Today, Prime Minister Harper appointed 18 senators to fill 18 vacancies that had built up over his time in office.  Not many people know this but anyone in Canada can be appointed to the senate so long as they’re a citizen and at least 30 years of age.  That would explain why an old high school teacher thought maybe he had a chance to become a senator after writing one of his former pupils on the Conservative Party’s staff.

During the previous election, there was some chatter about how CTV was essentially acting as though it was a broadcast arm for the Conservative party.  “Oh no it’s not” proclaimed the unabashed right wingers at the time.  “You’re all conspiracy theorists rallying behind a leader with the wrong ideas” they said of Liberal party faithful.  “You all suck”…actually I didn’t read that third one but that’s what I was thinking.

Anyhow, two of Canada’s newest senators come to us directly from CTV and the CBC is obviously pissed off about it because those are the two they single out in their headline.  The more prominent one being CTV’s Mike Duffy who got ragged on by Elizabeth May for essentially calling her a nut job whilst claiming she said things that she didn’t say and Pamela Wallin who serves on the CTVglobemedia corporate board.  As for the senators handpicked from the CBC…uhh…hold on a sec…oh.  So I guess no one from the CBC was selected to be a Senator but that’s probably because they’re just so damned partisan.

Honestly, the CBC is very liberal leaning and favours the Liberal party and the NDP far more often than it does the Conservatives.  I remember when doing a food delivery, I drove past the back of the local CBC building here in Saskatoon where the employees park and instead of a yellow ribbon which can be found…ugh…everywhere; I saw a yellow half ribbon question mark that said “Question war” rather than the more popularized “support our troops.”  Are CBC reporters left wingers?  All in all, most of them are from what I can tell but there are others who occasionally glance at this blog that could probably tell you more about media bias than I can.

It seems to me that CTV has been outed as a Conservative broadcasting machine and that’s pretty much already happened with the CBC and the Liberals and any other major broadcaster in Canada pretty much.  I just wish that the press would drop their media biases or at least hold them out in the open and admit those biases up front.  Too many people don’t understand that when they flick on the evening news, they’re watching more theatre than news and when they watch some kind of political panel program, it’s all god damned theatre.