Tim Blair

You don't have to be fair to Antonia. From what I can gather she's the closest Canadian equivelent to Margo. If such a thing were possible.

Zerbisias mentions her acid flashbacks to 1968 in the first sentence, and then goes on to mention them two more times. I don't think we should be surprised that she's a lone voice supporting McGeough’s own 1968 acid flashback.

Did he, or did he not, as was reported in great detail by Australia's Sydney Morning Herald in July, pull a pistol and execute "as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government?"

Nah, he beat them to death with a plastic turkey.

I'm confused.

The rabble is supposed to like Kerry because he claims that he shot an incapacitated teenager in the back.

So, shouldn't we be even more impressed with Allawi's alleged feat?

Or, does it only count if there's a boat involved? Or, does the incident have to be "seared, seared" in his memory?

Maybe it's jealousy.

Hell, even Dan Blather didn't pick up on this one. He decided, as a fair and balanced 'journalist', he wouldn't go so far as to impugne Allawi or the Bush admin...

oh wait..

Antonia is a truly amazing woman, and by amazing, I mean "Not even with a stolen dick." Good grief, what the crap is wrong with her?

It is strange that no U.S. news agencies played up such a phony story.

At the very least you would expect CBS News to report it with glee.

I understand CBS news was just too busy cooking up their own lies to devote any airtime to some Aussie journo's mediocre attempt at faking a story...

I am sure Tony Walker at the AFR (Australian Financial Review)will run it soon.

He is fanatically anti-Bush, and ran the story about Allawai's visit in Saturday's edition under the headline 'Thug acceptable as long as he toes Bush's line'.

For what purports to be a serious, financial newspaper, the headline,s tory, and almost all of his rantings are a disgrace.

Following 9/11, Zerbias endorsed Mikey Rivero's paranoid conspiracy-theory mongering website, whatreallyhappened.com, as “carefully considered, well crafted and very compelling” in her Toronto Star column.

According to Mikey, it wasn't Osama and al Qaeda that hijacked planes and struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon, it was the (guess who). (Hint: rhymes with "news.")

Mikey also asserts that Pearl Harbor was the result of FDR's "8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States."

It's incredibly rewarding to troll Antonia's archives as she fights a one woman battle against the corporate media from her perch as a columnist at Canada's most widely-read newspaper. Its worth checking out Norman Spector, former Candian ambassador to Israel and chief of staff to Mulroney, who routinely highlights Antonia's aversion to facts re: the Mid East, and her inablity, as a media Canadian columnist, to avert her gaze from the US. http://www.members.shaw.ca/nspector4/home.htm

Tim, I was hoping you might have brought McGeough's article up to throw at the extended vacationer from the Silly at the talk-fest for Media Watch at the Goose (last Sat.?). They're reticence on this deserves a Marcel Marceau Award (for profound silence). Of course they fully deserve an award for impartiality.... NOT!!!