Heather Mallick CBC Palin:Heather Mallick Sarah Palin Blast
Heather Mallick CBC Palin:Heather Mallick Sarah Palin Blast - Heather Mallick/CBC Palin drama is burning up the internet.Heather Mallick who is a reporter for CBC Canada,called Sarah Palin supporters “WHITE TRASH”.Heather Mallick wrote on her blog via CBC Canada website:
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America’s name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.
But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I’m a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.
Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn’t even female really. She’s a type, and she comes in male form too.
John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I’d had the wit to come up with it first. It’s safer than “white trash” but I’ll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyle’s job includes watching a lot of reality television and he’s well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that’s something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.
‘Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am’
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin’s e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won’t dwell on them.
I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn’t have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.
They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon?
Who delivered this line: “To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.” Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin’s shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?
The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that’s the mystery of the hick vote. They’d be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What’s the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.
Lie works for PalinBut surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He’s going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn’t include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?
Is it racism? I’m told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes.
When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obama’s years of “community organizing” — they said it like “rectal fissure” — the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.
So I’m trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It’s the green light at the end of the dock. It’s the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won’t because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.
American politics isn’t short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ike’s granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate “seed corn,” she said aptly. Time to start again.
Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because she’s part of the thoughtful demographic that I’m trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and I’ll pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals.
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Or maybe I’m seeing too much into it and it’s just a sexed-up version of the Republican convention.
That’s all we have for now on Heather Mallick CBC Palin:Heather Mallick Sarah Palin Blast.
Margaret | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
I went to college, work for the president of a company as his personal assistant and today I learned that if I vole for McCain/Palin I am WHITE TRASH. I was amazed to learn this about myself but I am sure that a Canadian, who is not involved in our govenment or elections must know best about Americans. I hope that with these feelings about us that she choses never to visit our country and, personally, I don’t think our election is any of their business. If we commented on Canadian elections they would be very upset and certainly we would be told to take a hike. So Ms Mallick, Take a Hike.
Jill | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
To Heather Mallick
It’s silly anal cows like you who make it hard for the rest of us women! Exactly who died and made you queen of the world?
ZORO | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
I think you are the porn star, for prostituting yourself and pretending that you are a credible journalist.
patrunr@aol.com | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
How is this for being vicious? Can’t believe
how crude this woman is. What is her problem?
Love Sandra
patrunr@aol.com | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
How’s this for crude? Can’t believe this woman!
Love Sandra
Jackie - Vallejo, CA | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
Gov. Sarah Palin email account was breached by a hacker, and immediately the media and people like Bill O’Reilly of Fox News called for a national investigation. Bill O’Reilly’s outrage of this act was equivalent to being the worst thing that ever happened to an American.
Last month (August) some crazed lunatic burst into the Democratic Party Headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas and shot State Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney dead. The media response bearly registered on the media scale. No outrage, no calling for an investigation, it seems as if the breaching of a Republican email account is far more serious than a Democratic Party Chairman being murdered.
Douglas | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick knows white trash first hand… she’s only seen a dentist once her lifetime.
Upon close examination you’ll notice she needs a new set of choppers!
Tyler- Toronto Canada | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
As a Canadian, I am truly sorry. This does not reflect the majority of the Canadian people. Sarah Palin is an amazing woman.
Alice | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
Poor Heather…
She probably looked in the mirror and
decided to attack Sarah Palin’s looks..
of all things. Her bitter and venomous
little tirade accomplished nothing, except
to diminish herself. But then….
what do I know, I am one of those who
can be counted among the “white trash” who
plan to support Sarah.
Who is Heather and who made her judge and
jury over people she has never met and
thankfully, will never have to meet her?
Nasty, mean spirited, egocentric Heather
who lacks any credibility as a journalist.
CBC should be ashamed and Heather should
be terminated!!
Julia Platt | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
AHHHH hahahaha! Aaaghck! Gacck! Thank you, thank you, Heather - I do love a good laugh while tearing my hair out over the state of things. People, she’s just telling the truth, the insanely ridiculous, black truth. You know when you ask your best friend to be honest with you, seriously: are you making sense? Could your look improve? Whatever. Heather’s just telling it like it is. You can’t argue with the truth - you look even sillier trying.
Good luck with that election. Seriously.
Hilda | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
This are the kind of wackos Obama is bringing out of the dark. I saw him tell people in Nevada to get into peoples’s faces and argue. I don’t know how he can live with himself taking advantage of people and their diseases.
Garry | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
This far left wing American wannabe has it backward. She and the rest of her Canadian ilk has only one voice north of the real border. These bleeding hearts bash the hell out of the country that has protected them as well as France. They hate Americans, but republican Americans the worst. White trash? Sarah Palin obviously has more class than this high school newspaper reported could ever wish for.
Keep your far left whaco crap to the north. The real Americans are found on the right.
Johnny | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
1st the shooting was in the news which is mostly owned and ran by liberals, so it’s on them. 2nd it was a democrat who cares if he was shot? He was working for the bad guys anyway. And besides the crazed lunatic was a democrat look it up. If it had been o-bum-a-a-a-a’s e-mail the liberals would have had the internet shut down till after the elections.
Garry | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
On the political front, Sarah Palin’s daughter showed up pregnant, and every left news venue ran the story for five days. On the other side, Barack Obama has relations with a known terrorist and the story is not run.
Go figure.
Trula Simmons | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
What a marvelous contrast. An English shrub and a Hebrew Lady. Isn’t there a ancient parable about these two. If not there should be. FYI-the name Heather means English shrub,
the name Sarah means Hebrew Lady. Very fitting don’t you think.
Keith | Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick looks like a used-up crack whore.
Sonya | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Heather you took the words right out of my mouth!!!…Looks like Canadians are smarter than 50% of americans!!!
Phil Carney | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Dear ms. Mallick, you are truly Canadian white liberal trash. Too bad you don’t keep your elitist garbage to yourself. As a Massachusetts voter, I think that I can relate to Ms. Palins views more readily than your warped view of the US. It is truly amazing how left wingers no matter the country always have such tight lips and views of the people who make the country what it is, I wonder if your mother had a choice if she would have had you?
hermano | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
somehow fox forgot to cover rothschild’s mention of rural folks as rednecks…
roberta | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Read between the lines, folks. She’s right about the political basics. Poor republicans are blinded by social issues and vote that way to give themselve a sense of right in a world county being destroyed by their own party. If everyone voted for the party that would most improve their personal lives, democrats would always win by a vast majority. It saddens me that even foreigners see this while half of our own don’t get it. Bottom line: if you don’t earn in the top 5 percent, you ARE an idiot to vote for McCain/Palin as you are voting to degrade yourselves even further.
John Hughes | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
I honestly don’t believe how anyone in with fit mental capacity could vote for Sarah Palin, if you just put down your blatant nationalism for one second take all the “Obama had relations with a known terrorist” or Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant” all that other non-sense and look plainly at the facts you will come to the conclusion, that many other credible news outlets have already reached, Sarah Palin is totally unqualified to be PRESIDENT of the United States. That is if you take into account that she doesn’t have a academic credentials or understanding of the American Legal system or anything.
Barack is not elitist, hes smart- that why he has a Law Degree from Harvard. Sarah Palin doesn’t hold up to that at all with her five changes of universities from 1982-1987 just to get her bachelor degree- thats embarrassing.
Just one point that most of you commentors have let drift past your eyes. You must not blind yourself with all these commentators like you always do…or you will just end up with four more years of Bush policy.
Honestly ask yourself, what do you think Canadians think of us? This woman up there, is not some bigget lesbian, she writes for the CBC. She does know a thing or two about journalism, why would she stake such a claim, possibly loose her job, just to throw punches at Sarah Palin? Because Canadians have a massive vested interest in this election as well, they are our BIGGEST TRADING PARTNER, we get more oil, lumber, water, any natural resource- you name it from them!! So if the american economy goes down hill, they will have to go looking for new consumers- but guess what they already have- the Chinese are over in BC buying all the lumber pretty soon, well if McCain wins, no-one will deal with “US”.
When that happens you can have your awesome “Mccain (BUSH)” economy, you can have your NON-EXISTENT HEALTHCARE, you can have your IRAQ WAR….and so on. No one will care, america will “die” as a superpower and everyone will trade with China. So vote for Palin if you want, McCain will just die in a couple years and she will be president and the neo-cons will jump for joy. Obama with oratory prowess and Bidden with his foreign policy credentials will be put tot he side, but thats OK, im sure you’ll just use your gut feeling to decide on this election- that worked so well the last two times, or have you forgotten who you voted for? how did they do? Hmm I wonder.
Philip | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Heather is an old hag. A stupid, uninformed, rude, crude old hag, old bag.
andrew191 | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
At first I was amazed at the level of hatred that has been generated by Sarah Palin and I wondered what could be at the root of it.The utter vulgarity and malice in Mallick’s article shocked me into a clear understanding of the cause of the volcanic hatred. Sarah Palin is the prototype of the “New Feminist”,and as such, represents a mortal threat to the old (and I mean really old and bitter)feminists that will soon fade into cultural insignificance. Governor Palin is a powerful woman that meteorically rose to that power without sacrificing her devotion to her husband, her children, her faith, and her grace of self respect. The old feminist route to power was through intimidation, threats,indignation, and a general cynicism toward Judeo/Christian morality. The feminist icon with Roe v. Wade in one hand and a burning bra in the other will soon become a risible relic. Mallick and her ilk fear this. Try to picture Mallick as the standard bearer for her dying movement, red in tooth and claw, frantically scatching at Sarah Palin with filthy fingernails dipped in poison, then compare that image with the tenor of her article, and you’ll see little difference between the two.
As for Mallick’s sophomoric insults,people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Her “irrational attachment to children” should be looked into.Judging by her heavily touched up photos, my guess is that her face could make a freight train take a dirt road.Her oblique reference to Bristol’s “scent” is as disgusting as it is revealing. I’m sure Ms. Mallick’s scent would embarrass an anchovy, and send wolverines stampeding to get upwind of her. See how easy this is Heather. It’s nothing more than journalistic sloth to resort to the kind of drivel in your article. Seriously seek therapy Mallick.
andrew191 | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
I hope to be there to watch Heather Mallick’s feet curl up when the tornado drops a Kansas farmhouse on her. You know the type of house I’m referring to. The kind inhabited by the “White Trash” that with blood, sweat, and sacrifice, built the most powerful and just country the world has ever known.
Al | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
“How is this for being vicious? Can’t believe how crude this woman is. What is her problem?”
As a Canadian I can tell you that Ms. Mallick speaks for the bureaucrats at the CBC who are decidedly far-left in the politics, and who regularly encourage their editors/contributors to be anti-American/Republican in their columns.
As for Ms. Mallick, I’m guessing that the sarcasm and inner rage comes from a general hatred of men that she has fostered as a result of some possible abuse at their hands in her past. That’s the only thing that makes sense when you look at her stupid remark about Palin looking like a porn queen. She’s simply saying, “See, all right-wing men are pigs who want a midnight Barbie to lead them in their fantasy.”
Sheila | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
I honestly don’t understand how anybody with an I.Q. over room temperature could vote for Obama.
If you vote for Obama your taxes will increase greatly. Sure, he says he will lower the income tax, but numerous other taxes will be raised — they will have to be, to pay for the plethora of handouts he has promised.
You want nationalized healthcare? Great! Be advised, however, that the quality of care will go down for most people. My father’s family came to the U.S. from Canada. His aunt, who did not come, died in the early 1990’s because she had to wait two months for necessary heart surgery. My grandmother, here in the States, needed the same surgery and had it within days. She lived.
In the U.K. some procedures are being denied to people who have paid into the system for decades. Why? Their lifestyles are not acceptable. Today that includes smokers, drinkers, and overweight people. What will it include tomorrow, and will your lifestyle pass muster?
You want troops home from Iraq? Tell that to your Chosen One, because he has (treasonously) been negotiating with the Iraqi government to keep the personnel there longer. He believes this will help him win votes.
Obama may be able to give a speech when he is using a teleprompter, but he is unable to verbalize a coherent thought without one. If his “oratory prowess” is the basis of your choice, you may want to listen closer.
It’s too bad that so many Americans are so infatuated with him that they are unable to comprehend what he is actually saying.
grannie | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Most of you took the words right out of my mouth. I wonder how Ms. Mallick would describe herself and her family.
Lori | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
You know you’re spot on with your message when the right-eous ‘respondies’ are verbally foaming at the mouth to attack Heather personally.
Hillbilly you say?
Watching the Palin introduction unfold, I immediately envisioned Alberto Gonzales calling Jethro to give him the good news…
deepsouth | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
Ms. Mallick’s vicious, crude and hurtful comments on Governor Sarah Palin are appalling. I am not only offended for Mrs. Palin, but for every woman, no matter who their preference for President or Vice-President may be. I am a firm believer - whatever you give, you get back –sometimes three-fold. (How is it that you know what a porn star “looks” like, anyway?)
My mother used to say that there were are all kinds of trash in this world…..she was
right….again.
Jill | Sep 20, 2008 | Reply
Right on Tyler! I’m Canadian, I totally agree with you. Heather Mallick is an embarrassment!
Treace | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
Heather (Malice) Mallick is an embarrassment to most Canadians. Her toxic voice is not ours.
God bless America. And God bless Canada.
Neil | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
She said she would has the “White Trash vote sewn up”
Basically, appealing to their BASE. White Trash. It’s just what they are. Bible thumping backwards individuals who are ignorant of the world and foreign affairs. Basically, the votes they already have sewn up, the close minded ‘fearful of what we are told’ vote. They are republicans, if you ask them to describe themselves it would be A bunch of poor rednecks on one hand and a bunch of rich businessmen on the other.
christineforester | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
Hell hath no fury like Sarah Palin scorned!
MacCann’s camp must be running scared to be so aggressive in protecting Ms PALIN.
As a thinking woman, who is a contributor to the ongoing good health of thecommunity in which I live, I enjoyed Heather Mallick’s article about Sarah Palin and found that her thoughts mirrored many of my own impressions. I’m glad Ms. Mallick is not cowed by the violent and abusive responses she has received from some quarters in the US.
Who says a woman can’t be a war monger? History proves many women with power were more bloodthirsty and corrupt than their male counterparts.
Name calling and labelling aside, I believe that if the American people vote for Sarah Palin woman they will have a sad and violent future to look forward to.
Then the women of America would see the shape of their equality with the male good-old boy, red-necks who decry Mallicks opinions. Can you say mid-century wives?
I would prefer to see a woman leader with exceptional intellegence, integrity and resourcefulness at the helm in the US. If Obama wasn’t able to find one, perhaps there isn’t a candidate interested. And who could blame them for not wanting to navigate an already sinking ship?
God help America if McCann were to die in office and Sara Palin became president!
Nijma | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
Does Ms. Mallick have no political differences with Sarah Palin to talk about that she has to resort to a crude personal attack?
susiepuma | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
I’m not sure why we should care what some hack from Canada has to say about our presidential election - she can’t vote unless she’s an obama supporter (everyone votes for him - canadians, people from foreign countries, dead people - a vote is a vote)…take care of your country and all of us red-neck, illiterate, white trash gun carrying religion clingers might come lookin’for you - you stupid ass - maybe we could sell her some waterfront property in arizona……………….
Jack American | Sep 21, 2008 | Reply
Heather, thanks so much for this funny, scathing, but all-too-true assessment of the pathetic state of Republican politics. You are right on the mark. Reading these comments, however, further reinforces your points, as well as my own belief in the incredible stupidity and closed-mindedness of much of the American populace.
If you were on my side of the border, you would better see and understand the racism as well.
mick | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
wow ,so many words and not a single person shows the essence of the story to be untrue ,namely Sarah Palin tells lies.i’m white trash myself but hay what can you do ? anyway is what is known as “shoot the messenger” tactics ?
don’t forget to hug your kids today because they just brought you an Insurance Company and some bank holding companies …generous …but its ok their taxes will pay for it…so will yours and your grand children and their grand children.
USSA
United Socialist States of America
ProudAmerican | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Reading through the pro-Sarah comments makes me realize that not only is Heather correct in her assessment of the morons that put someone like GW Bush in office — twice! — but also that Heather’s criticism of America’s right wing white trash doesn’t go far enough!
LFforMcCain | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
1st of all: You go GRETA! revealing this woman to be a PIG was exactly what she deserved. She’s not even a PIG with LIPSTICK! No apology due from you GRETA, this woman deserves to be called a PIG. And pardon me Ms Heather . . . Republican women are about as far from White Trash as one can get. Remember, we’re the wealthy elite who are supposed to fund the tax increases of Mr. Obama. Perhaps you and Mr. Obama can hang out together after November (he will have lots of time after his loss) and keep him in Canada for a while to see what a failed socialist health-care system looks like which we hope to avoid by intelligently voting for the party that doesn’t care for liberal socialist b/s nor do we care for you. Obviously Gov Palin’s beauty, intelligence & grace has gotten to you . . . beautiful intelligent women always have that problem. . . oh but you wouldn’t understand that now would you? You have neither!
Carolyn Robertson | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
OINK, OINK, Ms Piggy. I heard that you looked like a pig so I found your picture. Sure enough. White trash too!! Get a life, woman (or is it man?). Are you just jealous of Mrs. Palin???
dburson | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
I don’t really mind if this obscure Canadian self titled journalist wants to be a little pig (Heather the Pig….sounds about right I think) and attack a polital candidate over her looks.
I’m actually more worried that she belittles Sarah Palins, son, Track. In the US we have an ALL volunteer army, while he might be scared, he is GOING, not because he was drafted, but because he is a patriot who wants to give back to and protect his society. This woman is worse than the Pig she’s been called for critisizing this.
What is public service looked down on in Canada? Or is this just this one Pig thats the problem?
Al in Vegas | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Ms. Mallick you are an angry woman ( I use the term liberally - no pun intended)) in need of help. You proclaim Sarah Palin and her family to be essentially degenerate, uneducated morons without one example of why except that they do not agree with you. So much for open mindedness, dialogue and debate. You are right we are wrong and we should just shut up and quit clinging to those darn guns and religion. There’s just one problem. I like Sarah Palin and I’m voting for her. You are a nasty angry wretch of a a supposed human being and have convinced me of my decision with your nasty blog. Thank you for clarifying that for me. By the way what would you know about sex? Who would want to have sex with such an angry nasty wench? By the way stick to what know - I understand you are quite knowledgable on shopping!
rballen | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
An incoherent rant. The rage from the left has grown steadily over the past 35 years. When I was young I was part of it, but I grew up. The thought of an Obama presidency scares me. The socialist ideas just don’t work. I think I will be dead before it all goes down the tube, though. Good luck, world.
kathy j | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Healther Mallick is jealous of Sarah Palin - short and simple. Heather has worked all of her life and her career has not taken off like Palin’s. Heather’s voice is full of hatred and I feel sorry for her.
andrew191 | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
After I got over my initial outrage with Mallick’s vulgar and pointless attempts at dragging down an acomplished and dynamic woman like Gov. Palin, it occured to me that Mallick was intentionally being controversial to guide attention to herself. She got it. It is sadly revealing that a fading “shopping” journalist would jump head first into a septic tank and try to end her lackluster career with a flourish of self indulgent smears and catty digs at people that are far more admirable than she could ever hope to be. Apparently she has been taken aback, and is upset by the negative response she is receiving based upon her nasty article. Poor baby.Please scroll back to view my earlier posting that will cast some light on the reason why Mallick and the rest of the toxic critics have for trashing Sarah Palin. Stick to “shopping” Mallick, and stop insulting others until you can come to grips with your own personality disorders. And if you can’t do that, don’t run crying for sanctuary when the rest of us turn the mirror on you.
Tom Kraft | Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Americans care about the character of a candidate. John McCain has demonstrated more character and courage as a POW than Obama will ever have. Liberals prefer superficial traits like image and perception. Sarah Palin has demonstrated the type of character Americans love. One auther suggested Obama is more qualified for president, because afterall he went to Harvard. The last time I check, Harvard did not offer a major in “President”. College, even Harvard, does not prepare anyone for the Presidency. I will take character any time. I know I can trust their judgement. You and Obama have no character. Your a cheap vile jealous petty old hag, jealous of Sarah Palin. Go crawl under your slimey rock. Calling you a pig does a disservice to swine everywhere.
Chris Nguyen | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Healther Mallick is a sick woman.She gratuitously insulted the other woman who did’nt provoke her not at all. Healther Mallick’s state of mind is not healthy.I believe Healther Mallick was born from low class, because of her tongue. As a canadian woman she has no right to label those who vote for Palin-McCain “white trash”. It’s an insult.
Her view about Palin and American voters shows
her unculivated family background. And there’s nothing more to be said about the kind of writer like Healther Mallick.
mick | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Still no comments about Sarah’s ability to lie.
Surely a quality respected by Republicans.
P.S How that Financial Crisis working for you?
mick | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Americans care about the character of a candidate.
True, Bush is quite a character ,shame he never caught Osama Bin Laden.
Caveman 1
Superpower 0
meg | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick is full of hate. She is very jealous that Sarah Palin has accomplished so much and looks great.
Heather is also from a small town in Canada. I wonder if she also considers herself white trash!!
She is certainly a bitter and evil woman.
I wouldn’t call Heather a pig. Pig’s are cute and probably smell better than Heather.
Rommel Derivera | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick can have her vagina call out every night but I’ll bet my bottom dollar nobody will respond cause she is so ugly with her protruding, grotesque forehead. And don’t dish out trash talk if you can’t take it!!!
TNMark | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
You are wrong. The shooting of the Ark. State Dem party chairman was in the paper for days. The police caught the guy and shot him to death. Wacko gone. I thought you Libs were into privacy. Why wouldn’t you want even Sarah Palin’s email to be private? Your hypocrisy is both sad and funny.
Gowri | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick - seems like your article got the them right where it hurts !
andrew191 | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Mick
I’m sure that when we find Bin Laden, we’ll find you too, with your head up his ass. Simply using schoolyard taunts that Gov. Palin is a liar doesn’t make it so. I’ve carefully considered all of her statements that are being called lies, and it is doubtfull that an objective observer (i.e. someone other than the rabid psychopath Olbermann) would classify anything she has said as a lie. On the other ticket, Obama has lied so often and for so long that it would be difficult to list all of them. Both of his books are filled with lies and racist overtones.Since the books were written to deflect attention from his years of drug use, and his associations with one criminal after another, the books are merely a self serving smoke screen that attempt to provide an excuse for the sycophant left wing media to do little meaningful investigation of his shady and diturbing past. It’s shocking that there so many people out there that can’t see through Obama’s facade to see the weasel beneath.
andrew191 | Sep 23, 2008 | Reply
Gowri
“got the them right”??? I’m usually understanding of an innocent typo, I’ve been guilty myself. But to get your only sentence so horribly botched up should make you reconsider posting things in the future so that you don’t accidently write something that could get you into trouble. You’re probably safe however judging by your apparent liberal/socialist mindset that makes you immune from any criticism of anything you might say, write, or do, while conservatives get evicerated for using harmless terms like “black hole”, or “uppity”.Heather Mallick has used this shield of liberal immunity for years judging by many of her earlier acidic articles, but with this article she has crossed the line that devides the radical left and pure evil. I’m not a religious person, but Mallick’s article could be viewed as Satanic by believers, and I wouldn’t blame them for thinking that way.
Frank Ferina | Sep 24, 2008 | Reply
Palin/Jindal 2012
Frank Ferina | Sep 24, 2008 | Reply
actually Palin/Jindal 2016
Mel Patterson | Sep 24, 2008 | Reply
Have you seen Heather’s mug? Not a pretty sight. Do I detect envy? I’m a Canadian and Heather is not one of us.
Beverly Creamer | Sep 24, 2008 | Reply
Heather- THANKYOU!!! This was the most wonderful fabulous column! You weren’t afraid to say what every intelligent human being in the U.S. thinks, and FEARS about Palin. Keep it up!! If the Republican ticket is elected we should all run for the hills! There’ll be the biggest influx into Canada since the Vietnam war…The U.S. and the world will be in incredible jeopardy if Republicans are elected. There’s never been such a pivotal time in history to get those lying right-wingers out of office. What the women who now appear to support Palin don’t seem to understand is she doesn’t give a rip about them - only her own ambition.
Tyler | Sep 26, 2008 | Reply
Most of the comments I’ve read so far are accusing/defending Mallick as a Canadian or as a socialist liberal.
We seem to be missing the point here. I, myself, do not agree with the Bush/McCain/Palin doctrine. However, that does not justify personal attacks.
The issue here is not Mallick’s political stance, but her journalistic integrity. Calling someone a ‘redneck’, ‘roughneck’, ‘toned-down porn star’?? Really??
I wrote a parody of her article. You can read it here:
blables.com/article/?a=21
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 27, 2008 | Reply
What is all the fuss about? … Palin is a public figure and open to ridicule. (SNL) Unfortunately, I guess Ms.Mallick is now on Palin’s hit list … however I am glad we still have (strong and true) free speech up here.
Infidel | Sep 27, 2008 | Reply
I like Canada,so I wont judge Canada on the actions of this one idiot.
Even if an idiot is allowed her point of view.
She should remember thats its better to keep quiet and be thought to be a fool than to open it and prove that she is.
andrew191 | Sep 27, 2008 | Reply
Paul-in-Vanc’
You have free speach up there? Just write or say something critical about homosexuals up there and see where that gets you.
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 27, 2008 | Reply
We are much more culturally accepting and outward looking than our southern neighbours. (Including homosexuality). Nobody really cares what you might say (unless it would be hateful) even then it wouldn’t likely get the vigarus reactions of some US folks. We are simply taking an interest in your election because it will affect us. Many of us up here are crossing our fingers that y’all will have a REAL change and “Dumb and Dumber” do no get into office.
andrew191 | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
I hope you’re right about our election, and dumb “Obama” and dumber “Biden” do not get into office.
I’m so impressed by your “culturally accepting and outward looking” attitude while the hack journalist that you seem to be defending writes the most disgusting, hateful, and defametory slam against a number of groups. What a f**king hypocrite you are. Are you so damn stupid that you can’t understand that Mallick’s malicious attacks were aimed not just at Palin, but at hunters, people with family issues, Republicans, men, children, attractive women, conservative women, and basically anybody that isn’t in lockstep with her ideology. How does this square with your narcissitic “culturally accepting and outward looking” claim to superiority. It can’t.
Perhaps the restrictions on your so called free speach have caused such frustration with your nitwit journalists, that the only way they can vent their bile is to attack their southern neighbors. I can’t recall a single similar story about a Canadian written by an American journalist.
I’ve been to the wonderful country of Canada more times than I can count.That doesn’t mean that I’m mathmatically challenged, it just means that I’ve played soccer and rugby with BC teams since I was a child so I can’t recall them all. I point out this history for one reason.I know Canadians. If the U.S. had a journalist that shamefully attacked a Canadian the way Mallick attacked Palin, I would be angry and embarrased, and I would do what I could to get that jerk fired. However, As long as there are idiots like Paul, that gobble up the bullshit dropped by the Mallicks of the world, there can be no comprehensive peace in the world.
And Paul, when you start a statement with “We are much more culturally accepting and outward looking than our southern neighbors.” you only demonstrate that you may be the proof that given enough time, a monkey might accidently type out a legible sentence.But not a valid one. Stay out of the deep end.
Desmond McGrath | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
An open letter to Hubert T. Lacroix
President of the Canadian Braodcasting Corporation
Dear Sir;
As a long time and sometimes vocal supporter of the CBC in its past problems with the CRTC, ( crtc.gc.ca/Eng/transcripts/1999/tb0316a.htm and a Canadian living in the USA; I find Heather Mallick’s rant “Mighty wind blows through Republican Convention” (attached below) offensive and worse that tabloid gibberish. I find it inconceivable that the editorial standards of the once proud Canadian Broadcasting Corporation declined below that of the National Inquirer. In fact I would challenge you to read any Inquirer story in contradistinction to Ms Mallick’s sub-tabloid journalistic style; The Inquirer story would quote sources of information, use correct English and never stoop to profane language or the F___ word. Mallick only quotes two sources of minor relevance and begins her rant with the greatest journalistic faux pas “I assume”.
Does this mean that Ms Mallick made an assumption on Senator McCain’s reasons for choosing Governor Palin and that the rest of the information was gathered personally using the time tested journalistic creed of who what where when and why?
Ms Mallick seems quite well versed in the sexual inadequacies of Republican men; has she been, unbeknownst to the Canadian public, a latter day Mata Hari in the employ of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) bedding republican men for pillow talk secrets? Does this also mean that Ms Mallick has spied on the alleged secret meetings and had extensive hands on experience regarding their irresponsibility with semen while postponing household repairs?
Ms Mallick’s admitted feminist stance has to leave one wondering where she and alleged other women receive their so called resentment training for nursing terrible hatred towards each other? From the amount of testosterone (even promoting firearm violence towards Levi Johnson) flowing through her vitriolic attack on governor Palin, saying she really isn’t female, can the question be asked; Does Ms Mallick have a severe case of Vagina envy?
Ms Mallick must surely be a legend in her own mind to believe that these alleged other women can suppress the learned same sex hatred through self flagellation and reading her trashy column.
Ms Mallick allows that “(john) Doyle’s job includes watching a lot of reality television”. Does this mean her statement “(governor) Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade’s woman” comes from extensive first hand experience of watching films of that genre?
From attacks on Governor Palin’s personal appearance and of her family, not once has Ms Mallick discussed the genuine pros or cons of the Republican Vice-presidential nominee vs. the Democratic nominee. Nor has she done any journalistic exposé regarding George Soros’ financial manipulation of the Democratic nomination process that stole the nomination from Hillary Clinton.
Boiled down to its essence Ms Mallick’s column is pure and simple hatred; hate mongering towards the Palin family, hatred for people she identifies as white trash, who she and Thomas Frank allow “vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.” It is elitist and condescending like a later day Marie Antoinette with Cake or Death; devoid of factual journalism.
Considering Canada has well honed anti Hate statutes, why has Ms Mallick not been summarily guillotined from her Canadian Taxpayer subsidized position with the CBC? Perhaps there is tacit agreement within the Marxist feminist hierarchy to which she reports as to her journalistic bent. Where is Mammy Yokum “good is better than evil because it’s nicer” when you need her to wash Ms Mallick’s mouth out with homemade lye soap or deliver a “Goodnight Irene Punch” to restore decency and integrity to the CBC, as you are not holding Ms Mallick to the same litmus test that you publicize for outside contributors. Listed Below
Desmond McGrath
A Newfoundland Patriot living in socioeconomic exile amongst the wonderful Cajuns of the southern USA.
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Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
Mallick hardly needs me (or anyone else) to defend her but as it turns out, you have your own brand of low brow journalists. What follows are a few choice excerpts … read the whole transcript on line for the whole story.
On November 30, 2004 as President Bush visited Canada to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in an effort to improve the two countries’ strained relations. Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and CNN Crossfire co-host, Tucker Carlson ridiculed Canada.
On FOX News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, Coulter said that Canadians “better hope the United States doesn’t roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.” “We could have taken them [Canada] over so easily.”
Oh dear, we are soooooo scared (LOL)…
On CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Reports, Carlson stated: “Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras, but colder and much less interesting”; he went on to say that instead of following politics, “the average Canadian is busy dog sledding.”
Really? ….
On Crossfire, Carlson referred to the “limpid, flaccid nature of Canadian society.”
At least we don’t head of to war simply to profiteer from the conflict and insist that it is to “save” the world. Give me a break, we were born at night … just not last night.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the American people and enjoy visiting the US from time to time. It is just the administration that has got to change. Unfortunately, I see Mcain (GOP) as just more of the same … perpetuating the old boys club.
But then it doesn’t really matter what I think, come Nov 4th. Never the less, it will be interesting to see if the US will rise up out of the ashes created during the last 8 years.
Mary | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
Heather Mallick is an embarassment to me a Canadian. Did the Nazis not start persecuting the Jews with humiliating personal insults while they confiscated their properties? We all know where that ended. Given her deep hatred for the right, what would Mallick be capable of if she had unlimited power over the right wing in US and Canada? God bless both countries from far leftists like Mallick.
Karrlie from Rebuttals . . . (saying what others are afraid to say) | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
Yes! Finally! Someone who makes sense! Thanks Heather. First of all you, Americans mind everybody’s business and this is sssooo obvious . . . here is a Canadian website with freedom of speech . . . right? But speech it so happen is not free unless you are saying things Americans want to hear. They (American of course) are the most spoiled thinking everything is about them people I know. And Heather they are mostly whites, and no I’m not racist . . . but the truth is simply that . . . the truth.
GloryB | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
This was more in the style of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh….except that they lie and spread hate, while Mallick was an arrow of truth…political humor at its best.
Aurelle Russo | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Your freedom of speech is just so full of ridiculous lies, you hate Americans you ridicule them time and time again…You should have no say, most of you regret to issue the facts. In fact most of you take it upon yourselves to sit there and stare and laugh, not knowing what it is to live here. I live here now and could not be more proud to be living here. Rant all you want you’re so oblivious to the truth, you are all stubborn. Fight for everyone’s rights??? and beliefs???? Where are yours, “hey let’s blog about how much we hate Americans again, i need a good laugh” you are making this world full of hatred, you all talk out of your asses, and could care less about what goes on here… You probably laughed when 911 happened.
Rina Meleby | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
For all those gun-blazing commentators on this site: I urge you to watch Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS before firing. Or Matt Damon’s paranoia at the prospect of that “bad Disney movie” that we all stand to watch should this woman succeed McCain. I mean, it is Sarah Palin [and she alone] who is proving that all the names she had been called were, indeed, fitting. McCain and the Republican party will have to plead temporary insanity in the courts of history or this will haunt the Republican party forever. On a last note, it will be interesting to watch the impending debate with sen. Joe Biden in 4 days’ time. Stay tuned guys, the circus continues….
MILITANT REPUBLICAN! | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Whoa! How did I find this site, another distorted piece of liberal silicon in need of a tune up. Truth? None of that here. I doubt any of you left wingnuts would recognize truth if it bit you in the ass. You want to know what’s wrong with this world? It’s liberal bullshit masquerading as sanctimonious truth, the anti-Christ of politics! You blame Republicans for the mess the economy is in?! Take a look back to 1999, the Clinton Administration and the pressure that was placed on Fannie May to lower credit standards on mortgages so that “everyone can own a home”. You liberal idiots forgot just one thing: what happens when the holders of these mortgages can’t pay them back, huh?! Your “social engineering” is the direct cause of this mess, but now you blame the Republican Party? Try again. Mallick is proof that we need to build another border fence, lest more swine wander into our country.
Larry Parker | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
I live in Colorado but was born in Canada and what a terrible embarrassment Heather Mallick is . Friends ask me Is this the way Canadians think of Americans and I reply I hope not but if one person supports her views that is too many. I am glad to see the majority of Canadians are critical of her. The CBC is at fault for using Canadian Tax dollars to allow her trash in the first place.When are they going to fire her??
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
I certainly don’t agree with the manner in which Ms. Mallick vehemently attacked Gov. Palin.
Nevertheless, the world (not only Canada) is watching the US campain trail with intense interest as the saga unfolds.
Palin is such a deer in the headlights and it also begs us to question the sanity of Mcain (and the GOP) for picking such a desperate running mate. She is the substance of wide, intense ridicule (even in the US). There are now suggestions (by the GOP) that she could even be pulled from the ticket.
911 was certainly NO laughing matter but and it is simply the choice of Palin that we find amusing.
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Unlike Gov. Palin, The CBC is not in the habit of firing someone just because they hold a “different” point of view …
Round Hill | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Canada is a pretty amazing country. You never hear anything about them, which is fabulous. They just do their thing and don’t end up looking asinine. And yes I know they’re a British territory, but it doesn’t matter. Canada is pretty great… eh?
And um Heather Malick… You are just amazing. You have a new fan. I agree with everything you said, especially about the parenting. It’s obvious Sarah Palin is not the mommy type.
Gobama.
Damon | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Though I don’t like all of her colourful, illustrative language, I support Heather Mallick’s right to write her column and throw her views into the mix. Free speech is about debating one other and challenging each other’s view points.
I just watched a Fox News clip where the anchor was speaking with David Warren from the Ottawa Citizen. She was making such a big deal of the fact that the CBC is a taxpayer funded media outlet. What’s her point? Is it that because it has aired on the CBC it represents the Canadian government’s view? I have more faith in the independence of the CBC than I would Fox, which famous for its alliance to the Republican party.
I’m sure that at this point I’ll be denounced as an agent of the Canadian far-left, but if that means that I can speak as part of the debate rather than try to scream over it and drown out the other voices, so be it.
We can say that some of the things Heather Mallick said were in bad taste, or annoying or idiotic - she put herself out there for us to comment on. But c’mon, she’s one journalist - put it in perspective.
D
Mary | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
The CBC has apologized for the Mallick article. We’ll see here in Canada if anything really changes to make CBC deserve government funding. No apology yet from Mallick herself and she is still employeed by CBC.
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
I agree with “Damon”. Fox News is more propaganda than “news” .. Thank goodness for CBC as it is never partisan, always objective, open minded and demands fair debate from all viewpoints.
Jeanette | Sep 29, 2008 | Reply
Mallick is a SICKO! What right does she have to smear an American Vice Presidential candidate. Please, Mallick, keep your dirt in Canada.
Bill | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
This woman Mallick is one bottle of prescription pills short of an overdose. If she is married, i feel pity for her husband. How can any person in the world be so cold, let alone treat women and men with the remarks she made? Yeah, free speech but better served if she kept her hatred to herself as she only hurts herself, and makes the rest of canada look bad for allowing this person to go on spreading hatred.
Amanda | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
I find it funny (And so sad) that the majority of people who disagree with Heather stoop to insulting her appearance or drawing the “You’re all just American Haters” card. Very few could refute what she has to say unless it was to cry “Liberal Lies!”, plug their ears with their fingers and yell “La la la!”
Isn’t it the job of the press to show every side of the story?
Peter | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
Excellent piece, Heather! You say it like it is…as sad as it is!
Ian | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
All of the of you who agree with Mallick are idiots. Just plan old idiots and racist. What do you not think calling people white trash is not a racist term. Canadians need to mind there own business.
Mharilou | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
As a Canadian I am embarrassed to have someone like Mallick malign a conservative VP candidate from the U.S. Mallick should limit her views on policy issues. If she wants to get personal, she herself looks like a man. Okay. I don’t want to bring that one point as it is irrelevant. I am appalled that the Canadian media will allow her to print her garbage which reflects on the the kind of media we have. No wonder they are losing readers and viewers. Why so much poison on the left. They are supposed to be for the little people and the oppressed and they are actually the zealots.
Jan Steinman | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
LOVE IT! Thank you, Heather Mallick!
As a Candian, I am proud that someone in this country has the balls to stand up to F*cks News and all the other hate-mongers out there. Her comments were spot-on, albeit a bit bluntly honest for what is otherwise a polite and timid population.
And to all you Americans, who for some strange reason feel that free speech stops at the US border, who think that it’s okay to say rude things about other world leaders, but how dare foreigners say anything about their leaders, who are busy lying to each other about being in the “greatest country in the world,” you’d better come to your senses. You may not like what Heather Mallick has to say, but the truth always hurts, and the truth is that American politicians are the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Thank you, Heather, for pointing out that America has once again painted a big target for ridicule on itself.
Amanda | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
“They are supposed to be for the little people and the oppressed and they are actually the zealots.”
No, the journalists are supposed to reflect all sides of the story. Not just the side YOU agree with.
“If she wants to get personal, she herself looks like a man. ”
I have to roll my eyes that yet another person needs to bring up her appearance. Is that all you got?
Michael Loree | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
I don’t see the problem with this article. What, exactly, did she say that was incorrect? Keep fighting the good fight, Heather.
Oh, for that dumbass hick who said that Canadians shouldn’t comment on American elections: You, ma’am, are a dumbass who just proved her point for her.
dhuibh | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
Seems to be a pretty accurate picture of America’s politicos I’d say. Opinionated, funny, accurate and not at all as mean as a FOX News report. Cheers Heather!
Dave Robertson | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
Heather, I miss you!! I’d wondered where you’d got to after vanishing from the Focus section of my paper. You rock!!
mparis | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for saying what some of us have thought about. Although, we have been thinking “tundra trash”.
Paul_in_Vanc | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
You gotta give Mallick credit for having “balls” but I don’t get why someone is required to be attractive … that is such an American thing … What does that matter in the big picture?
Palin might be attractive in some circles, but please don’t call her accomplished and infer that see could be remotely intellectual given the chance.
Both Biden and Obama are graduates of prestigious law schools. Macain is an old has been who should retire and reflect on his old war stories. It took Palin 5 different colleges to finally get a journalism degree.
Rep candidates are definately not in the same league as the Dem candidates … Not by a long shot.
I am sending a letter to the CBC in support of Mallick and free speech in general here in Canada.
Diane from Pennsylvania | Sep 30, 2008 | Reply
I just saw your article and I say bravo! I live smack in the middle of the hub where white trash from five states converge for NHRA and sausage eating contests so I do know a little about this. She’s a horrible embarrassment to our country and three weeks post publishing of your column we have more than a few republicans reluctantly agreeing with you while they choke on the truth of your column. Keep writing. Some of us need the cold slap of a foreign voice to wake us from the malaise we happily wander through on this side of the border. By the way, are you folks still accepting conscientious objectors? If the remaining rednecks actually peel themsleves off the couch long enough to vote, I may need to move sometime in early January.
me | Oct 1, 2008 | Reply
The notoriously neo-conservative (dare I say fascist) Fox news “broke” this story. They don’t seem to be able to get enough of it. I wonder how may tiny xxxxed republicans are sitting around saying the n-word about Mr. Obama. When FOX hears some stupid comment from some right wing wacko do they go on and on about it. I think not! The fact is the news will always be conservative (fascist) and do you know why? The majority of the folks who will rape the economy to make a buck are of that ilk. What party do you belong to Mr. board members and Mr .CEO?
As for Ms. Palin, she has been Governor of a state with a smaller population then hundreds if not thousands of cities. It is a welfare state. She is liked there because she gave the people there more welfare money. This is welfare money from federal taxes that I paid and from oil that I bought. She is the queen of the welfare state. If you have seen here speak about anything except killing then you have realized she is pony with no good tricks at all, which is certainly not a barrier to being president in the USA. I don’t however consider her trailer trash. She is worse, she is George W Bush with a skirt.
Mary | Oct 1, 2008 | Reply
If you leftist Americans like Heather Mallick, then you deserve her. Here in Canada I am reading that she hates not only anything right wing but also anything American. (I imagine she hates anything leftwing in America to a lesser degree so don’t worry too much about it!) Funny thing how the left has gotten to be so mean it even hates itself.
Mainframeguy | Oct 2, 2008 | Reply
I have no idea how I chanced on this juicy blog morsel… but it has made me want to travel to the jungle and hear the call of the vaginas… I did not used to believe that - but now you’ve told me about it I cannot get it out of my head and…. I’m starting to believe it… must be something to do with my brain placement!
Lloyd | Oct 3, 2008 | Reply
wow, She hit the nail on the head. Too bad most republicans are not bright enough to make sense of it. Oh well, they are for laughing at now anyway.
Andi | Oct 5, 2008 | Reply
I loved this opinion piece! Thanks Heather.
Terry - Up North | Oct 5, 2008 | Reply
I hope and pray that our PRIME MINISTER will pull the plug on the CBC.Tax payers should not be funding this sort of GARBAGE. Sara Palin is headed UP the ladder while Heather Mallick is a bottom feeder who will NEVER be on Sara`s level and she KNOWS IT.Just this HILLBILLYS 2 cents.
John Stacey | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
This is regarding CBC Heather Mallick’s totally unprovoked and vicious attack on Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. Will the taxpayer-funded CBC (whose political views should be neutral, not to the left of Carl Marx) please do all Canadians a favour and quickly fire Heather Mallick? She is a national disgrace! In addition, could the CBC just confine its political views to Canada? Especially during sensitive times like elections? And can the taxpayer-funded CBC just grow up and cease being a national disgrace itself? Does Canada even need a taxpayer-funded CBC anymore? I have a home in the USA and have to live there several months each year in peace with my good American neighbours. Even if I never went south, it is still embarrassing. Americans already think poorly enough of Canadians as it is and Heather Mallick is one bvery good reason why.
SMS | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Why is it OK for Ann Coulter to spew venom, but not Heather Mallick? Buried in here, however, are some fair points about lower income persons in the U.S. voting against their own economic interests. But let’s keep our heads!
sorya | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
First of all, Heather spoke the minds of many americans and others around the world. She’s entitled to her opinion and why not use her basic civil right!
Second, CBC is publicly funded, hence, there should be journalists like Heather to the public who fund the CBC. So Heather, way to go, you make women and journalist proud for giving in the pressure of the conservatism, and the mainstream opinions.
sorya | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
John Stacey, Carl Marx not but Karl Marx!
George from Wisconsin | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Its amusing to watch the outrage and fury of some Republicans and the Fox Network. You know Heather hit it on the head when these clowns react as such. Taken in itself if one lives in a cave some may have been surprised. Taken in perspective of everything that’s happened, its nothing more than a summary of what many now so despise. All I can say is thank you for giving us Americans a fresh perspective from outside.
James Long | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Thank God for Heather Mallick.
And Heather Mallick is not alone. The Sunday Times of London (a conservative paper with no links to the New York Times and under the same ownership Fox News), this Sunday compared the winking Sarah Palin to a “mid-market call girl”. Unlike Heather Mallick, the Sunday Times weren’t joking. Vast numbers of people around the world would consider the following statement to be entirely accurate…
timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rod_liddle/article4882326.ece
“Sarah Palin, the Alaskan-separatist-pig-in-lipstick, had not the slightest intention of allowing her complete lack of knowledge about almost everything to spoil her debate with the Democrat vice-presidential candidate, Joe Biden. “I may not answer the questions in the way in which the moderators or you want to hear, but I am going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record,” she said, straight-faced, her make-up not cracking. And so, by employing the clever strategy of not answering anything properly, and then winking in the manner of a mid-market call girl, she emerged a sort of victor. Despite revealing the intellect and political experience of a whelk. A heartbeat away, remember.”
Jeff | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Brilliant article. Finally someone had the guts to step out and state that America’s destiny is being decided by its white trash. Sarah Palin is a fine example of trash leading trash. Thank God I am far from Alaska. The funny thing is if we get President Palin, after Johnny boy kicks the bucket we will look back at the Bush Presidency and feel even Bush was smarter than this nut.
Ernie | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
Heather you are a fucking slut. you just wish you were somebody. Canada would kick you out but no other country will take you.
Kay Graham | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
It’s amusing to read that Canadians have no right to comment on the election of the “leader of the free world”. The President of the United States is important to all at this point in history. A few decades from now you may not matter very much but right now you will have to live with our comments — or is freedom of speech only for Americans?
Btw, there is plenty of American comment on our political system when something happens that is perceived as against American interests. You may not notice such criticism but it is reported here. Do you have no right?
Personally, I didn’t like Heather Mallick’s attack on Sarah Palin. To me she is typical of the “popular” cheerleader-type from high school who has no substance but lots of perky ways to make up for it. Maybe I’m wrong but I’m so relieved she is your problem and not ours.
If, God help us, she and the old guy get elected, the result will be a disaster and it won’t stay on your side of the border. That’s my opinion. If you and Sarah don’t like it, tough.
Oh yes, and you didn’t save Canada in WWII. Truth be known, we fought for you while you sat on your duffs for years and let the rest of the world do the fighting. So please cut out the whining. You make a great country look foolish.
john | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
gee heather, a bit jealous are we? looking at your photo and hearing your oral diarrhea, whos white trash????
Darrin | Oct 6, 2008 | Reply
The author isn’t saying that all Palin supporters are white trash; she’s trying to understand why McCain would choose Palin. Republicans are sold on Palin’s credentials, but they would have accepted anyone that was chosen so its not objective to listen to their opinions, especially those who can only state slogans in their arguments like “Country First” or continue to attack Obama. Remember Obama didn’t say any of this about Palin, it was a Canadian. I have to say though, it seems pretty reasonable. Palin plays the fool pretty well, she speaks like a hill billy and she seems to try so hard to pander to the “white trash” of this country that she can’t help but be bunched in with the moron’s she wants to insight with her idiotic rhetoric. The road to no-where garbage, her bumbling in interviews, the fact that she is being kept away from the media apart from select interviews with mostly safe conservative journalists, has to raise some eyebrows to people with brains enough to notice them. I’m not saying Obama is perfect, far from it. I’m not saying he is perfectly qualified. I’d much rather he run in 4 or 8 years when he had more experience, but in comparison to Palin, he’s a freakin genius. The fact is, we can’t have 4 more years of republican policies and despite the talk of being a maverick, I have not heard any substantial plan from McCain on how he would improve things other than bashing Wall Street or saying he’ll cut taxes and thus raise the deficit even further. I’d love to vote for a conservative, mainly because I have a degree in Economics and conservatives are typically more sound on economics, but McCain Palin spells bad news for this country. I hope and pray the average American proves the author of this article wrong, but I am afraid she might be correct. How sad.
sorya | Oct 7, 2008 | Reply
Excellent point!
Eric | Oct 7, 2008 | Reply
Amazingly stupid, you mean?
Adam Fulford | Oct 7, 2008 | Reply
Thank you. Thank you so much for being a sensible well-reasoned counter-balance to the fawning adoration of Sarah Palin by drooling fascist extremists. You were wise not to be on Fox News, a laughingstock around the news only taken seriously by the clowns were work in it and a small for narrow sector of Kool-Aid chugging cultist extremists in the United States. All they do is shout down differing opinions in interviews. That said, anyone getting a non-fascist sentiment in edgewise on Fox becomes an instant hit on YouTube.
jrdavis | Oct 7, 2008 | Reply
thank you heather for telling the truth. Lucky it’s an opinion column and anyone can have their opinion. When we can’t have an opinion any more then it’s not a free country. There are many more people who agree with you entirely. Maybe it takes someone outside of our petty little dramas to remind us of how we look to the outside world. Thank you for your perspective. Remember, no news is bad news. You’re getting quite a forceful response. Guess you hit a nerve.
flossie | Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
weez’ americans?..any you canucks wanna fight?…eh?..
Julie | Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Thank you Heather! I support you. Many Americans are completely insulted about Sarah Palin representing our country. If Sarah Palin and her followers had they would change our constitution to match their literal interpretations of the bible. I honestly think the people who support her are incapable of thinking in a logical way. Your insults of Palin were closer to the truth. They are trying to smear a good man’s character and they are inciting hatred into our politics. They don’t deserve any respect as far as I’m concerned.
Trish | Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Here, here John…
Sarah Palin is a dangerous ignoramous, and Heather see’s what about 40% of the Americans don’t - truly look it all up. Wasilla is a tiny little meth lab capital, she tried to have her brother in law fired, she has abused her power, which by the way, Alaska has about the same amount of people in it that San Francisco does, so the mayor of SF would probably do a better job, he doesn’t sit on his porch looking at the moon, fly in helicopters killing trapped animals, nor look for Russia off shore… Get off it people, look and see the facts - Tina Fey is a better Sarah than Sarah is….
Ralph Rubino | Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
Lady, give your head a shake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
phillip rosen | Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
Oct 13/08
I am 2 weeks behind in reading the National Post’s article on Mallick- Palin article, and after reading it, and laughing my head off, have wondered why so few Americans have taken offense at the hysterical, comedic writing of Ms. Mallick??
Keith Moslak | Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
As an American and Alaskan, I think Heather hit the nail on the head.
Mary | Oct 14, 2008 | Reply
After many complaints, a couple of weeks ago our CBC apologized for the ugly Heather Mallick article on Sarah Palin. CBC promised new editing procedures and even a diversity of opinions. I am sure I will see something worthwhile from the right when hell freezes over or our Canadian government quits funding CBC our tax dollars.
Dixie | Oct 17, 2008 | Reply
I agree 100% with Heather’s excellent analysis of SP and America’s ‘white trash’, hick vote or basically uneducated vote swept up by soundbites & superficial looks: appearances, clothes, teeth, winking. No — voting for the McCain/Palin ticket doesn’t make you white trash but it certainly defines you as stupid or possibly so extremely religious you can’t make intelligent decisions, leaving the world’s problems to your god. The Republicans can never answer any question — they just fill the void with words that attack, obfuscate and sometime ramble on (and on) without completing a sentence, thought or plan. Haven’t we had eight (too many) long years of smiles, inane jokes, laughs, winks, lies, malapropisms, and yes, basically ’soft porn’ which all too easily hide poor knowledge of economics, foreign affairs, science. The facts need addressing, leave the emotions behind. We need the next president to possess an intellect and be able to think outside the square (the GOP). This is not a beauty pageant. The needs of our entire country and its people must come first, before the very rich top 1-2% that can afford a rise in taxes more than the poor can afford a cut in services…….I hope the CBC doesn’t ever edit Heather Mallick! And sometimes, it takes an outsider, an objective observer, to notice a weakness. Thank you Heather.
Frankie | Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
I see why this woman is upset with Sara. Sara is very smart, beautiful. The old saying is, Sara can bring home the moose fry it up in a pan and never let her family down and the American People. This lady is the whole package. You go Sara we love you. Dem.for McCain and Palin. And by the way send a moose to this woman I think she needs one.
Mary | Oct 26, 2008 | Reply
We have universal medicare in Canada. I worked as a Registered Nurse in Canadian hospitals for many years. I urge Americans NOT to vote for Obama and such a system. You would not believe the abuse in universal medicare. I have seen unscrupulous doctors admit patients unnecessarily and others refer patients unnecesarily to their spouse specialists. The watchdog system really does not work because when government picks up the tab, other health professionals become complacent. Because the services are “free”, people go to doctors unnecessarily tying them up for people who really need to see them. Our waiting lists have become very long. I would rather pay a premium and get better care. Just warning you!
James | Nov 1, 2008 | Reply
As a Canadian, this represents EXACTLY what we think of you Republican Americans. You’ve had your fun for the last eight years destroying yourselves and large swaths of the world, now let someone qualified run the ship and go back to your redneck, racist backwoods.
Heather | Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
using racial slang such as “white trash” and sexist remarks such as using porn star as an insult to females isn’t the way to win my sympathy. Calling someone “white trash” is just as wrong as calling someone the N word.
So who’s racist again? I keep forgetting which side is calling the other racist.
I don’t agree with most of the arguing back and forth, I can say though that a journalist using “white trash” as a means of describing a group of people probably isn’t the most scholarly of ways to prove a point….
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