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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

TVO Update

It's all Warren Kinsella's fault!

Instead of addressing the Kathy Shaidle issue, ambushed Steve Paiken tried to make Kinsella's tactics the focus of story:

Well, now we've got a different story, right? Now, it's no longer a story about the appropriateness of our choosing Kathy to appear on the program. Now it's a story about a well known Liberal Party operative threatening us (with what? We didn't know) unless we did what he said.

Kinsella was the first to leave a comment:

3. I contacted the Minister responsible, as I clearly noted in the first sentence, as a citizen. I do not lose my rights to object to TVO's bad editorial judgment simply because I am, as you say, a "Liberal Party operative."

The National Post and right wing bloggers danced with glee upon reading Paiken's defense of Shaidle ... althought it was a bit pyrrhic as both Paiken and the Post reposted Kinsella's list of racist Shaidle quotations. Shaidle used the attention as an opportunity to launch a fresh round of blegging, but stageleft asked:

we've raised funds here at Stageleft for cancer research, the Terry Fox Run, the Drive For Dad, the Aboriginal Youth March Across Canada - boring stuff like that. Tell me: you've got tags all over your site inviting readers to donate money to you for your "books", your nonexistent-so-far legal fees, and now for the "pink short barrel shotgun" you crave. Just curious: do you ever raise funds for a cause that's not, you know - YOU?

And if the Post loves Shaidle so much, why don't they give her a writing gig?

Meanwhile, the athiest bus ads are now on the street ... the TTC is the only transit system in Canada to allow them.

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