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I have only one thing to say to John Doyle: pull your head out of your ass before you write your next one.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 10:19 a.m.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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4 Comments:
Doyle is a colleague, I suppose, of mine, inasmuch as we both write TV columns for daily papers.
We were both guests on a CBC radio show once, and I was able to gather during a mention of a show, The Unit, that Doyle pretty much hates everything military, or that shows the military in a relatively flattering light.
Bruce Rolston at Flit observes that:
http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2006_12_13.html#006020
'Doyle writes, "The debate about Canada's role in Afghanistan is one of considerable scope and complexity." Which is why it's obviously a bad time to have information on the teevee about those soldiers' or their families' experiences. Check. Much better to have the kind of alternative Christmassy fair Doyle lauds in the same column, featuring a drama about "a man's body found gutted, burned and hung up like a scarecrow on the roof." Me, I prefer red-and-blue coloured lights, but hey, chacun son gout.'
Mark
Ottawa
The classiest, most profound, and at the same time most cutting retort I've seen yet? From paracowboy at Army.ca:
to Mr Doyle, on behalf of Canadian Infantrymen everywhere:
You're welcome. Think nothing of it. It's a privilige.
Ouch.
A post at cbc Watch:
"John Doyle - repulsed by balanced stories of the military on CBC"
http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/2140
Mark
Ottawa
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