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Yes, taking a break from politics for this evening.
But , before I do, just one piece of irony. This Fox News of the North will more than likely be engaged in teaching folks to hate more than they do now as well as brainwash the less educated working class, just like the real one in the U.S. does.
As Garry Wise of Wiselaw blog called it; the new 24/7 Harpercon Infomercial channel. Really can’t think of a more appropriate description for this new channel of lies, malice and yellow journalism.
It will no doubt have shows dedicated to Quebec Bashing. At my previous post regarding Troublemaker Teneycke, commenter Dupmar points out the irony of this channel of wingnuttery, tea-baggery, bigotry and all things selling Harpercons with socons peppered with the manditory Quebec bashing:
And now these same blogging tories advise us that the savior of “conservative culture is english Canada is none other than Montreal based Quebecor, that welfare mooching Quebec has not only a business class, but billionaire media moguls, that the French language may be irrelevant to business ansd pretty much anything else in Canada, but curiously it is the language in which Quebecor board meetings are held in Montreal.
Talk about turning your worldview upside down. You would have expected their savior to be some Alberta based communications giant, except such an animal does not exist.
What will they do next, send Mary T and Ardvark to Montreal to show Peladeau how a business is properly run, the blogging tory way, the Arizona/ Alberta way, starting with conducting all board and management business in the only language known to blogging tories.
I for one, would love front row seats for any of those Blogging SupposiTories to do just that. I would love to see the reception they’d get from Pierre-Karl Peladeau’s flunkies. Nobody from that family was approachable. The father wasn’t; neither is junior.
I do indeed find it funny that an outfit like Shaw or Astral Media Television hasn’t come up with the idea; it took a French Quebec media firm to pull this off.
With the sad state of Canadian politics these days, we need some laughs here. It looks like the Harpercon Informercial channel is going to fly. We know that David Akin and Brian Lilly are going to be having shows of some kind on it. Ezzy is rumoured to be in talks to have his own show.
Yesterday, I provided two episode titles for the Ezzy show: “Down with ‘Official Jews’ and HRCs” and “Why I’m saving my virginity for Ann Coulter”
Hey! Maybe Helena Guergis can be the next Gretchen Carlson.
Brian Lilly’s right slanted newscasts can fit right in. Or he can do a fetus fetishist show, cohosting with Suzy ALLCAPSLOCK.
If anybody has some fun show titles and ideas as well as who can be in them, by all means, put them in comments. Have fun. Yes, the Blogging SupposiTories are also fair game. Any Harpercon wingnutty idea goes here.
I think all this partisan ideological zeal by blogging tories for the proposed Quebecor English language TV network should be tempered with the following consideration, to wit, the Peladeau chain has been a significant contributor to French language media communications in Quebec for the past few decades without leaving a significant ideological imprint in terms of political leanings and voting patterns.
Some might argue Quebecers are culturally immune to the propaganda onslaught of this form of “culture war”, it has not resulted in mass ideological conversion to some Reform perspective popular in Western Canada. Some blogging tories identify the French language itself, and the culture that surrounds it, as the major obstacle to such ideological conversion, hence their preoccupation with anglo assimilation and cultural conversion of French Canada coupled with and preceding a ideological offensive.
Perhaps the Peladeau perspective might find more receptive eyes and ears in Western Canada, but its appeal likely won’t go beyond those already eager for such a slant, blogging tories, Western Reformers, CBC-haters and those who readily identify with some particular wildwest frontier romanticized version of American culture. It may in fact have the opposite effect as that intended, too much Reform/ Republican content may end up driving away those in the political centre, those comfortable with some moderate eastern based form of Canadian conservatism, but unwilling to embrace some teabagger, Edmund Burke Society polarized vision of social analysis and political advocacy.