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I say fire her because working for a news service does not give a person the right to spew trash via live feed or computer.Report the facts.Tell the truth.That is her job.
Teddy Ruxpin said:Fire her? Get serious. Why? For having an opinion and for getting paid to share it?
Teddy Ruxpin said:Exactly - and well said, Greentoblue. Mallick displays an attitude that is shared by many Canadians, unfortunately. It's the same mentality that paints Afghanistan as "Bush's War" and that seems to take particular glee in US mis-steps. However, it is commentary after all, and commentary is designed to stir strong emotions and to provoke a reaction. She's certainly succeeded in doing that and what she's said is hardly worse that what is sometime spouted by the US right-wing.
Fire her? Get serious. Why? For having an opinion and for getting paid to share it?
Don.G said:I say fire her because working for a news service does not give a person the right to spew trash via live feed or computer.Report the facts.Tell the truth.That is her job.
Mortarman Rockpainter said:Though there are many columns with which I disagree, one must certainly see the (a) racism (b) sexism and (c) blatant anti-americanism in this piece by Ms. Mallick. There was no added value to have this piece put up, except under the guise of "freedom of speech". Given the recent Human Rights' commisions on "hate speech" by Ezra Levant (sp?). I'm rather shocked that the CBC would stoop so low.
I guess it is my Pro Canada,Pro Canadian Infantry,Pro U.S.Marines, and love of our brothers to the south that got my blood boiling.
Teddy Ruxpin said:For 48th: I find that some posters on this forum are ready to leap to the defence of a particular (ie: right-wing, US Republican) political viewpoint, but are very quick to engage in polemics if that viewpoint is challenged - even intellectually. Would the reaction here been as visceral had the article been about the Democrats and Obama? I think not. It's nothing new and I can refer you to the threads on the US election (or Iraq, or Israel, or Lebanon, or....) for further evidence.
Case in point:
It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman.
Doyle's job includes watching a lot of reality television and he's well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that's something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity.
I guess it is my Pro Canada,Pro Canadian Infantry,Pro U.S.Marines, and love of our brothers to the south that got my blood boiling.
I have heard you, but do we really need to here it again on this thread?
Teddy Ruxpin said:Did you bother to read what I posted? I was hardly comparing DonG's comment to Mallick's tripe; it was an example of the attitude of some posters here.
"Again"? I suppose not. Asking for an adult approach on Army.ca to political discussion is a bit much, it appears.
Teddy Ruxpin said:Fire her? Get serious. Why? For having an opinion and for getting paid to share it?
ArmyVern said:Why?
Because she is doing this precisely on the Taxpayers dime. A Canadian Institution - representative of this government. candidates and their political electoral process on the Canadian Government's Official Dime --- are not.
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When you are an Institution that is repsresentative of the Canadian Government --- you keep your diary entires to your damn diaries where they belong. Not published in Canada's Official "Government backed & funded" Media as "representative commentary".
Kat Stevens said:So did Carolyn Parish, and everybody thought she was wonderful....... >
Kat Stevens said:So did Carolyn Parish, and everybody thought she was wonderful....... >
Kat Stevens said:By the way, the devil guy indicated I was just effin' about, I thought.
Teddy Ruxpin said:Oh I agree - it is over the top. However, it is nothing worse than what one can read/hear on Fox News and on some other US outlets.
I disagree. HUGE difference. Fox is privately owned, people buy Ann Coulter's trash. People buy it because they want it. Mallick spewed her racist/sexist venom and we paid her for it, against our choice.Infanteer said::boring:
My first statement about Ann Coulter still stands, and I am of the mind of Teddy Ruxpin on this. How come there isn't righteous indignation when Coulter releases book after book labelling anybody not a member of the GOP as essentially a terrorist?
Big deal. Her opinion piece sucked - I think she made it so on purpose. But it is no different then watching an hour of FOX News. Don't get mad at this women - she's only a representative of the types of opinions that North American politics has devolved to. I see the right in the US spitting out the same line of crap on Barack Obama; christ - if you run for the Democrats, prepare to have your Patriotism(TM) questioned every day because you are obviously keen on selling out the United States of America!
Give me a break - we're reaping what we've sowed.