CBC's Solomon gets bitch slapped

Nice!  If you thought Amiel's  husband was good at throwing darts and making them stick, you will change your mind and now start wondering if it's really Amiel doing that part of the writing for him.  Read the entire thing at link.

Barbara Amiel writing at Maccleans:
....We all have times when we fear suffering a stroke during a television news broadcast, usually when actually knowing something about the subject under discussion. Public broadcasters in particular are a menace, with their unwavering adherence to the fashions of the times. Mind you, my response is mild compared to the critic in last October’s British Spectator who, after listening to professor Steve Jones talking on BBC Radio about climate change, began his column characterizing a statement of the good prof as a “cherishably stupid, rude, fatuous, crabby, bigoted, ignorant, petulant, feeble, fallacious, dishonest and misleading argument.”

I wouldn’t use all those words to describe Evan Solomon’s letter to Maclean’s about my last column because, for all his shortcomings, Mr. Solomon is a good news reader, rather engaging and anyway, I don’t think he is bigoted. Some of the other words, though, may have a passing application.

My column was about the rather aggressive interview by Mr. Solomon of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird on his appointment of lawyer Vivian Bercovici as ambassador to Israel. Clearly, I ruined CBC’s splendid moment catching the government red-handed appointing someone who outspokenly agrees with its policies. Ms. Bercovici, it turns out, is Jewish—though plugged in as I am, I’d never heard of her. Anyway, she’s definitely not one of those nice post-Zionist Jews beloved of public broadcasters the world over who fondly view the prospect of a non-Jewish state of Israel after the lamb has been demographically or otherwise eaten by the lion. Though Mr. Solomon’s interview was in attack mode (the CBC labels the interview on its site “Baird defends [my italics] ambassador pick”), I wanted to nix the notion being floated by some Jewish organizations that his approach proceeded from ignoble motives: “Solomon’s questions,” I wrote, “were not anti-Semitic in intention, only tread-worn...Solomon's discomfort could not be with Ms. Bercovici’s religion, but her pro-Israel views.”

If you thought that cleared the matter up, you’d be cherishably stupid. .........