State-employee and one of the official state news disseminators for the people, the CBC’s Nancy (“very interesting”) Wilson couldn’t contain her “blunt”, “stunned”, “stark”, “surprised” reaction to the NATO Supreme Commander’s comments this morning.
On the 8:00 am PDT edition of the liberals’ CBC-Newsworld division “news”, she explained this as her top story:
Some blunt admissions and an appeal today from the western coalition fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Its Supreme Commander admits that NATO has been STUNNED! (her emphasis) by the intensity of recent Taliban attacks.
Well not exactly. At least that’s not what I heard. I think his exact words were:
“…somewhat of a different ‘metric’ than expected but we’re dealing with it.”
That’s a “blunt admission” from a man who “admits” that NATO has been “STUNNED!”, on the liberals’ state-run news media.
About 15 minutes later in her shift she mellowed. Perhaps the herbal tea kicked in.
General James Jones says NATO has been surprised by the strength of the attacks…
Still later, she reported:
A stark admission from the head of NATO: the Supreme Commander says the Taliban is putting up a tougher fight than expected and that more troops are needed in Afghanistan…
She seemed to settle on “surprised” for the rest of her shift, but maintained her stance on it being “blunt”, “stark”, and in any case, an “admission”.
The actual quote as I have it from the CBC’s own interview of him was this:
“…We always expected a resurgence in the activity in Afghanistan in general, following the winter time; usually there is a spring offensive of some sort. The resilience and the degree of tenacity that the fighters have shown have been somewhat of a different ‘metric’ than expected but we’re dealing with it.”
Even al-Reuters used more temperate wording:
NATO’s top commander of operations, General James Jones, acknowledged on Thursday the alliance had been taken aback by the level of violence in south Afghanistan and urged allies to provide reinforcements.
And they actually quoted him (notably) not saying “stunned” in his news conference this morning:
“While some of it (violence) is predictable, we should recognize we are a little bit surprised at the level of intensity, and (the fact) that the opposition in some areas are not relying on traditional hit-and-run tactics,” Jones said.
“It’s something akin to poking the bee hive and the bees are swarming,” he said of the Taliban resistance in the south.
I think it’s something akin to an abomination of journalistic fairness and balance to present news —particularly official “state” news—this way, but more so to call the war on terror a “so-called” war on terror, as she and her comrades repeatedly do on the state-run media (duly noted in this blog several times). I demand that they call our soldiers fighting and dying and being injured there so-called humans while they maintain that stance.
But I’m no longer the least bit shocked out of my gourd. And I’m certainly not “stunned”. And it does not “surprise” me is that they fail to “bluntly” or “starkly” “admit” that as I see it, they’re totally biased, anti-war on terror, anti-American, anti-conservative, and more, and beyond repair in that general regard.
And it would shock nobody here that I once again call for the demise of the state-run media, and that it be banned formally in this country and that a ban on state-run media be enshrined in our Constitution once and for all.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
Contact Mr. Johannesen about this article using this form. Please refer to article's title.
FOLLOW @JoelJohannesen ON X!
- Say something. - Friday October 25, 2024 at 6:03 pm
- Keep going, or veer right - Monday August 26, 2024 at 4:30 pm
- Hey Joel, what is “progressive?” - Friday August 2, 2024 at 11:32 am
