A blog entry I posted yesterday (”Division within liberal media brain cells”) afternoon was based on a story I read, written by Dan Dugas of Canadian Press (via Yahoo News). I called it one of the most biased and stupid stories I’d read in days. It was about what Dugas was desperately trying to convince us was a “deep divide” in the Conservative Party over the gay marriage issue. I went through his entire article and tore it apart. I implied that it was inadequate in that relied on nobodies and anonymous people of no value to make the claim that there was a “deep divide”.
Now the story has been completely changed online—with no “re-edited” remarks or any explanation. The headline is exactly the same. The beginning is the same. A whole section has been added to the end of the story. Other bits have been changed. The date and time of the original article was Thu Jan 27, 4:03 PM ET. The new article’s date and time is Thu Jan 27, 11:51 PM ET (hours after I wrote about it). There is no indication anywhere that the story was edited.
Maybe this is their effort at correcting a completely bogus story, in their continuing effort to find a problem in the Conservative ranks, or maybe it’s a ploy to keep the story at the top of their list of today’s news. Either way, it stinks to high heaven.
The first change occurred at the point at which I hammered Dugas for quoting NOBODY and rather, simply INFORMING us “Harper has also drawn criticism for musing that gay marriage could lead to legalized polygamy.”
My retort was: “He’s also drawn praise for having the balls to comment (or “musing” as Dugas so quaintly puts it) on the LIBERALS who BROUGHT POLYGAMY UP IN THE FIRST PLACE by launching a study into the matter after pressing forward with their emergency gay-marriage bill.”
In Dugas’ new story he inserted these four paragraphs before that offensive “musing” nonsense sentence:
“Harper got some support Thursday from Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.
Klein spoke with Harper by telephone and offered words of encouragement in efforts to uphold the traditional definition of marriage.
“I am on the same page as him now,” said Klein. “I was somewhat critical (in the past) that he wasn’t being aggressive enough relative to encouraging his members or stating specifically what amendments they plan to introduce.
“I did say, however, that we were on the same page relative to our support of the traditional definition of marriage.”
Klein said Harper provided no specifics on his party’s tactics, but he urged him to do whatever is necessary to protect traditional marriage values. “
And then Dugas added this whole bit to the end of his original story—perhaps because it was indeed inadequate the way it was first written:
Harper defended his stance on same-sex marriage before about 200 people at a town hall meeting in his riding of Calgary Southwest Thursday.
Although he received a standing ovation from many in the crowd about 20 individuals opposed his stance and remained seated booing loudly.
Harper made no apologies for his position on same-sex marriage saying the legislation amounts to discrimination against religious groups.
“That kind of logic that equates traditional marriage with segregation or apartheid which some former cabinet ministers have done means that inevitably you cannot tolerate the existence and practice of institutions that recognize the traditional definition of marriage,” he said.
“The time has come for society to respect some of our traditional institutions,” Harper said.
Harper’s message was not popular with some members of the gay and lesbian community who attended the meeting.
Lisa Morrison, a constituent in Calgary Southwest, said Harper is trying to impose his religious views on the rest of Canada.
“As much as Mr. Harper believes marriage is a tradition he wants to uphold – we have been a tradition for centuries,” she said.
“Homosexual love and homosexual bonds and relationships and unions have been tradition and he and his government and his beliefs won’t be able to hold that back,” she said.
But what do this woman’s comments have to do with a “deep divide” in the Conservative Party?! The spokesman is a “member of the gay and lesbian community who attended the meeting”! Not a Conservative Party member as part of Dugas’ bogus “deep divide” in the Party theory! Try again—give us another re-write, Dugas!
This is “fair and balanced” reporting, Canadian liberal media style. All I can say is bring on Fox News Channel! (Have I mentioned before that it’s now available to Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco, and Star*Choice subscribers?)
Here’s the whole revised Thu Jan 27, 11:51 PM ET article
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