Article criticising Palin removed by cbc

Heather Mallick's article was removed by cbc from the website and the company apologised. What do you think? Is this beyond the pale or on the mark?

http://www.heathermallick.ca/cbc.ca-columns/a-mighty-wind-blows-through-republican-convention.html

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Heathers article was very on-the-money.  CBC probably removed it because of pressure from “above” (Harper & Co.?) - and that smacks of censorship - but that's what their game includes.  That they would apologise for it just shows how deeply the conservative right has entrenched our Canadian media, and we should begin paying a lot closer attention ourselves to who's running the show here.
 
I'm surprised that the networks haven't pulled Jon Stewart's Daily Show and the Colbert Report, too.  Last night Daily Show featured a few interviews with Palin, and any woman in the USA with half a brain should be able to see that she's exactly what Heather was talking about in her article.  Lame, totally uninformed even of her own party's policies and frameworks - and I dang near fell off my recliner when they showed a clip of McCain sitting in on one of the interviews, and then saying he “gives her permission to speak her own mind”.  The look she shot him should have dropped him dead right there!!!! 

For the life of me, either they are very hard up for brains in Alaska, to even have her as Governor, or someone else (hubby Todd perhaps?) is running the show behind the scenes - have heard a lot about that, too.  For someone who would be a heart-beat away from being President, I really think the Republicans should be asking McCain “What were you thinking?” when he chose her, above all of the other much more qualified women, if he just had to have a woman as a running-mate.  I truly hope the Republicans would figure out a way to prevent her from taking charge should McCain croak, because if they think they have problems now, they haven't seen anything yet!

Gem :-)

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LOL! Yeah! It is ludicrous but not surprising unfortunately, just seems like the next logical step in the US's apparent bid to go from world leader to bottom of the heap.

Cheers,

Nicole

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Hi guys:

Sarah Palin is a slap in the face to all intelligent female politicians and to all intelligent American women.  She is a dangerously anti-woman, anti-enviroment, inhumane, red-neck, loose cannon.  She is a woman who is parading her 'special needs' child as though he is her campaign mascot,  and who would overturn the right of other American women to decide what to do with their own bodies.  She is a woman who used her political power at the municipal level to force sexual assault victims to pay for their own rape kits, who has no regard for wildlife, and who supports teaching abstinence-only sex ed (even though we all know how well that has worked out for her own daughter).  She is a creationist nutbar who believes that human beings and dinosaurs inhabitted the earth at the same time (about 6000 years ago) and who would like to see that nonsense added to school curriculums for American children.  It almost defies belief that she might become the VP of the USA, and the thought that she might someday be required to step in as President is truly frightening.  As much as I  hate to say this, in comparison to Sarah Palin even GW sounds intelligent.

As a feminist woman I would like nothing better than to see a truly intelligent female politician in the position of US President.  Sarah Palin, however, is more bizarre and frightening than many male republicans.  She has clearly been chosen to be John McCain's running mate because she is a woman and might garner some of the votes of women who had hoped to be voting for Hillary Clinton.  She is also very unlike the typical republican, male, Washington insider image.  She has obviously been chosen to fill the token woman, “I am from mainstreet USA'  role.  She is promoting herself as 'a Maverick' at a time when many Americans want someone as far removed from the image of the Bush administration as possible.  Since racism will prevent some of those people from casting a vote for Barrack Obama, I am certain that some Americans will vote for her precisely for those reasons. 

The VP debate, that was televised last week, seemed much more like a comedy than an actual serious political event.  From the onset (when Sarah Palin asked Joe Biden if she could call him Joe), through her beauty pageant quality answers, Sarah Palin performed like a SNL actor parodying a mindless twit running for high office.  Even her mannerism of staring right into the camera lens, rather than looking at the commentator or at her opponent, was truly bizarre and comical.  She never answered one question with any measure of substance, but freqently said “hey” to all of the 'hockey moms' out there.  She ended her bizarre preformance by traipsing out the kids, sans the pregnant teen daughter, and by giving her infant a quick hug and pat before pawning him off on her youngest daughter to carry around like a doll.  Her entire performance was crude and ridiculous.

If John McCain and Sarah Palin win in their bid for the US Presidency and Vice Presidency, it will be evidence that the dumbing down of the American people has been thoroughly achieved. 

It is outrageous that the CBC has pulled an insightful article about Sarah Palin from its website.  Clearly there are powers that be in our country that would like to achieve the same kind of dumbing down of the Canadian people.

Liz

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Agree with you, Liz, 200%!!!  Couldn't add much to that!

:)

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You certainly said it all, Liz! :):)

Well, the picture over there is becoming painfully clear, isn't it? Not only the bailout went through but a 612 billion dollar military bill slipped through without a peep or murmur from anyone. Living this close (in the lap of it, with leaders like Harper!) to the nation-turned-train-wreck is getting to be a more and more difficult situation…

cheers,

Nicole