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« Page 6 of 6 A Happy Week For The Star April 4, 2009 @ 13:32
On Thursday Steven Harper missed a group photo with the other G20 leaders and the Star was quick to position the Prime Minister as a goof ball who missed a very important photograph because he was somewhere having a piss. In reality it meant nothing. Harper claims he was being briefed at the time and didn't concern himself with the photo opportunity because as he put it "I"ve been at enough international meetings to know that there's always another photo op." Bingo. It was no big deal at all, but the Star reported the story using words like "red faced and ridiculed" trying to paint a picture of a Prime Minister who was out of step with the rest of the world's leaders and that his office "was at pains to explain away any embarrassment." What a load of unfairly slanted, disgusting bullshit. In the end the Prime Minister was correct; there was another photo op, and this time the Italian Prime Minister failed to show. It's one thing for a news publication to attack and criticize someone for valid reasons, but the Toronto Star's constant unfounded attacks on Stephen Harper are no better than the Fox News Channel's mindless attacks on Barrack Obama. Remember, it's the Star that in the past has printed stuff about Harper's clothes and his weight. What a mindless little rag. Red-faced Harper misses G20 photo Ridiculed Harper denies he was in the bathroom Category: Politics
April 3, 2009 @ 20:53
Category: Radio
April 2, 2009 @ 08:38
Even when I was one of the many million who had been sucked in to supporting George W's charge into Iraq, the phrase "war on terror" never sat well with me. What did it mean? I could never really figure that out. It was a war on Saddam Hussein, I know that. In retrospect it was a war spawned out of revenge for a guy's dad, I know that. I have vivid images of old man Bush after losing the election to Bill Clinton in 1992 rehashing what went wrong and continuously telling his goober son George about the huge mistake of not finishing the job in Iraq during the Gulf War. George Jr, being the goober that his is, got all hyped up and excited and dreamt of the day he could make things good for his daddy. Don't laugh, I really think that's all it really amounts to... and who knows what the real story is behind 911 and the opportunity it gave W. to put his plan into action. "War on terror" was nothing more than a sell line or a tag line. The same kind they use to sell beer, cars and running shoes. It was meant scare the living shit out of the average American and justify a flimsy excuse to invade a country that ultimately had very little to do with 911 or terrorism in general. "War on terror" was a smoke screen that fed every vengeful yahoo from Kentucky to North Dakota and the Bush boys knew it would. As military strategy came out of the war rooms, propaganda came out of the White House that would make every American think their was a "boogey man" around every corner. And it worked, for a while. But then as the truth came out and it became apparent that thousands of young Americans were dying for no reason the term "war on terror" lost its luster. The war wasn't on terror, it was war on a country and it was making a lot ruthless bastards in the United States extremely rich off weaponry contracts. If there was an actual "war on terror" taking place, it was happening in Afghanistan where Canada was sacrificing its own soldiers. But you never hear the Canadian government use the term "war on terror" you never hear our soldiers use the term either. It's the Afghan war, just like it was never anything more than the Iraqi War. The difference being, the Afghan war was justified. Category: Politics
Geets Gets The Boot April 1, 2009 @ 17:37
He was chief engineer for the entire radio division. For those of you who don't know the name David Haydu, you might know the name Geets Romo. He was the Geets part of the Pete and Geets Show which graced the Toronto radio airwaves from the mid-70s to 1987 when it all came to an abrupt end at CFNY-FM. They started at CHUM-FM in the late 60s and in the mid 70s they became Canada's very first comedic FM morning team. In 1980 they moved to The Spirit Of Radio. Pete and Geets mean a lot to me because it was on this show that I got my first taste of morning radio. Just 18 months out of college, through a wonderful series of events, I became Sports Director at CFNY and shortly after that I became part of the Pete and Geets Show. I did sports and the marvelous Mike Stafford, just 19 years old at the time, did news. Working under the direction of David Marsden there were no rules, no parameters and no limits, just the constant encouragement to be creative and have fun on the radio, and believe me, we had a lot of fun. Following is a piece from something I've been working on for a couple of years now: A RADIO STORY by Fred Patterson. "Let me tell you, the years between 1980 and 1987 were fabulous and Pete and Geets deserve a lot of credit for trail-blazing, their style of morning show was way ahead of its time. They were Howard Stern without all the tits and ass. Pete and Geets rarely went there. They did clever bits that always had a beginning, middle and end. They pushed the envelope in an intellectual way. They didn't have to bring a woman into the control room and have her masturbate to get a reaction. They'd just say or do something funny. And to continue the Stern comparison, Pete and Geets did irreverent contests, games and parodies while Stern was still in college. In fact I'll take it this far, early Howard Stern was nothing more than a weak Pete and Geets imitation with a naked chick thrown in. I take nothing away from Howard Stern. He is a legend, and will go down in history as probably the greatest ever, but give credit where credit is due. There were hundreds of Howard Sterns out there, but every time somebody tried to exercise the shock-jock angle, they were snuffed, so was Stern the first few times. The rest is history. I just happen to be under the impression that if not Stern, it would have been somebody else, maybe somebody more talented and funnier, it just happened to be Stern, and he was the first, so he gets all the credit. Pete and Geets will never get that kind of credit in Canada. They should. Every year during something called "Canadian Music Week", the radio industry falls all over itself handing out cheesy awards and recognizing industry achievement and contributions to the business. Pete and Geets were loved. They created an atmosphere of fun and warmth and it worked extremely well for CFNY, a station that was more down to earth and personal than anything else on the dial." After Pete and Geets broke up as a radio team in 1987 Geets stayed on as chief engineer at CFNY until 2001. Pete lives in Ottawa where he does a lot of gardening and fixin' shit. Here's an interview I did with Pete last year, I'll try and catch up with Geets in the next little while and do one with him.
Category: Radio
Today With Craig And Matt April 1, 2009 @ 16:17
Category: Radio
Habs Watch April 1, 2009 @ 07:48
The victory also kept the Panthers within one point of the eighth place Montreal Canadiens who just a year ago finished on top of the Eastern Conference, before firing a coach, sending their supposed best player home for week and dealing with other players ties to organized crime. Zednik, McCabe score in Panthers' 5-2 win. Category: Sports
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It was another despicable showing by the Toronto Star this week as it tried to make a mountain out of virtually nothing during the G20 Summit in London.
G20, Fast and Furious.
The extreme right wing whack jobs in the United States are pissin' their pants over this, but I totally agree with the Obama administration's decision to stop using the phrase "war on terror."
It's with heavy heart that I received the news today that David Haydu has become one of the latest victims of cutbacks at CTV Globemedia.
Earth Hour, April Fools and the auto industry.
The Florida Panthers defeated the Ottawa Senators 5-2 last night, officially eliminating the Senators from the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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