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Kate McMillan's post made me realize I forgot to spend some time on the 25th anniversary of the attempt on Ronald Reagan's life. There are two remarkable aspects of the incident worth noting. Over the past quarter century it has... [Read More]

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I saw similar attitudes to Root's Columbia University classmates when I lived in Vancouver. Lefties: violence waiting for an excuse.

Wayne Allyn Root's complete article said it well. I think most of us could sit and agree with him for days. What I would like to know is how does one turn the ship around? Who’s job is it to turn the ship around or are we all just helpless victims without any way to change the way things are?

If you were advising the top politicians; what would you tell them?

Love to hear what you have to say.

Is the RCMP investigating?

Prime target: Canadian PM assassinated in video game
Joel Kom, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, March 31, 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper should hope life doesn't imitate art.

A new top-selling video game kicks off with a bang -- a few bangs, actually -- with the assassination of the Canadian prime minister, sparking continental turmoil that only an elite group of soldiers can undo.

The kicker? The fatal shots are fired as the prime minister meets the Mexican and American presidents at a landmark summit in Mexico -- the same place the real-life Mr. Harper wraps up a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox today.

The video-game killing appears in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, the latest game inspired by thriller author Tom Clancy for the Xbox 360 system. The game, hailed by some reviewers as the best of its kind to date, has sold almost 50,000 units across Canada since its March 9 release and is already the most popular game for the Xbox 360.

The real-life Prime Minister's Office had no comment on the game.

For those thinking of buying it to see the assassination, well, you never actually see it. That part of the storyline merely sets up the game. In fact, the similarities between the real-life and video game scenarios begin and end with the three leaders meeting in Mexico.

In the game, the continental chiefs are in Mexico City to sign the North American Joint Security Agreement (softwood lumber didn't make the agenda).

Things are going smoothly until Mexican rebels storm the leaders' rendez-vous and kidnap the American and Mexican presidents, assassinate the prime minister and leave it up to the game player to save the day.

The game was designed by Ubisoft, a worldwide firm with a flagship studio in Montreal that employs 1,400 people.

And no, it wasn't the Montrealers who designed the game: it was created in France.

Adrian Fernandez-Lacey, a senior co-ordinator for Ubisoft in France, said Canadians shouldn't take offence to the assassination.

The other leaders had to live to keep the game's tension high: Mexico's president needed to hang around to allow conflict with the rebels, while the U.S. president had remain alive because the elite group of soldiers charged with the rescue are American.

"Basically, for the game, the Canadian guy was the only one that we could actually sacrifice in the story," he said. "We weren't being malicious or anything like that."

In fact, it was Mr. Fernandez-Lacey who took offence at first. Because he was born in Montreal and is half-Canadian and half-Mexican, he joked with the game's creators about hitting him on two fronts.

"When they first sent the scenario to me, I said, 'Look, you're invading my country and you're killing my prime minister,' " he said. +
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13239.6
via voy.com

Root, the King of Vegas...always the drama queen. The guy's total sales job is himself, always himself, very succesfully too though.
Under the PR? Just an ass.

"always the drama queen"

Homophobe.

You reap what you sow. Those reactions are spontaneous outpourings of true feelings. If the outpourings were unsympathetic then that would be because that is what he engendered in people. He certainly fell into what is now the tradition of moving money from the poor to the rich.

You people are sick. Fostering this type of hate with obvious lies like this is not healthy. Seek help.

Communists all over the world cheered. Reagan stood in the way of their gaining control of all the productive facilities in the world.

"Lefties: violence waiting for an excuse."

Absolutely. Democide (mass murder by government)has been committed almost exclusively by socialist ideologues and their violent fellow travellers. See "Death by Government" by R.J. Rummel for the well documented evidence. Any idea or person that upsets their delusional world-view is a target.

The strangest part of the whole piece is that while he is talking about Liberals he could just as easily be talking about Radical muslims.

Of course their feelings were "true feelings" - so what? No doubt Hitler's murderous feelings toward the Jews were also "true feelings". And, for the record, letting wealthy people keep more of their money is not the same as "moving money from the poor to the rich" -- unless you believe that all wealth rightfully belongs to the state.

The strangest part of the whole piece is that Kate had to dig up something that happened 20 years ago, and then proceed to spin it so the left is vilified

slow news day?

go going Kate, nothing like dividing the country into two groups between right vs left

keep sowing the seeds of hate

Today in the name of public service, the re-education of Steve:

By L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President, Media Research Center

"In the 1980s, there was a consensus among the members of the national media that Ronald Reagan was going to fail and that he was going to bring on economic disaster. But. . .the economy didn’t collapse. In fact, it soared to unprecedented levels.

The media stubbornly refused to admit that “Reaganomics” was responsible. The drumbeat of negative opposition to the president’s policies continued through the 1980s. By 1986. . . the ratio of negative to positive stories was seven to one. In other words, as the economy was improving, media reports on the economy were becoming increasingly negative.

One of the most common allegations in these reports was that the poor got poorer under Reagan, even though the actual number of poor declined from 14 to 13 percent during his administration, and the average income for the lowest one-fifth of Americans rose from $7,008 to $9,431.

Inflation declined 48%, from 8.9 to 4.6%. Unemployment declined 45%, from 7.5 to 5.2.%. Interest rates declined 71.9%, from 21 to 5.9%. Twenty-one million new jobs were created. The so-called “greedy ’80s” witnessed the largest peacetime economic expansion in our nation’s history, yet the media remained deaf, dumb and blind."

As have leftists like Steve. I do admire the effort required, however, to remain steadfastly mired in ignorance.

You know - speaking of the media remaining deaf, dumb and blind, it all rather reminds me of a current President.

Hey jacobin - nice moonbat parody site you have there!

Very nicely done.

speaking of Reaganomics, how will you spin this?

Conservatives for 9/11 Truth

Most people, when they encounter 9/11 skeptics for the first time, assume that most members of the 911 truth movement would be drawn from the left of center politically. In fact, most of the strongest and most respected voices speaking about 911 truth are conservatives-- old-school republicans who speak out of a profound respect for the truth, the constitution and the rule of law. For example:

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was the assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Ronald Reagan where he developed the theory of economics that came to be called "Reaganomics.". Dr. Roberts is Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review.

Here is what Paul Craig Robert has to say about 9/11:

"I haven't looked at it very close, but I did go to Georgia Tech and I did learn some physics and I know enough physics to know that it is strictly impossible for those buildings to collapse in their own footprint, at free-fall speed except under controlled demolition. Those buildings did not come down the way the 9-11 report says. It is strictly impossible, in fact, it's a total, the account in the 911 report is a total contradiction to the laws of physics".

Hey jacobin - nice moonbat parody site you have there!

Very nicely done.
Posted by: Kate at March 31, 2006 10:48 PM

thanks, just to let you know, us moonbats and tin foil hat'ers are now the majority, crazy isn't it?

Kate don't feed the trolls.

The so-called “greedy ’80s” witnessed the largest peacetime economic expansion in our nation’s history, yet the media remained deaf, dumb and blind."

The American economy is doing quite well today, thank you. I heard a news commentator sneer yesterday that the new jobs were "mostly created in the service industry" and that "manufacturing jobs were still in a slump."

I could have kicked her butt right off the radio. So what if the American economy is moving from manufacturing towards services? 150 years ago we were primarily an agricultural society yet I don't hear economists yearning for the days of picking cotton.

Stingray:  a blog for salty Christians

oh steve, that's a classic "don't feed the trolls"

if someone has an opposing view he/she is labelled a troll, a lefty or msm...LOL!

MUST NOT THINK FOR MYSELF, MUST REPEAT SAME NEOCONSERVATIVE NEWSPEAK, IF YOU DO NOT REPEAT THE HARPOCRITES YOU MUST BE AGAINST US!

does he know enough about physics to explain how nobody ever traveled to the moon too?

I think the election is counted by votes, not by multiple personalities.

Jacobin...typical lefty.
Bringing his caps lock key to a gunfight.

Too funny. I say troll and some guy jumps all over it.

Kate,

Is there any anyway that we can filter what comments we see, based on the the poster, in your blog software?

Seems like a lot of "pud pulling" going on - just want to give them the privacy they deserve.

Is there any anyway that we can filter what comments we see, based on the the poster, in your blog software?

that is so typical of right wing blogs, and you guys say your for free speech, hypocrites seems to fit nicely!

oh Kate please kick him off, jacobin obviously doesn't agree with us here at SDA!

harper would kick him off SDA, jacobin even if he is a canadian citizen, didn't vote for harper, thus he is not represented and should not even be considered a canadian citizen because he didn't vote for harper.

Jacobin: Has not one, not two, but many tin foil hats. Check his site. He's a flake.

Kate,

"Is there any anyway that we can filter what comments we see, based on the the poster, in your blog software?"

we = I ... or collective we (even let the trolls filter)

thanks for the promo mr lemon

call me whatever you want
i back up whatever i post with well documented articles or quoting well respected individuals

Universities are full of such fascists here in Canada too. They spew hatred towards anyone who doesn't agree with them and they believe the 'masses' are an ignorant lot that they should have the power to control.

On any topic but particularly the environment these fascists would like to dictate how people should live their lives. Since socialism is such an absolute failure, environmentalism is another way to grab hold of the means of production and take freedom away from people.

The author is right in that you have to attend a few poli-sci classes in order to appreciate just how evil these leftist fascists are.

how do so many people confuse opininion and actually thinking with repeating a bunch of horseshit for the only purpose of trying to piss other people off . why do so many respond to them? on the post below
" killed in action " some idiot calling itself angry flower tried to thank pte costell for his life but couldn't remember he had a name and then said right wingers didn't deserve the sacrifice he made . there was no intent but to use a mans death to aggravate anybody that read it . where the f!#^ are these idiots coming from ?and why am i getting mad about it ? sorry lost my head aaaand i'm outa beer .

Can't resist. Must take on moonbat who points finger at mirror.

Jacobin said:

"thanks, just to let you know, us moonbats and tin foil hat'ers are now the majority, crazy isn't it?"

You think you're the majority? Oh, my gawd... the majority of folks in the free world are like the folks seen here:

http://www.zombietime.com/hall_of_shame/

Well, if Jacobin wants to go naked in public and inflate his ball sack to make his point, that's his choice. If he wants to carry a picket sign and flap his willy at children, so be it.

If the majority agree with the damn fools as seen at that link, then we're f*cked. The Democrats will win, abolish the US military and order everyone to drop trou, bend over and let Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad, Red China, North Korea et al just have their way with us all...

The delusions of the left are so dangerous it's imperative to call them to task and expose them to the light of day...

Jacoby also said:

"MUST NOT THINK FOR MYSELF, MUST REPEAT SAME NEOCONSERVATIVE NEWSPEAK, IF YOU DO NOT REPEAT THE HARPOCRITES YOU MUST BE AGAINST US!"

You just desperately wish we normal folks were simply thinking as we're told. You really need to tell yourself this, don't you? Makes you feel better to lie to yourself?

It's the left who consistently think only as told by the left. I know. I know plenty of leftists and I have no doubt whatsoever that they don't think for themselves. Open your eyes and your mind or be forever lost and let your life go to complete, utter waste... for what? I cannot imagine for what.

Oh, and why not start demanding that the left and the MSM prove beyond a reasonable doubt all the ludicrous things they've been telling you? You apparently are comfortable believing whatever you're told... too hard to think, so you decide to surrender and let others control your mind.

Now Jacoby'll probably get angry... leftists always get angry when confronted with the truth... I know. I've tried to give the truth to leftists and just got back anger or even hatred... they're just so irrational. Frightening, too.

Perhaps an example to help make my point about leftists and expose their blatant double standards:

"Leftists Deny Christians Equal Rights. Again."

at:

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2006/03/leftists-deny-christians-equal-rights.html

John Demarais -- You are right, absolutely. In my short time reading SDA I have learned to try and ignore the trolls. Where do they come from indeed.

maz2's posting includes the news that "A new top-selling video game kicks off with a bang...with the assassination of the Canadian prime minister..."

Maybe that's why PMSH was wearing that vest the other day in Mexico. Maybe it was a flack jacket, the PM's response to this malicious video game.

When are parents going to wake up and smell the coffee instead of blood? We're rearing far too many blood-thirsty, violence-prone junkies--and at younger and younger ages. Unless--and until-- parents "take back the fight," meaning that they HAVE LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY over their kids and what they watch on TV, on video, etc. and the computer/video games they play, we're going to reap the Maelstrom. And we already are: Columbine, etc.

Parents were never meant to be their kids' best friends. Parents are called to be ADULTS, to put limits on their children's activities in order to protect them from all the dangers "out there." We're their guides, their counsellors, their protectors, their models--and God have mercy on us for having, wholesale, abdicated these responsibilities. So what if your child(ren) roll their eyeballs at you when you say such-and-such is not allowed; later, they'll thank you for being vigilant and for helping them avoid a lot of trouble in their lives.

Oh, and a PS to this post: I used to be a leftie, until I grew up. Being a leftie meant that I bought hook, line, and sinker, everything the MSM wrote, especially when it bashed men, governments, "big" business, and any organization that might carry with it some "authority." Away with any authority!! The leftie slogan was "Everything is allowed, and how dare ANYONE tell me I can't do or say anything I want." Total narcissism, total inwardly spiralling concentric circles to the centre point the size of pinhead.

When I came to my senses, and began to see that my parents weren't the problem, that I couldn't blame everything on men, the government, the weather, everyone else, etc. and that I bore some responsibility for the state of the world's shortcomings, the smoke began to clear and I began to see that I had been BRAINWASHED by the prevailing mythologies of the day, completely aided and abetted by my university education, by radical feminisist rants, and MSM newspeak.

It takes awhile to clear the system of such toxic waste--but, oh, the freedom it brings! You begin to see the beauty of the world, the absolutely brilliant design and harmony of men and women working together peacefully and respectfully--and, yes, equally in the real sense of the word: different but equal--to create families, where children are valued and where parents take on the responsibility of nurturing, loving, protecting, and educating them--NOT expecting the state to do the job, NOT expecting others to either foot the bill or bring your kids up for you.

(infidel)
"Universities are full of such fascists here in Canada too. They spew hatred towards anyone who doesn't agree with them and they believe the 'masses' are an ignorant lot that they should have the power to control."

Yep, and we call them the same thing they're called in the US and elsewhere: 'Professor', 'Teacher', 'Instructor'.

New kid on the block -- Amen.

Wow, it's Saturday morning and the moonbats are still out. I see we got a new troll called jacobin. He done been to Georga Tech so he be edumukated. going to GT does not make one an engineer. He said he took some physics, not majored or graduated but took some. His source of reference is the brilliant Charlie "Scary Movie" Sheen. This detoxed piece of work never even graduated high school and grew up with Sean Penn. Enough said. But, to give credit where it is due, "Wild Thing" Sheen is a good (not great) comedy actor.

This jacobin looks to me like a one trick pony so please folks, let's not encourage the lad. his inflated ego aready had trouble navigating through doorways.

Someone should design a video game that targets ignorant, conspiracy-hound, terrorist-and-dictator-supporting leftists. The field is wide open. I'm surprised no one has done it yet. :)

Hey Joe Canuck (no relation I'm thinking), That game would be better than that "Bop-A-Gopher" thing at the fairs. Trouble is, I don't think the Michael Moore gopher would fit in his hole.

Until conservatives can find a way to get thier ideas into university lecture halls and thier stories told in cinemas we can win every election from here to eternity and the culture will just keep getting more and more left.

jacobin

"MUST NOT THINK FOR MYSELF, MUST REPEAT SAME NEOCONSERVATIVE NEWSPEAK, IF YOU DO NOT REPEAT THE HARPOCRITES YOU MUST BE AGAINST US"

Replace Neoconservative with Liberal and Harpocrites with Chretianites and Martinites...and that is what us on the right have felt..and heard..during the regime of the Libs. However..if we did not agree with libs...we were bigots..racist...homophobs.

Wayne Allyn Root is just a bit too smarmy for my taste- total suck-ups at any end of the political spectrum are a pain in the ass! (You have to either nod your head at everything they say, or you are a member of the 'other side'.)

Moonbat documentation:

Here is what Paul Craig Robert has to say about 9/11:

"I haven't looked at it very close, but I did go to Georgia Tech and I did learn some physics and I know enough physics to know that it is strictly impossible for those buildings to collapse in their own footprint, at free-fall speed except under controlled demolition. Those buildings did not come down the way the 9-11 report says. It is strictly impossible, in fact, it's a total, the account in the 911 report is a total contradiction to the laws of physics".
Posted by jacobin at March 31, 2006 10:49 PM
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Sorry, this hardly qualifies as solid informed assesment.

Common sense should make it obvious that if a skyscraper top floor detatches from one or two corners and dislodges the next floor, the combined weight and gravity would carry those floors downward through all levels like a pile driver gaining power with each added floor.

Rubbing shoulders with Georgia Tech students while flunking physics does not make for much of a structural engineer. TG
.

Kate

Reagan imposed the largest tax cut in American history up to that time. He loped 33 billion off of the tax roles. An economic stimulant? No.

The unemployment rate went to 11% and the government took in a disastrously low 195 billion.
Reagon responded by INCREASING TAXES MORE THAN ANYONE BEFORE OR SINCE and raised 92 billion for government coffers. It was then that the economy started to pick up. It was probably because Reagan did it an got great results that encouraged Mulroney to do something similar with his introduction of the GST.

Unfortunately, both of the tax and spend Conservatives ended their long tenures with large deficits. The Democrats and Liberals that followed finally after a decade of beating down the huge deficits, balance the books.

We know what happened in the US when the Democrats gave their balanced books back to the Conservatives they now have managed in six short years to have to largest deficit in American history. Bush refuses to do what Reagan did, raise taxes,so the deficit will keep growing. The next President will have to raise taxes regardless of which party wins.

Now the Conservatives have taken over again in Ottawa. What do you think will happen?? If we keep them in a minority government I think they will do fine. In a majority situation all bets are off for a balanced budget.

Paul Craig Roberts has been flirting with lunacy for some time now, as evidenced by his columns at NewsMax, but I didn't realize he had become a student of Professor Sheen. "I did learn some Physics." Sorry, but Ex-lax labels don't count.
Most controlled demolitions are not initiated at the same floors penetrated by a 767.

Oh Steve...

"The Democrats and Liberals that followed finally after a decade of beating down the huge deficits, balance the books."

I think you really meant to say that the Liberals did it AFTER chopping transfer payments to the provinces and AFTER raping the Unemployment Insurance fund and AFTER gutting the military...

And please..let us not talk of Liberals and balanced budgets. The recent Liberal budget in Ontario..even with 3 billion more in revenue than expected....puts that myth to rest.

I was in a Physics class at the University of Manitoba when some gleeful a**hat came running into a lecture theatre scrawling on the blackboard that Reagan had been shot.

I've seen leftists do more pathetic displays than that over my life, but that one incident certainly ranks up there.

I believe that history will show that, no matter what the idealogy, governments need as much of our money as they can get in order to buy our votes. Both Libs and Conservatives use the shell game and slight-of-hand to manipulate what it is they are actually doing. And yes, I agree, that some are worse that others. Money is needed to gain power and stay in power. That is the unfortunate reality. But with the exclusion of sensitive issues (where the divides are justifia bly vocal), the tax $'s wasted by any government should bring a tear to a glass eye!

Many of the Leftist comments in this thread seem only to confirm Roots assertions.
Perhaps I can develop my moral compass to the degree that I can also take delight in such inappropriate events as say, Jack Layton developing a nasty tumor.

OT, I want to suggest that you buy a copy of the Oriana Fallaci's THE FORCE OF REASON. If you don't agree with her opinions, you'll at least be entertained. So thoroughly Italian. Her open letter to the Bishop of Caserta is a true gem. The English translition was done by her personally.

Lefties, be warned. This communist journalist rips the current left to shreds, revealing their true underlying love of fascism and murder.

Wonderfull set of articles. It also confirms why the MSM is dying.

Blogs like this one & others have more than filled the gaps left by these zelots & idealogical pod puppets. Indeed i believe there the future untill an even more intimate form of communication is developed. Seems thats what life works towards. Even on the cellular level. Greater communication that is.

Some Who feel the God like impulse to think there all knowing, & should under there own divine mandate, believe its there duty to force us all to there measure. That there beliefs are as firm as some Natural law.
Liberal hubris never wains.

When I went to the U of A I remember one big wig teacher coming up to me in the cafateria while I was reading the Bible. His words to me where : Forget that bunk, soon you will realise that book is just myths & so are morals. That told me all I need to know about there preconceptions & what there form of education was all about. Materialism = all reality.

This of course does not include the many horrors & demeaning attitudes sufferd by many who hold to Faith, in Public schools. Particularly those so called "advanced " schools.
Aunt Mame would have been proud.

The Media are just begining to understand this is there eleventh hour. There sins have come back to harrow them.
I say . Its about freakin time.

While I certainly agree with the general thrust of Root's essay, I do find him a bit over the top in a couple of areas. First, I'm astonished that anyone would get physically ill at the news of an assassination attempt on a politician or students' reaction thereto -- chin up and all that. Second, he seems to complain about the US military not being in a position to carpet bomb Baghdad. Given the objectives of the war, carpet bombing Baghdad would hardly have been a reasonable undertaking from either a military/tactical, strategic/objective or certainly humanitarian perspective.
That being said, Root's impressions reiterate Bernard Goldberg's as outlined in his book "Bias" -- a good read and an intriguing insight into CBS, Dan Rather and the MSM generally.
O/T: As for the World Trade Centre collapse, there was an interesting program on TV last year (Discovery Channel?) outlining the reasons for it -- had to do with the innovative "shell" construction which allowed the WTC to be built as high as it was with the materials of the day but contained an inherent vulnerability which was not exposed until the attack. It made perfect sense to me.

Davie's on the right track. Wayne Allyn Root goes too far lumping the whole left together. Sure, the left has myriads of extreme pomo wackos, and they do dominate the media in destructive ways, but they also have respectable, intelligent folks on their side like, say, Christopher Hitchens. I do think that at this time in history the left in general is more out of touch with reality than the right, but if the right does not recognize that sane human beings can be lefties, then I shudder to think of our political future.

DrD. I suppose the Planes that flew into the WTC, had a fatal flaw as well. Also the other planes hijacked.It seems the only aircraft without one. Is the one who's passengers tried to rid themselves of the fatal flaw & ddied hero's trying. Make as many excuses for the murdering Jihadists as you please . Just don't insult us all on here with weak appologetics.

To Revnant Dream: you've missed my point. The WTC collapse was most certainly caused by the aircraft slamming into the towers with the subsequent ignition of avgas. However, as some of the previous commentors have questioned how the "pancaking" effect could have occurred without preset demolitions I've tried to point out that this effect was due to a vulnerability, not a "flaw" per se, which was subsequently well defined i.e. the fact that the external shell was stronger than the internal flooring/bracing. The result was that once the high temperature burn had melted and weakened the structure on one floor, the debris pile hitting the floor below caused its braces to pull the outer shell inward and downward with a domino effect. The WTC apparently was in fact designed to withstand an impact by a low speed 707 (the largest airliner at the time). The designers could not have been expected to foresee a deliberate high speed impact by a much larger aircraft, the 747, which did not exist at the time.

Most socialists today are Keynesian. That is we believe in a mixed economy. Just like Canada is today. Some things government can do better than private Corporations. Governments are better at handling things like defence, road building, health care. Other things are more naturally Corporate. That would be most other things.

We democratic socialists agree with Reagonomics in part. The thing that made the economy take off was his raising taxes on corporations and closing the many loopholes in the tax code. He raised billions in taxes that prevented him from having Bush-like deficits. Reagonomics was Keynesian.

My appologies DrD . I reread your post & to be honest I am a might embarresed. I apparently just seen the theory about the WTC buildings, & seen red.

Tust me ,even where i work you have nuts trying to say it was the CIA who caused 911.Or it was some kind of Jewish conspiracy. Its unbelievable but its a sad reality that some people truly think these lies are truth.

I speak out about this all the time. So please forgive me, my twitchy attitude towards this subject. Its burned me in the past.

Revnant Dream: apology accepted; I sympathise with your frustration in dealing with some of the knee-jerk moonbats. I can remember watching coverage of the Challenger disaster and a Liberal co-worker immediately, without even a glimmer of evidence and all reason to the contrary, offering his sincere opinion that this must be the CIA disguising a spy satellite launch!!!!

jacobin blathered: "The strangest part of the whole piece is that Kate had to dig up something that happened 20 years ago, and then proceed to spin it so the left is vilified. slow news day?"

How about something a little more recent? Royal Canadian Air Farce ran a clip spoofing Cheney's accidental shooting of a fellow hunter. The spoof first showed "Cheney" getting ready to shoot. Then it cuts to the footage of the shooting of Reagan, a shooting where a policeman was shot in the stomach, the press secretary was shot in the head, and Reagan was shot and almost died.

I complained to the CBC Ombudsman, who in turn sent it to Roger Abbot, producer of the show (and one of the actors), who sent me a "heartfelt" apology, saying that sometimes they step over the line in their quest for cutting edge humour. That seemed to settle it - until I saw the re-run repeating the offensive sketch.