Taming the Rat Pack

[scribblet]

I thought this was a good comment, and confirms my own opinion that the lib-left dominated media are having a hissy fit. Looks good on them, although I do believe Harper will eventually have to open up a bit more. So far, he seems to be managing them to his advantage as latest polls show Canucks are ready to give him a chance.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Jac...04/1518879.html

Paul Jackson

Tue, April 4, 2006

Taming rat pack

Media needs Stephen Harper more than he needs them

By Paul Jackson

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has good reason not to trust the Eastern-based Lib-Left dominated media.

So did Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day.

As did Reform party leader Preston Manning.

The Lib-Left media -- led by that wholly-owned subsidiary of the federal Liberal party, the CBC, the Toronto (Red) Star, the pompous Globe and Mail and their naive hangers-on and acolytes -- did all they could to mock, heap scorn on, ridicule and twist just about everything Manning and Day said.

During the 2004 and 2006 federal election campaigns, they tried to do the same with Harper, though not quite as successfully.

But for the Lib-Left media -- which played to then prime minister -- now tug boat operator -- Paul Martin, the Conservatives would have won the 2004 election, thereby saving Canadians an another agonizing 18 months or so of deceitful and duplicitous Liberal rule.

Manning, being a decent fellow, always thought he would eventually convince members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and the media establishment his vision of Canada was the right one.

Instead, the haughty pundits laughed at him behind his back, and painted glowing pictures of the crafty and cunning Jean Chretien.

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The Lib-Left media are going to find out they need him far more than he

needs them.

[Black Dog]

Paul Jackson is a kook. If he told me the sky was blue, I'd still look out the window to doublecheck.

[geoffrey]

He's right though. When has the MSM been pro-reformer types?

[Black Dog]

He's right though. When has the MSM been pro-reformer types?

There's the rightwing National Post. Ther'e the shift to the right by MacLean's. Even the Globe and Mail seems to have opted to become the press organ of the CPC. Maybe Jackson' just peeved that the rush to the right by the typically centre right Canadian media will put him out of business. I don't think he should worry: he's got the market cornered on insane rants (I fondly recall his screed before the Iraq war which alleged all the antiwar protesters were on Saddam's payroll: I e-mailed Jackson and asked if he knew where I could collect my cheque, but he didn't reply. )