Freddie P's Blog

October 31, 2010 @ 09:33

"She's at a place in her life where things like gravy trains and streetcars simply do not register."

Read between the lines, the Star won't give up.

I voted for somebody, I just don't know who.

Category: Politics

October 29, 2010 @ 18:19

Rob Ford, Randy Quaid and the Habs.

Category: Radio

October 29, 2010 @ 07:10

I did it again last night. For about the sixth time in the past three years I ordered Leafs TV.

It's actually cheap therapy for me. It's one way that I can strike back at the Leafs when they piss me off, and that's happened a few times over the past couple of years.

The season starts and I order Leafs TV. The Leafs start to blow, so I cancel Leafs TV. They usually have a mid-season resurgence, so I re-order Leafs TV. However by the end of the season I'm usually pissed off again so I go into a tirade about the entire organization and cancel Leafs TV as a protest.

Several people have said to me, what's the big deal? It's only five bucks a month, why cancel it?

It's the principle people. It's one way I can control cash flow to the MLSE. Granted, it's an insignificant amount of money, but I love the power of picking up the phone and dialing Shaw Direct and cutting off the five bucks that some way might contribute to this mess.

It's interesting; when Leafs TV first started in 2001 I think it was 99 cents a month. Nine years later it's 4.99 a month, and this represents something else that bugs me. A 500 percent increase in nine years.

Leave it to MLSE to come up with that.

Last night was the usual scenario. It's early in the season, the Leafs are doing OK, they just came off a victory over Florida, it was a Thursday night with nothing else to do, I was in my apartment and the Leafs were in Boston. I flipped on the tube only to find the game was on Leafs TV.

I picked up the phone and made the call.

Crazy shit. By the end of the second period, although the Leafs were actually playing pretty well, I started to get buyers remorse.

It's becoming abundantly clear that this team has a pop-gun offence that is going to be a significant issue this year. They're going to have a big problem scoring goals and excuse me if I say so, but watching the home team score goals is one of the things that attracts me to the game.

It's going to be a wild and crazy month. Once you commit to Leafs TV you're on the hook for at least 30 days or until the next billing period. So we'll see what happens.

I happen to think that on top of their various other problems, the Leafs have a serious coaching problem. If this continues I'll pick up the phone at the end of November, I'll call Shaw Direct, I'll unload on the poor person who answers the phone, and once again I'll end my association with Leafs TV.

And that will be five less bucks the Leafs can pay Ron Wilson.

Category: Sports | Television

October 28, 2010 @ 19:57

This is the latest weapon being used by the sore loser left in Toronto. It's a map displaying who voted for whom in the city.

I mean really, what's the point? Toronto is Toronto and someone who lives in Ward 1 who leaned towards Rob Ford is worth no less than someone in Ward 30 who voted for George Smitherman.

It's more perverted hypocrisy by the left, who on one hand profess to be open minded and totally inclusive while hammering away at the right for being divisive and intolerant.

This map is being used by some (Toronto Mike / Toronto Star) to chastise and degrade the Toronto suburbs.

But then again, I've got to remember what a dip-shit I am. Mike Harris's amalgamation caused all this.

Harris was such a dick. Imagine doing what you said you'd do?

Category: Politics

October 28, 2010 @ 12:08

Ford back on the air.

Category: Politics

October 28, 2010 @ 08:40

It's going to be fascinating to watch how the sore losers continue to pounce on Rob Ford, even before he has a chance to prove himself.

Believe me, I love my buddy Toronto Mike, but when it comes to politics we're so far apart it would take me three months in a rocket ship to meet half way.

The latest tool the loony left is using against Mr. Ford is an interview he did with CBC's As It Happens yesterday. Mike made sure it was on his blog, because for some reason he thinks it makes Ford look bad.

To me, it's nothing more than a case of "what comes around."

Like the Toronto Star, the CBC did all it could during the election campaign to smear Ford and paint the predictable picture of a fat stupid guy who was going to ruin the city. So really, what do they expect when they ask him to do a post election interview?

Yes, he sounded stand-offish, and yes he sounded pre-occupied, but what will be forgotten or ignored in this interview is that he was basically talking to the enemy and he was coaching a football team.

Pretty good that a mayor elect still has time for kids eh? Shut-up Fred.

Obviously, this is the way it's going to be. The anti-Ford brigade will never give this man a chance and the use of this CBC interview is only the beginning. It's interesting the host, whoever she is, wastes no time linking Ford to Mike Harris. An old and tiresome tactic that really is starting to backfire because Ford was elected precisely for that reason, he's got a lot of common sense.

Yes, he's crusty and yes he's brash and yes he's not cut from the cloth that Toronto's perfect people would like to see, but if this interview proves anything, he's a no nonsense guy who doesn't beat around the bush.

The CBC claims it was Ford's people who set up the interview at that precise time, so its not like he was taken off gaurd.

Personally, considering who he was talking to, I love the way he handled it.

Category: Politics

October 28, 2010 @ 07:50

For much of the past 24 hours I've been trying to formulate something to say about the way the Toronto Star handled the Toronto mayoralty race. I really couldn't put it into words.

But Kelly McParland does a pretty good job.

A dark day for the Toronto Star.

Category: Politics

October 26, 2010 @ 17:40

One of the people who works with me here in your Peterborough made a great point this morning.

Catherine Hanrahan came into my office and said, isn't it interesting that Rob Ford could be the bulls eye for every fat joke under the sun and its generally accepted, but if Rob Ford was female it would have been totally unacceptable.

So true.

As much as we like to think we've evolved there are still gross double standards that we live with every day.

If a full figured / large / obese / fat woman was running for Mayor there's no goddamn way anyone would have mentioned her weight in public. But for some reason, it was OK for pretty well everyone to go after Robbie.

And to borrow from my posting this morning, it was usually the very people who yap every time a conservative looks at somebody the wrong way.

And we can take it a step further.

George Smitherman is gay, but again, it was totally off limits during the election campaign. If it was brought up, it was to celebrate how wonderful it was that his sexual preference was not a factor.

There were egg shells all around Smitherman. Although I'm sure there were people in his camp who would have loved it to become an issue.

Unfortunately, the same rules did not apply to Rob Ford. His obesity seemed to be fair game. It was a great way to correlate his worth as a person and his worth as a politician - like they're connected any more than being gay is.

Some might argue that you can't control being gay, but you can sure as hell control being fat, so it's OK to poke fun at the chubby fuck.

I disagree. I think it's a double standard. There are many people who battle obesity with vengeance and have no luck. They're meant to be fat just as much as anyone else is meant to be gay.

My friend and former colleague, a gentleman Humble Howard got a lot of mileage out of a Ford fat joke today on his BOOM 97.3 morning show.

Said Humble, "I'd rather vote for a guy who's married to another guy than a guy who's married to a buffet."

More irony.

Over the years of the Humble and Fred Show I spent many an hour with Howie at Chinese buffets, and although he never married one, he sure did engage one or ten.

Definately something to see.

Category: Politics