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Feb 27, 02
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How far can someones head get up their ass???
I justread an article in todays sun written by Pete McMartin. It was titled "good time to be silver: Canada after a hockey defeat". He goes on to say that canada lost the gold medal game 3-2 against the states. It even goes as far as getting "quotes" from canadian like they had "tried their hardest" and "no give up in them".
How far can irresponsible journalism go? How far do you have to have your head up your ass to think , and I quote "After the game, the streets in canada did not spontaniously fill with beer inpired patriots. The patriots, instead, moped for a few minutes, turned the T.V. to a rerun of friends and had another beer." Uhhhh... where the hell was this guy when all you could hear on the streets has honking coming from cars with giant flags hanging out the windows. Oh... check this out " It remained unsaid but understood that the women's gold medal in hokey was nice but really did not count" I don't know how many of you saw that game, but that was a show of atheletic ability the likes of which I've never seen. The beat the americans (who had not lost in something like 35 games) while basically playing them 4 on 5. Where the hell does this guy get off???? I don't know about you, but I'm insulted that people like this represent the "facts" to public. Ignorance is bliss... sure only when you don't spread it around. There is a responsibility associated with journalism (although the majority of them don't exercise it). If you are as pissed off about this as I am, his e-mail adress is pmcm@pacpress.southam.ca and his phone number is 604-605-2905. If you want to read it,its in section B5 in wednesday the 27th vancouver sun. We can't let ignorance take over. :211: Ryan 
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Feb 27, 02
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i'm confused, Canada won gold. am i missing something here?
and the women's game so counts! they played a good game just like the men did! they're no less important than anyone else, if he thinks that then he sounds pretty sexist. give him shit.
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Feb 27, 02
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HERE'S the Arcticle~
Good time to be silver: Canada after hockey defeat
A nation takes solace in the knowledge that it was only a hockey game Pete McMartin Vancouver Sun Wednesday, February 27, 2002 When the Canadian men's hockey team lost 3-2 to the U.S. men's hockey team in the Olympic gold medal game Sunday, the 20 million Canadians who had not watched the game collectively said, when told the news, "Oh, that's a shame," and went back to doing their laundry. After the game, the streets in Canada did not spontaneously fill with beer-inspired patriots. The patriots, instead, moped for a few minutes, turned the TV to a rerun of Friends and had another beer. Their flags remained unwaved. (The streets remained empty, too, in the U.S., where streets traditionally fill only for race riots.) In press reports following the game, members of the Canadian men's hockey team were not referred to as "Our Heroes." They were, instead, described as "valiant," "plucky," "gritty" and having "no give-up in them." In losing, none of the Canadian players chose to remark on the dignity of the Olympic experience: It had not occurred to anyone that there might be dignity in defeat. Several players, rather, were quoted as saying they were apologetic for "letting the country down." But the country would hear none of it, saying the men "had done us proud" and "had tried their hardest." Mario Lemieux's hip was raised to the status of an Achilles heel. Vague sounds were made about the quality of the officiating. Wayne Gretzky said it could have been the hate that the rest of the world feels for Canadian hockey that may have given the U.S. men's hockey team the edge. He then flew back to his home in Los Angeles. No mention was made of the loonie buried for good luck at centre ice. It was quietly removed. It now resides in the spare-change jar in the kitchen of the ice-making crew superintendent, who lives in Edmonton. From the time it was buried to the time it was dug up on Monday, its value -- at the close of that day's markets -- had dropped .0061 cents against the U.S. dollar. This small devaluation, considered nothing out of the ordinary, was blamed on the effects of the softwood lumber dispute, not to any national malaise caused by the outcome of the hockey game. Many commentators, in fact, were surprised that the country, essentially, survived. The Quebecois made the usual noises that the Anglais on the team had not played with the flair of the French-Canadians, but those complaints were muted by the government's promise to award Quebec with a disproportionately generous amount of sports funding. Grief counsellors -- banks of which were supplied for by the federal Ministry of Parochialism, and who were standing by for your distressed calls -- reported some business, but mostly from those who thought the loss of one hockey game said something about the state of the nation. Secretly, of course, that silly notion was being entertained by more than a few people, who saw in the loss a continuation of what they considered Canada's middling progress, of forever being the silver medallist to the U.S. behemoth. Some of these people were editorial writers and TV talking heads prepared to comment on the power of sport to solidify a nation's sense of self-worth, and to identify an Olympic gold medal in men's hockey as signalling a new age of excellence in which Canada would no longer settle for second. (It remained unsaid but understood that the women's gold medal in hockey was nice but really did not count.) Thankfully, those comments remained unsaid, because that was a lot to invest in something as slim as a hockey game, and some cynics thought -- quietly, to themselves, for fear of being seen as traitorous killjoys -- that such thinking showed the country's ingrained insecurity, not strength. The U.S., after all, had been soundly getting its ass kicked in baseball by the Cubans for years, and it had not precipitated a national identity crisis there. The country was bigger than baseball. So we here in this country ultimately decided to put a good face on things and make do with silver. It was agreed by both those hoping to deaden the sting of defeat as well as by those who truly did not give a damn, that it was only a game. The next morning -- to everyone's surprise -- the sun came up. Pete McMartin can be reached at pmcm@pacpress.southam.ca or at 604-605-2905. © Copyright 2002 Vancouver Sun
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Feb 27, 02
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nice to know we have weird, incompetent, sexist people writing for our newspapers...a reliable source huh?..
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Feb 27, 02
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You really don't get the point of the article, do you?
This article is purely allegorical. You know- we lose graciously, therefore we can win graciously? Life goes on? We're good sportsmen? *snicker* Did you really think that the paper would allow someone to compose a serious column littered with bullshit? I hope by now you get it, you know, before you send this angry patriotic e-mail to the writer, in turn giving him a really good laugh. :P M.
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Feb 27, 02
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hmmm...now this all reminds me of sum english essay i had to write on irony..heh..=P~
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Feb 27, 02
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Thank you miss.myra! Even if someone was stupid enough to write something like that, someone else working for the sun would have noticed how wrong he was. He was just pictureing what it would have been like if we lost. But thanks you guys for believeing him. It made me laugh. :D:
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Feb 27, 02
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S M R T!!! *runs away*
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Feb 27, 02
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Feb 28, 02
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hmmm..now thats called flexibility..*shivers*
OH MY INNOCENT EYES!..i wonder how big that person's head is?
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