Letters force CBC’s attention to Mallick’s Palin Backers “White Trash” diatribe

Dozens of angry letter writers to Canada Free Press (CFP) against Heather Mallick’s malicious attack on Sarah Palin and her daughter, Bristol, have FINALLY drawn the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s attention to their out-of-line columnist!

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Tonight FOXNews.com posted a story under the headline Columnist’s Labeling Palin Backers `White Trash’ Spurs Review at Canadian TV. “The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash”, compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy”. (FOXNews.com, Sept. 18, 2008). “Americans: Here’s what the CBC thinks of Gov. Sarah Palin: Canada Free Press (CFP) wrote when it published Mallick’s vicious diatribe against Gov. Palin and family on Sept. 10. In that article, the 49-year-old Mallick went after Palin’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol: “Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface”, Mallick wrote. CBC has had no comment on Mallick’s column even though the column appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, right after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.” In the CBC story, Mallick wrote that John McCain’s running mate “added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote.” Although the CBC has neither retracted nor apologized for the malicious Mallick rant, bloggers who re-posted the Sept. 10 CFP post, sparked the anger of many Canadian and American readers. Many, who concluded that Mallick was a CFP columnist deluged CFP today with nasty letters to the editor. Most apologized when they recognized the error. But the CFP letter writers should not let up on CBC, which rarely, if ever curbs it far left, anti-American style. This is what CBC Ombudsman Vince Carlin told FOXNews.com about getting “quite a few complaints about the column, both from Canada and the U.S.” Carlin told Fox he’s reviewing the contents to see if it meets CBC’s “journalistic standards and practices”. In the same breath, he noted that Mallick is a “columnist not a journalist”. Whether she’s a columnist or a journalist, she attacked a 17-year-old teen! CBC spokesman Jeff Keay said Mallick’s column does not reflect the views of CBC or the Canadian government, which owns but does not directly control CBC. “She’s an opinion columnist. I think by definition they can be expected to occasionally use provocative language, he said. But in this case, Keay said the column “could be perceived as excessive or offensive to some people”. On her official Website, HeatherMallick.ca, Mallick is described under her picture as “Canadian author and journalist”. She writes a weekly column for the CBC website and teaches courses on politics and writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and lectures on Human Rights and Canadian nationalism. The CBC, which tilts so far to the left that some Canadians call it “The Communist Broadcasting Corporation”, did nothing when two National Post writers sharply criticized Mallick for her hate filled comments. National Post writer Barbara Kay wrote that Mallick’s article “Is so beyond the ethical pale that it comes close to hate speech.” The CBC, which is kept afloat by Canadian taxpayers, owes an apology to Gov. Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol. If CBC does not apologize, then it should be concluded that they condone an attack on a 17-year-old girl.