CBC comedy goes too far

[Hans Jaeger]

Thought this might interest some of you "Obama-ites" (both the fans and the detractors)...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090831/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_obama_canada_show_can_1

[Snuffy]

Gee, lets see ... CBC serves how many households? According to its own website (http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/about/index.shtml) ... they claim they serve every Canadian household ... what's the current general population of Canada today? According to one source, 33,739,000. Hmmm.

And this article is stating that somewhere around 200 people .... or rather, around 200 complaints were registered ... and whose to say some people didn't call twice or more because the program wasn't immediately suspended and taken off the air when they called the first time?

Hardly anything to worry about.

:horse:

But I like the skit and it brings up some interesting points! ;)

[Hans Jaeger]

I'm not worried about it, Snuffy; I just thought it was an interesting item.

It is unusual for a program to attract that many calls (most people don't bother), and the program was a French-language broadcast of the CBC which would typically reach only about a quarter of the country's population (or at least those who were actually watching, out of that 8 million or so).

[Nausicaa]

Funny, it was Fox News who started the Obama assassination jokes first, and he wasn't even elected yet.

[Snuffy]

Funny, it was Fox News who started the Obama assassination jokes first, and he wasn't even elected yet.

got proof? provide links. otherwise its just so much hot air.

[Blue Devil]

Kill Bush mania (http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2006/09/13/kill_bush_mania?page=full&comments=true)


...Meanwhile, our friends in Canada celebrated the screening of a new kill-Bush fictional documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Death of a President," a British mockudrama, is set in the fall of 2007 and looks back at the impact on America after President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. The 90-minute feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly accused of the crime...

Great, ...eh!

[CybrSlydr]

BD raises an outstanding point.

[Hans Jaeger]

Ah, but that is history, the skit is "what if" and deals with what could happen.

But yes, there is a double-standard, unless there is also criticism of the Film Festival film.

[Blue Devil]

...the skit is "what if" and deals with what could happen.

Well of course it was, ...eh!

Hugs all around...

[Nausicaa]

got proof?

Yes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/fox-pundit-wishes-for-oba_b_103500.html

[Blue Devil]

Yes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/fox-pundit-wishes-for-oba_b_103500.html

Wow...Thanks N.

This is important.

...The origin of a National conspiracy and popular uprising/sporting event.

Leaders can always be identified by their five-word, under-their-breath, talking straw-head comment...

Liz Trotta, ...Sieg Heil!!!

[Nausicaa]

Well I didn't talk about a evil conspiracy, but about the first Obama assassination joke being on Fox News and it's true.

[Snuffy]

Actually Nausica ... it wasn't FOXNews that came out with the first attempt at an assissnation joke about Obama ...

Try Hillary ...

A couple days before your posted fox report ...

http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/05/24/hillary-implies-obama-might-get-shot/

[Willy]

Yall know that Naus don't let the facts on anything get in his way.

[Blue Devil]

...You know, I don’t know....

--Sen. Hillary Clinton

Hillary, ...Sieg Heil!!!

[Nausicaa]

Yall know that Naus don't let the facts on anything get in his way.
What facts did you exactly present in the last 5 years?

[Nausicaa]

Actually Nausica ... it wasn't FOXNews that came out with the first attempt at an assissnation joke about Obama ...

Try Hillary ...

A couple days before your posted fox report ...

http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/05/24/hillary-implies-obama-might-get-shot/

Smartpants, mh? We were talking about television channels.

[Snuffy]

She was on tv when she said it ... :emot-angel:

[Nausicaa]

She was on tv when she said it ... :emot-angel:

LMAO Snuffy !

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9559/drsnuffy.jpg

[Hans Jaeger]

Actually Nausica ... it wasn't FOXNews that came out with the first attempt at an assissnation joke about Obama ...
Try Hillary ...
A couple days before your posted fox report ...
http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/05/24/hillary-implies-obama-might-get-shot/

It wasn't a joke and it wasn't directed specifically at Obama. It's the "headline" on the article that is a joke. And her apology to the Kennedy's when there was nothing to apologize for.

Anyway, Nausicaa got it right, for a change. :) ;)

[Nausicaa]

Anyway, Nausicaa got it right, for a change.:) ;)

Oh how nice of you.

[Hans Jaeger]

Oh how nice of you.

You're welcome. ;)

You do hold quite a few hard-to-substantiate opinions. :D