The Missile Defence Shield, or National Missile Defence system, as it is properly known, is not “Bush’s missile plan”, as the Canadian state-run CBC’s Larry Zolf calls it (and nor is it called “stars wars”, Larry, which you know is a term used by its opponents implying it is an scary science fiction fantasy designed solely to protect your arch enemy the Americans and conservatives and pro-free-trade non-government-owned corporations on the backs of the workers). I think the People’s Web Site, state-run as it is, should get the facts straight, even if they do find it necessary to run an official state opinion as posted by Zolf.
The defense program in question (only by liberals) is a scaled-down version of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, from whence liberals garnered the cool name “Star Wars”, but which sadly for them was partly responsible for Ronald Reagan winning the cold war. And the fact is, it was official U.S. policy in Clinton’s White House, too. In March of 1999, by a vote of 97 to 3, the U.S. Senate passed a bill calling on the Pentagon to deploy the sophisticated missile defence system as “soon as technologically possible.” (John Kerry voted in favor, but of course that was only after he voted against it).
As soon as technologically possible after President Bush was elected in 2000, the National Missile Defence system became “Bush’s nefarious scary star wars ballistic monster missile plan and plot against feminism” in most of the liberal media and in the liberal-left’s political talking points, and repeated ad nauseam. Of course to Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish it became the “coalition of the idiots”, and the Americans became “bastards”, whom she “hates”, and to the former Liberal Prime Minister’s top advisor, Americans like George Bush became “morons”.
In an article published in March of 2000 during Clinton’s presidency, the CBC called it the “National Missile Defence system”. They said it was designed to “defend the United States and its friends against missiles launched from rogue states and terrorists”. Sounds clear and happy enough.
But in an article published in 2003 after Bush was elected, the description morphed to “…designed to give the U.S. the power to protect itself… ”; and appealing to the CBC’s same official anti-Bush innuendo stylebook, “rogue states and terrorists” became “what the Bush administration refers to as ‘rogue states.’”. Later in the same article: “so-called rogue states”. After 9-11, the CBC was no longer so sure there were rogue states. In much the same way, the CBC is so-called not a state-run liberal-left biased anti-American media joke.
The media have no problem consistently identifying a person or organization as “right-wing”, or “conservative”. You cannot read about a Fraser Institute report without seeing the words “the right-wing” before the words “Fraser Institute”. When Canadian media reports on the Fox News Channel application currently before state regulators, it is most often referred to as the “extreme right-wing…”. I once saw it described in the Vancouver Sun—and it was in a news article, not an editorial—as “the ultra-right-wing champion of George W. Bush, big tax cuts and the war in Iraq”. In amazement we posted about it here. Another shining example of irony, that one, in which a newspaper, in a news article, describes Fox news Channel, which they always criticize as being “right-wing” and “biased”, as “the ultra-right-wing champion of George W. Bush, big tax cuts and the war in Iraq”. Only conservatives see the irony. Liberals just think they’re doing their job.
The CBC is never described as “left-wing” the way Fox News Channel is always described as “right wing”, nor are any newspapers ever described as “liberal” —perhaps because it would become redundant.
On the other hand or wing, in Canada, even extreme left-wing political groups such as Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell’s civic party COPE, which currently runs Vancouver City Council, was founded by communists and has not strayed far from their roots, it is hilariously described in the liberal Vancouver Sun and The Province newspapers simply as “center-left” or “left-leaning”, revealing a reluctance to call anything that is out-and-out “left-wing” or indeed “extreme left-wing”, what it actually is. CKNW radio recently also referred to it as “left-leaning COPE party”. It’s also the civic party that the NDP actively supports with money, resources, people and marketing. You know, the “centre-left” NDP.
Thankfully, despite the media, you simply cannot get more left-wing in this nation than the NDP or COPE without additional piercings in every bodily orifice and a bandana. Yet they’re “center-left” if they’re described as anything at all. The media are awaiting a resurgence of the Communist Party in Canada, since they seem to be reserving the term “left-wing” or “extreme left-wing” or “ultra left-wing” for something or somebody that doesn’t currently exist. Way to keep your options open, guys!
The National Post—a supposedly conservative-minded newspaper, ran an article recently, within which they wrote, “Maude Barlow, chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, which describes itself as a citizens’ watchdog and has long opposed free trade…”. They forgot to add that Maude Barlow is among the most extreme, radical, left-wing militants this country has known, and her Council of Canadians among the most partisan left-wing anti-corporate, anti-conservative, anti-free trade, anti-globalization, socialist organizations in the land. I’d have been happy with “left-wing total nutbars”. Yet the national Post allows them describe themselves as an earnest “citizens’ watchdog”.
The (COPE) mayor of Vancouver, the bombastic ignoramus Larry Campbell, can’t even think about conservatives without thinking “barbarian”. That’s how left-wing and bigoted and insolent he feels he can be about conservatives without paying any political penalty at all whatsoever. For example, during the federal election of 2004, he called all conservatives “barbarians”. This was at a meeting of big-city mayors, not while stuffing his pie-hole at Nuffy’s. The media barely reported it—apparently seeing nothing particularly wrong or notable about the comment. No media dismissed Larry Campbell as a bigot, or clueless undiplomatic Neanderthal, or ignoramus as they should have—and would have had he been uttering such hilariously non
-liberal-left values such as having a national defence, lowering taxes, being pro-life, or being in favor of marriage being between one man and one woman.
In defiance of the liberal-left, I’m going to start calling Paul Martin a girlie-man. When Arnold Schwarzenegger said it about liberals, the media derided him for days. Democrats said Schwarzenegger’s remarks were “insulting to women and gays and distracted from budget negotiations”. California State Sen. Sheila Kuehl said the governor had resorted to “blatant homophobia… It uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult. That’s very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership,” she went on ad infinitum, as a member of the Legislature’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat, said it was “as misogynist as it is anti-gay… To disparage a group of law abiding tax paying citizens is just wrong,” Leno said. “By playing to certain voters’ discomfort with gender and sexuality, the governor has exposed himself as a divider, not a uniter,” he continued, as if what he had to say was important.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn’t upset by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was. “She’s a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and didn’t find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be derogatory,” Nunez said. “It was no question a very, very insensitive comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger.”
But as usual, a review of liberals and their hypocrisy and feigned outrage and biased media coverage; and a little American-Republican a la Arnold helps get me through my day.
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