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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am listening to Scott Rintoul right now, and they just played a clip from an interview with Don Cherry that are on SN590 this AM. It continues to be frustrating that certain media outlets refuse to accurately report—and draw attention to—what was most problematic in Cherry's rant.
The interviewer—much like the writer of the National Post article, and like Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington—set his focus on Cherry's mention of "you people," and not where it should be on "you people THAT COME HERE."
Reporters continue to ignore the real issue, and it provides an (albeit weak) avenue for Cherry to maintain that he is a victim of being misunderstood. So long as people refuse to call him out for the real problem, then the entire exercise of his dismissal was ultimately futile.
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Danielle Smith did the same thing. To me there is no way to possibly mistake that he was talking about immigrants,,,,"
you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey". Leaving these bits out and focusing only on "you people" gives him a pretty easy pass that Smith's listeners gobbled up. 100% of callers seemed to think he was targeting all Canadians and that he was not specifically targeting immigrants. And if he was targeting immigrants it was the Irish.