Media, Media Bias
CBC — mouthpiece for the Liberals
by Arthur Weinreb, Associate Editor,
June 16, 2004
Last week, Joe Spina, the Conservative Party candidate running in Vaughan, a suburb that borders Toronto, said that he would like to see funding for the CBC scrapped. Referring to the network as the "Communist Broadcasting Corporation, Spina said that it does nothing more than serve as "a mouthpiece for the federal Liberals". Spina had made remarks in the past about the Mother Corp. when he was a two-term MPP in the Harris/Eves government. Conservative Party leader, Stephen Harper, as he has been doing a lot lately, was forced to issue a statement saying that the party had no plans to cut funding to the CBC.
Was there any truth to Spina’s comments that the network serves as a mouthpiece of the federal Liberals? Joe Spina’s views became public on June 8, so perhaps a look at the CBC’s website on that day might shed some light on the subject.
There was a story on the site entitled, "Liberal women denounce Harper on abortion". At the time of the article, abortion had become an election issue with the desperate Liberals attempting to portray the Conservatives as having a secret agenda that includes limiting a woman’s right to choose. All these "Liberal women" reached a grand total of two--the Minister of State for Public Health, Carolyn Bennett, and former Trudeau era cabinet minister, Judy Erola. Since Bennett, a physician, had already denounced Harper when she recoiled at the suggestion that women should have counseling before deciding on abortion, the women who were now starting to denounce Harper was just the has-been Erola. But the headline implied that there were numerous Liberal women going after the Conservative leader when the article mentioned a grand total of two--a low-level minister and a has-been.
Erola is quoted as saying that she is "troubled" because Stephen Harper has not ruled out using the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights. The implication of Erola’s statement in this article is to lead the reader to believe that Stephen Harper may invoke the notwithstanding clause to restrict abortion. That’s exactly what the Liberals want people to believe even though Harper has repeatedly said that he will not introduce legislation or hold referendums on abortion. The issue of the possible use of the notwithstanding clause has been raised concerning same sex marriage, not abortion.
The CBC’s article is accompanied by an in-depth report on abortion that includes a six-page report on the Kopp Case. James Kopp is the person who was convicted of murdering Dr. Barnett Slepian in Buffalo as well as the shootings of other doctors in the mid to late 1990s. Here is the taxpayer funded CBC attempting to draw a link between the Conservatives and a lunatic on the fringe.
Not only was Joe Spina right--the CBC are doing a great job for their political masters.
Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Men's News Daily, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant. Arthur can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com
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