"I don't want to go there in this interview."

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Even the commenters on the CBC board agree that McCallum accused the military of war crimes. Of course you have some who parsed his words so they could defend him and the Libs. The fact is the Libs are playing with dynamite here. You cannot accuse the government without accusing the military. It is the commanders on the field and the troops who make the decision to turn over detainees. Harper does not run the war from Ottawa. Hillier would never have ceded authority to Harper for decisions that need to be made on the battlefied. This is going to haunt the Libs in the next election campaign. They have Rae, Donsanjh, Iffy and McCallum saying our troops are guility of war crimes.

Like it or not, the CBC tried to cover drunken John with teflon and it'll bite both the Ceeb and the libs.

It makes me want to puke listening to that lying maggot bash our people.

Post by: 'robins111'

Agreed!.

First, about the slimmy CBC, this is the opening statement on the article:

"Did a former Liberal defence minister "openly accuse" Canadian soldiers of committing war crimes, as today's government talking point claims he did? We put it to you to decide."

"A Conservative source first tipped us off to the latest talking points being sent out, which sent us scrambling to check the tape and see just what Liberal MP John McCallum may or may not have said on CBC News Network earlier this afternoon. (I'll be honest with you: we were listening, but sometimes the phone rings or the Twitter feed whirs or... OK, go ahead and beat us up in the comments field.)..."

How lame is that excuse?...I bet any money they would of been all eyes and ears had it been a Conservative MP talking and of course would of sent it to the stratosphere had they found something remotely damaging had the Ts not been crossed and the Is not dotted. This AM, CTV and Global would be all over this too had it been from the Conservative camp because CBC would had gladly give them all the story pronto. It would be right behind the Haiti earthquake story making it the biggest Canadian news story of the day.

In the 21st Century, still having a publicly funded media organization in a rich democracy like Canada is simply retarded but who's surprized really?...Canadians and their politians cannot even usher a peep about our elephant in the room Commy Douglas healthcare timebomb.

Now, about McCallum's supposebly foot in mouth moment:

The guy's been in politics forever. I don't believe it to be a slip up...I believe it was a deliberate attempt from the Liberal party (Without Ignatieff's blessing), using their partner CBC in trying to jumpstart and highlight the prorogation issue which is still not on Canadian's radar at the moment even if the media has been pushing this for weeks now.

I also found Canada AM's Shamus O' particularely snarkly and misleading in an interview about the Federal deficit this AM, to a point where the Conservative MP had to correct Shamus.

Conclusion:
An election is brewing...We are starting to see some hints here. IMO, Ignatieff has been bypassed because the Liberal party wants to get rid of him and an election is the fastest way.
The Liberals know that Harper is preparing and they (Liberals) want enough negative press and ATTENTION FROM THE CANADIAN PUBLIC ahead of it all. The name of the game is to try and keep Harper out of a majority. They know it's the best they can expect at this time.

That CBC interview was pure set up.

The Liberals' obliviousness to their statements of self-indictment is simply astounding.

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Liberal PET Cemetery adds the following:

Liberal Taliban Jack McCallum.

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Liberal Taliban Bob Rae.
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"Loose lips sink Grits?"

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/01/13/loose-lips-sink-grits/#comment-72247

A reminder that Michael Ignatieff told Canadians on Friday that he is anxious to get Parliament back to work, because the Liberals want to continue their Afghanistan probing, and to investigate "the conduct of our troops in the field". Liberals have been lying through their teeth, that in this probing of the detainee issue, they were not challenging or condemning, our brave men and women in the military, and their actions on the battlefield. Some befuddled members of the media were buying that, or at least giving them the benefit of the doubt, if we are to accept their reporting. I hope those members of the media benefited from today's revelation on the CBC national network.

On Tuesday now we have, not some no name Liberal MP speaking, but former defence Minister in the Liberal government John McCallum, and this is not a repeat of the circumstance of his infamous Airport incident, but is an in studo interview with the CBC, fleshing out, detailing and expanding on what the Liberal investigation about the "conduct of our troops in the field" is searching for. Since they have hounded the detainee subject so incessantly, we can safely conclude, they hope all their work will bear fruit, and justify their suspicions, that work done by our troops are war crimes, and that our Canadian government covered up these criminal actions. McCallum in carefully chosen words, has let the cat out of the bag, and told not only, all Canadians but also the whole wide world, that the fact is that our soldiers "may have been committing war crimes , handing over detainees knowing that they were very likely to be tortured - that is a war crime".


Most reasonable Canadians are thankful, and believe that our soldiers are only doing their best, to get Canada out of the mess that the Liberal government got Canada into, in the first place, and they are praised by all their international allies for their professionalism, and now to be abandoned by the Liberals, and their achievements and struggle in Afghanistan questioned, not only in Canada but also on the world stage by the Opposition in a time of war, is incredible. The most severe critics of our Armed Forces are on the front bench of the Liberal party - what a disgrace and what lack of leadership by Michael Ignatieff, who in a moment of preposterous arrogance, in a diabolical belief, thinks he should be the leader of Canada's Armed Forces.

For the Liberals to say they are attacking Peter McKay and Stephen Harper, and not our soldiers, will not wash with anyone, because no one in their right mind thinks that McKay or Harper are on the battle field, and committing war crimes, by turning over prisoners to the Afghanistan officials. Aside from some minor incident, and in the absence of any proof or evidence to the contrary, to their credit Harper and McKay have not flinched for one minute in their defense and praise of our military people, as all Canadians would expect nothing less, from their government.


The only cover up that becomes more evident every day, is the Liberal blue print and political agenda, which is not exposed by some members of the media, and they continue to ignore the Liberals in their machiavellian antics, and won't expose the fraud, that Ignatieff and the Liberals are perpetrating on Canadians, at the expense of our armed forces, in desperation, just to gain some cheap political points. Liberals are speaking with a forked tongue, when they say they support our troops, yet they continue to try and skewer our good men and women in the battle field. Although an apology should be demanded and be forthcoming, it is not enough - there should be resignations in the Liberal hierarchy so that justice would seem to be done on behalf of our Armed Forces.

McCallum: 100 PROOF SPHINCTER
Mom always said we shouldn't stare at people like him.

Slurring,demented,delirious,doofus, the subtlties of his schtick are hard to separate. Fits within his party quite well.

The CBC and the national Film Board have been a boar's nest of socialists and closet communists since their inception many decades ago.
To this day their producers,on air commentators, news readers and guest whom they regularly call on are leftist in every breath they take or molecule in their body.
It's bloody well time that their funding be curtailed and leftist propaganda entities sold off to end the strain on Canadian taxpayers.
The sooner the better!

Are you paying ATTENTION STEPHEN HARPER?

We need a FOX equivalent in Canda badly.

Come back as soon as you are able Conrad Black, you will be made welcome by conservative media deprived Canadians.

Are you listening Mark Steyn, Lorne Gunter, David Warren, Ezra Levant, Pierre Lemieux, Karen Sellick, Patrick Muttart, Kate McMillan just to to name a few?

Two stories stand out side by side.

The first, the federal Liberals undermining our troops...side by side...with a Mom crying at the services for her son, who gave his life for us.

I don't think anything could frame the CBC and the Liberal Party any better or more accurately.

The Liberal PET Cemetery ghouls/vampires* have surfaced.
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“*DART recon team en route to Haiti, C-17, choppers ready”

The headline above from:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100112/canada_haiti_100113/20100113/
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Comment* there shows the left-liberal Liberal mind: sick, perverted, McCallumesque.

The comment*:
“This sounds like a smoke screen yet again to take the heat away from the real security issues facing Canada. Stephen Harper, and the decline of freedom of speech, Information and democracy.Lets dig deep friends. Hold him accountable.”

Scott Riley”

Echo that eastern paul; this pisstank would be thrown out of his company Christmas party, but welcomed by the stinking lieberals. Just the kind of m/o that the wk'ers run with, lowest of the low. Our proud military people should never have to put up with this kind of sliming, but to add to the insult, they have to protect this waste of scotch along with us good ones. This creep does not speak for anyone but the worst of Canada.

Perhaps the Constantly Bashing Conservatives (CBC) is hearing the rumbling of defunding by Canadians. That is why they permitted the statements to be aired (unless it was a live interview.) The article from The Torch should have been a reminder that the Cons Changed the rules as soon as they found out what was happening under the LIEberal agreement of prisoner transfers. In fact when the soldiers saw one prisoner being beaten with shoe hitting went and brought the terrorist back to camp until new agreements could be made. Those soldiers are heroes not war criminals as the LIEberals assert.

There is no comparison between this and the Somali incident under the LIEberal regime, there was photographic evidence of torture. I for one am proud of our troops and generals, who have difficult circumstances to do their job. I think the hardest job would be transferring prisoners who were captured knowing that perhaps they were responsible for the death of their fellow soldiers.

The LIEberals should hang their heads in shame for even suggesting that our soldiers are “war criminals” even those who served under LIEberals time in office. It is a good thing that All LIEberals will be working during the Olympics for they might be booed if they show their faces in public event such as that. My question is, how can they wear a poppy on Remembrance Day when we honour our troops and especially those who gave their lives for our freedoms.

The coverage at NNW on this is pretty sketchy, I've dropped their name from my favourites and refuse to support what has become a source for CBC, Star, Globe trash. I encourage all to delete National News Network from their favourites.

IGGY-”THE CONDUCT OF OUR TROOPS IN THE FIELD”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jT2XYl9W-5o6EWsxT6FPLTvdfEnw

This is a three part story
1. The policy of handing over prisoners to the Afgans was implemented by the Liberals. Prior to the policy change prisoners were handed over to the Americans, but we know how Liberals think about Amerricans the Libs thought the Afgans were more humane.
2. Liiberal minded Canadians play this mindless game of saying we support the troops but not the mission, or accusing the government but not the troops. It is not the defense minister who goes and hands over a prisoner, it is the soldier in the field, following orders. You can't split the two. Where did the orders come from, see point 1. Can you imagine the CBC, Liberal party outrage if we changed the policy and turned prisoners over to the Americans.
3. The CBC has never been about news, its about propoganda and self interest. That will never change as long as we taxpayers hand them money and they don't have to answer to the consumer.

Robins111: Like it or not, the CBC tried to cover drunken John with teflon and it'll bite both the Ceeb and the libs.

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Don't bet on it. Loyal wussy CBCers are all for Pearson's peacekeeping where there is no war. Heaven forbid that Canada should actually participate in a war against a fascist regime.

Most intelligent people view the CBC for what it is. A left wing entity supported by taxpayer $s. Like any propaganda machine, repetition establishes the status quo. Lack of critical thinking by intellectuals as well as citizens allows them to by in large succeed in setting the national agenda. The debate isn't about who turned who over to whom in a war zone but cheap political opportunism to advantage the Liberal Party of Canada.

The only consolation in this exercise is that only 5% of the population bothers to watch it!

Someone should mail McCallum a poppy, but I seriously doubt he'd get it.

Louise, only if we let them.

I notice McCallum wasn't asked about the report of abuse of prisoners..in 2002,2003 and 2005. Oh wait....

Isnt the scandal that Macallum has wrongly accussed the troops and government of war crimes not just that he accussed them.

The only thing the Canadian people care about is whether the troops engaged in war crimes. Without the story has no legs. This is about the Liberals amping it up to get attention. Throw the mud and make the claim that if Parliament was sitting this could have been aired.

Its intentional....as for whether this is about sabotaging Iggy....I think its about trying to prevent an election, since they know they would lose. Iggy will leave for the right offer.

I am so sick and tired of this crap (as I suspect are most Canadians) that I feel like choking someone.

PMSH should publicly state that he takes full responsibility for handing over detainees to the Afghans and then challenge the opposition to offer alternatives. These alternatives would consist of turning detainees loose immediately upon capture, shooting detainees, devoting scarce resources to building and maintaining a facility in Afghanistan complete with all the amenities or housing the detainees in Canada, preferably in a Liberal riding.

Of course the vast majority of Canadians will realize that PMSH is not responsible for any alleged mistreatment of detainees, but at least it will force the opposition to cease their endless snivelling and hand-wringing and put up or shut up. If the opposition chooses to force an election on the matter, then bring it on. Your average Canadian doesn't give a rat's ass about some sub-human, acid-throwing barbarian getting his ears boxed by Afghan officials. Those that are shocked and dismayed will never vote Conservative anyway.

CBCpravda had been somewhat subdued or reined in over the past 6 months but seems to have gone on an all out Lieberal binge in the past few weeks. they must detect a funding cut coming.

Sending him a Poppy Eastern Paul would not do any good because he would not know how to Wear it Properly.

The thing that always got me is this Guy was a Banker!! Why was a banker ever a Minister of Defence? What does a banker know about the military. The only thing bankers know about the military is how to slash & burn their Budgets!!

It seems to me that blaming the military is par for the course in Liberal politics for as long as I can remember. It's obvious that Liberal supporters do not care what the Liberals say or support.

I've said before that the people who’ve enabled the Liberals for over a decade now will not change their stripes. It is a concerted and conscious effort to ensure that the balance of power remains in central Canada. Today that balance of power manifests itself as a minority government, but it is why the Liberals continue to be a matter regardless of any and all indiscretions and backwards policies.

This is why I've asked: “with friends like central Canada who needs friends?”

People who would knowingly support policies detrimental to Canada's future for the sake of politics are not your friends!

Sorry, but I have a hard time separating the Liberals from central Canada.

"Most intelligent people view the CBC for what it is. A left wing entity supported by taxpayer $s."

The problem is, people do not realize to what extent the CBC is being subsidized by taxpayers. If they only knew the obscene amount that is thrown at this parasitic joke year after year, defunding of the CBC might come quicker than expected.

We must take every opportunity to spread the truth about the billion plus dollars per year.

"McCallum: "But we can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can be concerned about prorogation and concerned about the economy and jobs."

I have always believed that Liberals were nothing but pedestrian gum-chewers, but I never thought I would hear one of them admit it.

I don't know anyone who cares, or even thinks about the Afghan detainees. We do wish our troops well. They are dealing with hell over there. They do not need criticism from gum-chewers trolling for political points.

“I Don’t want to go there.”

Wow! Amazing. “I don’t want to go there” seems to be an expression she likes to use because those are the exact -- and I mean EXACT -- same words she uttered in response to a caller during the “Your Turn” program… the hour-long election phone-in special she hosted daily which preceded The National throughout the 2008 campaign.

The topic on one particular night was on the gaffes and missteps in the campaign to date. The Puffin and Gerry Ritz’s “smear” against Wayne Easter were very popular themes with the callers piling on against the Tories that put Ms. Meharchand in a very jovial mood, often times smiling before the camera and chuckling as the callers lined up, taking their shots, one after the other, at the conservatives. But her mood would soon change when she angrily snapped at one particular caller who brought up the story of two GTA area Liberal candidates who compared PMSH to Hitler and why that extremely egregious Liberal smear was being under reported in the general media. He was articulate, reasoned and polite in his question and even went to such lengths as not single out the CBC by name. But for Merchand, that didn't seem to matter.

“Oh, I don’t want to go there!” she angrily snapped with a scowl on her face, and then provided some lame excuse that that particular issue was too controversial to raise. But for her, it seemed, it was a story that made her beloved Liberals look like a bunch of a-holes and the media covering for them (herself included) that got her knickers in a knot.

This woman displays the most overt and worst forms of bias at times -- with her choice of words, blatant omissions (excuse the oxymoron), mood swings and facial expressions. It’s stunning! She should have her credentials as a broadcast journalist revoked. At the very least, she should be removed from the anchor desk.

As soon as I read your blog post and saw the quote, it all came back to me. I remember it so vividly.

Is there any way to get an archive of that program? Probably not but the clip would be a great companion piece to your post. With the CBC being a public broadcaster, that program should be archived and made available online to the public in some way.

Ignorant cackling Mercherand displayed her ignorance while interviewing an NGO operating in Haiti by pontificating that an "average of one day a dollar salary was just relative in Haiti"
I'd like to see that interview replayed given the current situation in Haiti.
Here's a copy of the letter sent to the GG at the time:

Dear Sir/Madam,

On behalf of the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, I am responding to your e-mail below.

While the Governor General appreciates your concerns, she feels this issue would be best addressed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). You may wish to contact this organization at the following address:

CBC

PO Box 3220, Station C

Ottawa, ON K1Y 1E4

Tel: 1-866-306-INFO (4636)

E-mail: communications@ottawa.radio-canada.ca

Web site: www.cbc.ca

Thank you for writing.

Yours sincerely,

Yonatan Lew, INFO

Rideau Hall

1 Sussex Drive / 1, promenade Sussex

Ottawa ON K1A 0A1

www.gg.ca

e-mail / courriel: info@gg.ca

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Sent: March 12, 2009 2:09 PM
To: Info
Subject: CBC Reporter Meharchand on Haiti

Your Excellency,

On March 11/2009, when told of Haiti's average daily wage being one US dollar yesterday Meharchand flippantly replied that it "was all relative".
I find her ignorant comment about the western hemisphere's poorest people disgusting.

Perhaps the GG's office could update CBC staff on the situation in Haiti?

Thank-you,

Bo

> most intelligent people view CBC...

They don't. They are sick of the very idea of government run media (read: Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pionerskaya Pravda, Trud, Gudok, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Krasnaya Zvezda...)

Pat re: The coverage at NNW ....

I dropped NNW a couple of years back. Been reading SDA much longer. (Keeps me better informed than most other Canadian media)
Use to visit NNW once a day or so, now not ever.

They are nothing but a liberal venting website, not a relevant news site, imho.

From the CP article Kate linked, the Iggy says:
"Senators, MPs, we'll all show up on the 25th and we're not just showing up for a photo op. We're showing up to go to work, that's the point."

I will bet you dollars to donuts, the Libs will all enter the Commons and the Red Chamber (how appropriately named) for photo ops, just to show the empty benches opposite, and video of their circus to show up in a commercial attacking SH shortly thereafter.

A poll taken at CBC last month basically stated the majority to Canadians believe the detainees were tortured, MSM has already laid the frame work of a guilty verdict in absense of a trial. The MSM are hell bent on getting Iggy elected, the person interviewing him should be fired. Instead the interviewier protects the Libs from being outed as anti-military by the interviewer. CBC has crossed the line of liberal biased into the realm of not being a legit media outlet.

CBC hasn't been a legit outlet for long time now.

I will bet you dollars to donuts, the Libs will all enter the Commons and the Red Chamber (how appropriately named) for photo ops, just to show the empty benches opposite, and video of their circus to show up in a commercial attacking SH shortly thereafter.

Someone needs to keep a daily tally on who shows up . This is going to bite them in the ass if anyone pays attention .

McCallum manage to accuse both the government and the troops of war crimes in that little tete a tete with the CBC talking head, what's her name. She did manage to throw him a lifeline after he accused the troops so he was able to make a "correction" and accuse the government.

Not a further word anywhere in the media on this outrageous accusation. Is this the type of work the Liberals are doing for the good of Canadians and plan to do when they return to the Hill during the prorogation period?

Where is Liberal Iffy?
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“RCMP peacekeepers missing in Haiti

Globe and Mail – Gloria Galloway, Jill Mahoney – ‎19 minutes ago‎

Three Canadian police officers who were participating in a peacekeeping program are missing in Haiti”.
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“Canadian aid heads to Haiti Toronto Star”

"The only consolation in this exercise is that only 5% of the population bothers to watch it!"

It's a consolation. One wonders about the numbers if they didn't have hockey.

They've become a kind of mindless specialty channel like the fluff u get from Rogers' a la 30 useless shopping/space/gardening etc channels just so u can get the History channel. But yeah it still sucks to have to underwrite these pseudo intellects.

Remember Defence minister McGollam a la 'Vichy' ridge.

For a real good read on how the Liberals are treating our soldiers who are on the battlefield go to Ezra Levant's blog.

http://ezralevant.com/2010/01/the-liberal-smear-campaign-aga.html

Reminder, if you write the ombudsman, results can follow

http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/

Commenting here is fun, but for action, please see above. Well, nothing will happen, but it's better to make the point directly with the CBC

This reminds me of a Peter Mansbridge One On One 'interview' with Carolyn Parrish after Martin booted her to the back benches.
She said the good news was that she was that now she would be able to work for the benefit of the people in her riding instead of trying to further her political career.
Instead of Peter saying "Duh, jeez, isn't that what you were supposed to be doing all along?" he just breezed onto the next inane question.

It looked more like he was trying to get laid than to try to interview a politician.

"We're showing up to go to work, that's the point."

Someone should have asked Ignatieff to expand on this statement. Exactly what type of work do they propose to do? This is comparable to showing up at the worksite to build a house, knowing full well that the construction materials have not been delivered.

Canadians will see through this charade immediately and recognize it for the exercise in stupidity that has become a Liberal trademark.

Some random thoughts about this topic, Kate.

In your update link, Liberals are saying that the prorogation is about shutting down Commons committees, "particularly the special committee that had been investigating allegations that prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan authorities have been routinely tortured."
Tom Flanagan (former PMSH Chief of Staff), said yesterday on QR77 radio that he thought that prorogation was primarily about shutting down that committee. His opinion was that Harper needed to shut the committee down because it was getting dangerously close to compromising Canada's national security.

Flanagan also criticized the Government's handling of the PR side of this issue, but, I think it's pretty hard to get your message heard when the majority of the national print and television media actively works against you.

John McCallum clearly accuses the Canadian Government of war crimes in the CBC interview. The interviewer tries to stop him but he blurts out "It's the Government."
It's well established legally, I think, that someone who carries out the crime is equally as guilty as the one who gives the order. Since way too many Canadians do not understand that, McCallum not directly mentioning the military will mean to them that he is not accusing the military of war crimes.

Lastly, Andrew Davidson unwittingly tells us how much the CBC cares about the comments it gets, particularly critical ones. "OK, go ahead and beat us up in the comments field" (we don't care).

The only increse to the Defence budget when McCullam was the Minister, was when he took his empties back. He must be collecting empties again. Sue him.

Deleted Nat News Watch two years ago.
CBC CTV Wpg Free Press macleans - all at least 15 years ago

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Did a former Liberal defence minister "openly accuse" Canadian soldiers of committing war crimes, as today's government talking point claims he did? We put it to you to decide.

It's fuuny how when a Liberal is caught the media will circle the wagons around them. The dismissive " as today's governemt talking points calims he did" part is inherently pejorative.

Anyone remember the first day of the fall session of parliament and Iggy's very first question? "Mr. Speaker, I want to know what the PM meant on the tape when he said he wanted to teach Canadians a lesson."

The PM referenced teaching the Coalition a lesson, not Canadians.

In spite of this, no correction was put forth by the anchor and CBC hill reporter (Barton, MacDiarmid... can't remember) in the post QP analysis.

Because it was an attempt to smear PMSH, both apparently felt it was best left uncorrected.

Ron in Kelowna @ 12:31 - Me too. No liberal-filtered news for me either.

Liberals and Richard Colvin said our troops "detained and handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people" this was an unsubstantiated and unproven direct attack on our troops.
One thing everyone is sure of is that neither Peter McKay nor Stephen Harper told our troops to hand over "innocent people". This is a direct attack on the work and professionalism of our Canadian troops. The work of our troops are lauded internationally by all countries but here at home LIberals continue to attack their work and make outrageous comments like our troops are turning over"innocent people" for torture.
How can some people on this board forgive Liberals for these attacks.