OK everyone. I want you to follow me through this one, because it is truly a classic.
I have kind of given up on convincing certain people about how this right wing media machine functions. A lot of the folks we are talking with don't even believe it exists, quite aside the covert and disingenuous way it functions, and how it is linked back and forth, etc. So I thought I'd go back to Just Wonder's original post and do some research on the author of the piece (claiming Canadians wanted fox now) and on the publication she was carried by. Here's the first paragraph...
Quote: The Canadians are checking in. Canadians are logging on to the Canada Free Press website in droves, and it's largely courtesy of Fox News. Liberally quoting Rachel Marsden's insightful column about Fox News versus the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), I wrote a column, Thursday about what a dramatic improvement the more professional Fox News would be over leftwing slanted, taxpayer-funded CBC in balance-deprived Canada. The letters that poured in within the first day after the column affirm my belief that mainstream Canada wants Fox NOW.
That name Marsden sounded familiar, so I went looking for her. I found her website. Take a peak...
http://www.rachelmarsden.com/
Looking a bit further, this dilly comes up...
Quote:Woman Guilty of Harassing Man in Canada
Updated: Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004 - 11:22 AM
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - A former U.S. think tank employee has pleaded guilty to harassing an ex-boyfriend, former Vancouver radio personality Michael Morgan.
The judge gave Rachel Marsden a conditional discharge with one year of probation, meaning she can avoid having a criminal record if she has no other run-ins with the law over the next 12 months.
"I promise that I'll never be back before this court for the rest of my life. You have my word on that," Marsden told Judge Bill Kitchen in court Tuesday.
At the time of her arrest two years ago, Marsden worked for the Free Congress Foundation, a think tank in Washington, D.C. She resigned months later when her employer learned of the harassment charge.
She was also forced to resign last May while working under the name Elle Henderson in the constituency office of a Conservative member of Canada's Parliament.
Under the terms of her sentence, Marsden, 29, is free to return to the United States. She cannot write about Morgan or his family on the Internet, a condition imposed because she has her own Web site.
Marsden was charged with harassment after she persisted in telephoning and sending e-mails to Morgan, now 54, for almost a month after he ended their relationship.
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Now, the thing is, aside from the bit about working under a false name, this was her
second harrassment case to hit the press. The first involved a swim coach at SFU in Vancouver (where I got my degree, as it happens). In this case (it was a biggy in the Vancouver papers because of the sex element...and finally, blatham twigs on why this name is so familiar!) she charged coach Liam Donnelly with harrassment and the university initially found in her favor, even though he provided all the sexual emails and pictures she had sent him as enticements. He was later exonerated.
Following that case, a Canadian conservative and business-funded think tank, The Fraser Institute, did its own review of this case. Their take on the episode was as regards how 'politically correct' the university had been in dismissing Donnelly. Of course, she wasn't an up and coming right wing pundit then. Item 4 of their findings...
Quote:SFU officials had in their possession materials that included numerous instances where in her evidence and submissions Marsden had contradicted herself, showing at least that she was unreliable and most likely indicating that the entire case was manufactured.
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But now, she's on Dennis Miller and Bill O'Reilly and she's a political pundit. On a recent radio show, her guest was...
Quote:TBA: Ann Coulter - Political commentator and author of How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
We'll note that Rachel had been listed at GOPUSA, but they pulled the page down.
So, that's whose "insightful" column is praised in the original piece Just Wonders posted up front on this thread. That piece was written by one Judi McLeod. Here's a bit from Judy...
Quote:The United Nations, which has a finger in every global pie, and ambitions to take over the World Internet, is inching its way towards calendar reform...
Take a peak at this one too...
OCCULT UN
Anyway, our new friend Judi is apparently the founding editor of Canadian Free Press. The CFP have precious little data available regarding who they are (and where their funding comes from). But if you type that name in google, you'll get hundreds or thousands of linked right wing sites and columns. Dollars to donuts, and I'll try to get more info, they are funded as so many of these sites and publications and think tanks are funded.