Friday, April 23, 2010

Questioning the CBC and Polling Impartiality

Kory Teneckye did an excellent job exposing Ekos pollster, Frank Graves yesterday on CBC's Power and Politics. It was revealed that since 2001, Graves has given over $11,000 to the Liberals compared with not quite $500 to Conservatives.   Frank did finally admit his progressive liberal leanings, fine but identify yourself as such especially when you're giving a political party strategical advise.  Ekos is the main  polling firm  for CBC. It puts in question the validity of their polls.
 Lawrence Martin in his column yesterday had this in it. In Mr. Graves own words. He's been giving the Liberals strategy advice that's actually pretty divisive.   He was basically advising to the Liberals to start a culture war in other words, create division in the country as a way to win.
In his advice, Mr. Graves could hardly have been more blunt. “I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and homophobia, democracy versus autocracy. If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.”
Now the Conservative party is questioning the impartiality of the CBC and has sent a letter to CBC's ombudsman.
The president of the Conservative Party has accused a CBC pollster of advising federal Liberals to incite a “culture war” that pits Canadians against Canadians.
Conservative Party of Canada president John Walsh sent a letter Thursday to the CBC’s Ombudsman charging that EKOS pollster Frank Graves’ comments reported in the Globe and Mail that day raise “serious questions about the impartiality of Canada’s publicly funded national broadcaster.”
This indeed does put into question the impartiality the CBC and it's main pollster. I think this alone is a good reason to cut funding to the useless and biased taxpayer funded public broadcaster. 
 We pay for the CBC to the tune of over a Billion dollars a year and it's supposed to speak for all Canadians not just a few on the left. I don't think we're getting our money's worth,especially in a time of fiscal restraint. I want it gone.
 I agree with Ezra Levant, Frank Graves must be fired.  If they don't CBC will have lost the little credibility they had left.


8 comments:

  1. I agree with Ezra Levant, Frank Graves must be fired. If they don't CBC will have lost the little credibility they had left.


    CBC- credible?............they lost it years ago.
    Graves well, he donated to the liberals therefore he is entititled to have a way with 'A CULTURE OF WORDS' as long as he tones it down when it involves the liberals.

    Finally and hope that Kory continues to be the voice for the conservatives.

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  2. Kady O'Malley is coming to Graves defense... with a strong one sentence statement...

    The war of words going back and forth between Ezra and Kady on Twitter is amusing. Personally I have been hammering EKOS since January. Everyone else seems to be late to the party.

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  3. Website search shows Graves donated to the Libs. He says he did donate to a Con individual he liked but the Elections Canada only confirms the libs donation - not the Con donation.
    Evan Solomon says they vet very carefully all pollsters input and to that I say.........Not on your life Solomon - It's so very in-your-face that not even Pat Martin would believe it.

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  4. Finally and hope that Kory continues to be the voice for the conservatives.

    Jen,I fully agree. Kory was brilliant yesterday. Calm,cool,collected and was able to get his message across using facts and truth,skillfully and tactfully tearing Graves to shreds. Truth and facts is always the best weapon.

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  5. "But in an interview today with The Globe and Mail to explain his apology, Mr. Graves went on to say that polling data shows the Conservative Party “does seem to provide a haven” for people with xenophobic or homophobic views. "

    So, let me get this straight. He is justifying his partisanship by accusing Conservatives of harbouring homophobes?

    So, do Liberals provide haven to "gay activist zealots" pro-abortion fundamenatalists?

    Oh wait, my bad, that's the CBC.

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  6. "But in an interview today with The Globe and Mail to explain his apology, Mr. Graves went on to say that polling data shows the Conservative Party “does seem to provide a haven” for people with xenophobic or homophobic views. "

    WOW! That's astonishing! Quite the apology or non apology as I should put it.

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  7. ''Mr. Graves went on to say that polling data shows...''

    huh?
    Ekos polled Canadians on their xenophobic or homophobic views?
    where's the data?
    Or was that something Graves polled on exclusively for the CBC/LPC and was not reported publicly?

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  8. The Liberals don't need their government voter subsidy, they have the CBC. Priceless!

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