The Globeite secret agenda revealed!
Stop the war! Peace now! Just in case you hadn't noticed (see the end of posts here and here). The Globe and Mail's ace Washington, D.C. "reporter", Paul Koring, writes this paragraph in a story about Prime Minister Harper's meeting with President Obama:
As for calling the Rideau Institute "an Ottawa-based research and advocacy group", Mr Koring is, literally, being severely economical with the truth. What kind of reporting is this? Mr Koring in any event has been hard at the agenda for some time: see here, here and here.
The newspaper is committed to committing journalism on Afstan. And they're clueless too.
Update: Well, well--trying to conceal the agenda? The Ceasefire.ca paragraph has been removed from the story. But a search of the Globe's website does produce this:
...Now Ceasefire.ca is a very hard left, anti-war at any price, anti-defence endeavour. Why for heaven's sake would a reporter for "Canada's National Newspaper" give the site any space, especially without a clear indication of its rigidly indeological position?
“42 Minutes with Obama,” hosted on Ceasefire.ca, a website maintained by the Rideau Institute, an Ottawa-based research and advocacy group, included this message to the President: “I do not understand why you are not only continuing the war in Afghanistan but are, in fact, increasing the number of American troops there."..
As for calling the Rideau Institute "an Ottawa-based research and advocacy group", Mr Koring is, literally, being severely economical with the truth. What kind of reporting is this? Mr Koring in any event has been hard at the agenda for some time: see here, here and here.
The newspaper is committed to committing journalism on Afstan. And they're clueless too.
Update: Well, well--trying to conceal the agenda? The Ceasefire.ca paragraph has been removed from the story. But a search of the Globe's website does produce this:
Harper and Obama talk Afghanistan, the economy and hockey - The ...Sep 16, 2009 ... “42 Minutes with Obama,� hosted on Ceasefire.ca, a website maintained by the Rideau Institute, an Ottawa-based research and advocacy group, ...
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 7:01 p.m.
6 Comments:
Koring et al & the Globe & Mail wouldn't know the truth if it whacked them upside the head with a hockey stick.
It's not the truth, it's the agenda that matters.
I feel so much better since I started boycotting the Hope & Flail and their advertisers.
Much better.
Ceasefire.ca: "I do not understand why you are not only continuing the war in Afghanistan but are, in fact, increasing the number of American troops there."
A competent editor would have reduced the verbiage of that sentence, thus: "I do not understand," handily summarizing everything Ceasefire and its supporters have to say on the subject.
Apparently Ceasefire.ca thinks you're a pro-war website, and that you howl like wolves or whatever.
http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=2588
Hey, if they want to call us a "pro-war" site, we can call them a site dedicated to the resurgence of a religiously fundamentalist Islamist group directly responsible for some of the most severly misogynist, regressive, oppressive rule in the world.
Both statements are narrowly true. The result of our desire to effect positive change in Southwest Asia is that we're supporters of the Afghan mission as an undesirable, but necessary means to that end. And the result of Ceasefire's opposition to the use of force internationally is that it shares a political position with the Taliban: both want us out of Afghanistan now.
In that context, I'm comfortable with the label.
I think describing Ceasefire as a "pro-Taliban" site is a great idea!
I am a regular here, but I do have to say that the criticism of the left agenda, and its proponents includes a high amount of hypocrisy.
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