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Heather Mallick Gets Her Hate On
We're a little late on this story, but for the past two weeks Fox News commentators have been up in arms in response to an article published by the CBC's Heather Mallick on September 5th comparing US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin to a porn actress. She also went on to refer to Republican Men as sexual inadequates who must think that women would vote for Palin just because she has a vagina.
Comments are now numbering more than 1550 on the article including a recent gem from someone named Michael Collins who wrote:
I was torn between voting for Obama or voting for McCain but since Heather Mallick's bottom of the barrel and hateful comments about Sarah Palin I have made my decision. As a protest to this type of despicable characterization I will be voting for McCain/Palin.
A commenter named Ex_VanBC rightly responds:
Is that really how you'd determine who should be President of the United States? Scary.
Mallick herself and the CBC seem to be sticking to their guns, although formally the CBC has suggested they are reviewing complaints. Surely, everyone inside our national broadcaster is having a good laugh about this - the article is also getting lots of buzz around the blogosphere as well as commentary in other Canadian media like this mention (366 comments and counting) in the Globe and Mail.
All of us here were planning on just letting this blow over except we started getting emails sent to us as well - apparently some think that Mallick is a writer for blogTO. Someone named Jeff Norton wrote us the following note:
I want the contact info for the sorry excuse for the human being named Heather Mallick. She is pure middle east TRASH probably an illegal alien who came to bum f**k, Canada to work the welfare system. She clearly only has a job because of the communist Canadian government steals the taxpayers money to fund garbage like her. How do WE get to tell her more??? She has a trashy mouth so I wanted to throw some garbage in it.
Uhgh....Personally, I think everyone should just chill out and continue to enjoy the brilliance of Tina Fey and the SNL video below.
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Jonathan.
I am outraged.
Heather Mallick's column about Palin or
Fox's indignation while ignoring its tendency
to do exactly the same thing to others?
It's ironic that at the time of the Couillard affair, Mallick took a different view of a woman's looks and their significance to public debate:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20080602.html
it's good to see a left wing mouth foaming diabtribe to counteract all that Republican swill.
hoping that this time, my comment actually gets through
Jonathan R. (not the one that posted the link)
Erin F -- kinda lost you there -- you're outraged at Fox, right? Or at CBC?
David E -- given that Mallick's job is opinion and commentary, while the Fox clip reporting on reactions to those comments is supposed to be "fair and balanced" (their own News Corp. slogan), in my opinion Fox's hypocrisy -- and I think opportunistic and partisan alarmism -- is worse.
Despot -- "And FOX permeates more borders than the CBC does." -- I don't quite follow that last part.
I think Mallick's reaction to the threats etc. that have come her way following her opinion piece speak volumes here.
<quote>"The responses to my column proved me correct about the extreme right in the United States: they have a great misogynist rage in them," Ms. Mallick said in an interview from Toronto on Saturday.</quote> (from CP story quoted here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/23/84014/7542)
Sincerely,
Karl Rove
"I'm surprised you're surprised" Just awesome.
Granted the CBC content in question was disseminated through their website, but I'll ask you who you think has a greater weight in culture consumption on a global scale - FOX or CBC? I understand the difference between how the CBC is funded vs FOX, but I don't think anyone can argue that our little CBC is on more folk's radars than FOX.
Maybe one day we can resort to a fair and balanced MSCNNBBCBC to get our news.
In the meantime - http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1245/arguingef4.jpg
I'll choose the Enquirer tabloid instead for its higher journalistic qualities.
And ftr, I didn't think we were arguing. I was looking for clarification and I think you provided it in saying you believe NewsCorp casts a wider coverage net worldwide (I don't have stats. on that -- tho' from what I understand, cbc news is generally well-regarded and quite well-read incl. outside of Canada; in fact the reactions to Mallick's article seems to support that notion -- but to me it's beside the point).
At any rate. I also agree David Warren appeared a tad spineless in this clip, but then again, it's not surprising to him to see these kinds of reactions to cbc news.
Unrelated, but I can't help but post this:
Chris Rock responding to Larry King if he's "proud" to see a black man running for president:
"Um, you know what? I'm proud Barack Obama's running for president. You know? If it was Flavor Flav, would I be proud? No. I don't support Barack Obama because he's black."
For example, if I refer to Heather Mallick as a disgusting looking puke, who I wouldn't fu*k with my dog's dick, some people would find that offensive and hateful. Most certainly my dog would. But it is an opinion and I should be able to freely express it.
Heather Mallick says today that she is an "emetophobe," a word which I must confess I had never heard. Apparently emetophobes vomit when they find something unpleasant looking. Having seen Heather Mallick's saggy, pasty, blotchy, leperous face on the CBC website, I nearly vomited, leading me to suspect that I might be an emetophobe. So she and I actually have something in common.
mallick probably had too much to drink when she wrote her commentary, that's how we all talk when we're sauced!
A: I WANT to step on Heather Mallick.
"mallick probably had too much to drink when she wrote her commentary, that's how we all talk when we're sauced!"
I thought she said Alaskans were drunks, eh? Having read a few of her articles now, she must be sauced 24x7. Then again, she says she is an emetophoe; maybe she has other mental disorders.
Emetophobes don't vomit when they see something unpleasant. It's quite the opposite. They hardly ever vomit, because that's the phobia: a fear of vomiting.
I'm one myself. It's not a mental disorder any more than a fear of spiders or heights might be considered one.
Sorry, I shouldn't have referred to emetophobia as a mental disorder. Nearly everyone has some sort of phobia. Personally I have a preternatural dread of ugly, shrill, hateful animals... such as Heather Mallick.