CBC employees really need customer-relations training

This was worse, but…

Yesterday Michael Coren slagged Omar Khadr, the Ed Gein Junior of the Middle East and the Left’s new hero (presumably Mumia’s gotten “too big to cuddle…”):

I have to be blunt. I’m disappointed. Perhaps the sequel will be superior and I suppose we have to be generous to a fairly inexperienced director and cast, but I thought the Omar Khadr video would be better than it turned out to be. A little like the latter Star Wars — unfulfilled promise.

Actually the whole thing backfired, in that it was supposed to break our hearts and make us angry at the awful Americans who dared to keep a sort of Canadian in prison on suspicion of terrorism and of throwing a hand grenade that killed one of their medics.

Problem is, it showed a well-fed, well-nourished, obviously defiant and healthy young man blubbing and moaning and claiming, rather absurdly, that he has no feet or eyes.

“You do have feet” replied a tolerant Canadian agent, “they’re on the end of your legs.”

Coren got this email in response:

You were kidding, right? No matter. That material is about as funny as a
good old-fashioned waterboarding joke. Disgraceful.

Richard Goddard
goddardr@cbc.ca
o (+001) 416-205-5950
f  (+001) 416-205-5731

Q on CBC Radio ONE

How stupid do you have to be to slag a taxpayer — the person who pays your salary — and use your work email?

Is this really a proper use of taxpayer funded time and equipment?

Are we safe in assuming that this employee’s position is the official position of the CBC?

PS: dig those pretentious international phone number prefixes!