On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Friday, September 13, 2002
ABC News anchor Peter Jennings has just had a look at excerpts of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's controversial remarks that the wealth gap between the Western and Third World, along with the West's "use of power to humiliate" had some realtion to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
See the video of Jean Chrétien. (realVideo)
Jennings was caught at unawares by a caller on CNN's Larry King Live who brought up the topic, decribing the Prime Minister as having said that "American brought the attacks upon herself." Jennings was shocked; and he said that he couldn't believe that the Prime Minister, any Canadian Prime Minister, could say such a thing.
Later in the broadcast, Jennings saw excepts from the Chrétien interview, and said that he did not believe that Chrétien blamed the U.S. for the attacks of September 11. He than added that it was up to each person to interpret the remarks for his or herself. The caller who asked Jennings about the comments admitted to hearing about it on FOX News, a news outlet known for biased reporting and for promoting a conservative agenda.
One can only imagine how Fox News reported it... like the blowhard Bill O'Reilly's comments.
Hey, O'Reilly: Chrétien is not a socialist. He may be to the left of the American mainstream, but he's only a socialist compared to Attila the Hun.
The real deal on what the Prime Minister said? Get it from a reliable news source like the Globe and Mail or CNN (from Reuters.)
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