My new post at David Horowitz’s NewsReal blog offers some firsthand information from an (anonymous) dude who used to work in TV and stuff.

UPDATE: story now includes priceless “I just happen to have Marshall Macluhan right here…” moment in the comments!

PLUS: ABC News slashes 400 jobs as broadcast evening news shows keep tanking.

Brian Lilley reports:

Last fall there were hearings by the House of Commons Justice Committee to review the section with a mind to revise or repeal. This week Chief Commissioner Jennifer Lynch told me that the committee is no longer reviewing that matter and no other body in the federal government is taking it up.

There is “an inquiry” in the Senate but one Senator tells me that amounts to nothing more than speeches and no matter how good the speeches are, nothing will come of it.

(…)

Asking Ms. Lynch this week about changing well documented problem behaviours in the CHRC, she tried to tell me that they are rated as one of the best places to work by civil servants and that they are continually improving.

“We are proud of how we accomplish our work,” says Lynch. I just wish the rest of us could.

But when he talks like an idiot, it’s just “animated vernacular”. Behold, affirmative action in action! Thank God nobody’s watching CNN anyhow.

Somehow not “racist” or a “hate crime” however:

“They cut my niece’s face off,” said John McClain, who is Hightower’s great-uncle, and the chaplain of the Newark Police Department. “They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging.”

Werewolves on Wheels (1971):

One of the great titles.

One of the great posters.

One of the worst biker movies.

Ever.

Yeah, this one?

Well, never mind.

Oooops!

“Though IRFAN-Canada denies it, and though it launched a defamation lawsuit to clear its name, there have been allegations that the organization is a fundraising front for Hamas, including a 2004 report by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Centre (IITIC).

And better yet: they’re headquartered right here in Toronto!

Young fogey/careerist hack Conor Friedersdorf calls Mark Levin a liar.

How can that go wrong?!?

Tune in tonight to find out. (Starts 6PM ET in most markets.)

But just think of all the great restaurants!

Two teens under court orders not to have firearms are charged in a string of violent gunpoint heists of TTC subway collectors. (…)

Charged are: Gordie McDonald Guled Ismail, 19, of Toronto, and a 19-year-old man who was 17 when some of robberies occurred and can’t be identified.

When it comes to “employees being terrified to speak up for fear of losing their jobs,” I can think of few things more “progressive.”

Meet “the man who put an end to our long national nightmare of … flag-related violence?”

Clearly dude had this on the brain. Note: in spite of appearances, the 1970s are actually over now.

Related: Obama sends SWAT team to… an oil rig.

PS: not fascism, but an incredible simulation! (Except for the giggling.)

See, Chris: “decades after its inception” is one of the best times to “rail against” and “dismiss” any policy. That’s when you’re perfectly positioned to document its disasterous real world results, not just question the (empty) promises made at its inception.