They don’t tell us he’s a communist, but the CBC’s source of information for their big story is Kyle Buott, seen in the CBC screen capture at left.  The CBC, as is their usual practice, only identifies him on air as “Kyle Buott, Halifax District Labour Council.”   But he seems to be connected to or is at the very least endorsed by a communist organization and magazine called “New Socialist”, with a slogan or motto which says “Ideas for Radical Change”.  That’s where I read a Marxist article written by him today.

He was also a Young New Democratic Party official, a tidbit which also went unmentioned in the CBC story. 

So the CBC is either intentionally or unintentionally misinforming you or misleading you through an omission of pertinent facts.

Buott was organizing the protest in Halifax today, ahead of the G8 development ministers meeting in Halifax, at which socialists or communists held up that huge banner denouncing capitalism, about which the CBC reporter apparently thought utterly unimportant.  You can see the banner behind them, although the CBC reporter saw no need whatsoever to ask about that.  After all, it’s not a “Tea Party” protest!  Also unlike Tea Party rallies, many in this crowd wore masks, and looked and behaved like violent thugs, and from what I could tell, just like terrorists.  An arrest was made of a unionist leader who works for… the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. 

Fantastic.

The CBC’s chyron alternates to read “Opposition to G8 Economic Policy”, but the CBC reporter gets this economic protest out of Buott: 

“…Certainly today we’re talking about maternal health, specifically that maternal health must include contraception and access to abortion…”

A recent article written by Kyle Buott appears at NewSocialist.org, and extols the virtues of socialism. Their most recent magazine cover features what I guess are some communists, complete with the communist star emblazoned on their military-style war gear and their army helmets, although it’s hard to make out what the point is, exactly.  I’m pretty sure this is by design.

The New Socialist magazine speaks of nothing but Marxist values and socialism/communism generally, and overturning Canada from what it is now into a socialist state, and has links to all manner of socialist/Marxist resources. 

It seems to me when the person the CBC choose to present their view of the world to Canadians are radical extremists who literally want to “radically” overturn Canada as we know using possibly “radical” means, and they hold the top offices in mainstream parties and organizations like the Halifax and District Labour Council and the Young News Democratic Party, and they’re connected to communist organizations, and the sign in the background implores people to overturn capitalism, then they might want to mention it.  All of it.  But this is not important to the socialism-reliant, state-owned and taxpayer-funded, and clearly left-wing CBC. 

This news item is from the same CBC which can’t mention the good, normal, calm cool and collected Fraser Institute, which extols the virtues of freedom and the free-market system which built our nation, without also warning us that it’s a “conservative” or “right-wing” think tank.  For that matter the CBC can’t get through a story without describing any other person or entity which is even remotely non-socialist, without also adding a “right-wing” label and reference to their “right” or “conservative-right” or “Christian-right” (etc) political connections, however vague they might be.  But radical left-wing extremists?  Well they’re just “normal”.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
(Second place contender for my bog entry’s sub-headline: FANTASTIC LEFT-WING SELF-INDUCED IMPLOSION IN ACTION.) 

The left-wing, state-owned CBC uses the polling firm EKOS for its weekly political polling.  (Just why the CBC does political polling at all is itself abominable, but then the existence of a state-owned media is itself an abomination of and an affront to freedom and democracy and an egregious left-wing squander of our tax dollars, but I digress out of necessity.)

Here’s what Frank Graves, who runs that CBC-employed outfit EKOS, reportedly advised the Liberal Party:

“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.”

Unbelievable.  A typically bigoted, extremist, hateful, deceptive, anti-conservative hate-mongering, far-left talking points appaloosa.  More astonishingly, the Liberal Party appears to be following his advise lock, stock, and long-gun registry ’n idiotic gun-control barrel.

In his own “defence”, Frank Graves says no no, he’s not a “liberal” (even though he’s donated $11,000 to the Party).  He says he’s actually a “progressive”.  Oh that’s fantastic.  Pausing here for laughter.  OK.  OK.  Oh my.  That helps.  It’s like saying “I’m not an orange, I’m a Mandarin orange.”  Or the you’ve got to be kidding party leader Jack Layton’s famously idiotic line, “I’m not a socialist, I’m a democratic socialist”.

Watch this YouTube video link (which is not mine, CBC lawyers!**) as a former Conservative spokesman — not the CBC’s lame show host mind you (for his part, he merely incessantly interrupts the Conservative) — ably outs the CBC’s pollster Frank Graves and EKOS as an abject Liberal, after being quoted by the Globe and Mail’s columnist Lawrence Martin in a recent column.  This, on the CBC yet. 

There’s also a good writeup about it at Cnews.canoe.ca:

CBC pollster accused of Liberal bias
By DON PEAT, QMI Agency

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.”

“Why is a pollster who conducts polling for Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, also giving partisan advice to the Liberal Party of Canada?” Walsh writes in a letter obtained exclusively by QMI Agency.

“Is the CBC aware they were sharing resources with the Liberal Party of Canada, if so, how long have they been aware? Can the CBC assure us that data collected at the expense of taxpayers is not shared with the Liberal Party of Canada?

“Does the CBC share Mr. Graves’ call for a “culture war” that pits Canadian against Canadian?”

The Globe and Mail article that set off Walsh’s anger quotes Graves spouting advice to the Liberal Party of Canada.

“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,” Graves is quoted in the story. “If the cranky old men in Alberta don’t like it, too bad. Go south and vote for Palin.”

Graves is president and founder of national polling firm EKOS Research Associates and a frequent media commentator on national issues.

He is also a frequent Liberal Party contributor.

Since 2001, Graves has donated at least $11,042.72 to the Liberals, according to the Elections Canada website, including money toward the leadership campaigns of current party leader Michael Ignatieff and leadership candidate Bob Rae. …

Also note that pollster Nick Nanos has been under the employ (paid or not, I’m not sure) of the state-owned left-wing media behemoth, the CBC, on their news channel and as an editorial contributor or participant at their online tentacle, as well.  It seems, as the CBC host even admits (ironically as a sort of a badge of honor or as a source of pride) on his own show in the above clip, in the CBC’s “defense”, that the CBC has nearly all of the polling firms on board, and employs them all, in one way or another.  Let’s think about that for a moment, before I repeat my mantra. 

OK here we go once again: State-owned and state-run media should be banned in this country, and that should be enshrined in our constitution.

But don’t worry, the CBC’s politics show host assures us taxpayers, after informing us that they employ all sorts of political polling firms:  “All the polling goes through a very strong vetting process,” he says.  Proudly.  “Very strong.”  And “Vetting.”  Oh dear.  So being a “progressive” and a HUGE Liberal Party donator passed muster.  Awesome job, CBC.

And let’s also repeat this while we’re at it:  The current Conservative Party fully supports the CBC.  Fully supports it. 

**The state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC, with its apparently limitless taxpayer-paid resources, employed their lawyers once to warn me, after threatening to sue me to kingdom come for posting videos critical of the CBC, that “we will be monitoring your site.”  This occurred in Canada —not Iran.

Why so “surprised”, CBC reporter?

Susan Bonner, a taxpayer-paid reporter with the state-owned CBC, giving us the facts on the ground from Washington DC today, finds herself “surprised” by another poll which reveals that the good folks which the scared, angry liberals and their media have been trying very hard to portray and castigate as poor dumb country hicks with the intelligence of billy goats, are actually more highly educated and wealthier than the average American.  And she also seemed to feel it was important to mention that they were “mostly white”.  You know, unlike America itself.  Or Canada.  Or herself.  And as if that were a bad thing, in and of itself.

“…These people are primarily conservative.  VERY RIGHT [her emphasis] on the conservative um sphere, they say they are not Republican, that they’re disenchanted with the Republican Party. They’re mostly male, they’re over 45, they’re mostly white, and they are mostly very very [her doubling of the word] angry!  There was an interesting poll out today Suhana that I should tell you about because it revealed some surprises about the so-called tea partiers and the surprise is that they are more highly educated and more wealthy than the average American! …” 

—CBC reporter Susan Bonner

More highly educated you say.  Huh.  Well I wonder what’s so “surprising” about that, Mizz Bonner.  You so thought — maybe hoped — that they were stupid dumb-ass hicks?

On a related (vis-a-vis dumb-asses) front:

On a different story completely, that being the Icelandic volcano that is erupting these days, causing massive ash clouds and flight delays in Europe, CBC news anchor Suhana Meharchand quizzed their CBC science reporter by asking him if it didn’t seem reasonable for stranded air travelers to wonder why they couldn’t just vacuum-up the dust in the atmosphere using a giant vacuum.  That is correct, readers. 

“Hey let’s think about all those passengers who are stranded in Britain, in Norway, in Sweden, etc., and they’re all goin’, ‘Why can’t they just take a big vacuum and suck that ash up?!’  I mean how dooya get rid ‘o this ash cloud?!”

—Suhana Meharchand, CBC anchor.

For the record, the science-y answer was shocking.  Apparently, you can’t “get rid of this ash cloud”.  The science guy:  “You can’t —you just have to wait for it to dissipate.”

I’m so, so surprised. I mean, you know, being a poor hick from the country who’s dumber than a billy-goat.