The 'Real Consequences' of CBC-Mallick attack on Sarah Palin
An American contacted me today about CBC Heather Mallick's totally unprovoked, vicious and vulgar attack on Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin and virtually all Americans. I was truly embarrassed to be a Canadian! Will the CBC (whose political views should be neutral) please do all Canadians a favour and fire Mallick? She is a national disgrace! Could the CBC just confine its political views to Canada? Does Canada even need a taxpayer-funded CBC anymore? Not being a writer, I cannot explain myself adequately about this incident, but will try here. What are the real and dangerous consequences of Mallick's vitriol? She probably thinks she has produced a literary masterpiece and, like 'Little Jack Horner', thinks what a good boy (girl) am I! However, that is just the start and not the end of it. My son has 3 children in school in Orlando. What is going to happen to them? Or the thousands of other Canadian children in American schools like them? Thanks to Mallick, they will suffer the cruel consequences of her actions and their lives will now be hell! School-ground cruelty in cases like this is legendary! Or my grand daughter, who lives there with her new American husband? Or Canadians on holiday to the USA? Will they be embarrassed and ostracised too, like the school children surely will? Yes. Americans have a long history of lampooning Americans (Saturday Night Live, Doonesbury, etc.) As that is all 'in the family', it is fine. The same here in Canada with 'Air Farce', etc. When lampooning crosses borders, however, it is not the same at all. As the Canadian media does not seem to 'get it' and hides behind the smoke screen of 'Freedom of Speech' to excuse themselves, I will try to illustrate with a 'parable'. Italians can use words like 'wop' to each other in a totally friendly and non-offending way. They do not, however, take kindly to non-Italians referring to them with this word. It is the same with other Ethnic groups. It is OK provided it is 'all in the family'. Obviously, it is the same with other countries too! Do you not think, if the tables were turned, that American children going to school in Canada would not suffer the cruel consequences? What goes on with Mallick, with the CBC, with Canada? How can we be proud to be 'Canadians' anymore, with behaviour like this on an international level? And we claim to be 'A Kinder and Gentler Society'? How can we make that claim? That myth is now in shreds! Thank God, the Americans are a much kinder, more understanding and more forgiving people than we are. I think all the people suffering the consequences of the actions of CBC and Mallick deserve a proper 'no snow-job' answer to this, not just a lame and insincere apology.
