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"So-called."

That's the CBC's favorite locution when referring to the Bush Administration's War on Terror.

Excuse me, the "so-called" War on Terror.

While I admire this sceptical stand, I wonder why it isn't more consistently applied:

Ba-ba-ba-baaaa! [so-called "music" from The National]

Peter Mansbridge: Let's go to our so-called correspondent, Don Murray. Don, if I may call you that, what's going on now?

Don: If you are in fact the so-called Peter Mansbridge, then I would say this: It looks like a "quagmire."

Peter: Thank you for that. Turning to Anna Maria Cockbrow, what say you?

Anna: Peter, the so-called "quagmire" might yet turn into George Bush's worst nightmare. I say this because I am a woman.

Peter: [chuckle] Yes, you are indeed a so-called woman. Let's go to Wendy Mesley. Wendy?

Wendy! I could'a been a contendah!

Anna: I am afloat in an ocean of lotion. If I cock my brow at you, am I a cocky browser? Or a browsy cocker?

Peter: I have to cut it short here. Thank you; thank you all.

Wendy: Not so fast, you