Heather is just bitter because she knows the following image is her own destiny:
Posted on 09/28/2008 7:50:22 PM PDT by Vision Thing
Something tells me that the CBC is really worried about it.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Apparently a Canadian columnist who throws the first punch writing nasty insults about Governor Sarah Palin can’t take it herself.
You may remember that we reported about columnist named heather Mallick who on the CBC Web site compared Governor Sarah Palin to a porn star and called Governor Palin’s supporters white trash. As you know, I didn’t think Mallick’s gratuitous insults provoked good debate or serious scrutiny but simply made her look like a pig. I said it- she’s a pig. Now Mallick is also taking the heat from other for what she wrote, and she doesn’t like it. We have invited her to go “On the Record” any time she wants, and I will be polite to her, of course, but so far she declines our request. Joining us live from Toronto, Canada is David Warren, columnist for the “Ottawa Citizen.” David, how is she taking this insult from me, this insult back?
DAVID WARREN, “OTTAWA CITIZEN”: Let’s start with what I hear up here is that, Greta, you have been very naughty indeed in using that three letter word.
This story is played differently up here from down there, quite naturally in somewhat. I was on a cross Canada radio show today. When it started I was asked the ambush question, which was “How can you defend Greta Van Susteren calling our Heather Mallick a pig?” I was expecting to be discussing Heather Mallick’s comments instead.
I thought of an answer immediately, which I realized was undiplomatic, and moved on to giving a political answer, and then we got on with the rest of the interview.
VAN SUSTEREN: I would defend her right to say whatever she wants about me or about Governor Palin or anybody else, because I really do believe that people have first amendment rights-certainly they do in this country.
But I’m sort of struck by the victim nature, that she can dish it out, but she can’t take. And even sort of the rallying around about her. I get called worse than pig every single day. You should see my e-mail inbox.
WARREN: I have an inbox like that, too.
VAN SUSTEREN: I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m all these things. I get that every single day. She worries about being called a pig because, frankly, she was a pig.
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VAN SUSTEREN: What is her history?
WARREN: Her history is an interesting one. She comes from a very small town in northern Ontario, smaller even than Wasilla, Alaska.
One of the sad things about this is that to my view Heather Mallick can be a very talented and interesting writer when she is not talking about politics.
When you read her on her own background, when you read her about some subjects about which she has some expertise-shopping is one of them. She used to do a wonderful shopping column in one of the tabloids in Toronto. She is very entertaining and delightful in so many ways.
But as soon as anything vaguely right wing slides by her door, she comes right off the hinges.
I don't think they've got enough paper and ink to do all that. :-)
MoftOD...NICE COME BACK!
And what could have made Mallick write such an atrocious article? Could it be ....
Basically, it was a rambling excuse for Ms. Mallik's trash talk commentary in which Mr. Carlin puts lipstick on the pig. Basically, he is happy to have anyone submit vile and hateful commentary as long as they can reference some vague reason for holding their views.
To save you from slogging through his long diatribe of their "standards" and justifications for giving hateful commentary a platform, I have included his conclusion."
CONCLUSION:
Portions of Ms. Mallick’s column do not meet the standards set out in policy for a point-of-view piece since some of her “facts” are unsupportable. She may, of course, resubmit her column taking account of our editorial standards. The editors are free to, in fact obliged to, exercise appropriate editing standards.
It is not my job to agree or disagree with Ms. Mallick’s opinions or the tone in which they are expressed. She is free to craft them as she chooses.
CBCNews.ca should address its editing standards to ensure that vigorous opinion thrives while ensuring that journalistic and quality standards are met.
Opinion and analysis should be clearly labeled and not lumped together. If an item is meant to be satiric, it should be labeled as such.
CBCNews.ca should have appropriate resources to ensure that a wide range of opinion and analysis is available. Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman
Nope, they're worse than that: They're puny insecure elitists.
The Alaskan who went ‘outside’
Sarah Palin’s Wasilla is beyond small-town. The woman who could be president is someone with no grasp of the wider world
Heather Mallick
Guardian Unlimited
September 5, 2008
I was born in a northern Canadian settlement so small it was accessible most of the year only by a Bombardier, a sort of huge military tank built for passengers. It was like a transport plane, a big iron bulb with caterpillar tracks. I swear we had a paddle-steamer for supplies in the summer.
Take that, Sarah Palin. The place was six times smaller than Wasilla, Alaska, the town that birthed John McCain’s strange vice-presidential “soulmate”, as weird as that disconnected eerie smile that floats on his face as he stands next to her.
My credentials are solid; Palin cannot out-hick me. Until I fled at 18, I never lived in a northern town of more than 12,000 people. My towns were full of Sarah Palins. These types are fine, such as they are, until they leave town and turn fraudulent. They label themselves “the salt of the earth”. It’s when they try to make that a qualification for a greater glory that things turn unpleasant.
I never claimed a higher moral standing for coming from a great big empty on the map. Small towns are places that smart people escape from, for privacy, for variety, for intellect, for survival. Palin should have stayed home.
Canada has lots of hockey moms. They’re called Fran and Nancy. They have cruel haircuts and their voices shake the rafters of the rink as their rink-rats play. How can I translate the hearty, jollying-along Palin for British audiences? She’s a working class Joan Hunter Dunn. It’s those volleyball shoulders and field-hockey thighs, the energy, the bullying, and the utter self-confidence in every lie she tells.
Salt-of-the-earthers don’t lie! But Palins do. I watched Palin last night, my mouth open, my eyeballs drying out, my hand making shaky notes. I read them aghast.
Did she really joke, “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick.”?
Did she just blow kisses to the audience?
Did she just say, “We need to produce more of our own oil and gas. Take it from a gal who knows the North Slope. We’ve got lots of both.”?
Yes, she did lie about billion-gallon slurps of oil and gas available for Americans to blow, about her support of Alaska’s notorious pork-barrel “bridge to nowhere”, about which particular citizens will see tax increases under Obama (only the richest, and she knows that).
She also lied when she slobbered over small-town folks (an American version of British farm life, except British farmers have a point). The granite honesty of hicks is a cliche, a fantasy, a meme of American life, as much as the working-class solidarity of Tony Blair was in 1997, and where did that get anyone?
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When I lived in Boston, I knew a Canadian software developer who married an American. Before I left Boston, he and his wife were looking to buy a home in income-tax-free New Hampshire. He’s one of the sharpest guys I know.
And we all know that the brilliant Canadian Mark Steyn proudly calls America his home.
Yes, we Americans benefit from Canada’s brain drain. All they got left up there are socialists and bitter leftists journalists.
Who are what is she married to?
As Dan Akyroyd, a Canadian used to say:
“Heather, you slut”!
Typical “free speech for me but not for thee” from a talentless backwater hack.
Canadians don't have what it takes to properly punish an offender.
Jack Welch fomerly of GE recommends making a public spectacle out of punishing a worker who commits a serious mistake. It serves as a message to the remaining workers about the consequences of doing something terribly wrong.
I doubt the Canadians would approve of such methods.
Yes, in the name of further diversification, they will do so. However, they've got to find such writers who also have the skill of writing things that won't result in so much negative publicity and hate mail from the hoi poloi.
She looks a lot like an evil minded woman I once had the misfortune of working with. She and her boyfriend (who worked in the same group I did) were conspiring to get me fired, including fabricating lies about me for years. After five years, she finally succeeded in getting me dismissed, but they fired her boyfriend, too.
I'm guessing this is Canada's version of the Fairness Doctrine.
Well, it is, but leave it to a newspaper to say the same thing but with three or four times as many words.
I doubt it'll happen. American journalists are under the Soros gun to invent as much crap about Sarah as they possibly can. Otherwise, Soros pulls the trigger.
For apology to be accepted, we demand accountability. The writer and the editor should both be fired...otherwise we don’t believe they mean the apology. Show us by action that you are sorry.
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