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SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 12, 2019 2:56 pm

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I'm surprised it took so long!!! 

How it could be adjudicated that using slang terms at a non minority group, not a person, was defamatory, or hateful is beyond me, and frankly, reason. If I had gone on there and pounded at Ford, Trump, or any conservative, I would have been lauded as a genius.

 Hopeless.

SOWNY » NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, HERE'S REAL NEWS! » February 12, 2019 12:35 pm

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Yeah, you silly goose, that's me, the "C".

You and Dial Twister are, as the Eagles sang about in Hotel California, "Tiffany twisted," among other things.

SOWNY » NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, HERE'S REAL NEWS! » February 12, 2019 12:16 pm

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THANKS, my apparently libtard, friend!

However, those of us who practice practical common sense and do not believe in Marxist dogma, are not all Alt Right, whatever that is anyway.

We may in fact be just right!

Peace&love,
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SOWNY » With the pending storm, are the weather stations fear mongering? » February 12, 2019 11:13 am

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Yes, I agree with Mr. Moderator about nervous nelly eyeballs, but, the whole thing is way overdone.

We are producing a generation of any kind of risk populace who freak out any time there is any amount of inclement weather.

If you don't believe me, check out the local LCBO any time a snow event is forecast, and get ready to stand in line for 15 minutes.

Subliminally, and literally, we are being conditioned to be just as fragile snowflakes as the real ones falling.

I doubt very much we could withstand a real emergency, like this, today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Rt_4-OaXY

SOWNY » With the pending storm, are the weather stations fear mongering? » February 12, 2019 9:52 am

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Basically, the regular stations got nuthin; better to do.

And, TWN is weather porn.

SOWNY » With the pending storm, are the weather stations fear mongering? » February 12, 2019 9:32 am

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Righteous Joe, righteous.

THIS JUST IN: IT SNOWS IN KANADA!!!

SOWNY » TIME FOR CHCH TO DROP DOPEY SNOW STREETERS » February 12, 2019 9:16 am

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The poor female correspondents at the Nothing Channel always get tasked with accosting sheepish, or sometimes downright weird, disinterested or even hurting interview subjects during snow events.

Obtuse questions such as "how are you handling the snow?" and "how are you driving?" usually get obtuse or even incoherent answers and blank stares and then its back you at the desk, Walter.

Hard to blame the frozen reporter gals for any of this as the warm as toast news director sips his coffee and flicks some switches preparing another award winning segment about, yes Virginny, it snows in Kanada, while the snow falls and wind howls and folks change the channel.

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 12, 2019 8:08 am

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And I see that the moderator seems to be having cold feet. I was surprised he let it go this far, although he was the one who chummed the waters with the Star cartoon piece. 

What is the "cGrant experience," and why is it that everyone who expresses a conservative, anti-SJW opinion is branded as a hate troll? 

Oh well, Kanadians, even well intention minded ones are too afraid, too indoctrinated with Marxist ideology without even realising it to be react any differently. For those so afflicted, the Star is soy, to the boys.

You see, the way it works is this: left wings lunatics can say anything they want, in any way. Those with a right wing view are quickly branded as hateful and trolls. Welcome to "freedom of speech," 1984 style, in 2019. 

Hopeless, and as DJT points out from time to time: SAD!

SOWNY » Bob Costas finished with NBC after 40 years » February 11, 2019 9:35 pm

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Will T: have you had your medications?

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 11, 2019 9:30 pm

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William T, I feel your pain, even if it is a little vague.

But, your hearts and minds are in the right place.

These SJWs are  social retards-phony, immature millennial dopeheads too-that would have no say at all if it were not for the  pandering crap of the ridiculous Toronto Star propping them up.

For all those dopes down on Ford ask yourself one simple question: why is he premier, and you are all still losers?

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 11, 2019 3:59 pm

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Be careful Retaw, you are making sense.

And so the SJW lunatics will surely descend upon your head with their self righteous, phony holier than thou crap.

Don't you know that cops-especially white cops'- lives mean nothing to the cowardly idiot radical leftists?

Buck up though, as they will eventually be relegated to the trash bin of history, just like every other socialist  and Communist disaster, ever.

Then, they can all move to that gem of a country, Venezuela. And then, good friggin' riddance.

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 11, 2019 2:51 pm

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Glad to hear you graduated from Trump U.

However, your journalistic ethical or moral equivalency argument is full of holes as the issue at hand here is real world transparency.

Neither right wing talk radio, or the Toronto Sun, ever claimed to be anything other than what they actually are.

The Star,on the other hand, used to be a relevant paper, which was noted as such.It is now a SJW wet dream.

 

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 11, 2019 2:28 pm

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Good question.

Here's another: did you finish high school?

SOWNY » Toronto Star Among Newspapers That Ran Comic Strip With Trump F-Bomb » February 11, 2019 2:20 pm

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Let me tell you a few things about the Toronto Star:

1/ It has degenerated into a total SJW propaganda sheet and an overall joke which few outside the Sodom and Gomorrah of the GTA take seriously. Atkinson principles are one thing, Neo Marxist nonsense, another.

2/ "Columnists" like Mallick and Dale are pathologically filled with hate for conservative views and pander to every straight white male hating radical feminist transgender SJW campaign going. They are not journalists, but rather, propagandists that are also completely phony as they preach one thing and live another.

3/ The paper has a sick, pathological hatred for not only Trump, but the entire US as well while at the same having a creepy and moist love affair for Justine Trudeau and his like minded metrosexual and radical feminist cabal of cabinet idiots who have damaged our economy-Freeland come on down- perhaps beyond immediate repair and all the while cheered  by the Star.

4/ A ridiculous Soviet era Pravada paper with former subscribers deserting them in droves because few readers want to pick up the paper, and discover how deplorable they are or read a bunch of radical socialist crap.

 

SOWNY » NO, NO NICOLE!! » February 10, 2019 7:54 pm

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Well, the broadcast Gods giveth, and then they take away.

Tonight's 6PM CHCH newscast featured Nicole Martin having a sit down with the very comparable business "expert" Marvin Ryder, who never met a cliche, or middle of the road justification he did not regurgitate.

So when it came to Justine Trudeau's disastrous US/Kanada/Mexixo free trade agreement negotiations in which the silly Chrystia Freeland sabotaged the whole thing with demands for transgender rights and other SJW nonsense, Trump took the measure of the Kanadian contingent and correctly deduced they were helpless and hopeless idiots and we got a deal corresponding with that, Nicole merely nodded like one of those pooches one perches in the back of cars.

So, it appeared the misguided Nicole actually believed Ryder knew what he was talking about regarding US tariffs on steel when he opined that it was but an oversight that Chinese crap steel was still flowing into Justine's  Marxist Kanada, whilst Stelco and Dofasco took it up the caboose.

The real story is that unlike Stephen Harper, who fought tooth and nail against US protectionism when everyone's fave son, Obama  Bin Lyin' was trying to pull the same deal 10 years ago, Justine is considered such a silly lightweight by Trump that Justine's Kanada will always be short changed as long as they send SJW lunatics to try to swing real world deals among serious people who laugh out loud at Justine's socialist nightmare wet dream.

But, I still think Martin has promise.

Although, she may have to do a little more watching of FOX News.

SOWNY » CH HAS THE BAD GUYS YELPING, ORDER, ORDER! » February 9, 2019 7:28 pm

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I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and I saw some good stuff on the 6PM CH news.

Nicole Martin, who is very good, anchored and banged away at the obvious corruption at Hamilton city hall regarding a bait and switch boot out observers in Niagara regarding the hiring of a new city manager, and the continuing wankest of the Red Hill Expressway hidden safety report.

Political commentator Keith Leslie, when prompted by Martin said that what the city did holding the meeting out of town was obviously in contravention of several municipal laws and this latest outrage, along with the RHE disappearing report, was just another brick in the wall as per usual around this third world place.

What was not per usual was CH speaking out of turn about the local city hall stooges who usually operate in shade, if not total darkness, with an assist from local media.

The questionable mayor and his minions will not be amused.

Too bad there is not a grand jury system around here.

Lots of indictments might follow.

SOWNY » TSN'S CURIOUS CTE COVERAGE » February 9, 2019 12:38 pm

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For the most part, TSN is one of Canada's best broadcasting outfits.

 Their large tableau of sports coverage and knowledgeable anchors and analysts serves millions of Canadian sports fans very well But, to paraphrase another whistle blower, there's a cancer growing on this ascendancy.

 Because unlike their US big brother, ESPN, whose journalists got the ball rolling on football concussions and CTE  with League of Denial in 2012 even though they broadcast NFL games, TSN, which exclusively shows CFL games, is MIA on 3 down CTE even though they accept it as fact in the NFL! 

Which is additionally bizarre as they have no problem regularly lambasting NHL boss Gary Bettman for trying to screw the players trying to claim damages from concussion caused CTE. 

After all, TSN carry lots of NHL games but have no problem calling BS on Gary's "science not clear" on CTE serial denials. But when it comes to concussions and CTE in the CFL, TSN likes to coddle Dr. Charles Tator, who Rick Westhead called, "renown" in a 2014 post, despite Tator's usual denial of the concussion cause and effect of CTE which Boston University researchers have made the world wide gold standard.

 Tator's infamous 2012 study entitled "Absence Of" CTE in former CFL players, despite a finding of CTE in half of them was partially funded by the CFL, so make your own conclusions. Yet, here's the real irony: TSN runs with the bizarre dichotomy that while, Tator, a major critic of the NHL on concussions and CTE is righteous on calling out the NHL, the good doc mysteriously becomes MIA when it comes to CTE in the CFL. It's like CTE in Canada does exist in Canada for hockey, but that's an ixnay on CFL CTE like it somehow stops at the 49th parallel!

TSN CFL "insider" Dave Naylor, considered by some to be a league football washer, continues to throw shade on the CTE in the CFL and never quite got over that he was bypassed back in '14 on the first concussion lawsuit against the CFL by Arland Bruce

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 8, 2019 7:27 pm

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We come tonight to praise, sort of.

Although anchor Phil "The Thrill" Perkins-who used to be an op-gives new meaning to the Less Nessman obtuse, he nonetheless presented a nice report by the frisky little Kelly Botelho on a local mortgage broker accused of forcing a stripper to give him oral sex. In other words, what?

Anyways, props must go to CHCH for not spewing out the nauseating "believe all women" in this ridiculous #metooliar crapola age.

Most other Hamilton outlets presented the accused as a son of Satan, in their SJW type inquisition reporting.

The little Kelly report was fair, balanced and professionally shot, and edited. 
https://www.chch.com/personalities/kelly-botelho/

Keep trying, Zero.

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 8, 2019 9:22 am

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I might, but Pro Line does not list it.

Yet.

The whole thing might be chalked up to, as someone once said, the bitter angles of our nature.

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 8, 2019 7:14 am

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Well, it's a uniquely Hamilton thing, Glen.

What Paul Palango famously labelled, "the Mafia of the mediocre."

Look it up.

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 7, 2019 8:41 pm

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So, CH spent 5 minutes at the top of the 6PM newscast today on the Red Hill Expressway revelation that a safety report commissioned by the city and completed in 2013 on the traction equation of the road that found a problem with the "friction" level of the road, was not presented to council  and  so was not kosher enough to be made public, until now.

Who leaked it, will be another laugher, as well.

A phoney "apology" was rendered by the city late last night at council after the mandarins had already left for refreshments, and today, the mayor told CH that aliens had probably caused the problem, or in other words, something like what Mike Tyson used to call, ludicrous.

The RHE has long been a wankest. Originally proposed in the 50s, the Hamilton mountain to Red Hill Valley bypass road was kicked around for decades until finally getting  started in the 90s, amid giving environmentalists like Don Maclean a nervous breakdown, as well as taxpayer concerns.

When finally completed, the road, which was mostly championed by the Hamilton media including CH, was subject to regular flooding which shut it down, as well as problems with homeowners backyards falling into ravines due to erosion.

Several years ago, there was an opinion that one of the contractors who were involved in the build, and which later went bankrupt amid an international scandal, may have used contaminated materials in the fill used to bed the road.
It is therefore ironic, that CH is banging away at a situation that may have resulted from a former local company, Philip Services, now defunct, that was handled with kid gloves by the station when the channel was owned by WIC in the 90s despite widespread controversy over their business practices, and which may have had a hand in problems surfacing now.

File under, karma is a bitch?

Of course all this possible intrigue may be above the pay grade of the go along to get alongs of the meisters at Zero, yet even anchor Phil Perkins, certainly not in line f

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 5, 2019 12:00 pm

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Another issue at the Nothing Channel is a fraud called, "Game Time," which airs on Friday and Saturday nights after the news.

You won't find it specifically listed in the CH lineup, but rather the time block is shown as "paid programming."

Here's the listing from Passport: 
https://www.tvpassport.com/series/game-time/290473

This clearly fraudulent "show," a call in in which a series of bizarre female "hosts" pose word game puzzle "contests" that appear so simple, yet are not what they seem.  Game Time-and CHCH- has been called out by a few media outlets for the sham the game is yet CH continues to air the obvious rip off.
https://mikebattista.com/2009/11/02/playtv-canada-is-a-scam/

Some former players claim they were taken for thousands of dollars trying to win relatively small cash awards.

The scam works by encouraging viewers to call in with answers to the puzzles but rarely do they actually get through to the producers, yet every time they call, their phone bill is charged a fee.

Obviously, Zero has a legal opinion that Game Time conforms to the letter of the law, but no one in their right mind thinks it conforms to the ethical one, or the well being of their ripped off viewers.

And the eventual complaints to the CBSC-a leisure time service of the offenders-was typical in its do nothing disposition:
https://www.cbsc.ca/chch-dt-re-game-time/

For CH to continue to air this bunko bamboozled BS is further testament to their continuing Zero credibility.

And, for the rest of the local media to give the nothings a pass on this, says a lot too.

But for many harried Hamiltonians, just another day in paradise.




 

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 2, 2019 7:50 pm

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However, the news at the many times less than zero CH newscasts is not all bad.

So far, mercifully, they have not yet fallen victim to the SJW/radical feminist pandering agenda other Hamilton media outlets employ almost daily.

In fact, CH went pretty hard on the Antfi creep masked cowards who busted up Locke Street last year while one of the other the electronic outlets in the city, employing a radical feminist SJW "reporter" who chases snowflake outrages, appeared to be not so outraged over the dopey "anarchists" and their idiotic "message."

Of the millennial mob at CH, Nicole Martin appears to be a keeper, although she sometimes does goofy things, like lip synching to the Happy Days theme one time, for some bizarre reason. She's young yet, though, so slack given.
https://www.chch.com/personalities/nicole-martin/

Little Kelly Bothelo is better than one might think at first and most observers like her. A hard worker.
https://www.chch.com/personalities/kelly-botelho/

And Lisa Hephner is carrying on the tradition of smart, tough, streetwise female reporters like Kathy Renwald, who was groundbreaking in the 80s and 90s.
https://www.chch.com/personalities/lisa-hepfner/

So, it ain't all bad.

Just most of it.



 

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 2, 2019 4:10 pm

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Wow, that's all you got out of that whole post?

With logic and awareness like that, maybe you should go apply there, you'd probably go far.

The nothing channel continually bills itself as a core Hamilton station, proud to be, yada, yada, yada. And yada.

However, the only time just about anyone from the station find themselves in the core of the city, is when they are reporting on a theft, assault, or murder.

Most of them live in Ancaster, Dundas, and Waterdown and don't go anywhere near the blight if they can help it.

 

SOWNY » CHCH A ZERO, INDEED » February 2, 2019 11:57 am

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More unintended? sad hilarity from the many millennials at CHCH.
In what surely has to be one of the worst daily newscasts in all of Canada, 11 has again caused WTFs across the region.

Last week, a tragic and nasty murder case involving a school teacher son allegedly burning to death his mother and stepfather in an alleged murderous arson, had an arrest and CH showed up at the accused's place of work, a primary school in north Hamilton to, among other things, interview(!) young children that the accused had taught in grade 3.

Lisa Hephner, usually a solid reporter-one of the very few at CH- began sticking a mic in the faces of young children who it is hard to imagine had a concept of death, let alone murder. Accordingly, it was a cringe inducing segment with the kids sincerely trying to answer Hephner's questions but obviously not really comprehending and this is the sort of obtuse thing that happens rather regularly at the nothing channel and causes much head shaking and even cynical laughs in the community.

I doubt it was all Lisa's fault though, as these types of streeters need lots of footage, but it would be the responsibility of the editor/producer, not to be stupid in what aired, which is what occurred.Really stupid.

When CH blew out dozens of competent staff in 2015, they assured the type of amateurs just out of Mohawk College or Dog's Hind Leg, northern Ontario cable access TV staff ,that they appear to have now.

And some of the few good ones, get the hell out, like Brit Dixon did last year when she decamped to Brock U shortly after having some jerk yell GHBTP during a segment in front of the police station.Few would blame her.

Finally,of course, the management had no money to retain the veteran staff back in '15, but now have multi millions to build a new broadcast palace not even in Hamilton, proper.

Embarrassing.

SOWNY » CTV On Its Super Bowl Plans & How It Will Fight No Simsub This Year » January 30, 2019 12:52 pm

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Actually, the NFL simulcasts  were way worse back in the 80s and early 90s.

Much of it was handled by the local cable rackets switching offices and the clowns there were either not paying attention, or purposely not releasing the simulcast in a timely fashion so  usually,  those watching on the actual originating network-Buffalo, NBC and CBS in those days in this area-would be subjected to an extra 2-5 minutes of Kanadian crap.

This resulted in missing bonus coverage, or post game wrap-ups. I used to call up an yell at them in Hamilshitowne but they did not seem to give a damn.

I believe all the switching now comes out of the main simulcasting network and usually releases within about 30 seconds.

Buffalo affiliates, and possible the networks themselves, should have denied the Kanadian stations their signal as the whole thing was Soviet era broadcasting notion.

SOWNY » TSN 1150 Hamilton » December 20, 2018 12:40 pm

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I'll ask him!

Smarty pants.

SOWNY » TSN 1150 Hamilton » December 20, 2018 11:44 am

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Well, well, well.

All this arcane radio business talk.

OK, here's some: The book before last brought a .01 rating. It ticked up a tock this fall because of TiCat broadcasts-that BTW are,to be kind, laughable-but they are still basically non existent.

Jim Tatti is the only real broadcaster there and some of the others come off as rank amateurs, if that.

There are many (former) listeners who are not enthused, including former PD Nevin, who can't even bear to discuss it anymore.

And the current PD? If he thinks intentionally tanking this thing will bring big alms from Bell, he is most likely dreaming.

When he has served his usefulness, he'll be back at Cable 14.

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