This is a quick fisking of the state-run CBC including its interview with Robert Fisk. This is almost a blogger’s responsibility, given that it was Fisk being interviewed; but it’s unusual to fisk a TV show, so Fisk should be proud of me. Of course I don’t doubt that he would condemn me for being a stooge of the British and American governments.
Fisk, for those who don’t know, is of course one of the most infamous anti-American journalists known to man (thus, naturally, ipso facto, of course, he was interviewed at length on the state-run CBC, duh) and is the root of the term “fisking”, meaning what a blogger does when he’s critically dissecting a news article or blog entry bit by bit.
To set this up for those who also don’t know the state-news anchor Nancy (“very interesting”) Wilson, allow me to fisk her post-Fisk gobbledygook:
The liberals’ state-run CBC Newsworld subdivision secretariat’s state employee/anchor Nancy (“very interesting!”) Wilson led her reporting on the al-Zarqawi death story, with this information, at noon, eastern time, on June 8 2006:
”…and Henry Champ is in Washington where George Bush is celebrating a rare victory in his war on terror.”
Nancy Wilson has on previous occasions called the global war on terror the “so-called war on terror”. I have it on tape and replay it occasionally just to keep things in perspective and to bask in the fact that I’ve chosen the right side.
Also at roughly 12:00 noon, showing the picture of the dead al-Zarqawi, so-called Nancy Wilson said, ”…and here is that face, in death, shown-off like a trophy of war, by the enemies who hunted him down.”
Al-Zarqawi. Hunted down. By the enemies. The. Enemies.
Just prior to all that information provided by our state, at about 11:40 AM, the state-run media interviewed (at great length) the aforementioned British man named Robert Fisk —a liberal-left anti-American British liberal-left media reporter (who else could they possibly find on planet Earth for Canadian consumption—certainly not an American General!), who said that this al-Zarqawi killing is completely insignificant. In fact it was bad. Bad bad bad.
Baiting him with another one of her famous hardballs, Wilson asked him if this won’t just stoke more violence in Iraq. Yes! was the answer. Well I nearly fell off my chair.
He said that the average Iraqi couldn’t care less about this—nor Saddam Hussein being caught. No no. They’re too busy trying not to be kidnapped, among other things, see.
Then he folded his pathologically nervous, busy hands on his lap again, awaiting the next fast curve ball from the crack anchor.
Does al-Zarqawi’s death change anything OUTSIDE Iraq, she asked. “No!” he answered. I fell of my chair again. “Things are going to get WORSE in Iraq,” he informed Canadians on the state news media.
. Outside Iraq? Well Bush and Blair will use this as another ‘victory’.”
A”so-called” victory, no doubt.
“The great problem you see now,” he continued, “is that with all these constant claims that things are getting ‘better’, there’s a new democracy, there’s a new government, we’ve got new ministers,” (that’s so-called ‘better’!), ”…is that to find out the reality of Iraq for journalists now is almost impossible, because to find out the reality, the journalist will be killed. And this allows Blair and Bush to trumpet victory every day! But in fact Iraq is a Hell disaster and it’s getting worse, and Zarqawi is just a drop in a little ocean there—it doesn’t matter.”
Wilson was nothing if not interested. Very interested. She didn’t counter any of this with any of those hard-hitting CBC questions that they reserve for the likes of Ann Coulter (whom, in contradistinction to Fisk—who they introduced as a benign reporter from Britain —they would introduce as the “notorious extreme right-wing zealot, Ann Coulter”).
Later in this politics lesson for Canadians presented by the state, he informed us: “We’ve got to leave—we’ve got to give Iraqis freedom FROM US. It was a TERRIBLE error to go in there, we’ve got TOTAL anarchy… it’s getting worse EVERY day.”
Nancy Wilson ended the interview as she ends every single interview she ever does, with “very interesting!”, rather than the more appropriate in this case, “thanks Mr. Fisk—that was complete and utter leftist anti-American bullsh*t, mmmbah bye!”.
And then they went to commercial. Perhaps a commercial for their big taxpayer-funded TV feature called “The Story of God” – which they describe as “The God of the Gaps – Explores how belief in God has been challenged in the modern world by secular ideas, in particular science.”
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