Top General Nails CTV Reporter as Harper Mule

Oh, this is juicy.  Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk saw the Harper government's hand at work when CTV reporter Bob Fife got his hands on flight logs showing the general had used an armed forces Challenger jet to attend sporting events, the Calgary Stampede and to meet up with his family for a Caribbean vacation.

Whenever (blank) is involved in a story I tend to suspect a certain source, placed high in Government,” Natynczyk wrote to his chief media adviser on the afternoon of Sept. 15, 2011.

That evening, CTV reporter Robert Fife broadcast his report, inciting a parliamentary fury over the use of government aircraft.

Natynczyk’s adviser, Lt.-Col. Norbert Cyr, wrote minutes after viewing the report that night that it was “a hatchet job” that inflated the Challenger’s true costs to between $10,000 and $12,000 when the military pegged the flight as costing just $2,630.

“This was well-orchestrated,” he wrote to his boss.

Mike Duffy was instrumental in transforming CTV into the Conservative Television Network and apparently it was worth a nice little appointment to the Senate.   Fife then seemed to pick up right where Duffy left off.

Cyr later referred to the incident as "an ambush."

CTV Up In Smoke

I'm betting it was a grease fire or maybe a spark in the storeroom where the make-up artists store Lloyd Robertson's supply of mortician's wax but, either way, a fire last night gutted CTV's Ottawa newsroom. Gone forever is the network's collection of commemorative Mike Duffy pizza boxes.

The Conservative Television Network bureau will stay in business, initiating an emergency plan to relocate to the ByWard Market. However prime minister Stephen Harper surprised nobody when he contacted network officials suggesting that CTV cut out the middle man and move its correspondents straight into the PMO.

CTV/Global - Socialism For The Rich?

They're the voice of the right - the Conservative Television Network, the primordial swamp that spawned Toadus Duffy, and the ever right nut-licking CanWest Global, the rotting shack that Connie the Con and Izzy the Mort built. They're the media paragons of free enterprise, the eviscerators of all thing lefty, all rank socialist nonsense - - - until it comes time to lining their own pockets.

Unless you're long dead you haven't been able to escape the media war underway between the "private" broadcasters and Canada's cable companies. Strip away the bullshit and boil it down to a fine reduction and what you get is the television networks pleading for the government to give them a hunk of someone else's earnings. Shit, does that sound mega-Socialist or what?

Suddenly the voices of arch-conservatism want - why they want to share the wealth! So long as its somebody else's wealth, that is. What's next, a Red Star adorning CTV's logo?

The Nets used to earn their money. They sold advertising based on the number of folks who watched their shows. Ever get suckered into filling out one of those BBM (Bureau of Broadcast Measurement) booklets to record every show you actually watched every day for two weeks?

It didn't matter whether you watched Lloyd Robertson via cable or got the signal via bunny ears antennae. All that mattered was that you watched Lloyd and dutifully recorded it. No matter where you watched Lloyd, once you recorded the fact it went to his network's numbers and that determined how much advertisers would pay for a 30-second or 60-second spot on that show.

Cable operators picked up that signal - right out of the airwaves - and spread it around to even more viewers. Try living among the coastal mountains and seeing how much Lloyd Robertson you can get if you don't have cable. So, cablevision is actually increasing the Conservative Television Network's bottom line by spreading the Gospel of Lloyd to the weak-minded everywhere. They take that post-menopausal reptile to all sorts of places he otherwise wouldn't be able to reach. Hell, cable ought to be charging CTV for that disservice to the public.

Oh no. You see the networks are hurting. It seems they've just spent so much bringing us American Idol and Survivor, So You Think You Can Dance, Real Douchebags of New Jersey, Big Brother and all that other bullshit programming that they're no longer happy with their bottom line. And when a real Conservative believer starts feeling the pinch, what do they do?

Ask Wall Street. They start looking to loosen their belts with somebody else's pocketbook. All of a sudden, they're Socialist as all Hell. And like all Pinkos, they head straight for the government (assuming its a sympathetic Conservative government that owes them favours, big time) for a little relief. Relief as in - the other guy's money.

Trust me, I'm no fan of the fat cat cable companies but the Land of Lloyd really gets my goat when they start pulling this crap. Hey jerk - live by the sword, die by the sword. We've already given you a much too big hunk of the public airwaves. If you can't make a go of it from that - Piss Off!