[oclug] OT: Harper is my enemy, but I despise falsehood in the media

[Greg]

Mr Baker is in a panic because the Israeli Army has managed to
legitimize Hezbollah everywhere in the Universe, outside the Washington
Beltway.

Mr Harper fled to the North to avoid incessant questions regarding his
indefensible opinions thereon.

The Media are pissed because he succeeded.



Brad Barnett wrote:
> I rarely *start* political posts, although many of mine have morphed into
> ones.  However, the recent fever that the media has placed on the absence
> of Harper at the AIDs conference does nothing but piss me off.
> 
> Certainly, it angers me more to defend someone I loath.  However, our HEAD
> OF STATE, the Governor General was at the conference as well as the health
> minister... and many other Canadian figures.
> 
> There is just so much that the media can attack about Harper's policies,
> but this isn't one of them.  As far as I know, he is up North in an
> attempt to protect our sovereignty, and our head of state and health
> minister was at the conference.
> 
> This is *normal*.  We did the same conference a *greater* honour by having
> our head of state attend.
> 
> Hello?  Wake up!
> 
> Further, I see Gilles Duceppe defending himself from the Israeli
> Ambassador, for attending a peace rally where uninvited Hezbollah
> supporters showed up.  The Israeli Ambassador is completely off base and
> shooting at anything he can see out there these days.  I've seen articles
> in papers, and other annoyances that lead me to believe he isn't even
> paying attention to what people are actually *saying* and *doing*, but
> instead reading slanted newspaper articles to make his decision.
> 
> I despise Duceppe and all he stands for, but HE DID NOTHING WRONG.  THIS
> WAS A PEACE MARCH.  
> 
> Again, there is so much the media could do to openly, honestly, and
> vibrantly condemn both of these men.  Instead, they leap to cheap shots
> and sensationalism left, right and centre.  The media needs reform. 
> 
> Big time.

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Why, Benedict, did you?