Having watched the recent interview of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Peter Man-Bridge, in which the PM handled himself in exemplary fashion; surely I could not have been the only one creeped out by the frequent flashes to Pistol Pete while the PM was talking where the interviewer had his hand covering his mouth. You never see any professional journalist doing that physical gesture that frequently during a serious interview with a world leader. I have no professional designation in body language, but my "spider sense" was tingling. My sense was that he was covering his mouth because either he wanted to become more aggressive with the Prime Minister, or his handlers instructed him to do it, why I could only speculate.
In other not unrelated news, Kady O'Malley was in a more somber mood today. When Iggy was about to give his presser, Kady had the eerie sensation of that Dion/Layton/Duceppe Coalition photo-op that killed left wing coalitions for the foreseeable future. She was live blogging that she sensed the early onset of the Apocalypse. Granted, sanity is not something that I ascribe to Kady O'Malley...
After a couple weeks preparation, here is what Michael Ignatieff said Friday - Liberals want to examine documents "whether Canada complied with International law and whether it has respected human rights - and a document about the conduct of our troops in the field". Ignatieff is no Stephane Dion. Ignatieff is a distinguished Harvard professor, with an excellent command of the English language, and with his carefully chosen words, there is no confusion as to what he said.
ReplyDeleteWe have finally smoked out the Liberals . Although denying all along, that in their probing of the detainee issue, they were not challenging or condemning our brave men and women in the military, we now learn from words of Ignatieff himself, that Liberals want to probe and examine "the conduct of our troops in the field."
How many times has it been pointed out to members of the media, that when the 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. When Colvin said "all the Afghans we handed over were tortured" not a single solitary Liberal challenged Colvin's statement. How many members of the media agreed with General Hillier that statement was "ludicrous" and absurd? After three years of probing and investigation, finally a case where a Taliban prisoner was attacked with a shoe, in the process of the turnover to the Afghhan officials on the battlefield. That doesn't lead one to believe or is proof, there was systemic abuse of prisoners turned over by our Canadian troops.
After Friday's statement by Ignatieff, Canadians no longer will have to depend on the media to interpret the motives of the Liberals, or question their political agenda, as Canadians now know what is behind the Liberal probing and accusations, now that Ignatieff has definitively told the world - Liberals "want to examine the conduct of our troops in the field."
Wouldn't Canadians be a little more assured, that the Liberal support for out troops is genuine, and 100%, if they would make some effort, or expend a fraction of their time, looking and probing, into the conditions that our troops are operating under, and are conducting a war in, rather than total concentration of their concern on the well being of the Taliban.
We remember James Carville, political advisor to Bill Clinton, famous words "it is the economy stupid" in pointing out something that was obvious, so if anyone now asks what is the preoccupation or witch hunt of the Liberals in these detainee hearings, one can paraphrase Carville, and emphatically now state it is "the conduct of our troops in the field stupid."
More than likely, a person who studies body language would tell you that the interviewer was suppressing a smirk or the desire to vocally attack the other person .
ReplyDeleteMansbridge has a thinly veiled contempt for PM Harper, and it showed for a moment in his snide retort to Harpers's 'let me be frank' comment.
Kursk
Yes,Ignatieff and the Liberals will sacrifice our troops for the sake of "points" in the political game,for the Liberal Party.
ReplyDeleteAnd,as you say, Ignatieff has made it VERY clear, he wants our soldiers investigated, but in the Liberal world,the justice system has been reversed,and the onus is NOT on the State to prove the allegations, it's up to the troops to prove their innocence. Any "detainee" can make an accusation, and our guys have to prove they DIDN'T do it!
If our justice system in Canada operated on that basis, we'd have no unemployment problem because half the Country would be in prison.
Maybe we should try the Liberals for their many scams during the Chretien-Martin era,using the same upside down logic.
DMorris
Have you notice when Mansbridge or Clark or Taber or Fife or any of them asked their own kind(lib mp) a simple question, he/she is met with some cock a bull story. yet when they asked the prime minister a question the prime minister gives them a proper answer. and still the left wing media love being used like dish rag by their own kind.
ReplyDeleteBOB RAE once told that fool FIFE to shut up and like a fool FIFE obeyed-no fuse no drama no hate or feeling hurt uh uh he was thrilled to death that his own kind told him to 'shut up.
Yet he bitches and complains and whines that the PM would not talk him. I wouldn't.
Go easy on Mansbridge. I think he does his job well. I'm not sure if he writes his own lines, but if he does I suppose he is a Liberal. Still he is a rare Liberal that puts journalism first. If there were more like him then it wouldn't matter so much who they vote for. Selective reporting and biased commentary are all we get with the Liberal types. The CBC is as autonomous as the Bank of Canada and equally powerful politically. Mansbridge is the equivalent of Mark Carney as a figurehead and I'd rather have him on then any other Liberal.
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