June 11, 2006

Why the CBC?

June 11 - The inclusion of the CBC as a terror target was the most surprising of the revelations that came out of the Toronto terror sweep. The big question was Why? The only news entity up here that is more terror-friendly is the Toronto Star, and they were not on that list.

I trust the CBC is having in-depth meetings to address the "root causes" of Muslim "anger" and "perceived alienation" that has caused so much "resentment" and "humilation."

Those meeting will undoubtably be productive although they won't address the "root causes" of steadily declining CBC viewership (except, of course, for hockey.)

Going a step further, inasmuch as seizing communications and media are top priorities for insurrectionists, Lorrie Goldstein goes there and reaches a surprising answer to why terrorists might be discontented with the CBC: What would happen if our national broadcaster was ever taken over by ... er ... 'militants'?"

"Hello, I'm Lorrie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun, reporting live for Sun TV, Torontosun.com and Canoe.ca, outside Toronto CBC headquarters at 250 Front St. W., where terrorists have just taken over the building, demanding that the CBC refer to them as ... uh ... terrorists.
When you come right down to it, that really is the only possible grievance they can have against the CBC.

In a hypothetical interview with OBL, the question is asked if there are women in the group:

"I see, evil spawn of Satan. So, let me get this straight. We storm the CBC's headquarters, overpower their security staff and are now holding hundreds of their employees hostage and threatening to blow up their building and all these infidels care about is whether there are any women in our group, so they will not be politically incorrect if they refer to us as 'gunmen'?"
The beauty of satire lies in how closely it resembles reality, and Goldstein scores a grand-slam on this one.

Posted by: Debbye at 03:14 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 Heh! I was watching a panel show ('Final Round' on CTV) last night where the arrest of the 17 terrorists was one of the topics. A lot of talk about how people in their church/mosque thought something was going on but didn't know what to do or didn't 'dare' do anything, and then it occurred to me that all we need to do is modify a program that is already successful in this country; CrimeStoppers. Sure, we just need to change the name to 'BadJihadStoppers' (cuz not ALL jihads are bad, right?), but it would at least provide a means of reporting the kind of activity that gets remarked on AFTER the arrests while family, friends and neighbors wring their hands and wonder why they (as a group) are being unfairly persecuted. BadJihadStoppers...available soon...I hope.

Posted by: John H at June 11, 2006 08:16 AM (p/OG4)

2 Good idea, and according to this CTV story, something along those lines is in the works.

Posted by: Debbye at June 11, 2006 11:39 AM (zgun9)

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