The Vancouver Sun (Canwest) is so liberal they don’t even know how liberal they are anymore. They just think they’re normal.
What “news”paper, which presumes to be taken seriously, has a four-fifths-page fawning promotional piece on the Bush-hating Dixie Chicks’ film (which, as if you couldn’t have predicted, is from what I can tell yet another one of those tiresome, jejune, films with at least a Bush-Hate undertone) on page D-1 of their “news”paper (see below), and which because four-fifths of that section of the paper’s front page wasn’t enough, has yet another 3/4 page of continuation on page D-5 replete with cheery photos of the Bush-haters with no, not the people who are supposedly so riotously “against their rights of free speech” (which they aren’t), but rather their supporters seeking autographs and holding up signs demanding that they run for President? Why the Vancouver Sun of course!
Liberal media like the Vancouver Sun, its staff of liberals and their liberal editors and owners, will all tell you and me that under no uncertain terms this is actually “fair and balanced” and “objective” “journalism”. They see nothing wrong with promoting yet another anti-Bush group—this time a bunch of Bush-hating American country singers (country just ain’t that big in Vancouver, folks!) under the guise of “reviewing” their film (replete with anti-Bush undertones) by their resident “reviewer”, Katherine Monk. And I know liberals will be all over me for using the word “promoting” in describing what the Vancouver Sun and Katherine Monk are doing here—they’re merely “favorably reviewing their movie”!, they’ll say. But read on.
This, my friends, is agenda-driven journalism in action. How do I know? Well not just because they give more than 1.5 pages to an overtly liberal-left anti-Bush scribe so she can teach us her 97th and 98th reasons to hate conservatives or President Bush (and gee, hey, what do you think she’s going to think about the movie?), but because the editors actually let this garbage fly.
Oh and because they then see fit to have an accompanying contest in which they’re giving away free tickets to the upcoming Dixie Chicks Vancouver concert to readers. To enter, you send you contest entry to “[email protected]”—I kid you not. Also, “The winner will also receive a complete Dixie Chicks CD and DVD library courtesy of Sony BMG Music.”
A “movie review” at a liberal “news”paper can so quickly reveal liberal agenda-driven “news”papers for what they really are.
Oh and of course because the Vancouver Sun scribe shockingly has grand (if hilariously strident) words of praise about the film in which she injects herself into the underlying sentiment, such as these:
“…the Dixie Chicks became the target of one of the most effective smear campaigns yet launched”.
Wow! Most effective… ever? In like history or you know like whatever? My goodness. The Vancouver Sun hires some perspective-challenged unintellectuals apparently. And by the way, it was a “smear” campaign, huh Miss Monk? How about “return volleys”, or “right-headed right back atchas”? Nope. “Smear campaigns”. By us Bush-luvin’ right-winged Neanderthals, y’all!
Ahh. Good times.
That’s the balanced approach, see? What the hapless Dixie Chicks said about President Bush in a foreign country during war time was perfectly acceptable and normal and all Americans must accept it silently (owing to free speech!), or they will bear the wrath of Katherine Monk, liberal-left arts and feelings writer for the Vancouver Sun, and hapless liberals all over. Note though that through the liberal media’s coverage of events in North America today, I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that Liberals never try to shut us conservatives up! Never.
There’s actually two separate stories by Monk about this WOW! news item concerning the release of the Dixie Chicks’ agitprop film. In the other story, she writes:
Kopple and Peck [producers] chronicle the band’s treatment at the hands of country radio, the American public, and a few right-wing lobby groups who latched on to the Dixie Chicks scandal in the hopes of deterring other entertainers from speaking out.
Miss the point of the mini-outrage much, Monk? Oops sorry to interrupt, she wasn’t done lecturing us yet—and we know how sensitive they get about being thrown off message!
There is plenty of balanced coverage of the other side as they wave hate banners and say things like “I believe in free speech—just not for entertainers.” Kopple and Peck capture the inherent irony in the “I believe in free speech, but …” phrase, but they go far beyond the easy target of obese soccer moms stomping on Dixie Chicks albums while holding the American flag.
Balanced, huh? With all their “hate banners” ‘n all? Huh? She may well be delusional yes, but abjectly derogatory about middle America much? Yes, and just liberal. Their perception of America—especially those ridiculous red-state Americans who believe in defending American, is profoundly blinkered and acerbic. And they instantly latch onto anyone who shares their religion.
But the literary coup de grâce is left to the end.
Funny, warm and packing a big punch, Shut Up and Sing! may be about one specific moment in history, but it’s got the breadth and substance to become a fitting time capsule of the whole Bush era.
I smell a Pulitzer!
Oh my. The “Bush era” isn’t even over yet, professor, but maybe with help from that Bush-killing “documentary” film called “Death of a President” in which President Bush is shot just to see what the aftermath would look like, it will be soon! And the Dixie Chicks and this cheap film with the Bush-hating undertones is but a molecule in actual fact — hardly a “time capsule” of anything except their hugely over-inflated egos and sense of self-importance on the world stage.
But that was another fun if unwitting exposure of yourselves at the Vancouver Sun.
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