{"id":23172,"date":"2026-05-13T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:46:01","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>Long in tooth &#8216;reporter&#8217; Rick Bell, 71, is drawing attention for his support of David Parker and the Alberta separatist movement.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23173\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Oldfukkr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" 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>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">rbell@postmedia.com,<br \/>\nrickbell@postmedia.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\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<p>Bell\u2019s second favourite topic in 2024 was Dani Panama, about whom his bullshit had a far different stench.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/calgarysun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/theconfluenceep1202-copy.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;h=216&amp;sig=E5ghj1YBSUTqZxIWqWtg5Q\" width=\"288\"><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">He praised Dani Panama in 24 columns or 28% of his output.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Bell had something to say about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He penned 9 articles, all of which were negative. Every time Bell publishes a column, he posts about it several times on various social media.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"><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=\"300\"><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">Bell posted <u>more than 550<\/u> times about his columns on X in 2024.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\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 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 many of separatists, he is a cranky old man who has virtually no stake in the future because he will die soon. It&#8217;s 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<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\"><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\">Rick Bell needed to retire years ago. He doesn&#8217;t even resemble his twitter photo any more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23188\" src=\"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-13-113132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"332\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bell is an 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. He needs to sail off into the sunset and that was true 6 years ago. Canada would be better off with Bell put out to pasture where he belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long in tooth &#8216;reporter&#8217; Rick Bell, 71, is drawing attention for his 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 Calgary mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":19,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23213,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions\/23213"}],"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}]}}