OK, I don’t think Winston likes being called “a Muslim” at all, but otherwise the line doesn’t scan.

Thanks to Dr. Roy’s heads up, a bunch of us got in to see John Bolton at a taping of CBC’s The Hour yesterday morning. You may remember The Hour from such recent blog posts as my nasty article about the host, “Strombo”, in FrontPage — which my editor kept sending back as “not mean enough”, and finally had to fix himself, (as you can see from the rare coda at the very end of the piece):

If you’re a conservative, you don’t have to get arrested to get on The Hour, but coming close helps. When author Mark Steyn’s travails with Canada’s Human Rights Commissions became too big for even the CBC to ignore (Steyn and the nation’s oldest magazine having been charged with “flagrant Islamophobia”), he was invited on The Hour and graciously described his host later as a talented fellow and not “a reflex Trudeaupian liberal.”

Stroumboulopoulos was earnest and twitchy, hyperactively playing with his copy of Steyn’s book America Alone, which was conspicuously  stickered with Post-It notes. “You say ‘immigration’ like it’s a bad thing” was the closest the host came to mounting a thoughtful challenge to Steyn’s thesis. He wondered why it would be so bad if Islam became Europe’s dominant religion; after all, “democracy means majority rules, right?” Stroumboulopoulos was his most animated when reminding Steyn that George Bush once told a “foreign minister” that “God told him to invade Iraq.” Except that never happened: the story is a widely debunked urban legend based on Palestinian propaganda…

So RightGirl and I arrived very early at the CBC studios and the snark started the second we passed through the doors:  

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