This catfight could get interesting. I can't wait to hear how BOR responds.
The Toronto Red Star has spoken. All will obey.
Is this the National Enquirer of Canada? "I Had Bigfoot's Baby" is a better story.
Interesting to see how this plays out.
Fox News was banned in Canada. It was ILLEGAL for cable or sattelite providers to allows Canadians to access Fox News Channel.
If that is not a "ban" then I do not know what is.
They fail to say why. BOR was telling Franken to shut up because Franken had more than exceeded DOUBLE the alloted time for him to speak and it was BORs turn.
Come on. For an alternative view, check out Juan Cole's Informed Comment www.juancole.com.
Want some Juan Cole? Here ya go...
Here is his take on the Iraqi elections
He is none to happy about it.
They do not want to carry FNC!!!
They fear FNC will trounce their news channels (which are pure garbage.
I consider it fascinating that these people see MediaMatters.org (a left-wing organization, run by left-wing advocate and formal mental patient David Brock, funded by left-wing moneyman George Soros) and Al Franken (who at least was listed as a liberal broadcaster, although not mainstream by any stretch) as credible sources. O'Reilly attacked Franken after he started gobbling up all of his press time, cutting into the alotted time of the other two. Franken made the ludicrous allegation that O'Reilly did not grow up where he said he did, when in fact O'Reilly later produced the actual deed.
I am not a BOR fan, but by the same token this hatchet-job is so error-ridden and obviously biased to anyone in the states that is is laughable. They're playing off the fact that many folks up North might not realize the nature of the people and groups referenced.
Another point: The KKK was never some sort of far-right movement. In fact, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a KKK member at one point. Then again, I am knid of new to the idea that Hitler was "right-wing" as well, having studied lots of older history books. Go figure.
O'Reilly's main fault is that he goes halfway in his responses. He either ought to follow Rush Limbaugh's lead by ignoring his detractors or go the whole way and rip harder. It would be better to ignore them, because like most little children, all the critics are looking for is a cheap plug on his program. Any attention is good attention.
You knew this was going to happen.
WHY O'Reilly gives a rat's behind about Canada is beyond my comprehension.
His best move at this point would be to totally ignore the place - - just like the rest of America does.
Translation.....the liberal media monopoly in the socialist country of Canada is now also dead.
[*CBC "has enjoyed something like a monopoly on news coverage and commentary up until now, and true diversity is now arriving in broadcasting." ]
"(For the record, Fox and O'Reilly refused to participate in the fifth estate documentary because they claim they're not conservative, but "mainstream." Well, maybe. From the Ku Klux Klan's perspective.)"
That says enough about what way-out wackos the Toronto Star are, or are just so loose with facts that they wrekclessly throw around comparisons of conservatives to any ole racist group that last crossed the single cerebral synapse.
The KKK is and always has been a DEMOCRAT group, not Republican and certainly not neocon like Fox News.
It is bad enough that the author pulled this out of his ass and wrote it down. It just sick that he needed to preceed his BS with "Fact is,"
Hmmm, why don't we let the free market decide who is right? We all believe in freedom, right? So what is the Canadian media establishment so scared of? (Answer: someone might have a different opinion than they).
<< Many cable and satellite services don't even carry Fox.>>
Liar, there is only one satellite that does not carry Fox News and it's Bell ExpressVu. Take your head out of your a**.
Uh here, in america, TV time is not precious, in fact we have so much bandwidth that almost anything can get on the air... Of course, being an ever more socialist government, I'm sure in your neck of the woods, airtime is still a rare commodity.