Tuesday, August 24, 2010

TorStar's Linda McQuaig on PM Harper, Fox, SunTV and a Sinister Plot

Left wing Toronto Star journalist, Linda McQuaig tries to connect PM Harper luncheoning in New York with Rupert Murdoch whose company owns Foxnews and Roger Ailes, president of that news channel with the new SunTV News channel due to come on air in 2011 and a plot to poison the Canadian public with right wing extremism. Oh the horror!
So it should be considered no big deal that, among those the PM has lunched with, is U.S. media billionaire Rupert Murdoch, who has probably done more than any single individual in recent years to push American politics sharply to the right.
It’s interesting to imagine, however, why our Prime Minister would want to meet with Murdoch, whose Fox News TV channel has poisoned U.S. political debate and nurtured America’s extremist right-wing Tea Party movement.
If you subscribe to the notion that Harper has no particular political agenda, his lunch with Murdoch in March 2009 might seem harmless, perhaps a purely social affair.
But the evidence suggests they were discussing plans to transform the Canadian political landscape by creating a right-wing, Fox-style TV station in Canada. Present at the lunch was Fox News president Roger Ailes, known for bringing cutthroat Republican campaign tactics to the screen.
She says there is evidence to suggest they were discussing creating a Fox TV here. What evidence? Having lunch together? How does she know what they were talking about?  Was she there?  I doubt it. Ooh,something sinister must have been going on.

She then goes on to suggest that just because Kory Tenecyke was in attendance that he must have been in on that  dark plot. Kory was PM Harper 's communications directer at the time and is now spearheading SunTV News. He had every right to be there.
Also present at the lunch was Harper aide Kory Teneycke, who has since become the front man in the bid by Quebec media mogul Pierre Karl Peladeau to get a specialty TV licence for a Fox News-style network in Canada.
Then the plot thickens:
Harper also met twice in early 2009 with Peladeau, according to Cheadle.
Whoa!  Big deal. PM Harper meets with Peladeau.  Were any of the media privy to what they were discussing?  Thought so.  Just more speculation.
Then there's the speculation that the PM is interfering with CRTC so that SunTV will obtain their license by trying to force big wig, Konrad von Finckenstein to resign.
Of course, Harper doesn’t hand out TV licences. That’s the job of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
But Morrison says he’s heard that Harper has been trying to encourage CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein to resign, by offering him plum jobs. Von Finckenstein appears likely to stymie Peladeau’s bid for a first-tier licence that would deliver his station to all cable subscribers in the country.
 Does she have proof?  Didn't think so.  Morrison heard. Heard where and from who? More speculation.
Then there's that nasty right wing extremism.
 There’s been a tendency in the Canadian media to dismiss the threat of a Fox News transplant, on the grounds Canadians wouldn’t fall for that sort of nasty, right-wing extremism.
But that comforting notion may be naive. Most citizens don’t have time to follow political stories in detail. If they hear constant sound-bites suggesting global warming is a hoax or public health care just doesn’t work, after a while the message starts to seem believable.
She's afraid that the public might see that global warming is hoax?  Yup, because it actually is!   Public health care doesn't work?  You bet!

Oh and the media is already moving to the right.  Yeah right!
Indeed, the Canadian political debate has already moved considerably to the right, particularly since Conrad Black created the National Post in 1998.
While the Post has struggled to capture audience share, it’s had a big impact on the media landscape. Its sneering attitude toward progressive ideas — now echoed by the Harper government — has pushed other media rightward, including the CBC, which is ever frightened of offending those in power. The CBC even hired Teneycke, an Ann Coulter-style pit bull, as a commentator.
The media already blast Canadians with a steady chorus of right-wing ideas. A Fox-style network here — if Harper gets his way — would turn that into a deafening cacophony.
Oh, the horror that Canadians get another point of view and have a choice in TV news instead of the left wing, anything anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Harper pablum everyday. I think Linda is another one of the left wing, liberal, lame stream media who are very afraid that the public will get some truth and facts for a change instead of Liberal fiction. 

This story is another perfect example of that fiction. Just making things up. No proof, no evidence, just speculation.  I think Canadians are tired of that.  I am, aren't you?

24 comments:

  1. It shows how scared the lefty media people are about some real competition against their lefty garbage they have been spoon feeding the public for decades.

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  2. Ms McQuaig has become an expert at sniffing out suspicious secret plots - American sharp turn to the right ? - as shown by election of socialist Obama ? - threat of right wing media in Canada ? - as exemplified by the most left wing journalism in the western world ? - even the socialist Scandinavian countries protect press freedom far more

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  3. McQuaig is just another left-wing, statist who believes the government should control every aspect of our lives through a heavy-handed, Stasi-like system of bureaucratic thugs.

    If nothing else the elections of Harper and Obama have brought the battle between the proponents of big government and the proponents of small government together in the same area. The stage is set and the battle lines are drawn and for the first time in decades the statists, who have been winning by default, are facing a serious backlash. The public is split almost evenly as witness the elections in Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Conservatives, both big Cee and small cee, can win over the public by toning down the rhetoric in public, (blogs are exempted and we can voice our detestation of the statists at will) and offering clear, reasoned approaches to the issues facing this country. The left-wing nutters will destroy themselves by letting idiots like McQuaig make fools of themselves.

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  4. Great Post! frmgrl You just have to love how speculation, opinion, from the left is O.K. "Eevil Harper! Shriek! The MSM with their constant attack anything Conservative syndrome are sounding a lot like the crazy old Auntie that is always sippin' on that bottle of Gin.
    Cheers Bubba

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  5. If you look closely into McQuaig's eyes you can see that rotating beach ball that appears when your Mac crashes...

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  6. I read McQuaig's column this morning and noted a disconnect. She suggests that Fox has poisoned American journalism. Well it is beating the pants off the other TV news media in the U.S; even CNN. That means that Americans like what they are hearing and seeing. God forbid in Canada we let the people decide what they want to see and hear. The fact is SunTV will succeed or fail based on viewership. If it fails then the people have decided; not the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and CTV. Bring on Sun TV; the sooner, the better.

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  7. I wonder if you live in a country like Canada and fully 90% of the media is either Liberal or leftist in orientation are you a victim of a conspiracy against the Canadian people. That is the conspiracy Linda and you are fully a part of it. (real conservative)

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  8. The public is split almost evenly as witness the elections in Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Conservatives, both big Cee and small cee, can win over the public by toning down the rhetoric in public, (blogs are exempted and we can voice our detestation of the statists at will) and offering clear, reasoned approaches to the issues facing this country.

    You're exactly right. Conservatives have to offer clear solutions. Not liberal lite either, but real conservative approaches. I think they could easily win the public over if the they started real adult conversations and not just rhetoric like say on health care for instance. I know, I know it's a sacred cow but it's a real problem that needs a real conservative solution.

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  9. Even so, what if they were discussing plans for a channel like that? It doesn't really bother me all that much. If no one else will do it, Harper will. The voice of the Canadian right is getting louder...

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  10. This from a columnist of Torstar, the company that wanted to buy up the entire coast to coast newspaper chain of CanWest's and already owns a substantial stake in the vast CTVglobemedia empire.

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  11. To leftists like McQuaig, one right wing voice is too many, a virtual cacophony of one..

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  12. I think Chilliwack said it best:
    "Without the audience there just ain't no show.".

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  13. When I was a young whipper snapper in the Canadian Navy, our skipper would give us a lecture prior to tying up in a foreign port; now lads you shouldn't go in this area, now lads you should stay away from this area. You guessed it, that's exactly where we would be off to, lickity splits. I think all this negative media is going to help SUN News TVs ratings. Funny usually we would find the skipper in the very places he suggested we shouldn't go.

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  14. I think all this negative media is going to help SUN News TVs ratings.

    I think you're right,bullpup. I think everyone will be surprised. Those who will be the most surprised I bet will the lefty media.

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  15. Sounds like something that she would write. She is so afraid of the truth that she spits venom at the thought that the public may actually have an opinion that she is not part of. Just like she spent years as an informant trying to pin corruption on Mulroney but never once thinking that maybe the Liberals were just as bad if not worse.

    Was Broadbent's 10 year appointment as head to some obscure agency not a kickback as well? Was it a thank you for backing Trudeau through his many minority governments? It was worth millions too? She never found the time to investigate that. I wonder why.

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  16. I sent her an e-mail 2 weeks ago about her extremist left wing columns and asked for explanations and examples (no answer as of to date). As much as I dislike Jim Travers columns when I e-mail him with my concerns he always answers (even though I disagree).

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  17. I sent her an e-mail 2 weeks ago about her extremist left wing columns and asked for explanations and examples (no answer as of to date)

    Why am I not surprised? Let us know when or if you ever get a response from her. Be anxious to hear what she has to say.

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  18. Have you seen BC BLUE- take a look, also take a look at canadiansense blog about Mc Guinty's huge debt then ask yourself why the silence from the media yet they talk bravely about Alberta premiere and 'oil sands'.

    Now why is that....hmmmmm!



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  19. Have you seen BC BLUE- take a look, also take a look at canadiansense blog about Mc Guinty's huge debt then ask yourself why the silence from the media yet they talk bravely about Alberta premiere and 'oil sands'.

    Now why is that....hmmmmm!


    Hmmmmm..........I wonder. Could it be because McGuinty is a Liberal and Premier Stelmach is PC?
    Hypocrisy from the media as usual.

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  20. Everyone but Karl Marx would be considered to be a right wing extremist by Mcquaig.

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  21. Sun/FOX media reports with documents tapes etc says to the public " the liberals when in trouble or want money come up with story "the reason why we have to make serious cuts(which most us know where the cuts came from) is because mulroney left us with a debt." which we all know it is true but never did the media nor the liberal will tell you that it was liberal P.E.T who left Mulroney with the largest personal debt and in fact ran deficits every year"

    Trudeau's huge debt seem to be unknown to the Trudeau media clan like Craig Oliver.

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  22. I wonder why McQuaig didn't include some cocaine and "Busty Hookers" in her hysterical, extreme left, statist, fear mongering. I mean if she's going to make things up, and conjure monsters under the bed, then why not put some cocaine and "Busty Hookers" under there as well.

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  23. an socialist in the white house and american politics has shifted aharply to the right? That has got to be one of the most idiotic conclusions from a columnist ever; but in reality it shouldn't come as a surprise from an obvious left wing extremist

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  24. I fail to see why she should be concerned. The Star and like minded MSM have been trying to push use so far left for years a lot of folks are almost ready to fall over the left edge of the table.

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