CTV anchor Jacqueline Milczarek today questioned one of CTV’s rare non-leftist or overtly Marxist analysts today, thus enabling them, they think, to claim they’re fair and balanced. It was military analyst Mercedes Stephenson. Milczarek asked Stephenson whether or not the government needs to “step up” to better “explain” the Afghanistan mission, such that more Canadians would support it.
The CBC and all liberals and leftists and the anti-war peacenik zealots and nutbars may well be in high dudgeon over this break from the liberal media guidebook, but damn the torpedoes! CTV let ‘er rip.
The answer from Mercedes Stephenson was an obvious “yes”, even if she did overlook the glaring inadequacy of the question. There goes that Gov-Gen Award of Merit Badge or Order of Canada trinket. Apparently Stephenson is nearly alone with me and some of my PTBC friends in not sipping from the giant jug of Kool-Aid.
She further was allowed to get away with saying that the government hasn’t done a particularly good job of explaining the mission’s good points and successes and causes for support. She’s spot-on right, and I’ve said the same thing over and over, making her doubly right-on, and possibly my pseudo-hero for the next five minutes.
But please. “Does the government need to step up?” the glib and possibly, I’m hoping, joking CTV anchor Jacqueline Milczarek asks, blithely, as if she and her network and her peers and associates in the liberal-left anti-war media are but benign, benevolent “observers” and “reporters of fact” in an unbiased, non-“George Bush’s so-called war on terror” kind of way.
So that was fun too.
CTV anchor Jacqueline Milczarek: Do we need to do a better job explaining what it is Canadians are doing there—does the government need to step up, still?
Mercedes Stephenson: Absolutely. I think that we have NEVER done a particularly good job of explaining to Canadians what it is we are doing in Afghanistan. …. that this is in fact a U.N.-supported mission… that this is perhaps THE MOST U.N.-supported mission that Canada has ever been involved in. And I don’t think the gov’t has communicated that particularly well to people. The critical role that Afghans WANT us there…
And it is a difficult mission, there’s no question about that. But to really show the progress that is there because it’s difficult, and we tend to only hear in the media about the negative stories. I hear this from soldiers directly—the ‘frustration’ that they say—we hear time and time again about the casualties but we very infrequently hear about what these soldiers did with their lives, the kind of achievements they had, the schools they’ve built, the children’s lives they saved … so really looking at explaining the WHOLE story to Canadians which I don’t think is something that has been done very well.
CTV anchor Jacqueline Milczarek, again, possibly joking, concludes the interview with this gem: “Well we’ll see what changes from this point in.”
Oh dear. Please stop with all that absurd Canadian humor … my sides she aches with the laughter.
Here’s some more news:
Aside from the insidious liberal-leftist news media hiding all the value of things like fighting for—and maintaining—freedom in our world, both the media and the government—prior government and even the current—are complicit in seemingly purposely failing—utterly—to inform and lead Canadians in a positive manner, manifestly with full information. “The whole story”, as Stephenson said.
For example, the Conservative government also hasn’t done anything to explain or defend or promote or lead Canadians with regard to:
• Our inherent, historic, true Canadian values of capitalism, and free markets,
• The value of taking personal responsibility, and the value of family, and of not becoming reliant on government or arranging for the government to replace family and God, as liberals are wont to do, thus destroying our nation,
• Our inherent Judeo-Christian values upon which our nation was built,
• The inherent dangers of the current Liberal Party and the more socialist you’ve got to be kidding party (the “NDP”, but PM Harper and all of them should really refer to them as I do: “the you’ve got to be kidding party”) and those “progressive” parties’ creeping, Orwellian, Fabian socialism, and their purposeful squandering and re-writing of our true history (we’re peacekeepers!) and the actual, true values that built our country into one of the greatest in the world,
• The fact that a free country should not own or operate a state-owned or state-run news media and that that notion should be enshrined in our constitution,
• And so much more.
So I don’t really expect much action on that Afghanistan mission front.
But “Well we’ll see what changes from this point in.”
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