SunTV commentator Warren Kinsella ???

[wildernessvoice]

There may be confusion between the phrase "common 'tater" and commentator. The common tater was the staple food of my ancestors except between 1845 and 1849 when I gather they developed a taste for tree bark. This is why I have a dislike for dogs, anything to do with bark, you see.

I've been a bit of a hesi-tator in asking this question but here goes:

Is Kinsella not an agi-tator??

[backhoe]

Whoops.. wrong thread.

[wildernessvoice]

Whoops.. wrong thread.

Right thread for me. I want to remind Warren Kinsella that people know him for what he is!

[richardson]

Too true, GT. Yet I'd like to hope that some day Catsmeat might come to understand the best and most truly liberating thing about knowing that everyone is a racist: you can crack all the jokes you like. I, like many people, have a passionate dislike for Belgians. It is an incurable condition, but hardly worth getting worked up about.

oh no you di nt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RpU1D--Rk

[Maikeru]

Is this Fern Hill thing an exception, or has SunTV commentator Warren Kinsella been doing things like this all along???
How about the other Sun News reporters? Are more of them involved in what can only be called stupid activity??

A recent thread, and attendant comments, on the blogsite 'Small Dead Animals' supports the view that comments contained therein exert an influence upon main stream media presentations, and in turn public opinion:

I have been begging Kate to come on Sun News since before we launched. She keeps turning me down. Lobby away.
We are trying to find more ways to credit and expand the roll of bloggers on Sun. Stay tuned for more on this.
And yes, the comments are one of the best parts of SDA.

Mr. Kinsella is a blogger, a Sun News commentator, and a businessman.

He recently issued a series of derogatory 'idiot' comments against blogger 'Fern Hill' on his personal blogsite, using association with FreeDominion founding host Connie Fournier as proof of claim.
When viewed alongside the 'mission statement' of Mr. Kinsella's business interests:
'Daisy Consulting Group':

Daisy Consulting Group
Dealing with the increasingly complex relationships between businesses, people, media and governments is a greater challenge than ever before.
When you:
* Need someone to protect your reputation
* Need someone to move public opinion
* Need someone to help face a crisis
* Need someone to change impressions

, Sun News Media is made third party to opinions voiced in the blogosphere by Mr. Kinsella both for commercial purpose, and to influence active litigation involving Mr. Kinsella.

[Connie Fournier]

Interesting. Sun News is supposedly actively reaching out to the blogosphere, but the only evidence of this that we've seen is their commentator, Kinsella, reaching out his gnarly little fingers to wrap them around the virtual throats of the busiest conservative forum in Canada. Is this part of their overall plan for the blogosphere, or has their token Liberal gone rogue?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[ccurrie]

Too true, GT. Yet I'd like to hope that some day Catsmeat might come to understand the best and most truly liberating thing about knowing that everyone is a racist: you can crack all the jokes you like. I, like many people, have a passionate dislike for Belgians. It is an incurable condition, but hardly worth getting worked up about.

oh no you di nt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30RpU1D--Rk

GAH!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!! It's enough to make me cry into my Rodenbach Grand Cru.

Interesting. Sun News is supposedly actively reaching out to the blogosphere, but the only evidence of this that we've seen is their commentator, Kinsella, reaching out his gnarly little fingers to wrap them around the virtual throats of the busiest conservative forum in Canada. Is this part of their overall plan for the blogosphere, or has their token Liberal gone rogue?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Good question.

I can't pick channels a la carte so I don't buy cable, and Sun doesn't appear to be streaming any more. Oh, well. Having a non-communist TV news channel was nice while it lasted.

[Maikeru]

Correction to above comment by Maikeru @ 12/04/15 5:05 pm, which contained an incorrect link.
That paragraph should read as follows:

He [Warren Kinsella] recently issued a series of derogatory 'idiot' comments against blogger 'Fern Hill' on his personal blogsite, using association with FreeDominion(1) and founding host(2) Connie Fournier(3) as proof of claim.

(1)

In February, I saw that Fern Hill had gotten mixed up with the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who hang out on Free Dominion. She called the founder of the crypto-fascist web site her “good friend,”

(2)

And she still thinks hanging out where neo-Nazis and white supremacists hang out is okay

(3)

She doesn’t seem to understand why declaring the founder of Free Dominion her “good friend” is a really bad idea. In fact, she’s lately taken to expressing her pride in being associated with racist dregs.

Furthermore, Mr. Kinsella's defamatory comments about Connie Fournier were mirrored by:
Progressive Bloggers and The Wellington Street Post

[wildernessvoice]

Too damnn bad Free Dominion has taken the high road on the right of a person to express themselves.
Scuzz bucket Kinsella would have had an action launched against him by a different party.
Ethics! At times it ties your hands!

[wildernessvoice]

Just keeping this up where warren Kinsella will read it.

[Maikeru]

Just keeping this up where warren Kinsella will read it.

Mr. Kinsella is a white polemicist supremacist who, when lurking FreeDominion, prefers reading Sir Edward Kennedy's current and past posts for creative inspiration.
FreeDominion welcomes Kory Tenecyke, and invites him to comment...

[Smaug]

Just keeping this up where warren Kinsella will read it.

Mr. Kinsella is a white polemicist supremacist who, when lurking FreeDominion, prefers reading Sir Edward Kennedy's current and past posts for creative inspiration.
FreeDominion welcomes Kory Tenecyke, and invites him to comment...

Who is Kory Tenecyke? Is that a he or a she?

Who cares what Warren Kinsela has to say. The man never had an original thought, and if he did he would likely flush it anyway.

[Edward Kennedy]

Just keeping this up where warren Kinsella will read it.

Mr. Kinsella is a white polemicist supremacist who, when lurking FreeDominion, prefers reading Sir Edward Kennedy's current and past posts for creative inspiration.
FreeDominion welcomes Kory Tenecyke, and invites him to comment...

Maybe he is so fascinated with me that he would like to meet me in person, I am amenable to that.

I am sure he knows where I live, my house is situated near a lake swillella, drop in anytime.

[wildernessvoice]

Just keeping this up where warren Kinsella will read it.

Mr. Kinsella is a white polemicist supremacist who, when lurking FreeDominion, prefers reading Sir Edward Kennedy's current and past posts for creative inspiration.
FreeDominion welcomes Kory Tenecyke, and invites him to comment...

Who is Kory Tenecyke? Is that a he or a she?

Who cares what Warren Kinsela has to say. The man never had an original thought, and if he did he would likely flush it anyway.

I wickie-peed the guy:

Kory Teneycke, (born 1974) is vice-president of Sun News Network. He was the former director of communications for the Canadian Prime Minister's Office.

"Group Showers"In mid-2010 Teneycke wondered on his Twitter[6] account if Canadian activist Marc Emery, being held in US prison for his Canadian-based marijuana seed distribution business, is "enjoy[ing] group showers as much as he enjoys pot. Three cheers for the DEA." Marc Emery's wife Jodie Emery said the comment "shocked and disgusted" her, adding it's "a common perception that prison rape happens in 'group showers.'" Jodie Emery publicly asked for an apology from Teneycke.[7]





Avaaz online petition spamIn September 2010, Teneycke responded to criticism of his initiative to start a right-wing news channel[citation needed] similar to Fox News in Canada which was perceived as getting preferential treatment by the incumbent Conservative government, his former employer. In news interviews, Teneycke attempted to point out that a petition operated by the group Avaaz opposing the new channel was being infiltrated by illegitimate signatures, going so far as to send an update about it on Twitter.[10]

CBC political blogger Kady O'Malley had questioned the source that Teneycke had cited in his Toronto Sun article as there was no way of knowing who had actually signed up for the Avaaz petition as the signees were not published. Teneycke then admitted that he had a source who had provided false names to prove a point.[11] Later in an interview, Avaaz executive director Ricken Patel indicated that the fake signatures that Teneycke had cited were all from the same IP address and were recorded at a similar time to when Teneycke had published the Sun article critical of the petition.[11] Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star observed "Kory Teneycke seemed to have inside knowledge of the fake names on the petition.[12] Avaaz requested on September 14, 2010 that the Ottawa Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) begin an investigation to determine the identity of the individual responsible for adding the fraudulent signatures from an Ottawa IP address to the organization's petition dubbed "Stop 'Fox News North'". In his letter to law enforcement on behalf of Avaaz, civil rights lawyer, Clayton Ruby, called for a full criminal investigation on the matter.[13]

On September 15, 2010, Quebecor Media Inc. announced the departure of Teneycke.[14][15][16] However, Teneycke returned to Sun News in January 2011.

[Peter O'Donnell]

Sounds like a real gem.