{"id":1496,"date":"2011-06-01T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2011-06-01T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:31:40","slug":"cbc-apologizes-to-liberals-ndp-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/2011\/06\/01\/cbc-apologizes-to-liberals-ndp-green\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC Apologizes To Liberals, NDP, &#038; Green Parties For Failing To Win Federal Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO  (SBP) &#8212; Flummoxed with what to do to prevent future undesirable  election results, the CBC has decided to issue an apology to the three  political parties it shamelessly promoted during the 2011 election; The  Liberal, NDP and Green Party.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  don\u2019t know what else we could have done,\u201d explained a CBC reporter as  she proudly wore a Liberal party button, \u201cWe had Terry Milewski  pontificate on how creepy the Prime Minister is instead of asking  questions. \u00a0We even developed an online Vote Compass that &#8212; no matter  what &#8212; said you were a Liberal voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As  the unfathomable federal election results came in, the CBC\u2019s  unbelieving maws hinged agape. \u00a0Despite their tireless efforts to attack  the minutia of their opposition and, despite the perpetual campaigning  for their causes, CBC reporter\u2019s hearts were filled with consternation  in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>As  a result of their collective failure, the state broadcaster called a  news conference to officially apologize to the Liberal, NDP, and Green  Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur  brethren, our confidants, our comrades; please accept our deepest, most  heart-felt apologies,\u201d said the CBC President, lips quivering, in a  televised prime time address, \u201cDespite our best, most concerted efforts,  the enemy of every freedom in this country has thwarted us this dark  day. \u00a0We have failed you and now must endure the wrath of a ruthless,  misogynistic, sexist, racist, creepy, controlling, dictator who is a  crazy, war mongering lunatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The  address, which cut short the pregame show on \u201cHockey Vote Liberal Night  In Canada\u201d, was meant as an explanation as to why they failed to get  the Liberal party in power for the third straight election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  tried. \u00a0We really really tried!\u201d said the CBC president, \u201cFor some  reason, the Canadian public just isn\u2019t becoming normalized to our  consistent message of voting Liberal or, failing that, some variant of Marxist  ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The  CBC president went on to list \u201cindividual opinion\u201d, \u201cfreedom of  information\u201d, and some strange concept called \u201cCritical Thinking\u201d as  additional reasons why their campaign failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne billion taxpayer dollars a year just doesn\u2019t buy the influence it used to.  We are very, very sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There  is no word yet on whether the Liberals, NDP, or Green Parties have  accepted the apology as it is likely that, like most Canadians, they  don\u2019t watch the CBC anymore either.<\/p>\n<p>[paypal-donation]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (SBP) &#8212; Flummoxed with what to do to prevent future undesirable election results, the CBC has decided to issue an apology to the three political parties it shamelessly promoted during the 2011 election; The Liberal, NDP and Green Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.saskabush.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}