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The media and the news

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So I’m watching the news, the CBC even, and Peter Mansbridge is talking to Michael Ignatieff. And I’m actually impressed that Peter Mansbridge is not giving him an easy time.

Mansbridge: So you said you haven’t met with the Prime Minister for five or six months. Have you asked for a meeting?

Ignatieff: The issue here is Stephen Harper’s leadership style…bla bla bla.

Mansbridge: So I’ll take that as a no, that you haven’t asked for a meeting. (Ignatieff never answered the question.)

Perhaps I’m more acutely aware of media bias having just returned from seeing Media Malpractice. Great movie. I thought I was pretty aware of the depths of media bias against Sarah Palin. I wasn’t. Given the full context for many of the quotes she was cited as being stupid for, I actually think the bias was worse than I thought. Some of Biden’s quotes–ones I’d never heard–were not only factually wrong, but offensive. (One involved saying Obama is the first well-spoken black man to ever rise to the top–something to that effect.)  

Back to Palin, though. In one case, one of her supposedly dumb answers was in response to a question posed by a kid in grade three. Another of her dumb answers was in response to being asked a question for the third time–the first two times she sounded reasonable but by the third time, she didn’t (sound reasonable). That was the section that was played on repeat. As it turns out, Saturday Night Live also made fun of Joe Biden, but that character never gained traction. Then there’s the Obama “57 states” gaffe, and others–that never received any attention. Of note to this Canadian was fleeting media concern prior to Obama’s election over whether he is socialist or not, based on comments he made about redistributing wealth. The media didn’t really ask the tough questions–but I note that apparently some Americans may still think socialism is bad.

The filmmaker is a libertarian who has only ever donated money to the Democrats.  

BTW, Ignatieff  apparently “needs to get some pretty specific commitments on employment insurance” before he decides whether he’ll support the government and prevent an election. An election over employment insurance? You lost me at “specific.”

Palin disinvited

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Organizers disinvite Sarah Palin, who was originally scheduled to speak along with Hillary Clinton at a rally. The New York Sun published the full speech.

In the words of one Jewish journalist, the rally was “against Iran’s plan to destroy Israel.”

It was a remarkable speech, prepared by a remarkable woman. But it was not heard…because the Democratic Party and Jewish Democrats believe that their partisan interest in demonizing Palin and making Americans…hate and fear her to secure their votes for Obama…is more important than allowing Palin to elevate the necessity of preventing a second Holocaust to the top of the US’s national security agenda…

The moment that Clinton found out that she was to share a stage with Palin, she cancelled her appearance. By cancelling, she signaled to Jewish Democrats – and Democrats in general – that opposing Palin and the Republican Party is more important than opposing Ahmadinejad and the genocidal regime he represents.

THE JEWISH Democrats on the rally’s organizing committee got the message loud and clear. Two of the rally’s co-sponsors…disinvited Palin…

[Liberals]…uphold themselves as champions of human rights… They care about the environment. They care about securing American women’s unfettered access to abortions. They care about keeping Christianity and God out of the public sphere. They care about offering peace to those who are actively seeking their destruction so that they can applaud themselves for their open-mindedness and tell themselves how much better they are than savage conservatives.

Those horrible, war-mongering, Bambi killing, unborn baby defending, God-believing conservatives, who think that there are things worth going to war to protect, must be defeated at all costs. They must intimidate, attack, demonize and defeat those conservatives who think that the free women of the West should be standing shoulder to shoulder not with Planned Parenthood, but with the women of the Islamic world who are enslaved by a misogynist Shari’a legal code that treats them as slaves and deprives them of control not simply of their wombs, but of their faces, their hair, their arms, their legs, their minds and their hearts.

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