The Current today (Friday Sept 19) was, we were told, 'all you need to know about Afghanistan'. Actually, almost the entire hour was spent explaining, first, why Canadians should not expect this to be an issue in the election, and then why Canadians needed to get with the program and support the mission. They had one short segment of a military wife explaining (in a clip, god forbid she should be allowed 'live' with such anti-CBC views) why she would probably not vote to continue 'the mission' if she ever had such a chance (quite unlikely) - and then the Current spent the final few minutes of the show with a few 'impartial analysts' explaining why the poor woman was just wrong, and it really, really, really is a good mission. You damned peasants, is that clear?!?!?!?!?!
Propaganda 'r' us. I bet there's a lot of people out there much like me, who would appreciate some politicians being placed on a hot seat, and grilled about why, since most Canadians do not want to be in Afghanistan, no politicians from the major parties seem to give a damn about what Canadians think. Oh, I guess that's out of the box thinking, in democracyland - in Canada, the politicians don't actually take orders from the people, they sell programs, and do as they please.
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