http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/18/columnists-labeling-palin-backers-white-trash-spurs-review-at-canadian-tv//The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palins supporters as white trash, compared the vice presidential candidate to a porn actress and called her daughters boyfriend a redneck and ratboy.
The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britains Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palins home state of Alaska as a frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.
In the CBC story, Mallick wrote that John McCains running mate added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didnt already have sewn up, the white trash vote.
She proceeded to write that the Alaska governor has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decades woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression.
She also questioned why the Palins were allowing Levi Johnston 17-year-old Bristol Palins boyfriend and father of her unborn baby into the family.
What normal father would want Levi Im a f-n redneck Johnson prodding his daughter? Mallick asked.
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why dont the Palins? Im not the one preaching homespun values but Id destroy that ratboy before Id let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. & Turn your guns on Levi, maam.
CBC Ombudsman Vince Carlin told FOXNews.com that he has gotten quite a few complaints about [the column], both from Canada and the U.S, and said hes reviewing its contents to see if it meets CBCs journalistic standards and practices.
Asked if Mallicks column represented the views of CBC or the Canadian government, which owns CBC, Carlin suggested it did not and questioned whether commentators on FOX News represent the views of all Americans.
I dont think so, he answered.
As for Mallick, he said, Shes a columnist not a journalist.
Mallick also wrote on the CBC Web site that Republican men, whom she called sexual inadequates, must think that women would vote for Palin just because shes a woman.
In her Guardian column, Mallick claimed her own small-town credentials are just as solid as Palins, writing Palin cannot out-hick me.
But she said Palin should have stayed in her hometown of Wasilla, writing, Small towns are places that smart people escape from, for privacy, for variety, for intellect, for survival. Palin should have stayed home.
Mallick also blasted Alaska as Canadas ugly stepchild.
We love our own north to the point of covering our eyes and humming as it melts & but Alaska is different from our north, she wrote. We share a 1,500-mile border with a frontier state full of drunks and crazy people, of the blight that cheap-built structures bring to a glorious landscape.
Alaska is our redneck cousin, our Yukon territory forms a blessed buffer zone, and thank God he never visits. Alaska is the end of the line.
An amazing number of racist remarks by this Canadian woman.
So ... has everyone here registered to vote, I hope ?
