Linda McQuaig tonight at the Toronto vigil outside the US consulate said

[Minstrel Boy]

she was called today by a producer for a US news network (she didn't identify which) and asked to appear tomorrow to discuss Bush's visit. She said sure. Then the producer asked McQuaig about her thoughts on the Iraq war. She said it isn't about WMD or "liberation": it's about oil. The producer then said, "Okay, but are you for it, or against it?"

Eh? What a fucked-up question to ask, and just after McQuaig had made it clear that she thought the rationale for war bogus.

Anyway, McQuaig got a call back shortly after, and was told she wasn't needed after all; they were going to use instead Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente. Wente, not surprisingly, is a right-wing apologist for the occupation.



"With a keen eye and grim wit, McQuaiq's perceptive inquiry into the world's energy system strips away layer after layer of deceit, cynicism, racism, sordid manipulation, violence and aggression, in the dedicated effort to extract every possible ounce of profit and power in a race to the edge of disaster, perhaps beyond. It is an urgent wake-up call that should - that must - be read and acted upon, without delay." - Noam Chomsky

[dreamcollector]

1. How to distort Canadians' attitude

Margaret Wente represents a minority point of view. The great majority of Canadians oppose the war. Aren't they selective. Creeps me out. Canadian who reads 'em both. (Sheesh!)