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“Candide”? It’s the state-run CBC so… not so much

There’s newer news but this Christmas holiday story at Canada’s state-run media’s people’s web site stuck in my craw, and we all know how painful that can be.

As a result of the CBC being (as I see it) pathologically obsessed with anti-Americanism and criticising (in their ever so fair, balanced and objective way) President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair over what I think they like to refer to as something like “Bush’s occupation of and war in Iraq”, they used their (our) Arts and Feelings section of their web pages to report that in a currently running opera called Candide, “Bush and Blair” were being depicted dancing clad only in their underwear. 

Well damn.  That’s news if ever there was some. 

The irreverent opera (it’s modern art!), currently being shown in the Euroliberals’ (or is it the Muslims’?) gay Paris, was of course directed by a Canadian, thus making it not just “art”, but what with that Bush/Blair angle, super relevant, and also both obscurely tolerant and “progressive”, and thus also essential for the CBC to “report” on this caper.  Twice.

You see, the famous (and apparently more classy) La Scala opera company in Spain had refused to

play ball

present the opera.  That ain’t liberal!  And that ain’t no way to run a left-wing anti-Bush media/entertainment industry cabal! 

The fair and balanced CBC obviously doesn’t care about being candid, as their biased headline in their first story—a hideously ironic display of their lack of actual candidness—laments:

La Scala nixes opera featuring Bush, Blair dancing in underwear

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This is doubly bad for the anti-American set because as the CBC reports, according to the esteemed (by his mother) director:

While Bernstein’s comic operetta took a sardonic look at McCarthyism, in the new production Carson updated the story’s setting and added some new dialogue to “parallel [the protagonist] Candide’s loss of optimism and the way the world has lost its optimism about an idealized America,” he told the New York Times earlier this month.

(So please observe that (A) “the world” is now uniformly pissed with America, and (B) it has an anti-American edge so this is all worthy of ink.) 

image In actual fact, despite that headline, the opera presentation features not just their favorite hate-ons, Bush and Blair, but also Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Jacques Chirac and former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.  They even included a picture of them all, which, as you can see, is not a picture of “Bush and Blair”.  To the CBC, they though it was really only important to draw your attention to Bush and Blair.  They were sure you’d understand. 

Wink wink, nod nod.

Bush bad, Blair bad, Iraq war, dontchaknow.

Vote liberal. 

Oh yes and death to America. 

The storyline features a bit where President Putin dies of poisoned champagne, a reference to the recent poisoning of a Russian spy in the U.K. —a depiction (it’s all in “fun” and heck it’s “art”!) which you’d think might ultimately be more alarming than the fact “Bush and Blair” (oh yeah and others) were seen in their skivvies. 

As an aside, as if you didn’t know this would happen, it was reported yesterday in their follow-up story that La Scala has ultimately decided to go with the opera and present it later this year, with some unidentified bits changed or deleted.  Oh thank God. 

Meanwhile, I hope you caught the CBC “Newsworld’s” oft repeated presentation by one of their favorite sons, the anti-American Michael Moore, and his stupid anti-American “Bowling for Columbine” holiday movie over the holidays (yes, this film is not just good holiday fare for the far-leftist liberal, but “news”, and I know this because it was on the state-run media’s “Newsworld” channel); and also yesterday’s new year celebratory presentation of the anti-corporate “Super Size Me” movie on the main network to get your new year off on the right — er far-leftist — foot.

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