Bill O'Reilly and crew over at FOX are on a witch hunt. They feel that the columnist Heather Mallick has gone to far in her criticisms of Sarah Palin. They feelt it is OK to attack the CBC with threats and personally threaten this woman to the point that she needs a personal security guard.
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I recieved this email in my box.
Heather Mallick is being subjected to extreme abuse from hundreds of
Canadians and Americans on her recent column about Sarah Palin, and
even some threats. Fox News in the U.S. has enlisted David Warren of
the Ottawa Citizen to attack her as well. She now has to have a
personal security guard. Could you please go to the following columns.A Mighty Wind:
http://www.cbc.ca/...Dire predictions call for traditional approach:
http://www.cbc.ca/...If you see sexism and unfairness in the comments, please report these
abusive messages to the Omsbudsman. The Omsbudsman link is at the very
bottom of the webpage (click Omsbudsman from the list, then click
"Contact Us" for instructions on sending a complaint). Also please
alert your friends and networks to do the same, if you can. Thank you
so much!
Joyce ArthurI will make the necessary contacts, but I thought I should share it with the DailyKos community, as some on here my want to show their support for Heather, and let them know not all Americans share the same views as Bill O'Reilly.
Here's my earlier thoughts on Mallick's column.
Nobody should be threatened to the point where they require personal security, but to be frank, I don't have sympathy for people of any stripe who just want to engage in nasty personal attacks.
If Mallick wants to be the left-wing Ann Coulter of Canada, that's her choice. But she must accept some of the consequences.
Continuing in this vein of frankness, however, it's the absolute pinnacle of hypocrisy for many conservative commentators to be whining about Mallick given their long track record of egregious ad hominem assaults on left-leaning political and cultural figures they dislike. Sorry, that's not quite true. Anyone who doesn't like what she wrote and then responded in kind (or worse) has reached that dubious pinnacle.
And don't take the above warning by Joyce Arthur too seriously. I saw the clip of David Warren, and he wasn't exactly calling for Mallick's head to be paraded around on a pike.
Here's a related Andrew Potter blog posting on macleans.ca.