The CBC has become a disciple of the Religious Right

These days, watching CBC business news is like attending some mid-western bible college, in which Amanda Lang has assumed the pulpit of Pat Robertson.

Insofar as its pathetic and facile coverage of the income trusts issue is concerned, the CBC has become a disciple of the religious right.

Gone is fact finding investigative journalism, replaced by the spouting of mindless religious dogma.

Not only has the CBC subscribed totally to the creationist concept of tax leakage, which only serves to enjoin the CBC in Jim Flaherty’s $35 billion income trust fraud, but we now have bubble heads like Amanda Lang providing divine justification for that act of blatant fraud on the part of the government that is only a stone’s throw away from “blaming the victim”.

For Amanda Lang to even suggest that the government’s actions of Halloween 2006 to double tax income trusts in RRSPs, but not pension funds, after solemnly promising Canadians that the government would do no such thing, was somehow justified by some revisionist concept of “income trusts had to stop because it was a bubble and most were going to bust”, is an insult to the intelligence of every Canadian in this country and a total misrepresentation of the facts, to the extent that facts even matter to the CBC.

Not only is such a statement grossly ignorant and blind, it completely obscures and ignores the fact that the justification proffered up by the government had nothing remotely to do with what Amanda is trying to guile Canadians into believing and provide some smoke screen to obscure the fact that the government’s actual argument of the day, namely tax leakage, is a complete manufactured falsehood and therefore the entire process by which Canadians lost $35 billion of their life savings is nothing more that a textbook case of fraud, not unlike that involving Bernie Madoff to the south.

Could Amanda Lang and the CBC be further from reporting on this story accurately if they tried?

Meanwhile apart from the gross ignorance of Amanda’s statement, there is the utter callousness to be considered. For Amanda Lang to say that the actions of the government were justified by her “bubble theory” is no different than the justification offered up by Pat Robertson for the devastation that occurred in Haiti, in which he stated that Haiti was “cursed” after its “pact with the devil” and therefore the devastation that occurred is the fault of the Haitian people themselves?

For Amanda Lang to go on air with Canada’s public broadcaster the CBC, and foment nonsense like she did yesterday, can only mean that either she or her employer the CBC are the ones who have engaged in some pact with the devil concerning their blatantly wrong and totally misguided coverage of the income trust matter, from start to finish. Except we aren’t yet finished, which is the only good news on the horizon The CBC’s pathetic coverage of the income trust issue is looking less like a case of incompetent journalism and more like a case of a deliberate and premeditated cover-up.

The evidence of this is abundant and I refer you to anyone of these pieces:

CBC’s active suppression of the news: 3 strikes and you’re out CBC

CBC’s pretense of soliciting questions from Canadians for Stephen Harper

CTV skewered Dion, while CBC aided and abetted Harper in 2008 election

As pathetic and grossly obvious as Amanda’s biased journalism there is the other matter of her co-host Kevin O’Leary’s commercial conflict of interest on the matter of income trusts, in what is notionally supposed to be the point-counterpoint show of the LOL Exchange.

Does the CBC not even realize that Kevin O’Leary is in a position of commercial conflict of interest on this matter, which probably explains why he is happy to let Amanda drop bombs like income trusts were a bubble and let her get away with such nonsense, since the benefits of such patent nonsense and utter revisionism accrue to him? If not, then I think its time the CBC did, lest it find itself on the receiving end of legal action for having hosts engaged in topics for which they have not declared their conflicts of interest, as follows:

Does BNN’s Kevin O’Leary have an embedded conflict of interest?

Gross biases? Embedded conflicts of interest? This hardly makes for a show’s format that is supposed to be point-counterpoint? More like point-point, or rather pointless-pointless.

When will the CBC get its act together on the income trust fraud that is being perpetrated by this government? Its like the CBC had gone from exposing the Airbus scandal under Brian Mulroney one minute and then become an active co-conspirator with Stephen Harper in his $35 billion income trust fraud the next? Praise the Lord. Amen.

God help us.