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Fox News Saint John

There's a columnist in the Saint John paper who is, to put it mildly, a little looney. In his column this morning on the editorial page, he used "lefty," "looney," "commie," "crazy," "ultra-liberal," and more, all just talking about the CRTC's unwillingness to let Fox News run on Canadian cable. Which he used these words to describe: "balanced," "fair," "conservative," and "different." He also said that the CRTC "would sooner let in Al-Jazeera" or another super-Islamist-focused channel in Iran (which I'd never heard of) than let in Fox News.

To avoid this crazy pointing himself at me, I won't name him, but here's a fun game for [livejournal.com profile] nihilicious and [livejournal.com profile] gueny: who am I talking about? Now maybe the CRTC should let us run any old channel in Canada, I've not considered the idea, but I do know this guy is maybe not the one to be making the call. :)
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[identity profile] nihilicious.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds a whole lot like Paul Schneidereit's column in the Herald last Tuesday ...

http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/02/24/fOpinion105.raw.html

[identity profile] c9.livejournal.com 2004-03-02 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a "what the conservative-minded columnists should all talk about this week" mailing list or something?

[identity profile] gueny.livejournal.com 2004-03-03 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm...Not Jim Webb? He usually writes about three letters a week to the editor, and has the occassional column. I don't think he works for the paper. He is just a local nut. You may remember him as the former leader of the COR party in its dying days. I'm not sure, but I believe he may be the leader of teh Gray Party now. Yes. NB does have a "Gray" Party. And you might have already guessed it is composed mainly of gray-haired, cranky old white Christian men, mostly from Saint John. (Walter Addis is a member :P)

[identity profile] c9.livejournal.com 2004-03-03 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Not surprised at all, seems like the perfect fit if Walter Addis is a member. :) The columnist (maybe he's syndicated from Calgary or something) is C h a r l e s M o o r e . I just don't want him searching on his name and finding this. :)

[identity profile] gueny.livejournal.com 2004-03-03 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
I just don't want him searching on his name and finding this. :)

Yes. Then he will be forced to write an article on the underground LiveJournal; media of the Gay Conspiracy and Communists to take down the objective media like FOX News, and that Jerry Falwell show on the Vision channel.

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