Canadian political commentary on the American election riles FOX news:

FOX news has discovered that not only does the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation cover American elections they also say bad things about the candidates:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=9796193

The commentator cannot believe that Canada allows publicly funded independent points of view.

The offending column is available here:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html

In it Heather Mallick, herself from rural Northern Ontario, says:

"I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right."

She also quotes another Canadian commentator John Doyle:

"John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I'd had the wit to come up with it first. It's safer than "white trash" but I'll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.

Doyle's job includes watching a lot of reality television and he's well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that's something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave."

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[Poll #1263678]

Canadians are not getting more conservative, they are getting more apolitical:

The growing ideological no man's land

MICHAEL VALPY

Globe and Mail Update

September 19, 2008 at 9:53 PM EDT

From Saturday's Globe and Mail — Stephen Harper declared recently that Canadians have become more conservative over the past two decades. He is right, although at least half of his fellow citizens will have no idea what he's talking about.

The rest of the article is here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.welxnvote20/BNStory/politics/home

I have to agree with this based on my personal experience. I was a Red Tory in my youth and since their demise I have been casting around for a new political home. Unlike most Canadians I still identify more to the left than the right but this has never meant the same things in Canada as it does in the United States where the badge Democrat or Right Winger has also meant more than similar labels in Canada. Probably because we have had more political choices since World War One with at least one third choice in every national election since 1914.