For a guy who is "retired", Don Newman sure spends a lot of time working for the CBC. Sunday he was on television discussing the results and goals of the G20 meeting and when he got to the part about reducing deficits in half by 2013; Newman suggested that Prime Minister Harper's initiative would be impossible to achieve because President Obama will not be able to cut his deficit. That's right, if Obama keeps spending, this whole G20 meeting will be a failure, Harper's failure (or at least that was Don's interpretation with an arrogant grin on his face).
Then you had Milewski also running around the media pavilion trying to hunt down anything that could possibly reflect poorly on the Prime Minister. The best he could do was a comment by French President Nicholas Sarkozy that the cost of an upcoming Summit in France would cost less money. Terry's interpretation of these comments were that he was taking a direct and deliberate shot at Canada's Prime Minister by saying "we aren't going to spend money like those crazy Canucks!" Yes, the CBC "journalist" took the comment as Sarkozy calling Harper a crazy Canuck.
The CBC would resurrect Karl Marx if it was necessary to do so to fit their narrative.
ReplyDeletethese two guys are fighting for 1st cut position when the bloated, biased org is finally defunded - oh how I would love to see these negative harpies apply for a job in the real world
ReplyDeleteI was very interested in what was actually happening at the G20 meetings. I would have liked to see some background information on the leaders, on what their priorities are, have some background on their economies and how they relate to Canada. But, I could find none of this. For every minute of hard research news I would have to endure 59 minutes of "Protester" news, which of course takes no effort to produce. Our media again failed us miserably. They are for the most part only interested in gossip and other easy to cover topics that lazy "journalists" (I use this word very loosely) can cover. Damn shame.
ReplyDeleteDon, Don, Don ... if even the "progressive" Europeans understand the need for deficit reduction - how can the summit be a failure?
ReplyDeleteFurther, assuming that they acheive the 2013 reduciton goal (and they just might ... as they have long since run out of other people's money [no bank tax, *&^%!] and have little choice) - just where will that that leave Obama?
I too was disappointed in the coverage of this important meeting.... The media took great steps to watch the protests, but hardly any coverage at all on what was important. Their biggest aim was hoping to find something during these protests that happened that they could condemn the PM for - anything... but we saw nothing about the meeting Lauren Harper had... what she did to entertain the leaders' wives...just follow the trouble makers around to give them the coverage they wanted and try to bash the present Governemnt.... I can't wait to get a real broadcasting station... these liberal bias media will be out of work in no time...Terry Melewsky is one sick piece of liberal work!
ReplyDeleteTerry Milewky is an angry white man. Don Newman is an old angry white man.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to Sun TV.
ST has a riot comparison chart up!
ReplyDeleteex: cars damaged in Canada 3 vs France 8,973
arrests in Canada 900 vs France 2,888
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2010/06/riots-nobody-does-it-cheaper-than-france/
And isn't this interesting:
''Ottawa chipped in on the cleanup costs after Quebec City's 34-country Summit of the Americas.
In the wake of that April 2001 gathering, the feds announced a $2-million fund to compensate merchants, residents and non-profit organizations for damages.
That summit in Quebec City was marked by the appearance of the now-infamous Black Block protesters who smashed windows and hurled projectiles at police.
That 2001 summit ended with 463 arrests, more than $2.5 million in damages, and widespread complaints about police manhandling peaceful protesters.
Much like Toronto, the 2001 summit was held within a fenced-in part of the city.
http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/MG1405.xml&CatID=National
I heard the police chief say that they would thoroughly revuew the events, and that they would be their own harshest critics.
ReplyDeletePlease, media, review your own performance (which was abismal) and be as critical of yours as the police will be of theirs.
This could have been a good education for us on world leaders and their countries, instead we got hour after hour of protesters, which by the way, aided and abetted them.
How come you have so many Anonymous posters here. Are they afraid that CBC or CTV will call them on their conclusions. I make it a habit to ignore anonymous comments.
ReplyDeleteHoarfrost, I hear what you are saying, and most anonymous insults get blocked in moderation. But I do have a number of guests who post anonymously (my father among them), who are either high profile or have jobs in politically correct environments and want anonymity, or both.
ReplyDeleteI also get a lot of hits from the Canadian House of Commons server, and most of those are anonymous. Personally I prefer having the anonymous option available than to shut out those voices all together.