The host of the lefty radio-TV program "Democracy Now!" was going to Vancouver to give a speech for the stations there that carry her program and at the border was detained (along with two colleagues) by a border patrol that was convinced that the topic of her speech was going to be the attempts by leftist groups to protest and derail the upcoming Vancouver Winter Games--Goodman said she wasn't aware of this until she was detained:
http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/732039--what-olympics-baffled-u-s-radio-host-interrogated-at-border They eventually allowed her to go on to her speech, but she had to return to the U.S. the day after--this morning's "DN!" devoted a segment to the anti-Olympics side, which sounds similar to the leftist objections to Chicago's 2016 bid--cost overruns, environmental damage and displacement of the poor and homeless (and coincidentally, another "DN!" segment dealt with the 10th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle). And it should be pointed out that the Tory Canwest Global papers criticized the government in editorials for detaining Goodman. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
