CBC Radio’s Incredibly Partisan Political Corespondent
I want to bring to your attention this morning, the incredibly partisan spot on The Great Northwest this morning on CBC radio in Thunder Bay. Did you hear it? It was one of the most lop-sided pieces I’ve heard in a long time. Now, I don’t fault our local radio people for this. I’m sure that the “Ottawa Report” corespondent sends in a script of questions for Lisa to ask her. And you know that in my opinion (and apparently a lot of other people’s,) TGNW is the best radio on air in Thunder Bay.
Never the less, the Ottawa Report corespondent totally missed the boat on researching and explaining what prorogation is all about, and instead parroted Liberal rhetoric and gave airtime to Liberal attack ads. Then she went on to speculate how prorogation isn’t really what the PM is going to face heat for. He’s really going to get it for “his deficit.” Deficit what? Spending? She didn’t make it clear
What she failed to mention is that our former Liberal PMs regularly prorogued too. It’s part of our political process. And she failed to mention that prior to this past year’s recession, the Conservative government was trying to run a balanced budget in order to to chip away at the mountain of debt that a decade or so of Liberal deficit spending helped to build.
She did do a great job of praising Ignatieff though. Surprise, surprise. Time for a new Ottawa Report corespondent, I think.
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January 12, 2010 - 9:00 am
No real surprise here; there seems to be a rather anti-Harper climate in much of the CBC’s programming. I might not agree with the proroguing coming when or how it does, but it is part of parliamentary democracy to be allowed to do so.
January 12, 2010 - 10:04 am
I’m getting awfully frustrated with the coverage of the prorogation. I respect the fact that people may not like it, but the emphasis on this prorogation is implying that Prime Minister Harper has dug up and dusted off a long-unused piece of parlimentary procedure when in fact Prime Ministers including St. Laurent, Trudeau, Mulroney and Chretien have asked for and received around 100 of them in our parliamentary history.
January 12, 2010 - 12:44 pm
You would think that if they really didn’t like Harper’s policies then that they would be happy that Parliament has been prorogued since that means the he won’t be able to push any agenda through. But no, since it isn’t about specific things and instead about partisanship, so then bring on the hate!
January 30, 2010 - 8:26 pm
Umm… as I recall the budget was balanced by the liberals. 1997 or so? The huge debt is the fault of a variety of past governments, not the fault of one particular party. Trudeau rang it up. So did Mulroney. It was actually Chretien and Martin who brought an end to deficit spending. Only to return under Harper….