Posted on 10/06/2008 3:58:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Remember that Canadian Broadcast Corportation (CBC) columnist, Heather Mallick, who wrote a story chock full of Palin Derangement Syndrome on September 5? Her hateful rantings against Sarah Palin were so over the edge that the CBC was forced to issue an apology:
"Mallick's column is a classic piece of political invective. It is viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan. And because it is all those things, this column should not have appeared on the CBCNews.ca site."
Well, guess what? According to the New York Times, Mallick was just "joking." Ian Austen, writing in the Times, provides the "joking"excuse in his story (emphasis mine):
Heather Mallick, an opinion columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations Web site, is known for her use of humorous exaggeration. But last week after removing a column by Ms. Mallick, which said that Gov. Sarah Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look and suggested that Republican men were sexually inadequate, the government-owned CBC ruled that its opinion writers had to stick to the facts even when they were joking around.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Playing nice doesn’t work. We have to start fighting the media via their sponsors.
Man, that’s just mean!
You should! Canadians are your allies, despite what the CBC spouts—there is one voice in Canadian tv (CBC) and it is akin to MSNBC on leftist steroids. Meanwhile, Canada has a conservative government in power, which drives CBC bonkers—its a beautiful thing!
Heather Mallick is a syphilis filled crack whore
Man, that was funny
Could be. Or the ugly gene is just common thing among liberals.
That there girl would require more beer than I can afford!
I was joking...I meant Tijuana...
Yeah, you are right, didn’t mean to offend you. I used to live near Canada and all I would see was the CBC and their slanted news. It seemed like Canada was much more pro-American under Brian Mulroney (SP?) in the 80s.
chippewaman, I sypathize..but when they are “the Voice of Canada” and Canadians don’t do anything about it...I hope you can understand our resentment.
Whoa! TJ has been a real rough neighborhood lately.
“Or the ugly gene is just common thing among liberals.”
lol!
She's a man, man!
Barack Hussein Obama - Hate Speech.
Is it any wonder that patriotic Americans have trouble with the concept of hate speech? Is it any wonder that liberals are not known for their sense of humor?
Here is the joking of Heather Mallick:
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Heather Mallick
A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 | 8:48 PM ET
By Heather Mallick, special to CBC News
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 didnt already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies Americas name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
Its possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because shes a woman. Theyre 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? Im 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 isnt even female really. Shes 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 Id had the wit to come up with it first. Its safer than white trash but Ill pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyles job includes watching a lot of reality television and hes well-versed in the backstory. White trash not trailer trash, thats 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. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.
Turn your guns on Levi, maam
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decades 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 Im a fuckin redneck Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why dont the Palins? Im not the one preaching homespun values but Id destroy that ratboy before Id let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palins 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, maam.
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 wont dwell on them.
I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldnt 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. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potatos in the Paddy Wagon?
Who delivered this line: To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will. Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palins shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?
The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and thats the mystery of the hick vote. Theyd be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in Whats the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.
Lie works for Palin
But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. Hes going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesnt 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? Im 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.
When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obamas years of community organizing they said it like rectal fissure the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.
So Im trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. Its the green light at the end of the dock. Its the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she wont because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.
American politics isnt short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ikes granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate seed corn, she said aptly. Time to start again.
Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because shes part of the thoughtful demographic that Im trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and Ill pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals.
This Week
Mad Men is scaring me (AMC on Sunday nights). What has Matthew Weiner, a writer from The Sopranos, created, a period soap opera about reality and façade or a horror series on a localized war between men and women? Was Episode 6 of Season 2 a costume drama about the Madonna/whore complex or the operatic rendition of one simple thing, human cruelty?
Or maybe Im seeing too much into it and its just a sexed-up version of the Republican convention.
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[Heather Mallick is obviously a bona fide psychopathic nutter, posing as a journalist.]
If she’s joking, why is no one laughing?
Ah, I am not offended at all, just reminding everyone not to throw the canuck baby out with the bathwater! Remember, the leftists want to divide America from other countries, unless a Democrat is in power, then its a different story. The media loves to divide and conquer using this time worn tactic—its so transparent!
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