The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin's supporters as "white trash," compared the vice presidential candidate to a "porn actress" and called her daughter's boyfriend a "redneck" and "ratboy."| Isn't that 'hate speech' to be punished by the Canadian Human Rights Commissions? Perhaps the provincial one in Prince Edward Island? |
In the CBC story, Mallick wrote that John McCain's running mate "added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't 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 decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression."
She also questioned why the Palins were allowing Levi Johnston -- 17-year-old Bristol Palin's boyfriend and father of her unborn baby -- into the family.
"What normal father would want Levi 'I'm 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 don't the Palins? I'm not the one preaching homespun values but I'd destroy that ratboy before I'd let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. ... Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am."
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 he's reviewing its contents to see if it meets CBC's journalistic standards and practices.
Asked if Mallick's column represented the views of CBC or the Canadian government, which owns CBC, Mallick suggested it did not and questioned whether commentators on FOX News represent the views of all Americans. "I don't think so," he answered.
As for Mallick, he said, "She's 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 she's a woman.
In her Guardian column, Mallick claimed her own small-town credentials are just as solid as Palin's, writing "Palin cannot out-hick me."
| I'm sure she can't ... |
Mallick also blasted Alaska as Canada's 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."
Click here to read Mallick's CBC column.
Click here to read Mallick's Guardian column.