Salutin Dumped by Globe!

Bet he joins Mallick at the Star!

>>  Posted by Blazing Cat Fur at 4:14 PM |  31 comments  |  link to this post |  send email  | 
rick mcginnis  – (4:43 PM)  

That way the Star can collect the whole set!

Blazing Cat Fur  – (4:44 PM)  

Ha! Bobble Head Bolsheviks!

John B  – (5:14 PM)  

First he has to do a stint at the CBC like Mallick

Voltaire's Ghost  – (5:34 PM)  

Salutin is tiresome and his columns are simultaneously published on rabble.ca as soon as they go in the Globe.

I don't know what Rebick's complaining about. The 5 or 6 people who are interested in what Salutin has to say can still see it on her site.

But I do think she has some good advice. email jstackhouse@globeandmail.com and commend the Globe for ridding themselves of some detritus.

maryT  – (5:40 PM)  

rabble.ca, isn't that libby davis's spouse.

Blazing Cat Fur  – (5:55 PM)  

Yup think so Maryt.

Good idea that guy should receive a medal Voltaire.

The CBC & Salutin - scary JohnB.

Voltaire's Ghost  – (6:26 PM)  

Here's an apt quote from Jonathan kay about Salutin:

"After 17 years as a Globe columnist, one suspects, Salutin apparently has gotten to the stage where he simply throws a bunch of buzz phrases in the air — imperialism, Guantanamo, oil, Omar Khadr, "honest broker" — and lets his readers write their own column."

Blazing Cat Fur  – (6:27 PM)  

Man that's the typical word salad alright.

Gideon  – (7:12 PM)  

It's doubtful that the CBC would take him. Has anybody actually seen what he looks like?

Blazing Cat Fur  – (7:31 PM)  

This is true.

Revnant Dream  – (8:08 PM)  

Another:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100916/ids_photos_wl/r2799749475.jpg/

Demon people.

Blazing Cat Fur  – (8:16 PM)  

Eww Scary!

Blog Wrath  – (8:50 PM)  

Salutin appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show few weeks ago to discuss the Ground Zero mosque. It was pathetic, he looked totally lost and confused. Unfortunately, there is no recording of that online, but here is a video from his appearance on "therealnews.com", where he is trying to contribute his opinions to the campaign to stop Harper in 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t5oOhb4oA8
If Harper was half as conservative as Salutin painted him in this talk, Canada would have been a much better place.

Blazing Cat Fur  – (8:54 PM)  

Oh man I wish we had that clip!

Revnant Dream  – (9:11 PM)  

http://www.billoreilly.com/search/searchresultsframe.jsp?searchstring=Rick+Salutin&sortby=0&sortdir=1&searchcategory=0&x=12&y=9

Louise  – (9:41 PM)  

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's gotta be the best news I've heard in a decade or more. Detritus piling up all over the place. I guess leftwing drivel just isn't selling anymore. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Louise  – (9:43 PM)  

And I swear I hadn't read Voltaire's bit about detritus. The word just seemed apropos. Just like BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA does. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Roz  – (9:47 PM)  

Oh , he'll join the Toronto Star for sure. What a team! Haroon Siddiqui, Heather, Rick, and the dishelved Linda forget her last name...
The Toronto Star will become the angriest newspaper in North America. Wonder if they will make Jews employed by the Star wear yellow Stars of David?? :):)

Louise  – (9:47 PM)  

Gideon, hasn't he already made guest appearances on CBC? And if he's deemed too old and ugly for the cameras, he can always write columns posing as news for their website.

Louise  – (9:48 PM)  

BCF: "The CBC & Salutin - scary JohnB."

No it's not. It's perfect. It would be the final blow. BRING. IT. ON!!!

been around the block  – (10:21 PM)  

Gideon: "Has anybody actually seen what he looks like?"

Have you? I saw him loping along Bloor Street a couple of weeks ago looking like the night of the living dead. Maybe he'd just got the pink slip -- although, come to think of it, he always looks terrible.

A left-liberal has-been; what sorrier beast is there? 'Good news for us!

Blazing Cat Fur  – (11:12 PM)  

A happy day.

jimhenshaw  – (11:17 PM)  

Back in the early 70's Rick wrote a play about the Montreal Canadiens that is the hockey movie every movie producer here has been trying to make ever since.

Every actor in town wanted to be in that show. It ran for almost a year and the cast changed 3 times. Every time they had auditions I was the first guy at the theatre.

All the directors thought I was too small but I kept reminding them I was bigger than LaFleur and they hadn't measured my heart.

Never cut any ice.

But I got to know Rick a little while it was on and we used to have coffee and talk about what he was going to write next.

But he never wrote anything. And a little while later he got his column and left the theatre scene for good.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw him on O'Reilly and he just got chewed up and spit out. Absolutely no fight left.

But you read that play and you know he was one of the most gifted playwrights this country ever produced.

Just sayin'...

Blazing Cat Fur  – (11:34 PM)  

Worth noting Jim.

simus  – (12:13 AM)  

Didn't he moonlight as a "stringer" for the KGB back in the Gorbachev glasnost era? Maybe Putin could help by arranging for a few crumbs to be tossed in his direction.

gama  – (3:53 AM)  

Perhaps the G&M simply got tired of depends ending up in the recycling bin ! ? !

dmurrell  – (4:53 AM)  

Simus:
The G&M stringer in Moscow, at the start of the Gorbachev era, was Lawrence Martin. During the first two or three years of Gorbachev, before reforms came, Martin suppted the continued repression of dissidents -- and railed against Jewish dissidents demonstrating to emmigrate to Israel.

Good to see Salutin getting canned. He is a strong supporter of anti-Semitic Islamists, and hard-core homegrown terrorists here in Canada.

I dissagree with the comments that he could not be hired by CBC News. The Corpse could hire him as a blog writer, just like the did with the much coveted Heather Mallick.

scaramouche  – (8:15 AM)  

Salutin appears to be a casualty of a Globe redesign: http://scaramouchee.blogspot.com/2010/09/globe-morphing-into-star.html

dmurrell  – (10:08 AM)  

Scaramouche:
The Globe for the past few years has become more Toronto el-Star like -- in content if not in visual style. After all, the TorStar conglomerate owned a chunck of the Globe -- and as ownere they pushed their far-left/pro-Islamist point of view to Globe management.

The Globe's opinion pages ranged from centre-left to far-left -- and have become stridently anti-Israel, pro-Islamist, etc. The Globe exuded symapthy to our home grown Islamist terrorists. The "letters to the editor" page has become exclusive turf to various left-nutbars of every stripe. A conservative cannot get any letter-to-the-editor published these days.

Question for BCF'ers. Has the percentage of TorStar ownership been reduced or not? I.e., with Thompson's owning most of the Globe? If so, perhaps the sacking of Salutin is a function of the new ownership.

I have to disagree that sacking Salutin has anything to do with a "redesign". The "redesign" takes place irrespective of the opinion columnist within. A well-redesigned newspaper (in terms of visuals) could have Islamo-Nazis writing for it, for all I care. The CBC News broadcast studio is well-designed, and look at the rubblish it produces.

John B  – (5:04 PM)  

Re: Jimhenshaw:

I saw that play back in the late '70's (Les Canadiens) and it was superb. I kept waiting for something equally good from Salutin, but all I got was a tedious Globe and Mail column.

Paul  – (6:44 PM)  

If there ever was a contest for the most boring and/or anal writer in Canada, I'd be hard pressed to choose between Margret Atwood and Rick Salutin.

In either case, they both have the same underlying message. Namely, it's a big scary world if you're a girl and we should all be afraid, ....very afraid. (as Count Floyd used to say.)

Pretty well sums ujp the news and editorial style of The Star as well, I shold add especially with the likes of lame-dick Bobbie Hempburn running the show.

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