Omar Khadr: Manufacturing a Victim

For decades, I've exclaimed my disgust at how news is manufactured or "twisted" to suit the political bent of the news organization and/or report. One of the most blatant examples of this is the left-wing propaganda campaign to Free Omar Khadr. Here are some sample videos:



Pretty compelling stuff, isn't it? Makes you feel sorry for Mr. Khadr. How terrible of those war-mongering Americans to capture an innocent child, only over in Afghanistan as a charity worker. Yada, yada, yada. Michelle Shephard is a sympathetic figure but if you know much background on the Khadr case then you'll realize that she's spinning every sentence in sympathetic defense of her favourite "child soldier".

Now watch the CBC's George Strombolopolous do some more spinning:

The problem, of course, is that most of the public don't educate themselves on most news story and so our ultra-left wing Kool Aid drinking Canadian "journalists" get away with their spinning routines.

For a little counterpoint, I invite you to listen to this. Tune to 07:55.