[canadian bob]

Neil MacDonald, the CBC’s most anti-American and anti-Israel reporter is vulnerable right now.

In a recent piece for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_macdonald/20041203.html), he throws in a gratuitous slur against Americans.

If occupied, MacDonald says, ordinary Americans would eagerly become terrorists themselves:

“One suspects that if Texas were occupied by a foreign power, its citizens would pull out their guns and start shooting at any enemy target that presented itself, civilian or not.”

This passage builds on a derogatory stereotype of Americans as gun-toting killers. Where does the CBC get off claiming ordinary Texans - or any other Americans - would commit murder? Thet they would become terrorists? This is an expression of pure anti-American prejudice. And at the CBC, promoting prejudice against a national group can be a firing offence.

So lets not let MacDonald get away with it.

Tell the CBC that, as an American, you don’t appreciate being insulted on the basis of your nationality, or as a Canadian, that you don’t appreciate the CBC broadcasting prejudice.

Complain to Tony Burman, editor-in-chief of CBC News, at Tony_Burman@cbc.ca

I don’t really know how to spread the word on this – but please pass this suggestion along to your friends. The CBC often shrugs off complaints about news bias. It’s more difficult to shrug off complaints about outright prejudice.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Reference material:

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Unholy Alliance

by David Horowitz
Hardcover - (September 2004) - $27.95

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the ?Great Satan? with America?s radical Islamic enemies.

[Conservative Canuck]

Sigh.

[Edgerunner]

“Mr. Keiswetter was making a point about U.S. foreign policy, expressing an opinion that the bombing can be seen as a reaction to U.S. policy in the Middle East, especially in relation to Israel.

and our response to bombing is bombing...do they REALLY expect us to abandon Israel?...They want to annihilate Israel! They need to remember that we have plenty of bombs...and some high yield ones...but what do I know...

[Bahbah]

"I don’t really know how to spread the word on this...."

Thanks for the post, Cb. Lots of people here are very good at "spreading the word" so I will ask them to consider it for their ping lists.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

See post 1 for EMail address

[Alacarte]

In all fairness, the CBC comes no where close to making up for the aggressively pro-Israel bent of the canadian asper empire's can-west global empire.

Simply compare the two documentaries on concordia university's troubles with muslim/jewish students a few years back. "Confrontation at Concordia" by global, and "Discordia" by the CBC. The one by global was far more pro-israel than the CBC's version was pro-pal. In fact the global one was so blatantly biased, it's a mockery of journalism.

Considering you don't even mention CanWest who owns more than half the media outlets in canada and makes no bones about espousing it's position on pal/israel shows more than one bias here.

[Clive]

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