Political Commentary and Opinion
Canadian Hockey Host Censored After 'Racist' Jibe
Fri February 6, 2004 06:09 PM ET
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By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The combative co-host of Canada's most popular ice hockey TV show will be censored after suggesting that players from French-speaking Quebec were cowards for wearing protective visors, the country's public broadcaster said on Friday. Although Don Cherry has made disparaging remarks about French Canadians -- and others -- before, his comments on "Hockey Night in Canada" that "most of the guys that wear (visors) are European or French guys" sparked widespread unhappiness.
Furor over the Jan. 24 remarks by Cherry, an ex-National Hockey League coach known for his loud plaid suits, prompted the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to institute a seven-second tape delay for his "Coach's Corner" segments between NHL game periods, effective immediately. "CBC Television categorically rejects and denounces the personal opinions Mr. Cherry expressed during the segment. Comments such as those expressed during the show cannot be repeated and will not be tolerated," executive vice-president Harold Redekopp said in a statement on Friday.
He said Cherry has promised not to repeat such comments. The move to essentially muzzle the commentator follows a similar plan by U.S. network CBS, which said this week that singer Janet Jackson and pop star Justin Timberlake will appear on Sunday's Grammy Awards, but with a tape delay so censors can edit any crude behavior or language. Jackson's publicist later said she had bowed out of the show.
The duo caused a worldwide ruckus and sparked a U.S. regulatory investigation after Jackson's right breast was briefly exposed during the Super Bowl halftime show last Sunday. Canada's official languages commissioner has launched a probe into Cherry's comments, which federal minister Denis Coderre said were outrageous. "I find it despicable, I am hurt. People have got to stop continually resorting to these kinds of stereotypes," said Coderre, who is from Quebec. "This is starting to go far too far...when you're talking about this all the time and calling Frenchmen wimps, it's unacceptable," he told reporters on Friday.
Canadian Hockey Host Censored After 'Racist' Jibe
Fri February 6, 2004 06:09 PM ET
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Part of the reason for Cherry's repeated remarks about "French guys" is his contempt for the concept of Quebec sovereignty. The province had separatist governments from 1976 to 1985 and from 1994 to 2003. "It's a funny thing they don't want the Canadian flag, but they want our money. I've never seen such a bunch of whiners in my life," he said in 1998 after complaints that there were too many Canadian flags on view at the Nagano Olympics. He also described freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard, who was Canada's flag-bearer at Nagano, as "a French guy, some skier that nobody knows about."
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Jones)
Now here is something interesting that a Government official would say while doing the same thing.
Jean Augustine, minister of state for multiculturalism, later told reporters that "the government will not tolerate statements that create dissonance in our society and disrespect for others." She and Coderre demanded that the CBC take action.
In my opinion: She is nothing but a hypocrite, here the Status of Women put out a hit list / black list and a tax funded report that was nothing but a hate report on fathers, men, and parent's organizations that was blantent with slander. A paper funded by the Canadian government publishes the names of world citizens in many different counties including canadian citizen's, whom it suggests are guilty of hate crimes and other horrorfiy remarks. The Canadian federal agency called Status of Women, urges that groups who advocate for fathers be investigated for criminal prosecution.
Radical extermist feminists in Canada, however, while embracing this mainstream goal--even hiding behind it--go much further: They seek to undermine the nuclear family of married father, mother, and children, which they label the "patriarchal family." As feminist leader Betty Friedan has warned, this anti-marriage agenda places radical feminists profoundly at odds with the family aspirations of mainstream feminists and most other American women.
If anything, though, it would appear to be the Canadian Liberal government that is inciting hatred against private Canadian and American citizens and other citizen's world wide for their opinions. Betty Hinton, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, calls the report "a poorly disguised attack on men and families" and says it is filled with hate and inflammatory language, which does nothing to raise the status of women, but everything to denigrate men, families, and parent organizations.
The Canadian government has already resurrected archaic laws prohibiting criticism of government officials in order to arrest fathers, and fathers have been arrested for protesting outside government buildings.. click here.
What is interesting about this Don Cherry comment, is that Jean Augustine, minister of state for multiculturalism, telling reporters that "the government will not tolerate statements that create dissonance in our society and disrespect for others." She and Coderre demanded that CBC take action. What about these people in office take action on their own when they use tax payers money to slander people, with their own opinions.
Read their own Report they the government put on their own website using tax payers money, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out what they are doing to it citizen's in this country, while acting like terrorist themselves.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050309235613/http://www.fathers.ca/PDF%20files/PDF%20-Report%20of%20Status%20of%20Women.pdf
***( So what that says: the government will not tolerate statements that create dissonance in our society and disrespect for others, so that should mean that the, minister of state for multiculturalism, and the status of women must be fired from her job at once. We can not have government officials in office, "that are promoting and creating dissonance in our society and disrespect for others by using hate reports so they can criminalize people for their political opinions..".)*** This isn't Nazi Germany or is it the start of a national socilaist country.