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Typical CBC "Balance"

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Submitted by Ken Davidson (Canada), Feb 2, 2003 at 02:46

At least Ms. Tremonti tried to do her hatchet work while Mr. Pipes was on the line to riposte her. On her first day on "The Current", she waited until her guests (an escaped Iraqi nuclear scientist, and a former weapons inspector, both of whom said that Saddam is a liar and a menace) were off the line to poo-poo everything they had said by slyly musing that no one's threatening war against North Korea with its WMD because it has no oil.

So it appears that to Ms. Tremonti, or whoever was feeding her questions from the control booth ( I think the former, judging by the vein-popping intensity of her outrage), Mr. Pipes is a McCarthyite because he exposes the anti-Semitism on college campuses. And he is a racist because he thinks barbarism is a failing of those who are barbaric, rather than of those who are the subject of the barbarians' hatred.

The world is so much simpler for the CBC, where all brown people are noble savages, and all white people are exploitative imperialists, incurring the understandable wrath of the unsung masses. I can't wait for the cognitive dissonance at the CBC when Iraq becomes a democracy.
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Title Commenter Date Thread
Complaint to the CBC [104 words]Alex P. KornFeb 5, 2003 06:126414
Daniel Pipes on CBC's The Current: -a letter sent to CBC [363 words]b kostynuikFeb 3, 2003 18:296335
WELCOME TO CANADA [168 words]Jeff BercovitchFeb 3, 2003 13:116323
Audio Link [24 words]Michael SmithFeb 2, 2003 22:246296
Ms. Tremonti not a very good listener [74 words]S. SilversteinFeb 2, 2003 13:266275
Defending Scholarship [244 words]Wayne J. LevinFeb 2, 2003 12:306270
Typical CBC "Balance" [199 words]Ken DavidsonFeb 2, 2003 02:466254
So, you are saying America is at war with fluffy bunnies? [143 words]Ben ShniperFeb 1, 2003 23:546249
Tough room [22 words]Ron WeinerJan 31, 2003 14:436193

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