Go Brian Lilley Go

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Well I never!

Meaning, 'Well I never thought I'd agree with anything Brian Lilley of Sun News Media says'.

Did you catch his latest rant against the state broadcast... I mean the CBC?

According to Mr. Lilley only the CBC has the legal right to broadcast Canada Day celebrations. 

That's right. 

Only the CBC is allowed to air the show you think you should watch, (even though they never show  the fireworks at the end), because it is your patriotic duty.

Only the CBC is allowed to air our birthday show.

And that paricular sacred cow of a show  is

soooooooooo

tedious. 

Every single, solitary, flippin' word the announcers say is translated into flippin' French or flippin' English and you can't understand their flippin' words in either flippin' language because they stand right in the middle of what looks and sounds like a flippin' screaming rent -a-mob.

Jeesh. 

I usually get so tired of all the bilingual windiness that I turn to something else. 

A football game, curling, golf. Anything.

Brian Lilley, intrepid right leaning news reporter, questions the legality of the CBC's monopoly on Canada Day celebrations.

He thinks that Sun News Media should get a kick at the national can, too.

And Brian, for once I'm on your side.

I 100% support you in your quest.

Seriously.

The CBC really needs a shakeup.

Some razzle dazzle.

And a lot less complacency.

And you guys down at Sun Media might be just the folks to jump start the process.

Deconstructing Brian

I love this eye catching headline.


The first sentence is even better. The article isn't just going to be about the left wing, it is going to be about the far left wing! Holy cow there's even a cherry on top for paranoid Canucks who are touchy about being thought of as American puppets: far left wing Americans invading Canada without our knowledge and doing scary things to us.

As I hunkered down with my coffee, a delicious shiver ran up and down my spine. This was going to be a real bodice ripper.

"Those naughty Yankee devils," I thought picturing Fabio's hair blowing in the wind.

I read on.

It got sexier. Far left wing American church groups!

OMG! Christians!

Even Margaret Atwood was up in arms about that!

We have our standards in Canada. We might not mind taking a little heat from pleasant Americans like Ann Coulter, but you peace mongering American church goers get out of our backyard.


Thank heavens we've got people like Brian Lilley to tell us the unbiased facts, Canada.



Note: This fun little read appeared in the St. Catharines Standard on Sept. 2, 2010. Sorry it isn't clear. If you missed it and really feel you want to read it you can google his headline.