{"id":308,"date":"2006-07-12T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T03:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2006-07-12T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T03:36:23","slug":"i-am-sick-of-the-cbc-its-time-to-hit-them-in-the-pocketbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"I Am Sick Of The CBC.  It&#039;s Time To Hit Them In The Pocketbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Taylor has dug up one hell of a nasty video clip that was produced by the CBC.  This clip is so heinous in it&#8217;s cropping of politicians statements that it goes beyond the bounds of what a state sponsored television network should be airing.<\/p>\n<p>You have to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stephentaylor.ca\/archives\/000628.html\">SEE IT<\/a> to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>So how do we as citizens end this crap from being produced?<\/p>\n<p>There are two places that would hurt the CBC enough to wake them up and both are financial.<\/p>\n<p>1) Get the government to stop funding this dog of a network.<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>2) Hit the CBC in the pocket book via boycotting their sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Number 1) is a tough one for the average Joe to have a hand in, but Number 2) is not.<\/p>\n<p>You can speak with your dollars by letting the following companies know you are very dissatisfied with their sponsorship of the CBC.  Clicking a company name will take you to a webpage that let&#8217;s you submit a comment\/complaint to them regarding their choice to sponsor the garbage CBC is producing.<\/p>\n<p>Molson Breweries (Molson, Coors, Rickard&#8217;s, Tornade, Pilsner, Carling, Bohemian, Heineken, Corona, Miller, Foster&#8217;s, Dave&#8217;s, Murphy&#8217;s, Caffrey&#8217;s and Milwaukee&#8217;s Best)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labatts.com\/english\/lbc_contact\/lbc_main.htm\">Labatt&#8217;s Breweries<\/a> (Labatt&#8217;s, Oland, Schooner, Alexander Keith&#8217;s, Columbia,  Kokanee, Kootenay, Lucky, Club, Blue Star, Budweiser, Guiness, Stella Artois, Hoegaarden, Leffe Blonde, Belle-Vue Kriek, Bass, Boddington&#8217;s, Cristal, Lowenbrau and Beck&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>I would urge people to switch to Sleeman&#8217;s or some other microbrewery in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>Home Hardware  ( a special case since each store is individually owned you need to contact a store near you.  Find it by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homehardware.ca\/en\/storelocator.php\">clicking here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:customer_service@timhortons.com\">Tim Horton&#8217;s<\/a> (which will be killer on me because I do respect them for honouring the 1% GST cut)<\/p>\n<p>Ford Motor Company<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialoil.ca\/Canada-English\/Forms\/Feedback_form.asp\">Imperial Oil <\/a>(Esso)<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has other suggestions, or knows of any other HNIC sponsors, please let me know.  I would be glad to add them to the above list.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know.  It sound&#8217;s like just another leftist type activist blog post but this is a right wing activist blog post.  All you have to do is see the crap the CBC is producing.  For other abuses of our tax dollars at work, I urge you to look at any of these links to Proud To Be Canadian&#8217;s Extensive list of CBC crap.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proudtobecanadian.ca\/blog\/index\/weblog\/5042\/\">The Gay Bush Hating Channel Presents<\/a><br \/>\nCanada&#8217;s Own l&#8217;il Jihad Network<\/p>\n<p>Joel has dozens of examples.  Simply scroll down <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/proudtobecanadian.ca\">his page<\/a> and on the left type CBC in the search box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDENDUM:<\/strong>  I have sent all my emails off to the above mentioned sponsors (except Home Hardware who has no stores in my neighbourhood).  I urge you all to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Taylor has dug up one hell of a nasty video clip that was produced by the CBC. This clip is so heinous in it&#8217;s cropping of politicians statements that it goes beyond the bounds of what a state sponsored television network should be airing. You have to SEE IT to believe it. So how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officiallyscrewed","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}