Posted on 09/18/2008 6:27:21 PM PDT by VinceASA
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.”
The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.”
In the CBC story, Mallick wrote that John McCain’s running mate “added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote.”
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
honestly , liberals so are warped, to say such a thing. What a loser this woman is.
Dag nab it! Posted double agin!!!!!
Dag nab it! Posted double agin!!!!!
LMAO!
Golly-gee, do you think the Canadian Human Rights Commission goes after this columnist with the same ferocity as they did Ezra Levant?
Such slurs reveal quite a bit about those who use them.
Yeah, and Yellow Knife is entirely populated by Baptist ministers and little old ladies who quilt.
If it wasn’t for hockey, Canada would have no reason to exist.
It's an over/under double barrel revolver!
Watch it Heather... hate speech is a double edged sword...
I think she should write more articles like this!
The unhinged Palin haters are going to lose this election for Barak Obama. He had a fair chance before the Palin haters were let out of their pens.
I almost feel sorry for Obama. His supporters are a runaway train and he is helpless to stop them from derailing his campaign.
Looks like the Democrats are going to do it again!
You are right about that. Name calling IS hate speech in Canada. Labeling someone, or better yet, labeling a GROUP "White Trash" is hurtful, hateful, derogatory, demeaning, ethnic intimidation, and it's against the law in Canada. Others have been prosecuted for using hate speech against ethnic groups in Canada.
This Heather person really helps to define the core (rotten) of the Obama supporters (even if she can’t vote for him).
I say, let them curse and screech and let loose the obscenities they can’t seem to control, and show the country and the world the kind of support Obama has - and it isn’t pretty.
Does the name Mark Steyn ring a bell in that regard?
Obama is all behind this. He is quoted as saying that his supporters should be in peoples faces.
Many, many, years ago the London Daily Mirror had various columnists. One was called "Cassandra". Real name William O'Connor, I believe. He wrote up on one fine American icon when he visited England. This was "Liberace". "Cassandra poured it on. Calling Liberace a momma's boy, a neuter sexed man with homosexual tendencies. Liberace sued. British justice prevailed. The Mirror paid $30,000 USD. Highly overwrought English middle-aged ladies cheered- they wanted a piece of old Buster Keys.
Later an observation was made about newspaper columnists. Someone in the know, said that when things are slow, they publish something that they know will raise a stink. They also said that many columnists do not believe half of what they print.
A picture was drawn of an outraged Briton, spilling his morning tea and choking on his breakfast. This reading the columnist's offering.
Old 'Eather knew what she was doing. The gal has to be able to pay her room and board does she not?
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