Canadian news by government decree (You think your media is biased?)

Canada Free Press ^ | Thursday, December 22, 2005 | Garth Pritchard

[fanfan]

It was January 8, 2005--I was in Sri Lanka, shooting footage for a documentary on the Canadian DART group, sent to help the people after a 32-foot wave, traveling 500 miles an hour hit the fragile houses and people of the Ampara district. Prior to leaving, the politicians in Ottawa had spoon-fed the Canadian news outlets. So, Canadian Press reported of the DART: "the wrong people, the wrong place, antiquated equipment"--once again the Canadian soldiers had been set up for failure by their own bureaucracy. The political ministers were fed the information by their staff, and in turn, they spoon-fed the ever-receptive ear of the Ottawa news gallery. In Sri Lanka, after the politicians had taken a direct run at the Canadian DART, the Prime Minister of Canada showed up. Canada Free Press ran the story and showed some pictures of the stunning behaviour of the Prime Minister and his handlers as they knocked people down, walked over graves, left the Canadian Padre standing speechless and, to use his words, " … body-checked out of the process." The Padre had, in fact, been asked by the Prime Minister’s handlers to say a few words and to have a minute’s silence to remember the 12,000 souls who had died there, most of them children. My camera records 15 seconds before the Prime Minister’s pit bull-like female aide yelled,"Let him move on! Let’s go!" Body-checked out of the procession, the Canadian Padre could only watch in disbelief.

[akorahil]

It seems that it is ingrained in Canadian attitudes to get that 'one last shot' in against America.

I think the only thing U.S. Special Forces would ever be afraid of is kicking too much a$$ and making it look too easy to everyone else...