Rant of the Week

Tactless CBC

Who you gonna blame
The star of the game
Or the no-name girl int he marching band?  Quarterback, Kira Isabelle

I just heard the CBC play some songs from the CCMA show (Canadian Country Music Awards). First, a sensitive song about a young girl in the marching band who is date-raped by the star quarterback of the football team, who then posts pictures of her naked on the internet. (The chorus is "Who you gonna blame/The star of the game/or the no-name girl in the marching band?")

The ever-tactful CBC followed this with a presentation of "Day Drinking" by Little Big Town. "I know you know what I'm thinking/Why don't we do a little day drinking? Day drinking! Day drinking!... Ready get set, baby here we go".  Sung with that bombastic pseudo-rock stadium gusto: woohoo!

Maybe the CBC programmers were doing a little day-drinking of their own.

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