Quite the scoop you got there, Maclean’s magazine and Peter Mansbridge, but I wrote about this nearly two weeks ago. I was right, back then too, when I quoted directly from the source, which was not some taxpayer-funded research by Peter Mansbridge, but rather the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com.
Apparently state-run taxpayer-paid media stars read OpinionJournal.com. I wonder if they read my blog? I will have to check for quotes.
It’s not like I pretend to have the stature of Peter Mansbridge, taxpayer-paid anchorman of the state-run news media that hardly anyone watches, it’s just that if Maclean’s mag wants to start covering what other people in the country are saying and thinking, they might want to figure out first what we already know from credible sources that aren’t taxpayer-funded and vetted as legitimate only by virtue of their liberal-leftiness. For example, as I said, I already wrote about this, and I got it from OpinionJournal.com’s editorial page, which I properly acknowledged, and I’m not a taxpayer subsidized blogger, either.
Here’s the pertinent section of the Peter Mansbridge, Maclean’s “columnist”, column in Maclean’s magazine, March 11, 2005 edition:
Remember Walid Jumblatt? He was a familiar face in the media of the 1980s as Lebanon went through its agonizing civil war—a long-time Druze parliamentarian, he was often heard railing against the U.S. for intervening in the mess that was his country. Now, his thoughts have a different tone. Last week, he told the Washington Post: “It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.” Strange is right, because this is the same man whose visa to the U.S. was pulled after he had called Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence, a “virus,” even publicly wished for his death—all for that same policy that led to the invasion of Iraq two years ago this month.
Here’s the pertinent section out of the OpinionJournal.com piece, Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 12:01 AM, and which I wrote about on the same day at 6:37 AM:
Walid Jumblatt is not the sort to be described as a friend of the United States, much less of the Bush Administration. In November 2003, the Druze leader and Lebanese parliamentarian described Paul Wolfowitz as a “virus” and regretted that the Deputy Defense Secretary hadn’t been killed in a terrorist rocket strike on his Baghdad hotel the month before. So it says something about the changing face of Middle East politics that Mr. Jumblatt seems to have converted to Mr. Wolfowitz’s way of thinking.
“It’s strange for me to say this,” he recently told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, “but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing.”
I suggest that in order to really stay on top of things, read Joel Johannesen’s ProudToBeCanadian.ca blog for free, where I wrote about this on February 24 at 6:37 AM (and at ConservativeGroundswell.com at 6:44 AM) —and at no cost to taxpayers. And don’t even bother with Maclean’s magazine either since it’s not environmentally friendly and it costs a whole lot of after-tax cash.
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