tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post5036389923228245593..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Nigel Wright & Linda Frum in the Republican wayback machineAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-36870392268357368632014-04-27T20:36:47.029-07:002014-04-27T20:36:47.029-07:00Jay Watts : Oh well done and thanks so much for co...Jay Watts : Oh well done and thanks so much for coming here to let me know - I'm not a regular twitter lurker. Updating ....Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-26216450403035669982014-04-27T10:49:22.105-07:002014-04-27T10:49:22.105-07:00Montreal Gazette, Feb 7, 1984
Here's a funny ...<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19840207&id=t4oxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iqUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6072,2832028" rel="nofollow">Montreal Gazette, Feb 7, 1984</a><br /><br />Here's a funny Linda Frum addenda (move a little up and to the left on this article). It looks like she took that advise about accusing your accusers of McCarthy tactics to heart!Jay Wattshttp://twitter.com/jaywattsiiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-50746408132152882362014-04-19T09:01:06.434-07:002014-04-19T09:01:06.434-07:00Mogs, money only goes so far. These folks are fana...Mogs, money only goes so far. These folks are fanatics, driven by a perverse ideology and freakish sense of entitlement. They really hate everyone else but their own. Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-48308149102824996522014-04-19T07:23:08.004-07:002014-04-19T07:23:08.004-07:00They get them at an early age and let them know mo...They get them at an early age and let them know money is no object as long as you perform and they have been performing ever since. Too bad they couldn't take that talent and put it to something useful like making Canada a better place instead of disemboweling it.<br /><br />Money is the carrot on the stick for these folks. It must pay extremely well for life after politics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868396408359306954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-9278240397989113102014-04-18T20:21:04.334-07:002014-04-18T20:21:04.334-07:00Oh, lmerrette, my typo.
Should read : Republicans...Oh, lmerrette, my typo. <br />Should read : Republicans fund Ontario & Quebec right wing newspaper - no s. Fixed now. <br />I copied that alternate headline for the same 1984 article from a pdf and goofed. I'm guessing by Quebec they mean Frum's mag at McGill.<br /> <br />When I first discovered Busby's blog a couple of months ago, I really looked to find the names of the other unis but failed coz... 1984!<br />If I ever succeed, I'll let you know. <br /><br />A few months later <a href="http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1985_03_08.pdf" rel="nofollow">the Ubyssey</a> ran an article about how the rightwing student papers were going broke without their US backers. <br /><br />Here's a bit of background on what <a href="http://archive.today/PP8qY" rel="nofollow">Institute of Educational Affairs evolved into</a>, for anyone who happens to come looking. <br /><a href="http://www.collegiatenetwork.org/alum" rel="nofollow">The Alumni! Yikes!</a> <br /><br /><br />"The Institute for Educational Affairs (IEA), an organization that provided grants to intellectual projects, began offering seed money to alternative student publications—which soon became publicly known as the Collegiate Network—in 1980. The Network continued to flourish under IEA's administration, which, by 1983, had added summer and year-long internships, and was distributing regular operating grants to student newspapers. <br /><br />In 1990, the Madison Center for Educational Affairs, an organization then headed by William Bennett, Harvey Mansfield, and Alan Bloom, merged with IEA to sustain the growing number of conservative student publications which, at the time numbered 57. The Madison Center administered the Network until 1995, when the Collegiate Network moved from Washington, DC to Wilmington, Delaware. Since then the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has administered the CN."<br /><br />Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-66798807452611589652014-04-18T15:03:29.840-07:002014-04-18T15:03:29.840-07:00Which ones in Québec? I'd love to know... (I b...Which ones in Québec? I'd love to know... (I believe you.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com