Chris Matthews

From DrudgeReport:

CABLE NEWS RACE
MON, JAN. 17, 2005

FNC O'REILLY 2,719,000 [VIEWERS]
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1,730,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,626,000
FNC GRETA 1,470,000
FNC BRIT HUME 1,445,000
CNN LARRY KING 1,442,000
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,049,000
CNN ZAHN 535,000
MSNBC MATTHEWS 530,000
CNN AARON BROWN 467,000
CNN COOPER 363,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 349,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 342,000

What strikes you about these ratings? The predominance of FOX or the fact that the alphabet networks can't score even as high as a comedy show? Twice as many people watch Jon Stewart than Chris Matthews. More people watch Paula Zahn than the viciously partisan, incredibly rude Chris Matthews. Roughly three times as many people watch Brit Hume than watch screaming Matthews. And a whopping 12 times more (plus) people watch Bill O'Reilly than watch Chris Matthews. So who does the MSM quote? Paula Zahn? Brit Hume? Bill O'Reilly? Not on your life.

More Canadian Corruption

  Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro resigned after promising an Indian immigrant to help him "resolve" his immigration problems if he provided "campaign volunteers." Harjit Singh has spent 16 years trying to manipulate the system, despite numerous criminal investigations and a $900,000 bank fraud under current investigation.

Judy Sgro was already under ethics investigation for issuing a temporary visa to a Romanian stripper who also, coincidentally, worked on her campaign. Her reasons for helping the stripper?

Sgro in the meantime has said the stripping industry needs workers and she does not want the industry to die. Sgro maintains "the federal program is needed to fill a labour shortage of exotic dancers"...

The story illustrates the politicalization of immigration in Canada to the extent that Toronto is a Third World City, complete with rat-borne SARS, a disease rarely seen outside of the filthy conditions of the Orient. Toronto, too, is a sanctuary for groups who fundraise for terrorist groups. Like the Democrats in the U.S., the Liberals in Canada have too long been unopposed. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

C-BS continues

Michael Hoyt, Executive Editor, Columbia Journalism Review, in a letter to the Editor of the New York Post discounts any contribution of bloggers in uncovering the fraud involved in the CBS Bush National Guard story.

We did find that the bloggers made some of the same types of
journalistic misteps as Dan Rather and company – following some false assumptions, bent logic, and unnecessary haste down the rabbit hole. Worse, the mainstream press picked up some blogworld mistakes. For example, in your paragraph about CJR you say that the bloggers "uncovered the forgeries within 24 hours." While the bloggers strenuously assert that the documents are forgeries, nobody really knows, including the Thornburgh/Boccardi panel, which found that "it may never be possible for anyone to authenticate or discredit the documents" (page 134).

If you ever wondered why journalism is universally thought of as being in disrepute, this is the reason why. It can't be delusion. There is no way anyone who saw those memos, downloaded copies from the CBS site and then looked at the typestyle can fail to see they were fakes. Hoyt would come to the same conclusion if he took the time, which makes it obvious that he doesn't care that the documents were total fakes and is using the cop out quote (page 134) from a shabby report to substitute for the kind of inquiry and fact finding you would expect, no demand!, of a journalist. What Mr. Hoyt is is a shabby partisan and he discredits himself and his institution. But, then, we didn't need the CBS scandal to show us how biased and dishonest our Vichy media is.

Euro Disney

Wall Street Journal Europe is reporting that Euro Disney is just barely staving off bankruptcy with another loan from their generous fairy Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. It is a move that is "removing some of the uncertainty surrounding the company's rescue." A staggering two billion Euros in debt, Euro Disney has until the end of March to restructure their debt.

This is good news too those of us who long for the decency of the late Walt Disney and fervently hope for the departure of Michael Eisner with his hack friends. What was once a fine name associated with clean cut entertainment has become tawdry and distasteful, so much so that the Disney name on a videotape is no longer a reason to buy it. God knows whether Miramax has hired some child molester or a drug addict to produce, direct or write the script for them. It's gotten that bad and it isn't likely to get better with the divorce of Disney and Miramax. For decent entertainment nowadays you have to look to DreamWorks.

Disgusting

This tidbit from a Globe and Mail story on the aid money the U.N. is hoping to get to distribute.

But some donors have failed to make good on their promises after past disasters, and aid groups say they will keep the pressure on to make sure the help recently announced with great fanfare doesn't evaporate.

For example, donors promised more than $1-billion after an earthquake killed 26,000 people in Bam, Iran, in December 2003. A year later Iran says it's gotten only $17.5-million.

Thrilled with the $4 billion pledges to tsunami victims, the U.N. is desperate to get their hands on the money. Hence, Jan Egeland, UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, is eager to put pressure on countries to cough up the money the U.N. has probably already misspent. Because misspend it they will, despite their claim that outside auditors will "track their operations," the U.N. priorities - aid and supplies to terrorist organizations like the Tamil Tigers - is likely to prolong the three decade war in Sri Lanka. Indonesia has had a running war with Marxist guerillas for decades, and it's likely that those terrorists and murderers will receive a disproportionate amount of aid that will be given with the intention that they continue their "struggle" - i.e. murderous rampages. Because the United Nations can't be trusted to know right from wrong. They are a corrupt and venal institution that has failed miserably and finally to justify their own existence.

In a related story, Prime Minister Paul Martin won't tolerate tainted aid system. Sounds like they are opposed to corruption, right? NAH They are insisting that terrorists like the Tamil Tigers get their fair share. So they can continue to kill and maim.

Canadian Theatrics

From the jump "Chairs and entire rooms sit empty at a memorial service in Ottawa on Saturday for tsunami victims. Organizers misscalculated the number of attendees which was in the hundreds and not the thousands as expected." to "Chairs and entire rooms sit empty at a memorial service in Ottawa on Saturday for tsunami victims. Organizers misscalculated the number of attendees which was in the hundreds and not the thousands as expected." And this: "Despite seating for 15,000 in the arena and specially arranged overflow areas, only about 400 members of the public turned out." How many of those 400 "members of the public" turned out to be activists, political hacks, and publicity-hoggers congratulating themselves on their compassion even while they scheme to make a buck off their act?

Canada has supposedly pledged $80 million to tsunami aid with a promise of "substantially more." How much they actually give is anyone's guess. I am speculating but I think part of the U.N. humanitarian aid game appears to be to pledge money, give only a tiny portion of that amount, pocketing the rest, while the U.N. pretends to spend the pledged amount and takes a cut for their playacting as humanitarians. The victims are lucky if they get 3 cents on a dollar, the taxpayer is stiffed for the entire pledge, the politicos line their silks-lined pockets and the U.N. helps corrupt governments around the world. It's a scam, folks. One of the biggest criminal scams going.

Politics Muddy Tsunami Relief Efforts

It's called "politics" when the government objects to the U.N.'s plan to survey and supply relief to the terrorists in Sri Lanka. The terrorists are called "rebels" by Reuters, despite the fact that the Tamil Tigers are officially considered terrorists by the U.S., Britain, India, Australia and Malaysia. Is there a terrorist that Reuters doesn't like and support??

Reuters isn't the only one supporting the terrorists. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin recently attended a fundraising for a group that supports the Tamil Tigers, a group even the Canadian Globe and Mail describes as,

The U.S. State Department has branded the Tigers a terrorist group. They are believed responsible for assassinating two heads of state, including Rajiv Gandhi, have deployed suicide bombers against civilians, and may still be abducting child soldiers into their army.

Despite this, Canada regularly meets with the terrorists.

Ottawa characteristically takes the middle ground. It has banned Tiger members from entering Canada and keeps them on a list of proscribed terrorist groups whose assets must be frozen if found here. But it permits our high commissioner in Colombo to meet with their senior leaders.

When did Leftists and Liberals become so desperate that they were willing to accept support, contributions, and the participation of terrorists in their politics? How can anyone morally support suicide bombers who target civilians and who abduct child soldiers into their army? Has Canada no shame? Or the BBC that seems to actually bask in pleasure at the terrorists and their acts as they do in this article? I guess Canada, the BBC, Reuters and Kofi Annan missed this backgrounder on the terrorist group by the Council of Foreign Relations. No doubt, Canada, the BBC, Reuters and Kofi Annan also missed the report on recruitment of child solders by the Leftist Human Rights Watch as well.

Our War on Terrorism ought to be a war on the countries and institutions and the media that also supports, encourages, and enables terrorists in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. Put Canada and the United Nations high up on that list.