Comments on: Mia Sosiak - Biased Journalism at its Best!

By: Project Alberta :: View topic - Cheap Shot Lie Against Ted Morton In Debate by Fletcher Kent

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:50:16 +0000

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By: yyc

yyc — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:56:30 +0000

Why look to malice when laziness and incompetence suffice? I thought the strangest question of the night was actually Fletcher Kent’s question to Stelmach about a Mike Nickel quote falsely attributed to Ted Morton. That adds up to 1/3 of the questions being when will Morton stop beating his wife. I don’t expect the correction to appear in the media.

By: H. Cameron

H. Cameron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:25:42 +0000

The answer is more important than the question.

That was kind of my point.

You had a point? I must have missed is amongst all the self-righteous tripe you often spew.

By: Aaron Unruh

Aaron Unruh — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:04:29 +0000

What’s amazing is that Morton refused to compromise or moderate his positions last night. He’s clearly confident that he can win by appealing even further to his own base.

It will be interesting to see how the contributions of the Conservative MPs for Morton manifest themselves on Saturday.

By: Tom Cerber

Tom Cerber — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:00:39 +0000

I think Morton effectively swatted the question down. He quickly pointed out how loaded the question was, and then argued that Bill C-208 is about protecting civil liberties and that according to survey research, Albertans oppose SSM by about 2/3. This statistic is largely true, but needs to be qualified. The surveys I’ve seen (none too recently) have shown that 1/3 of Canadians support SSM, 1/3 support civil unions but not SSM, and 1/3 support oppose both SSM and civil unions. Even though the definition of marriage is a federal issue, I think Morton should state which 1/3 he supports. Such a move would also defuse some of the “Morton is a scarey so-con” rhetoric.

By: Speller

Speller — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:00:03 +0000

“Speaking of downright pathetic, I hope Morton is better at answering questions than you are, then.”

So, you’re Supportin’ Morton then?
H.Cameron isn’t a candidate.

By: Lyndon Simmons

Lyndon Simmons — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:27:16 +0000

Speaking of downright pathetic, I hope Morton is better at answering questions than you are, then.

The answer is more important than the question.

That was kind of my point.

By: H. Cameron

H. Cameron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:26:16 +0000

Crybabies?

Jeezzz, who’s the one being juvenile now?

I don’t have time to transcript the whole debate - do us all a favour and do you own research before you comment. The link to the audio and video are above, be my guest to add your comments afterwards.

By: Lyndon Simmons

Lyndon Simmons — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:42:23 +0000

What is more important than how good or how bad the question was - or whether or not the question was planted - is how Morton actually answered. Politicians get asked questions all the time. How the answer them determines public opinion.

Anyone have the text of his answer?

Because that would be worth discussing, rather than being little cry babies over whether or not the question was biased or intelligent or whether or not the journalist was qualified to ask it.

Sheesh.

By: H. Cameron

H. Cameron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:08:35 +0000

It could have just as easily been planted by a Morton supporter for him to (1) swat that kind of question away and (2) make the person asking it look very very stupid.

Doubtful - but if so, its still pathetic. If it was planted and she still asked the questions, she’s nothing more than a puppet.

By: H. Cameron

H. Cameron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:06:19 +0000

Tom, Lynndon,

you’re defending her pathetic attempt to label Morton an extremist? If so, you’re as pathetic as she is,

By: Lyndon Simmons

Lyndon Simmons — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:00:47 +0000

That is exactly what I was thinking Tom.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:43:32 +0000

Her question was a caricature of itself. It could have just as easily been planted by a Morton supporter for him to (1) swat that kind of question away and (2) make the person asking it look very very stupid.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:14:14 +0000

“What qualifies this women to ask questions to the potential leaders of Alberta? ”

I think being a citizen, or are we living in cuba?

By: Civitatensis

Civitatensis — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:46:11 +0000

Sosiak:

“People know you are conservative. Mr Morton, is it true that you always beat your wife and children, and your students on ocassion?”

By: Warm, Caring, Cuddly White Guy

Warm, Caring, Cuddly White Guy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:38:00 +0000

Canadian democracy consists of women, brown people, atheists, gays, and other professional victims manifesting their overpowering, redlining hatred of, frankly, able bodied white males in the form of all-out war.

I see female journalists like Sosiak pull this sort of crap all of the time (Taber, etc.) and it appears to me that - even accounting for pinktards like Rick Bell and George Snuffleupagus - we just hold female journalists to a standard well below that of adults.

By: wilson61

wilson61 — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:07:01 +0000

video is here on globaltvcalgary.ca

scroll down, the debate is devided into 5 topics.

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/calgary/index.html#

By: H. Cameron

H. Cameron — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:12:33 +0000

You can listen to it by going to QR77’s website and clicking on the AudioVault feature:
http://www.am770chqr.com/stati.....embers.cfm

You’ll need to sign up, but that whole debate is there on streaming radio.

By: Aaron Unruh

Aaron Unruh — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:09:04 +0000

Do you know if the debate is online somewhere? I missed it.