Dave Rutherford Hits Another One Out of the Ballpark

Dave Rutherford has been on a tear on his radio show the last couple of days. Yesterday he ripped to shreds the National Lame Stream Media saying there was an all out campaign to invoke fear of the Harper Conservatives. I sense he's right!

Today he ripped apart a representative of Avaaz, an activist organization funded by far left billionaire George Soros whose sole purpose is to destroy all things conservative.   He thoroughly quizzed her on a petition they had started to stop the Sun TV from being approved by the CRTC and she got creamed by Dave.  Another must listen that's for sure. I know you'll all enjoy it. You can listen to it here in Audio Vault, Sept 16 @Approx. 10:35am.

We all know the far left is deathly afraid of another voice in the media. That's why all the hateful vitriol.  They are attempting to shut down free speech.  I don't think their attempt to stop Sun TV is going to work even though they forced Kory Teneycke  out of his position of vice-president of development  of Sun TV yesterday.  They may have this battle but they haven't won the war. Sun TV will go ahead and no doubt I'm sure we will see Kory in some other capacity sooner or later. 

Go have listen to Dave's interview, you'll be glad you did.  I hope he get's a show on the new news channel.

Who Does the CBC Think They Are?

CBC, a crown corporation that the taxpayer funds to upwards of over $1 billion a year  even though their ratings keep going down, doesn't want to be accountable.  You got that right. They are fighting a court battle with the Information Commissioner not to be subject to the Access to Information Act like other institutions.

This week, CBC/Radio-Canada lawyers went to court in Montreal to plead that their Crown corporation not be subject to the Access to Information Act (AIA) like all other federal institutions.
The CBC has been bound by the AIA since 2007. However, it systematically applies a legal provision to reject requests for information arguing that these jeopardize its journalistic, creative or programming activities.
The Office of the Information Commissioner challenges this interpretation and wants to see the documents requested before judging if the loophole applies. The CBC refuses.
What this means is taxpayers are paying lawyers of both sides as the case goes before a judge.

Yes, we are footing the bill for both sides. Figure that one out!

The CBC always insists the government be held accountable, demanding documents and information but when the shoe is on the other foot it's a different story. Do as I say and not as I do!

Maybe this could be one of the reasons as to why they are refusing to release any information.

A good example of the usefulness of the AIA was revealed in Quebec a few months ago. Just after the CBC was made subject to the AIA, a sovereigntist activist, Patrick Bourgeois, requested a copy of the secret agreement between Radio-Canada and La Presse (a Montreal daily).
He obtained a copy of the secret deal signed in January 2000. Article 19 of the agreement specifically mentions “the parties (Radio-Canada and La Presse) vow not to reveal the content of this agreement.”
There is good reason why they don’t want us to know: Our taxes are funding a public broadcaster that signs backroom deals with a private company that already owns 70% of the printed papers in Quebec.
The deal goes on and on about the “cross-promotion,” “synergies” and “co-operation” between the two companies.
If any other public utility or department secretly signed a deal to promote the private interests of a private company, there would be a huge public outrage

So signing backroom deals with with private companies. Hmmm.........!  What other backrooms deals have Mothercorp signed on to that they don't want us to know about?  Have they signed backroom deals with the Liberal party for instance?   They sure do spew the Liberal party talking points to demonize the PM and the Conservatives everyday so one wonders. They don't like to give the Conservative point of view that's for sure. What about colluding with special interest groups? We need to know.

How are they spending  all that money that we are forced to give them?  We have a right to know that little tidbit of information.

It's obvious with their rigorous challenge to fight this they have something to hide. They're an elitist media and think they're above the law.  I hope the judge rules against them. It might bring them down a notch or two. 

They are a crown corporation publicly funded.  They should be held to account. They should live up to the standards they demand of the government.  Be subject to the Access to Information Act and release the information that has been requested!

Also, why is Sun Media the only ones covering this story? 

Dave Rutherford on Fire Today, Tears Lame Stream Media Apart

  You have to go listen to Dave Rutherford this morning in Audio Vault.  The fire is in the belly today that's for sure. He does a very good job tearing apart the Central Lame Stream Media.  He feels there certainly is a campaign on to invoke fear of PM Harper and the Conservatives.  He points out all the distortions of the media.  He starts out in his first segment talking about this weird phony bizarre story the CBC put out last night.
Later on in the show he rants on about how the Lame Stream media is trying distort to scare voters on various issues.  He goes after Jeffery Simpson, James Traversty and Susan Delacourt etc.   You can listen here starting with the first segment @ approx. 9:06am then go on to the later segment @ approx. 10:35am.  Enjoy, you'll be glad you did.   It's a must listen.

Beer and Popcorn 2.0

Liberals thought they had us fooled. They thought they had hoodwinked us but now it's been exposed.  The mask is off! Liberals are just as elitist as ever. The  Liberal tour de farce this summer was, well a farce. On yesterday's QP on CTV, it was exposed.  Liberal spokesman, Ian Davey former chief of staff of the Liberal leader had a "beer and popcorn" moment.  In an idiotic statement he said that readers of Sun papers are illiterate.

Asked Sunday during CTV’s Question Period about Bob Rae’s potential support of federal bucks for a possible NHL arena in Quebec City, the lesser Davey sloughed off the question with this high-brow insult.
“It was once said about the Toronto Sun that it’s a newspaper for people who can’t read,” he said. “And I think that probably applies to the whole chain.”

How arrogant and elitist! That sure will help the Liberal cause.  The Leader Iggo Waffle once said that  politics is just acting.  So I guess the Liberal bus tour was all about. Iggo Waffle was play acting, the plaid shirts, drinking beer with the locals and all. Pretending to be a regular Joe Sixpack, one of us uneducated, illiterate, redneck, backwoods hick little people.  What a joke!

 It is nigh impossible to believe, however, that Ignatieff himself doesn’t think the same way, since it was Davey who travelled to Cambridge in 2004 to convince Professor Ignatieff — BA, MA, PhD, BFD — to come down from his lectern and return to Canada after a three-decade absence to pursue the ghost, and assume the high forehead, of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
They are minds that think alike.
We stated here at the outset that the Liberal leader’s summer road show, the so-called Liberal Express, was nothing but a circus act trying to sell the illusion that Ignatieff was no different than the average Canadian working stiff.
And Ian Davey, Liberal spokesman, and former chief-of-staff to Ignatieff, has now confirmed the ruse.

All this will accomplish  is to turn voters off and drive more of an audience to Sun Media.  Liberals have always been elitist, and always will be.  They think they are better than we, entitled to their entitlements and believe they have a God given right to govern.  Nothing else is acceptable to them.  Their  cheerleaders in the Lame Stream media believe the same.  That's why the viscous vitriol and opposition to the new SunTv channel and the Conservative government.  No one else in the country should have a voice!   No more, we're mad as hell and not going to take anymore!

Why Tom Clark Left CTV

A week ago it was announced that Tom Clark, host of Power Play left the network.  Many were speculating about the reason why. This just may be it.

Tom Clark left CTV’s Power Play after the broadcaster cancelled plans to offer him an anchoring position on the national news, Howard Bernstein, a former television producer who has worked for most of the major English networks in Canada, wrote on his blog Wednesday.
“I understand that Tom was upset that he didn’t get Lloyd Robertson’s job. After more than three decades of hard work, it had to have come as a severe blow to see someone else get the job he had coveted and felt he had worked so hard for,” Bernstein, a broadcasting industry insider, wrote on his blog, Medium Close Up.

From Bernstein's blog:

I don’t know why Lisa Laflamme got the job. I do know that CTV’s original plans were for Lisa and Tom to co-host the news. Where that went awry I don’t know. I have heard some people speculate that with Katy Couric and Diane Sawyer taking over U.S. newscasts, CTV decided to make a splash by hiring a woman. I have also heard speculation that some considered Lisa’s age (she’s much younger than Tom) the deciding factor. I think Lisa was a great choice. I believe it is unfair to bring gender into the discussion. Lisa did everything the network asked and more. She is a fine journalist and a credit to CTV News. Would Tom have done just as well? We’ll never know. I do know that Tom would have worked just as hard and been a credit to the job. Would audiences have responded to Tom as they seem to be responding to Lisa? I’d like to think so.

It looks like this might be a case of affirmative action. Seems that Tom was ticked that Laflamme got the coveted anchor's job instead of him.  Did he not want to co-anchor with Laflamme? Did he leave on his accord or was he canned?  Who knows?  In my opinion the ratings are going to tank with Laflamme in that anchor chair.

It's not that I'll miss him, he was overly partisan anyway.  I'm just curious that's all.  Maybe it's about time some other Liberal shills on that network left too, like Craig Oliver. It's about time he retired anyway.   Bob Fife, Hanoi Giggles Jane Taber would be better for CTV too if they left.  Maybe they could move Giggles over to ETalk, she's more of a gossiper  anyway.  It would be a better fit for her over there. 

Who will be the permanent host for Power Play?  I don't know, but I bet whoever it is, they will be another Liberal shill.