The price of oil just closed at $76.70 USD per barrel.
Why?
Hezbollah rocket attacks against Israeli resort town of Haifa
Israeli bombing (and rebombing) of Beirut airport runways
Hezbollah killing of 8 and kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers
Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier and subsquent Israeli offensive into Gaza
Bombing of Nigerian pipelines
North Korean missile tests
Mumbai terror bombings
Take a look at this offering (video below) from our state-run, taxpayer-funded Canadian Broadcast Corporation. The only part that shocked me, and it really is sad that most of this doesn’t come as shocking from the CBC or from our Liberal/NDP politicians, is that there’s a clip of Mulroney saying “the Americans are a bunch of bastards”. Of course, with a little more research, by Googling ‘mulroney bastards americans’, one finds this article from the Toronto Star which contains:
“We are not a neutral nation,” [Mulroney] insisted. “We are a nation that believes in freedom and democracy and has defined it all of this time.”
The Liberals once criticized Mulroney for having an overly cozy relationship with then-president Ronald Reagan. Now he’s accusing Chretien of doing just the opposite.
“The poison of anti-Americanism is more prevalent in the Liberal caucus today, or the Liberal government today, probably than at any time in our history.”
He pointed to a number of recent incidents — the then-communications director to Chretien who told a reporter that Bush is “a moron,” a Liberal MP who called Americans “bastards,” and a minister who said the president has failed to act like a statesman.
So, they manipulated a clip of Mulroney which likely clipped off “Senior members of the Liberal Party are saying that…” before “the Americans are a bunch of bastards”. They did this to imply some kind of wishful consensus Canadian opinion (Liberal and Tory) that the Americans are a bunch of “morons” and “bastards”. Creative editing anyone?
Watch this short CBC clip that documents anti-americanism while being blatantly anti-american!
What are your favourite moments from the CBC’s clip?
My favourite moment was when CBC-endorsed producers made it clear to their audience that they sit on only one side of the political debate.
Also, watch for the funky music behind 9/11 footage, Colin Powell’s “inner monologue”, editorializing on the Iraq war: “moron, moron, moron”, WMD!, Stephen Harper hack job, Rumsfeld describing shooting people, Paul Martin saying that he’ll play golf with anyone, even he-that-cannot-be-named George W. Bush.
UPDATE: For those of you who want the source of the video I found it here on CBC’s featured page on Google Video. The clip is titled ZeD: Whack a Moron and was chosen by the CBC to be featured on Google’s video page.
Today I had the opportunity to chat with Maclean’s senior columnist Paul Wells. I’ve been a fan of Wells since he wrote for the National Post. We chat about a variety of topics including his upcoming book “Right Side Up” which picks up on the theme of his 30,000 word Maclean’s election special. Other topics discussed include the Liberal leadership race (with some interesting new facts about the Ignatieff/Rae relationship), the Parliamentary Press Gallery fight and Stephen Harper’s potential future disasters. My memory recorder crapped out about 10 minutes into the interview (the Danielle Smith interview was still hogging much needed flash memory) so an enjoyable discussion about Joe Volpe, the Conservative election strategy and blogs was cut out. But, we were able to start the interview again to talk about some other interesting topics. I hope that you enjoy the discussion.
The podcast is available as an MP3 file below. Or you can access the interview using Blogging Tories Television on the left sidebar, or on the finer blogs that host BT-TV.