Is NASCAR going to be a target for Canada's liberal press?
I don't subscribe to the theory that Canada's media as a whole cannot be trusted to report the news in an even-handed and fair manner. But I'm not so naive as to believe either that there a not pockets within the media that do use the media as a way to promote a partisan agenda under the guise of news.
With the Conservatives sponsoring Pierre Bourque's NASCAR efforts, I wonder if NASCAR will become the target of media trickery in order to embarrass the Conservatives. It has happened before.
From April of 2006, a story of how NBC News set up a situation to prove that American NASCAR fans are bigots, as reported by Michelle Malkin:
A source who monitors political e-mail lists sent me an intriguing message disseminated last week, which involved an apparent Dateline NBC solicitation to Muslim groups. Check this out:
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
From:
Subject: Looking for Muslim Males to participate in NBC Dateline Segment[Forwarded]
Salam,
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been talking with a producer of the NBC Dateline show and he is in the process of filming a piece on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in the USA. They are looking for some Muslim male candidates for their show who would be willing to go to non-Muslim gatherings and see if they attract any discriminatory comments or actions while being filmed.
They recently taped two turbaned Sikh men attending a football game in Arizona to see how people would treat them. They set them up with hidden microphones and cameras, etc.
They want to do the same thing 2 or 3 other times (in various parts of the USA) with one or two Muslim men in each setting. They are looking for men who actually “look Muslim”. They want a guy with no foreign accent whatsoever, a good thick beard, an outgoing personality, and someone willing to wear a kufi/skullcap during the filming.
They also want someone who is fairly well accomplished and has contributed to American society at large in some meaningful way.
That said, I’m urgently looking for someone who can be filmed this April 1st weekend at a Nascar event (and other smaller events) in Virginia. NBC is willing to fly in someone and cover their weekend expenses. The filming would take place all day on Saturday and Sunday.
We already have a hijabi sister who will be filmed there but a Muslim is also needed to join her. I also need candidates for the other filming segments which will take place in the following weeks.
A few weeks later, NBC will fly all the filmed participants to New York City to interview them as a group about their experience and thoughts on discrimination they’ve faced in America, especially in light of the times we live in (war on terror, 9-11, etc.). The show, if approved by NBC (highly likely), is expected to air sometime this summer.
What I need from interested candidates is an email with an attached clear photograph, a resume, and contact information. I also need basic information such as age, ethnic background, accomplishments, etc.
The sooner I can get this the better and please don’t make emails too long. I will then submit a group of candidates to NBC so they can choose the people for the show.
Please forward this to all Muslim lists you can. Because of the upcoming filming in Virginia, this is pretty time-sensitive. My contact information is below.
Salam,
Tarek El-MessidiCatch that? The apparent “sting” involves targeting Nascar and other sporting events. ‘Cause that’s presumably where the fair and balanced NBC news staff thinks all the bigots are.
I hope that this is not something that will happen here, but part of me is worried. In Canada, there are pockets of such bitter vitriol directed at things conservative that it would little effort to rationalize duplicity like this as a good thing.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, nothing happened, and the NASCAR fans didn't take the bigot bait.
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Of course the MSM is going to ridicule NASCAR and anything else it views, in its sophisticated urbanite myopia, as being rural (redneck) or worse (real redneck) rural American. However there is a glimmer of hope in that the weaknesses of the MSM are beginning to show. People are beginning to define for themselves what life is all about because they realize what is published as "news" is not news its opinion. Opinion mouthed by an ignorant bunch of pseudo intellectuals who took a mickey mouse course at a third rate college and are now, under the direction of editors and publishers, parroting the party line of the power elite of Upper Canada. Proof of this is the drop in readership/viewership of the MSM.
Posted by: joe at June 23, 2007 10:56 PM
Canadian MSM is Toronto-centric and they cater to that Liberal audience to hold on to their readership. Typically the CBC is thoroughly Toronto-centric and is filled with feminists, multicultis, gays and lesbians and of course those who gained through Liberal nepotism.
The worst offenders seems to be the Canadian Press (CP) who are blatantly anti-Harper, anti-Conservative. I don't understand the organization of the CP and why it would be so overt in their outright propaganda. Any guesses here ..???
Posted by: Allan at June 23, 2007 11:31 PM
I was kind of wondering the same thing when I heard about this. Already some of the pundits have written editorials condeming the Conservatives for picking green house gas consuming cars to sponsor. The hacks that pose as unbiased reporters will soon figure out a way to paint this in a bad light.
At the end of the day, NASCAR is going to wish it never heard of the Conservative Party of Canada...
Posted by: langmann at June 23, 2007 11:32 PM
Really who cares wnat the MSM do? The MSM is in a death spiral. Keep twisting faster and faster towards oblivion boys.
With all the recent lay-offs by the major MSM players you would think they would learn something.
Posted by: missing link at June 23, 2007 11:35 PM
Canadian Press ?
http://www.cp.org/home.aspx?id=60&
Scroll down to see that their "owners/members" include:
CTV/BELL
TORSTAR
hmmm...
Posted by: James Walker at June 23, 2007 11:43 PM
We should care what the likes of Straw-head Delacourt or Blondie Fife have to say anymore?
The Conservatives have the money to sponsor, that is the sore point for the Liberals and their fifth column MSM.
What exactly can they criticize here, DIDN'T THEY SPONSOR SOMETHING CALLED ADSCAM?
It's a sad day when one cannot read or listen to news and wonder where the truth lies in this Democratic country.
We are living Banana Republic style with the vindictive, childish MSM.
Posted by: Libby at June 24, 2007 08:17 AM
Hey Libby, but the Lie-beral's never use their own money, always someone else's. What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine, eh?
Posted by: Bruce Randall at June 24, 2007 09:39 AM
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Funny, CTV completely missed this
They went instead, with the video closeups of soldiers grieving family members slumped over their loved one's caskets.
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Posted by: neo at June 24, 2007 09:51 AM
True Bruce, but it's all our money one way or another!
Posted by: Libby at June 24, 2007 10:39 AM
Pierre Bourque's Conservative sponsored car #29 started 22nd and finished 13th in todays Dickies 200. Not a bad result at all.
Posted by: Bruce Randall at June 24, 2007 12:04 PM
I was at the race, we live in Oshawa. I was blown away when I saw the big "C" on the guy's hood. I said "awsome". I mean, really, does the world need more newspaper and tv ads ? Congratulations to the Conservatives for thinking outside of the box on this one.
Did I vote for Harper last time ? No.
Will I vote for Harper next time ? Maybe.
I'll tell you this, my days of voting NDP are over. Bye bye, Mr Layton, you friggin hipocryte.
Posted by: Eddie at June 24, 2007 12:33 PM
There are two contradictory themes that the likes of Delacourt, Weston, Travers and Riley like to draw on when they criticize CPC actions. One is that the CPC is appealing too much to their base, and needs to reach out to other groups. The other is that they are ignoring their base, and behaving too much like Liberals. Needless to say, this allows them to churn out endless, mediocre, un-insightful columns on whatever the CPC does. Another reporter has already confirmed, from speaking to a CPC insider, that the anti-Senate ads generated so many doantions from the CPC base, that the ads paid for themselves.
Of course Delacourt wouldn't be aware of that, since she is out of the CPC insider's loop, and has to draw on her "insights" regarding CPC strategy. I think Delacourt is trying to regain her huge loss in credibility after wrting the book on Paul Martin Juggernaut. Perhaps if she writes a new Paul Martin book called Jugger-NOT, she might be taken more seriously.
Posted by: at June 24, 2007 01:06 PM
There are two contradictory themes that the likes of Delacourt, Weston, Travers and Riley like to draw on when they criticize CPC actions. One is that the CPC is appealing too much to their base, and needs to reach out to other groups. The other is that they are ignoring their base, and behaving too much like Liberals. Needless to say, this allows them to churn out endless, mediocre, un-insightful columns on whatever the CPC does. Another reporter has already confirmed, from speaking to a CPC insider, that the anti-Senate ads generated so many doantions from the CPC base, that the ads paid for themselves.
Of course Delacourt wouldn't be aware of that, since she is out of the CPC insider's loop, and has to draw on her "insights" regarding CPC strategy. I think Delacourt is trying to regain her huge loss in credibility after wrting the book on Paul Martin Juggernaut. Perhaps if she writes a new Paul Martin book called Jugger-NOT, she might be taken more seriously.
Posted by: Calgary Junkie at June 24, 2007 01:06 PM
I don't understand the organization of the CP and why it would be so overt in their outright propaganda. Any guesses here..???
Allan,
Perhaps the CP is watching jealously as CBC reporter after CBC reporter winds up in the Governor General's office (with its lavish budget).
Oh yes, and because reporters in general and liberals in particular are just plain vile.
Posted by: up north at June 24, 2007 11:07 PM
Right "up north", "reporters in general and liberals in particular are just plain vile". They are vacuous, vitriolic, and vicious spinners of facts to manipulate opinion.
Their vacuity has been their undoing.
Their game is quite obvious to all paying attention and the jig is up for the boneheads.
The Liberals are so badly broke they are having a tough time spreading their lies. They're relying on the MSM as usual.
Propaganda is the stock and trade of the Liberal Party,it's worked for them for years.
Posted by: Libby at June 25, 2007 11:33 AM
Did you see the survey MSNBC, not a particularly balanced institution on it's best days, performed re political affiliation of major media reporters. Not a pretty story but certainly no surprise, by a very wide margin 80-something to 17 donations were made to Democrats here. Thankfully, NASCAR fans don't give a damn what some left or right coast liberal shill thinks of them or the sport.
Posted by: iowavette at June 25, 2007 01:08 PM
 
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