Over at CBC.ca

As I said in my first post, the real catalyst to this blog was reading some of the comments on CBC.ca with revulsion and disgust. So it's important to me that we deal with some CBC snark as soon as possible.

CBC.ca has an article about a woman who hasn't had her bags returned to her since they were lost on Dec.20th, at the start of her trip. She has since returned to Canada and has yet to talk to anyone from Air Canada who can tell her where her bags are. It can be found here.


On to the comment.

ywgchick Posted 2009/01/08 at 1:43 PM ET
wrote:

• Air Canada must have denied Peter Mansbridge a complimentary upgrade to business class or something because the CBC is intent at bashing them any chance they get!
  
  Beware of Peter Mansbride's wrath!!

Well other than the obvious, about how this contributes nothing to the article or the discussion, the author makes a comment about CBC impartiality. I have no problem with this, and would love to see more of this in society. The Media can be a fickle thing, and we all want a media that we can trust to give us a fair look at today's news.

If you want to seriously question the validity of this article, then seriously question it. But this author seems to have abandoned that idea since it requires some sort of effort and thought.

The part that loses me is when s/he accuses Peter Mansbridge. If you want to be funny, then WRITE SOMETHING FUNNY. Peter Mansbridge's name alone is not funny.

By raising the stakes, then finishing with some LIMP and WEAK joke, I deem this an utter failure at being a readable and interesting comment.

Funnily enough, 15 people, FIFTEEN! recommended the comment. Well I guess it's not that surprising. I had generally assumed that there were at least 16 stupid people in Canada.

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Comic movies...

... seem to bring out the worst in the comics fan boys. No more than the new Watchmen movie. This was a comment on the Japanese trailer of the Watchmen, which includes: Nixon winning a 3rd term as President, and the ficitional-comic character the Comedian shooting Kennedy.

1. AuH20 Says:
   January 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am

   “Lee Harvey Oswald has nothing on this embodiment of the American Dream.”

   It’s character assassination on a national scale to refer to the Comedian in that way, and, even for alternate-reality fiction, Moore’s book is despicable — and, it must be said, the very opposite of ground-breaking and courageous — in the way that it conforms to the myth that JFK was the victim of, as Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren put it, “the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots.”

   Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist who killed Kennedy because of his opposition to the Castro regime. Period. Full stop.

   Efforts to indict America and its culture for the Kennedy assassination are only slightly less repulsive than the theory that the Holocaust is a fraud perpetuated by Zionists. In both cases, the victim is assaulted twice, first by the crime itself and then by the wrongful accusation of being the guilty party.

   But, by all means, let’s discuss the “deep” political commentary found in Watchmen.

Wow! Wear to begin? Like I said, this was a discussion of the trailer. He seems to think that any discussion of Kennedy's assisination is amoral, good thing he's never seen Stone's JFK.

I like this line the best:
"Efforts to indict America and its culture for the Kennedy assassination are only slightly less repulsive than the theory that the Holocaust is a fraud perpetuated by Zionists."

Wow! So wrong and so out to lunch. These thing have nothing to do with each other, and as a non-jewish, non-israeli, non-american, I was a little offended. To compare Holocaust denial to alternate history in a comic book makes this guy seem crazy at best, a terrible soul at worst. (That might have been too harsh as I dont believe in souls)

These are the people who will shout: "My country love it or leave it!" and "You're either with us or against us!" Let me makes this clear, there are 3 sides: yours, theirs, and the rest of us who are smart enough not to get dragged into the bullshit.

Not to repeat myself, but this is a comic book/graphic novel. Where does this person find the energy for moral outrage? My guess: if this guy was having more sex he wouldn't have so much energy for moral outrage.

Find the whole article here:
http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/01/07/japanese-watchmen-trailer-hits-politics/

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First!

The idea for this blog has been running around in my head for the past few months.

As an avid reader of CBC.ca, I have become less and less inclined to even visit the site as I read more and more comments posted by users.

Each day I will find a user comment from one of the sites I visit and post it here, for all to see. Then I will take a swing at why that comment is completely useless and ridiculous.