Read this CNN story written by al-Reuters and spot the perfidy of the liberal-left media in their dutiful groveling and ceding to the predictable calls (and only from the left) for Canada to question, yet again now, and even to fully cut and run from the war in Afghanistan.
Of course they make it seem as though the broad spectrum of Canadians are questioning the mission in Afghanistan rather than it being solely from the liberal-left, and premise their whole article (seemingly by a quick scan of today’s edition of the Toronto Star) on the notion that “opposition is growing”—a premise they fail to back up with statistics but rather just put out there for conjecture.
I guess they just “feel like” opposition is growing, based on “media reports” they’ve read. The liberal media circle completes itself.
… prompting calls for the minority Conservative government to rethink Canada’s military mission …
… but growing opposition to the Afghan mission …
… The issue is becoming a major problem for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s fragile administration…
… The new deaths sparked massive media coverage as well as more questions about why Canadian troops, best known in recent decades for taking part in peacekeeping operations, were involved in a major military mission against the Taliban…
… But columnist Dan Martin in the pro-Conservative National Post wrote Wednesday that “there is now no way out of this quagmire for the Conservatives.” … [as if to portray this as the only available “conservative” viewpoint]
They do quote “Foreign Minister” (new ministry?) Peter MacKay —of the “minority”, “fragile” Conservatives— who defends Canada’s correct position on the mission. Which by the way is also our nation’s official position on the matter, for you media editors who care.
But mostly they don’t quote Peter MacKay or any Conservatives or conservatives or government people. They quote socialist Jack Layton; the sentiments of Gilles Duceppe (apparently it matters not that the Bloc Quebecois is basically socialist party); the Toronto Star’s editorial position (inexplicably and gratuitously taking the time to inform readers that it is Canada’s “largest newspaper” without bothering to mention that it mostly serves only the urban liberal-left bastions of Ontario and is a left-wing newspaper which would naturally call into question the Afghanistan mission); and they quote a Toronto Star columnist and former CBC reporter who, whadyaknow, warns that the Conservatives will lose votes in Quebec over this bloody war. Nobody mentions Quebec is a socialist state within a state with a large vocal anti-American sentiment.
They call Layton’s you’ve got to be kidding party the “left-leaning New Democrats”. Left-leaning. Gee. Ya think? They’re full-on socialists. What are Marxists? “Rather left”? But they fail to call the Toronto Star left-leaning. Even Wikipedia’s official description of the leftist Toronto Star describes the Toronto Star as “left of center” and one which nearly always endorses Liberal Party candidates.
If endorsing Liberal Party candidates makes you “left of center”, what does that make a full-on socialist party that stands for global socialism and an end to capitalism as we know it? “Left-leaning” of course!
Today, the Star remains to the left of centre in the Canadian context. The paper’s precise position in the political spectrum—especially in comparison to one of its main competitors, The Globe and Mail—is hotly debated. The Star finds room for left-leaning columnists and op-ed commentators who would be consigned to more marginal publications or websites in the United States … today few major North American dailies are further to the left than the Star.
—Wikipedia
And that makes them “left of center” to Wikipedia, yet the far-left socialists of the NDP are “left-leaning” to Reuters. You can see why Canadians like to dub conservatives as right-wing extremist freaks or as “barbarians”, as Senator Larry Campbell (Liberal) publicly did before being rewarded for it with a Senate seat by a Liberal Prime Minister.
The Toronto Star, the country’s largest newspaper, said Wednesday that Harper quickly had to make a persuasive case for Canadian soldiers continuing to fight.
Well then. That’s authoritative. It speaks for me, that Toronto Star, seeing as it’s “Canada’s largest newspaper”.
I happen to agree with the Star’s statement in this case, but only because I’d love to see how the Toronto Star turns Harper’s “persuasive case” into cannon fodder for the leftist and terrorist-appeasing fringes, and into a notably “negative case”, and for them to call his “persuasive case” a “lie”, and “a hoodwinking of Canadians”.
I suspect that’s why they’re demanding Harper lay out his “persuasive case”.
Personally I think it’s time for Canada’s media to start explaining the case too. Explain Canada’s official position on the matter, even. These people haven’t been sitting by in a “neutral” position, though they’d love you to think they have been. They’ve covered the case against fighting terrorism, ad nauseam.
You won’t read about that in “Canada’s largest newspaper”.
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