April 13, 2005: This is the CBC gift that keeps on giving. I wrote this response after the orignal broadcast of Sticks and Stones but I think this is at least the 4th time the CBC has re-broadcast it. Welcome to my blog. Feel free to look around. There is plenty of Adscam information in the more recent posts. Thanks for visiting.
I was surfing around (o.k. I'll be honest, I was trolling around looking for something to blog about) and I found Ann Coulter being interviewed on C-SPAN.
About halfway through the interview she was asked about her appearance on CBC's "Sticks and Stones" and especially her argument with Bob McKeown over Canada's involvement (or lack thereof) in Vietnam. Since I had so much fun with the CBC program here, I thought I would go to the well again. Here is the exchange on C-SPAN.
Interviewer: I saw you somewhere the other night in somebody’s program where the Canadian fellow had you over a barrel over the comment you made.
Ann Coulter: I haven’t seen it, I’ve heard about it. It is also the program where Al Franken cries. You have to watch the whole program.
I: I didn’t see it. You were back and forth, you said the Canadians had troops in Vietnam and he said no they didn’t, what is, did you find out of the real answer?
AC: Yes, 10,000 Canadian troops, at least, there is a War Memorial to them…at least for most of that. The Canadian Government didn’t send troops at the beginning, didn’t send troops at the end, but most of that was not under the Canadian flag, they came and fought with the Americans. So I was wrong. It turns out there were 10,000 Americans who happened to be born in Canada.
I: What do you do, this is just a human thing, what do you do, you have a rather strong point of view all the time, when you find yourself in a position like that and that guy was not going to let you off the hook – kept pushing and pushing and you didn’t know for sure. You weren’t sure he was right and you weren’t sure you were wrong.
AC: Well, I think the important thing to notice is on live TV conservatives always come off much better than liberals. It’s usually on TV shows where they sit you down and talk to you for three hours and then take it back to the editing room.
I: Was that taped?
AC: Yes! I talked to him for three hours and the topic was not Canada’s war history it was an incidental point that he challenged me on and I didn’t believe him because I had read about Canadian troops in Vietnam, I was right. People keep saying well he didn’t tell you that they - 10,000 troops ran across to sign up with the Americans because I don’t think he knew. He’s just a bubble head, Ted Baxter. He just talks to people for four hours and then comes in and chops it up. Which is how liberals like to edit TV shows and I think it is curious fact worth nothing.
I: Why did you agree to do the interview.
AC: It was set up by my publisher because I was promoting a book and in fact when I realized that – I thought it was going to be a show, because they were talking to me for a while, I thought it was going to be a show like this, hmm, seems like kind of a long interview just with one person but you do it. And I realized going into it they are not going to just run this interview with me. They’re going to take this into the back room and cut it up. And so I left. They would have kept me there for seven hours!
…But I would like to say, before the caller asks their question, I would really like the whole interview I did to be played and if Canadian Broadcasting has the testosterone to do it. Why won’t they let conservatives talk live? Why are they so afraid of that.
