{"id":23172,"date":"2026-05-13T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:07:22","slug":"calgary-sun-political-columnist-rick-bell-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=23172","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Sun political columnist Rick Bell &#8211; MAGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Extremely<\/strong> long in tooth &#8216;reporter&#8217; Rick Bell, 71, is drawing attention for his brainless support of David Parker and the Alberta separatist movement.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oldfukkr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oldfukkr.png 291w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oldfukkr-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/tD><\/p>\n<td>rbell@postmedia.com,<br \/>\nrickbell@postmedia.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In 2024 an analysis of Rick Bell&#8217;s articles in the Calgary Sun and The Calgary Herald revealed he had published 89 columns since the start of the year on then Calgary mayor Gondek. 39 columns or 44% of them were hostile to Gondek. &#8220;This kind of sustained negativity by a newspaper columnist is highly unusual.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/rabble.ca\/politics\/canadian-politics\/columnist-calgary-mayor-walks-on-water-we-have-proof-she-cant-swim\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<table><Tr><\/p>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/calgarysun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/theconfluenceep1202-copy.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216&#038;sig=E5ghj1YBSUTqZxIWqWtg5Q\" width=\"288\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\nBell\u2019s second favourite topic in 2024 was Dani Panama, about whom his bullshit had a far different stench. He praised the UCP premier in 24 columns or 28% of his total output.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The very old man had something to say about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau too. He penned 9 articles, 100% of which were negative. Every time Bell publishes a column, he posts about it several times on various social media.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/1.4985609,1547936412000\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C422%2C4000%2C2250%29%3B\" width=\"400\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Bell posted <u>more than 550<\/u> times about his columns on X in 2024.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Rick Bell follows David Parker extensively and writes about him often. None of his comments on David Parker are negative. When the story broke of David Parker&#8217;s Centurion Project stealing the voter&#8217;s list containing the info of 2.9m Albertans, Rick Bell did a clown story on Calgary bike lanes. Rick Bell&#8217;s employer is American owned Sun Media Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Bell is far from his &#8216;best before&#8217; date. Exactly like the majority of separatists, he is a cranky old man who has virtually no stake in the future because he will die soon. Its the old basterds trying to impose their twisted will on the next generation. This is what Rick Bell has &#8216;done&#8217; for over 2 decades.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\nRick Bell needed to retire years ago. He doesn&#8217;t even resemble his twitter photo any more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-113132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-113132.png 502w, https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-113132-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><br \/>\nBell is a sad anachronism who is stealing the job of a Canadian who deserves it far more than he does. The fact he is a breathless apologist for traitors like David Parker seals the deal. This old kunt needs to sail off into the sunset and that was true 6 years ago. Canada would be better off with this old man put out to pasture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extremely long in tooth &#8216;reporter&#8217; Rick Bell, 71, is drawing attention for his brainless support of David Parker and the Alberta separatist movement. rbell@postmedia.com, rickbell@postmedia.com In 2024 an analysis of Rick Bell&#8217;s articles in the Calgary Sun and The Calgary Herald revealed he had published 89 columns since the start of the year on then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1248,1247],"class_list":["post-23172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-old-man","tag-rick-bell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oldfukkr.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23172"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23192,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions\/23192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}