Well, apparently Dion was asked 3 or 4 times what he would do if was Prime Minister right now during the economic crisis (since Dion attack Harper for the way he's handle it). Dion said he couldn't understand the question, then he repeatedly asked for the question to be repeated. Anyways, Dion couldn't have botched the question any worse then he did.
However, CBC has taken to making sure nothing hurts Dion before the election. They posted this story in the middle of their other stories so as not to draw attention to it. Their version of the story also seems to have been written by a liberal apologist. Half of the article is about how the Liberals are defending poor Dion because he has a hearing problem. You can see the video for yourself and tell me whether you want this guy running a country.
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Anyways, the title of the news article is "Conservatives Jump on Dion Interview" as if to imply Dion's the victim.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/09/dion-ctv.html#socialcomments
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Here's the video. Tell me if you think Dion was framed/abushed/had difficulty understanding the question/etc. or whether he understood the question but didn't have an answer so he tried to cop out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbs7wXvh2Q
Thursday, October 9, 2008
CBC on gun control - one sided argument
I found this story earlier this year so I thought I'd blog about it. At the beginning of the 2008 Canadian election, four of the five main party leaders called for some form of gun control. The story I'm talking about predates the election but the point is that when talking about guns, CBC always advocates or interviews advocates of gun control and almost never interviews advocates of gun ownership. When politicians like David Miller, Dalton McGuinty, and Stephane Dion stand up and call for more gun control, the silence is defening. Nobody asks probative questions. Nobody looks into stats regarding gun control. Nothing. Nada. It's taboo in Canada to be for gun rights or gun ownership. It's even more taboo to advocate gun ownership as a means of self defense.
Back to CBC and it's liberal bias. The Liberal party in Quebec passed what was called the "Anastasia's law". The law was in repsonse to the 2006 Dawson College shooting. The bottom half of the CBC news article is basically the opinions of notoriously pro-gun control advocate named Wendy Cukier. CBC might as well got Wendy Cukier to write the story for them. Did CBC bother to take the perspective of gun owners? Nope. There are between 2 and 4 million gun owners in Canada. You'd figure they might have a say about gun related stories on the CBC. Obviously not.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/01/mtl-anastasialaw0901.html
Back to CBC and it's liberal bias. The Liberal party in Quebec passed what was called the "Anastasia's law". The law was in repsonse to the 2006 Dawson College shooting. The bottom half of the CBC news article is basically the opinions of notoriously pro-gun control advocate named Wendy Cukier. CBC might as well got Wendy Cukier to write the story for them. Did CBC bother to take the perspective of gun owners? Nope. There are between 2 and 4 million gun owners in Canada. You'd figure they might have a say about gun related stories on the CBC. Obviously not.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/09/01/mtl-anastasialaw0901.html
CBC promotes strategic voting against federal Conservatives during election
CBC being a tax-funded media outlet and all should be fair and objective, especially during the elections. Instead, they promote left-wing parties and their ideas while shunning the only right-wing party in Canada. We're in our final week of the 2008 Canadian election and what do I see on the CBC evening news? A 10 minute dialogue with a left-wing activist who designed a website to get Canadians to vote for the party most likely to defeat the Conservatives in their riding. That's fine, this is a free country. But why does the CBC spend so much of their time on this? In the 2006 election, strategic voting only accounted for 3% of the vote. They've also run story after story about strategic voting on their website.
Danny Williams and the CBC affair
Progressive Conservative Premier of Newfoundland, Danny Williams, has been running an 'anything but conservative' campaign is his province against the federal conservatives during the 2008 election. Danny Williams has been routinely featured on CBC television, radio, and web pages.
Usually the CBC does not like conservatives, unless they can find one that will go after other conservatives. The amount of media attention given to Premier Danny Williams was incredible. No other premier in Canada got the same level attention.
There have been reports that the ABC campaign against the federal conservative candidates in NL has included threats of financial retribution if individuals are seen supporting conservative candidates. The CBC has given no attention to this Africa style election intimidation but a huge amount of attention to the ABC rhetoric Williams propagates.
Usually the CBC does not like conservatives, unless they can find one that will go after other conservatives. The amount of media attention given to Premier Danny Williams was incredible. No other premier in Canada got the same level attention.
There have been reports that the ABC campaign against the federal conservative candidates in NL has included threats of financial retribution if individuals are seen supporting conservative candidates. The CBC has given no attention to this Africa style election intimidation but a huge amount of attention to the ABC rhetoric Williams propagates.
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