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What’s known is this: Canadians will be in the front lines of George W. Bush’s war on terrorism until 2009 and perhaps far beyond…
That’s Jim Travers, columnist in one of the most left-wing newspapers in North America, writing today about the Afghanistan vote in Parliament last night. See, it’s not a war on terrorism to liberals. It’s “George Bush’s ‘war on terrorism’”. That sure makes our being there sound stupid.
That’s the same Jim Travers who is a permanent fixture on the state-run CBC Newsworld’s daily show about the news in Canadian politics, with host Don Newman, called “Politics”.
In fact the CBC even has a li’l name for Jim Travers’ segment: “Lessard and Travers”. The two of them together make for a “fair and balanced” team. It presents both sides of the political spectrum that the state-run media typically presents. On the left we have Daniel Lessard, a host of a state-run CBC radio program in Quebec. He’s on the left. On the far left, we have Jim Travers, of the far leftist Toronto Star. That’s how nearly all the media in Canada works.
Just to fill you in on how the fairness and balance is going, yesterday, Travers called our Prime Minister Harper “petulant” on the CBC’s “Politics” program in reference to Harper’s scrum with the media after his speech in the House about the Afghanistan matter. Note that Travers is supposed to be above all this and discussing all the politics, not engaging in it. But at least he wasn’t being petulant.
Yesterday, his newspaper, the Toronto Star, ran a lead editorial entitled “Harper’s petulance”. That was about the Gwyn Morgan affair and Harper’s reaction to it.
Yes that’s what the news that the CBC Newsworld—the official state cable news station—channel number 390 on my satellite dial—thinks you need, presented by the folks whom they think you need to hear it from. Those liberals always know what’s best for us knuckleheads.
I don’t agree but this, they say, is good for Canada and Canadians, and so I will pay for it by law, and by law, have it fed into my home so the kids can watch it. Perhaps it’s another part of their “early learning” strategy for our kids.
We know Jim Travers’ opinions on the news program “Politics” on the state-run media should be taken not with a mere grain of salt, but should actually probably just be against the law in a free and democratic country. State-run media should not be allowed, by law, in Canada, and that ideal should be enshrined in our constitution—for the very reasons outlined above and many more. But I won’t wait for Jim Travers or anyone on the state-run media to go with that story.
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