Mark Steyn, Brilliant as Usual

At National Post yesterday:

.... I tuned in to the CBC the other night and saw the pews of a church. No church in particular, just the nearest church to the CBC's Washington office. But, as the lugubrious tones of Senior Correspondent Brian Stewart made clear, that was all they needed:

"Noon today in war time Washington. More churches offer moments of quiet reflection in worrying times. A part of the new American reality. In just days, feelings about the war have swung from barely restrained exhilaration to sombre concern over dead and injured and captured. It is coming home to a population that felt it was sending its youth off to a promised rapid victory and liberators welcome. The war may be much longer and far more painful than most believed ... "

And on and on. For some of us, it's Brian's war reports that are much longer and far more painful than most believed. In the time it took his funereal delivery to complete the script, the Third Infantry Division had advanced another 120 miles. But that's no reason not to predict disaster. After all, that church was pretty sombre, eh?...

He continues with a wonderful diatribe on the highly selective skepticism (i.e. "sneering condescension") of mainstream Canadian media.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 04/04/03 07:41:02 AM
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