Heather Mallick
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Posted on 09/29/2008 12:28:33 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The CBC has issued an apology and retraction for posting a controversial online column by freelancer Heather Mallick about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin earlier this month.
Following 300-plus complaints from readers, and attacks from Canadian and American media organizations, including Fox News, publisher John Cruickshank said the public broadcaster had erred in its editorial judgement and the item should never have appeared on the CBC website.
In an online statement, Cruickshank said reaction to the column has caused the CBC to install new editing procedures that will ensure inappropriate work won't appear.
"We are open to contentious reasoned argument but not to partisan attack," he said in a statement posted on the broadcaster's website.
Despite the vitriolic response to Mallick's Sept. 5 piece, "A Mighty Wind Blows Through the Republican Convention," the CBC had initially stood by the article and said it wouldn't remove it from its website.
In the article, Mallick said Palin appeals to "the white trash vote" with her "toned-down version of the porn actress look."
Vince Carlin, the broadcaster's ombudsman who was later asked to assess the offending article, determined many of Mallick's assertions lacked a basis in fact.
"Mallick's column is a classic piece of political invective," Cruickshank agreed. "It is viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan."
(Excerpt) Read more at canadianpress.google.com ...
Another jealous hag venting her rage.
That Cruickshank can turn a phrase though, “...viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan...”
I believe that Greta called her a Pig and Greta was right on.
Maybe the CBC will let her go once Steve is elected with a majority and their commie funding is ended. Sakes. What a disaster they have become, the Commie Broadcast Corp (can we even call it a corp...maybe it’s Comrades). I watch Fox and read National Post. Can’t stomach the rest.
I was really shocked when Greta called this bitch a “pig”. That’s probably the first time I ever gave a damn what Greta said about anything, and I totally agreed with her.
The Ironic thing is that Mallick would probably be up on charges before a Human Rights Tribunal had she written that about a Canadian. In no way do I agree with the Canadian laws
restricting Free Speech, even in a case like Mallick’s.
I was never more proud of Greta than I was the night she called out Mallick on her program and defined Mallick as a “pig”.
It took guts for Greta to do that. I don’t even know what Greta’s politics are, but she was right on in defining this gutter “journalist” Mallick as a greedy animal who feeds from the trough of Canadian Public Broadcasting.
Meanwhile, I’m sure she will no doubt continue to contribute articles to the CBC, the question is, what the hell are these “new editing procedures”?
To claim restriction of Free Speech in this case is like saying the New York Times must publish all my posts (which would actually raise their standards of civilized human decency) or they are restricting my Free Speech.
Heather Mallick
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But where's her thumb?
apology not accepted.
Guilty!
I'lll spend my money ( what's left after today) in the good ol USA.....
I am sure Greta is somewhere left or Kennedy but she has been very fair to Sarah Palin....very fair....
Ditto! I’ve enjoyed many a vacation in Nova Scotia, but not anymore. To me, Canada is in the same categorey as France now.
I don’t know if you know this but Greta’s husband is a big Lawyer in New York who support Hitlory and has switched his support to McCain.
Here’s the original link and an excerpt of this execrable column by Heather Mallick — obscenities edited by me, not the CBC. Readers are invited to count the number of times they feel personally insulted by this mere excerpt — not the entire column, I assure you:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America’s name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.
But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I’m a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.
Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn’t even female really. She’s a type, and she comes in male form too.
John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I’d had the wit to come up with it first. It’s safer than “white trash” but I’ll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyle’s job includes watching a lot of reality television and he’s well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that’s something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity ...
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a f—kin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin’s e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.
Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won’t dwell on them.
I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn’t have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo. They were indistinguishable ...
I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence. But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He’s going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn’t include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?
Is it racism? I’m told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes ...
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