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Originally Posted by Cowperson
There have been many analysis of late suggesting the shrill commentators on Fox News - as opposed to their regular news folk - are actually a hindrance rather than a help to the Republicans these days.
I think that's probably true.
And I'm not seeing how "Ed" on MSNBC is helping Democrats any.
A merger of the Liberals and NDP does nothing but help the Tories in my opinion.
No . . . . we're actually not boring.
If anything, particularly after the Olympics, we're getting hipper by the hour, including the nut-crunching French Canadian girl on Chuck the other day. And it's getting that way because our hundred year long bout of inferiority is giving way to something new . . . . we just don't give a crap what people think anymore, witness the complete lack of angst at the same Olympics over the American medal count.
Well, I guess you have to get your 'excitement' where you can. 
I'm not seeing why Canadians would be different than Americans in a natural propensity to gravitate to the loudest, rudest, most obnoxious and outrageous bags of wind on the air.
Witness the success of Don Cherry.
We're all human, no matter what flag we wrap around ourselves.
Cowperson |
I guess boring is in the eye of the beholder, we arent a power in world politics so there goes half the news stories the US covers, conservative ideals differ greatly depending on what part of the country you are from. A Liberal in Alberta is a conservative in Ontario, an NDP from Victoria is communist party material in Alberta.
I just dont see a national conservative leaning channel to very interesting. I guess we will see, unless they start commenting on US stories with a Canadian angle - wouldnt that be exciting
The difference with Don Cherry is he is actually insightful unlike the rest of the crap that covers hockey. He says things we are all thinking but that none of the other talking heads will ever touch. His "windbag" nature is an add on to his hockey commentary, not the other way around.
Unless some people are a fan of Glen Healy saying "Philly better watch out on those line changes, there have been 17 too many men on the ice penalties called in these playoffs and 3 have resulted in game winners". That is useless information to anyone who knows the game of hockey and that is the classic John Madden type stuff that exists on both network sans Cherry IMO.