may not understand: in that fight in French, though not in English, Mr. Péladeau’s papers don’t shy away from painting the Desmarais-owned papers, and the journalists they employ, as federalist dupes and virtual traitors to the Québécois nation.
Golly. Vive le Quebec Libre !!! Not a Faux News North, but an English version of Le Canal Nouvelles.
To make matters worse, Quebecor is notoriously cheap. They don't have enough resources to staff a proper news channel. They have so few staff they are planning to get their foreign news from CNN.
So they'll probably have to lean heavily on their TVA operation in Quebec, which means their redneck viewers out West will be seeing a lot of crime stories out of Montreal, delivered by reporters with strong French accents.
Tabarnac. How you say "J'taime Calgary" or "dey was mugged" in English?
And I can hardly wait for the moment when The Ezra Levant Spit and Shit Show is interrupted by a dramatic report about a snowmobile accident in Chibougamou. And the absurd levantine is forced to do a weather report to explain how it happened...
Because every penny counts. Allah knows Lezra needs the money. And when the advertisers see what they're getting, they are going to have to keep that pay pal sign up all the time.
Oh yeah. One more thing. When someone from Quebecor says this:
Lavoie did agree that the station will be “populist, blue-collar, irreverent and if one wants to go that way, right wing.”
The blue collar part? It just means lots of crime stories, lotto numbers, and chicks in bikinis...
Oh well. You know that old saying? Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get what you don't want.
The poor Cons are going to be soooooo disappointed. The silly suckers. That'll teach them not to understand French.
They thought they were getting Fox News North, and they're getting Quebec News West.
Ooh la la. Vive la difference !!!!! I mean Vive le Quebec libre !!!!!
The stunning rise of the Tea Party — which seems to have had spillover effects here with Rob Ford’s victory — shows how the wealthy have manipulated the anger following the devastating 2008 financial crash, and turned it into a battering ram for their own causes.
Don't call what's happening in the U.S. journalism.
On Larry King Live last week, commentator Ben Stein noted how the media were now running America. They choose the issues to amplify, they tell the people what they should think on these issues, they do it around the clock, and no one, not even a president as eloquent as Mr. Obama, can avoid being crowded out by the cacophony.
Because it's just propaganda...
And whatever you do, don't ever believe it couldn't happen here.
And here’s news for those of you still in shock: The real meaning of the Ford victory is that a true, reactionary Conservative can easily be elected in the 416 area code. With the right media strategy. Now, lie down with a cold cloth on your face for a while.
Because if Canada keeps on becoming more and more like Amerika.
And the Cons get their own news propaganda network.
We will wake up one day, in a country we don't recognize...
As you may or may not know, I have always tried to avoid reading anything written by Ezra Levant, for one very simple reason.
I've never been able to shake the horrible feeling that grubby bully writes a lot of his grotesque material without any clothes on.
And that's not a pretty thought eh?
So I have nothing really to add to what others have written about this grovelling apology.
Or for that matter nothing really to add to what I wrote last night before the good news broke.
Except for these footnotes:
(1) I no longer believe that Levant will be hired as a weatherman for Fox News North Sun TV. What a pityspitty.
(2) I'm now convinced that the Great Antonia is not only brilliant but psychic.
(3) I'm pretty sure Chris Selley and all the other semi-respectable members of the Levant Fan and Paypal Club must be feeling REALLY foolishstoopid.
At the same time, Sun Media made the smart move of bringing in former Calgary Sun columnist Ezra Levant, who’s become the company’s most prominent opinionated face.
Adding a new, politically incorrect voice to the Canadian media landscape is important business, too. I very much hope they succeed. So leave the shenanigans to Mr. Levant. He’s good at it.
(4) I wouldn't be surprised if the Levantine takes advantage of the situation, by wiggling his fat ass in the air, and begging his supporters to insert loonies, quarters, dimes, bus tokens into his ample orifice.
Because as we all know, in that regard he's capable of ANYTHING.
As for me, what with Fox News North dead as a dodo, Kory Teneycke heading for exile in Paraguay, and Ezra Levant on his knees grovelling for mercy.
I'm just laughing my pretty little ass off.
And playing this happy tune.
Over and over again...
CE..LE..BRA..TION. Woohoo !!!!.
Golly. I don't want to look like I'm gloating eh?
But when you're a bully, and you smear people for NOTHING.
