Mickey I. upsucking to the deadly Dragon
Now from David Akin:
Canada caves on China
Harper, Ignatieff both change their tune on taking a tough line with the Chinese
Upchuck.
Mr Akin is newly of the Sun papers, along with another good man. Foxy fellows–more from Adrian.
Update: One reason for a new news network:
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One case involved a report filed by Neil Macdonald, a senior TV reporter for CBC’s flagship news program The National. The story aired early in September 2008 and was a backgrounder piece on Sarah Palin, the evangelical politician who had just been named the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate. Macdonald’s report was supposed to reveal to the Canadian public who Palin really was and what she was all about. What it seemed to reveal was Macdonald’s own biases.
At one point in his story, Macdonald ran a snippet from a speech Palin had delivered to a local church earlier that year. It showed her telling those in the pews that she believed America’s war against Iraq was endorsed by God. The interview clip was meant to convince viewers that, as a staunch evangelical, Palin was dangerously jingoistic. The problem was Macdonald had edited off the beginning of the clip and in doing so had changed the meaning completely.
A posting on YouTube where Palin’s complete speech can be viewed lets one compare Macdonald’s version to the real McCoy. The portion of interview that Macdonald included in his report began with Palin saying, “Our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God.”
However, what Palin had actually said was this: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country [pray] that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God.”
Someone watching or reading the full quote in its true context could see that Palin was not raising a war cry, she was raising a question. A question steeped in humility with no hint of jingoism; she asked: “Is this war a task from God?” It’s a question to which she does not have an answer and advises praying for divine guidance in the hope of finding the right path…
Mark
Ottawa
