Saturday, April 23, 2005

Parsing Their Way To Stupidity

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Given that it was the Mothercorp in general, and Stephen Quinn in particular, I thought that the new CBC radio election show '28 Days' might be worth listening to on Saturday mornings.

But if they are going to run "he said/she said" crap on a regular basis I will not listen anymore because this type of gutless pretend journalism plays right into the Repug-inspired BigRedWarRoom machine's obfuscation strategy.

Two cases in point.

1) Christy Clark pit-bulling on the Rollie Keith issue and Quinn allowing it to go on for 5 minutes such that there was absolutely no substantive discussion during the entire segment with Ms. Clark and Joy McPhail. Absolutely none.

2) Dana Bales essentially saying that Carole James is a liar on the tax burden issue because she (Bales) refused to take into account the mammoth increases in premiums and user fees that disproportionately affect those on the bottom half of the economic ladder because "that is a whole other issue".

So, if we follow Ms. Bales pretzellian methodology to its not-so-logical conclusion, does that mean that if somebody changes the name of something to something else that that thing which was formerly known by a different name actually becomes what that certain somebody says it is rather than what it really is?

Ya, right.

And if Mr. Campbell decides to call oxygen pickle juice does that mean that Ms. Bales won't need to breathe it anymore?

Sheesh.

It's almost like they moved Cluffie to Saturday.

I, for one, am not buying.

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David Schreck puts this despicable practice in perspective very nicely and very succintly (the latter being a little unusual for Mr. Schreck - and we mean that in a good way):

"The media, obliged to report what people say rather than the truth, repeat his (Campbell's) fictions...."

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