Vision Vancouver’s Adoring Media Whores, er Excuse Me, Hordes…
If you have ever wondered why it is that Gregor Robertson appears to get such fawning praise from key players in the local media…let me explain away.
The Courier’s Allen Garr now sits on the Board of Directors of VanCity with Vision Clr. Geoff Meggs’ wife Jan O’ Brien, but with his beekeeping escapades from earlier this year (that were also objected to by his superiors at the Courier) his objectivity is done; the Vancouver Sun’s Miro Cernetig will lie down for any old piece offered up by Silly Hall, just to get a headline (and with little or no research); 24 hrs. “columnist” Bill Tieleman actually supports Vision Vancouver communications strategists and often appears on internal distribution lists for them…..
…and then there’ Frances Bula of the Mop and Pail. Dear, sweet Frances…(whose husband Doug Ward does a SUPERB, MAGNIFICENT job churning out balanced work for the Sun)…
Do you know what Frances’ big piece of the week was? The huge scoop of scoops?
Evidently, Vancouver City Manager, Dr. Penny Ballem’s bike was stolen from City Hall. Yes, that’s right, Dr. Bedlam’s two-wheeler was pilfered. Poached! Picked!
Oh, how will we sleep tonight knowing that the City Monster’s velo was violated?!?!?!?!
What a complete joke.
Frances Bula continues to tarnish her own brand. She ignored the Ark Tsisserev story, when it’s precisely the kind of story that made her famous and a former inspiration to me–among others. And there were many other stories she has ignored since her political brethren, Vision Vancouver, were elected and are now infesting Silly Hall.
Instead of concentrating on some key findings in the Vision Vancouver financial disclosures (that I will blog about on Monday), rather than to dig a little deeper in many of the green-initiated disasters awaiting buyers of the Olympic Village–she needed to tell us that poor Penny’s lock was mangled and left looking like “a pretzel…”
And that ‘The Ruthless One’ has owned her Brodie bike since 2003 and–here comes the comedy…Frances fears Dr. Bedlam may not be able to replace said cycle because she’s likely not to find anything that “fits her as well.”
That’s one hell of a seat Frances.
Honestly, you cannot make up what now passes for reporting by at least three local Vision lapdogs, ably led by Allen Garr, who are all clearly trading on their years in the business, instead of the kind of reporting that has afforded them such long careers–getting them there in the first place was about good investigative journalism on matters that are ones of public interest, not piffle by politically like-minded scribblers.
I’d bother you with a link to Garr’s pathetic column from Friday on Vision’s “success”, but I’ll do better than that…I’ll make it a separate post for Monday and show you how it doesn’t matter to him, or Frances, that their biases are now on prominent display…all that matters is that their political pals rule the day– and that might get accomplished again in the fall of 2011, thanks, in no small part, to the complicity of Allen Garr, FrancesBula and Miro Cernetig.
Read Frances “worthy” post, here.
Excellent post Alex. Haven’t liked Garr since he wrote for …was it the Province, or was he for a while, on the telly. Can’t remember, but I know he was one humourless S.O. B..
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Allen has lost all credibility. It’s sad to watch…
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The Thought of The Day
“I’m thinking… The Vision Courier, are the real ‘Hacks R Us!’”
Alex,
Some technical glitches with my Hewlett Packard network; busy with one very difficult side of business in…Europe; plus I am kind of sick entirely to satirize those Vision punks… are the reasons of my absence for awhile. ‘No Vision’…they have no shame. I read Agarr’s piece (in the paper) and I found it disgusting, considering it was written by a “journalist”. The ending paragraph to be more specific was… The arrogance is still embedded in my inner ear, as a screeching sound similar to that of a piece of chalk on a dirty blackboard. To me, it really starts to look like we have a pandemic on our hands, my friend. Sort of a Vancouver Venereal disease. It turns out that ‘The Vancouver H1N1 Carrier’ is the best vehicle for writers like Agarr. Apparently he lost all his hair for no good reason. Working for a manipulating, greedy and bankrupt corporation, whose name only misses the prefix ‘Trash’ in order to justify its content in the West, is…very becoming. Bollocks.
Then… I checked out FB’s site. It’s like a leprosy in there! I had to stay away for awhile. Afraid not to get something. And yes, that “Penny got her bike stolen” announcement ruined my appetite for the day too, and it also broke my heart accordingly… The most pathetic piece I read in a long time. The amount of sucking up that followed, however, is priceless. And I am sorry to report that our own Michael Geller is doing cartwheels to a degree I was only accustomed to witness, when watching the Russian women team at the World Gymnastics Championship. Pitiful.
But what made me envious was the amount of response one commenter ‘Higgins’ got (I think two or three posts before the one with stolen bike). The vitriol the biking crowd throws at him is pathetically hilarious, for a second or two I felt sorry for him but it seemed to me, that he enjoyed taking on this wagon of fools. Good for him. For once I stand back and enjoyed the word duels of others. Boy, this Vision bunch, are they a spiteful bunch or what?! Cocaine.
Anyway. What bothers me more, is the fact that most of the yesteryear politicos are all mum in their cushioned “after the battle for City hall lost” jobs with nothing to say anymore about this complete joke of a municipal party we have now. Honestly, I want nothing to do with overnight politicians, individuals that for years stay hidden behind heavy curtains, only to come out like sleepy groundhogs on a February Second. Thinking more about it, I’d rather have people like Michael, making embarrassing statements once in a while, than having opportunists, liars and cowards waiting in the shadows, ’cause we already have that kind of thing this very moment. It lives in Vancouver, dwells at the City hall and it’s a Gregor. BC bud.
As for Andrea R. I agree, she is like toilet paper. Thin, double sided, easy to recycle and see-through. I never kidded myself into thinking she would ever be able…more like, flush-able. Sorry, to hear you getting punk-ed by her. Dual flush. Low.
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
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Bless you my brother. I am glad you’re alright. And you know you’re always welcome here.
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“No, alas, Ms. Ballem has suffered the awful fate of hundreds of cyclists in this town. Her yellow Brodie Energy mountain bike was stolen from right in front of the security office at city hall. She parked it at the bike rack around 2 p.m. a couple of weeks ago and saw it again at 4 p.m. But when she came out at 10 p.m., all that was left was her Kryptonite bike lock, twisted like a pretzel.” F. Bula
I see Ms. Bedlam has suffered an egregious violation.
Do you have a yellow Brodie Energy mountain bike stashed away in a warehouse somewhere Alex, or did you toss it from the Burrard St. Bridge?
Alright Mr. Tsakumis: where were you between 4 and 10 p.m. on the evening of, well – a couple of weeks ago.
How could someone “worth” in excess of $300,000 per annum be so stupid as to leave a bike unattended at that time of day? It would seem her pretzel logic is as twisted as her Kryptonite bike lock.
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No Sir, not me. I ride a Norco….and only about a half dozen times a month. Not enough, clearly! LOL!
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Muffled voice on the phone: Okay Ms. Ballem listen and listen very carefully — contact the police and…
Ms. Ballem: I have no concern; I did some honest work for eHealth Ontario…
Muffled voice: Shut up! Just shut up and listen up Ms. Ballem! One more boneheaded move at Silly Hall and the yellow Brodie gets it!
Ms. Ballem: Is that you Tsisserev? Are you…
Muffled voice: Shut the *&%# up and listen. I have your…
Ms. Ballem: You’re not Tsisserev, it’s Tsakumis! I know it’s you Tsakumis. Now you listen to me Tsakumis…
Muffled voice: No and no. And no, you listen to me Dr. Death. If you ever want to see your arseless again you’d better…
Ms. Ballem: How dare you! Now you listen to me you fat %#@&…
Click. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (sound of dial tone)
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ROTFLMAO!
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I must say I agree with Gliss. I am quite tired of this mess we have at city hall. I am also tired of the masses of vision sycophants that gang up on anyone with a differing view.
Recently a “cyclist hero” of theirs finally admitted to the doping that everyone else knew he did. I find it quite amusing that our cyclists take the moral high ground – when they are all nothing but a bunch of lying, cheating, scum bags trying to bully anyone in their sites.
Vision’s strategy is as painfully obvious as it is arrogant. The question is, will it get them booted from office in 2011.
The NPA is run by a ship of fools. Their new board members brought forward two motions which appear to be going no where. Suzanne Anton is the only voice of the party and it appears as though she’s jumped on Vision’s bankwagon. She is truly a pathetic joke.
The natives are restless. First erecting a billboard and now planning mass development on a former “fishing village”. I wonder if the bears could speak if they would claim the land as theirs, since they surely beat the squamish there in the first place.
This city has significantly gone to hell since Vision took over, and I see no end in site. This administration is stifling the public consultation process and without a proper opposition, they are getting away with murder.
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Well Alex, you have come up with another 1st!
I have never seen “Francis” and “worthy” in the same sentence before….
I will have to lay down and ponder this for awhile………………….
Cheers
Gary L.
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Well, it’s not fun to have to call her out on this but her reporting of Vision’s failures has been a disaster. Missed stories and, incredibly, excuse-mongering…
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Had a small account at Vancity but closed it out just prior to the election of board members. The clerk seemed anxious for me to tell her why I had decided to shut down the account, so I told her that I didn’t like some of the prospective members (Hell, I didn’t like some of the original members) including Garr. Apparently they’re a pretty well-run institution, and they give more back to the shareholders, it’s just the whole philosophy of the folks running it, I guess. There is absolutely no fear of my withdrawal causing any damage hear people.
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It is possible that Dr. Penny Ballem’s bike was stolen by a lonely downtrodden Snorf.
A what you say? Let me elaborate, a Snorf is a guy who has a deep seated compulsion to sniff old women’s bicycle seats, takes the bike, keeps the seat as a trophy to sniff, then probably scraps the rest bike.
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Dear Lord….
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