{"id":175,"date":"2006-11-09T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=175"},"modified":"2006-11-09T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T05:57:56","slug":"rex-murphy-on-don-cherry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"My Order of Canada includes Don Cherry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC purports to be Canada&#8217;s news network.  I get a lot of my news on-line and through newspapers.  When I do watch the news I tend to stick to local news programs.  Tonight I caught a pre-news ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/national\/rex\/\">Rex Murphy<\/a>&#8216;s rant.<\/p>\n<p>I quite enjoy both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/national\/rex\/\">reading<\/a> and hearing Rex Murphy&#8217;s <em>Point of View<\/em>.  Tonight was no exception.  His topic was the disgraceful display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2006\/11\/07\/cherry-parliament.html?ref=rss\">Canadian House of Commons<\/a> where members of parliament boo&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/greatest\/top_ten\/nominee\/cherry-don.html\">Don Cherry<\/a>.  Grapes was acknowledged by the Speaker of the house as a distinguished visitor and jeered by members of the Block Quebecios and some Quebec Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Love him or hate him, there&#8217;s no denying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/greatest\/top_ten\/nominee\/cherry-don.html\">Grapes<\/a> has an undying love for his country. He&#8217;s politically incorrect, grumpy, and occasionally says things that make me do a double take and scream &#8220;<em>what?<\/em>&#8221; at my TV.  He&#8217;s he&#8217;s also patriotic, charitable, kind hearted, open, honest, straight forward, friendly, a long time supporter of the Canadian Forces, and someone who is not afraid to say that they love Canada (and why).<\/p>\n<p>We often joke that our politicians behave no better than a bunch of elementary school bullies in the playground. Yesterday our members of parliament displayed once again how they&#8217;ve earned this reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Full text of Rex&#8217;s reaction to yesterday&#8217;s events in Commons will be available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/national\/rex\/\">here<\/a> once posted.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"technoratitag\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/Rex+Murphy\" rel=\"tag\">Rex Murphy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/Don+Cherry\" rel=\"tag\">Don Cherry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/Grapes\">Grapes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/CBC\" rel=\"tag\">CBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/cbc.ca\" rel=\"tag\">cbc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC purports to be Canada&#8217;s news network. I get a lot of my news on-line and through newspapers. When I do watch the news I tend to stick to local news programs. Tonight I caught a pre-news ad for Rex Murphy&#8216;s rant. I quite enjoy both reading and hearing Rex Murphy&#8217;s Point of View. Tonight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frothing-at-the-bit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}