Is Don Cherry Pro-War?

Yup.

From 2003, CBC deletes clip of Cherry and MacLean arguing about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Afterwards, Cherry spoke on a radio show:

"You have to realize the CBC is government owned," Cherry said on the program, which is broadcast throughout the United States and Canada. "You have to say the government was against it (the war) and I'm for it and I'm on a government program. I really thought this could be the end."

h/t Art Bodger at Hockey Fans for Peace page. Different from group. Confusing.

So, to all those defenders of Sour Grapes saying he 'just' supports the troops -- you are wrong.

Don Cherry is pro-war.

ADDED: Fake Don Cherry weighs in.

MORE: Twatsy weighs in to say that members of the group are actual Communists. Now how does he know that? Would that be defamation, do you think?

Taliban Hates Hockey and Cats

I just turned on computer -- not enough coffee yet -- and approved two new comments.

From the Hockey Fans for Peace post:

nkaulius said...

Im so angry by this. A hundred of my fellow citizens died in 9/11 because of terrorists. I fully support the war against this terrible crime. These bleeding hearts should be ashamed of them selves. Who else in Canada supports these brave men and women as much as don? What a Joke. He's a GREAT Canadian and you should all show the man the respect he deserves.

From the Feral Cats post:

croghan27 said...

"Kill the cats.

But the obsessed cat people -- almost all women -- go bananas. Beeeg trouble at the civic level."

crogh is a cat person and if someone undertakes some .... ultra legal actions against cats near him he will respond with a similar ultra legal reaction.

Now my under-caffeinated brain is trying to figure out how to combine the irrationality of the pro-DonCherry camp with that of the pro-cat camp and get them to support the troops by replacing them in Afghanistan.

Maybe spread the word that the Taliban has kidnapped Don Cherry and is torturing cats?

Hockey Fans for Peace

And for getting Sour Grapes to STFU.

A newly formed Vancouver-based group is challenging Don Cherry to a debate on Coach’s Corner to offset criticism that the fiery commentator is using Hockey Night in Canada to promote militarism and the war in Afghanistan.

Hockey Fans for Peace plans to rally outside the HNIC broadcast of Saturday night’s Vancouver Canucks game against the Detroit Red Wings at Rogers Arena in Vancouver to make the point that hockey fans have the democratic right to speak out against the war in Afghanistan.

Spokesman Kimball Cariou said Wednesday the group is calling on the CBC “to either stop the promotion of militarism during hockey broadcasts, or else to allow one of its members to debate Cherry during an upcoming Coach’s Corner.”

Hockey fan and peace activist Derrick O’Keefe agrees.

“It’s something that’s bothered me for a lot of years that Don Cherry’s Coach’s Corner has been used to really give a one-sided platform to talk about the war only in full support,” said O’Keefe, a member of the group’s Facebook page. “And when Don Cherry makes political comments during the hockey broadcast he’s never challenged.”

Of course, there's a Facebook group.

I just joined.