“Kash Patel, the FBI director, temporarily halted some cooperation with the agency’s counterpart in Canada this month after the nation’s public broadcaster reminded its journalists of a longstanding policy not to refer to the Sept 11 attacks as ‘terrorism’ without attribution to experts, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the event,” says the lede to a Friday New York Times report that need be copied verbatim here as to avoid obscuring the astonishing fucking pettiness and, of course, the bitchy hypocrisy from a crew whose brand is all about opposing language policing.

Was it stupid and bizarre for the CBC to have such “a longstanding policy” in place? Yes. It is. You do not have to reflexively disagree with K$H on that specific opinion simply because it is his. It is very goddamned stupid, downright bizarre, and more than just a little offensive to the families of those killed in the worst terrorist attack in American history. Also just simply embarrassing to regular Canadians who would prefer that their taxpayer dollars not cover the operating costs of a network that seems almost hellbent on going reaching the logical endpoint of the most eggheaded institutional microaggression-prevention choose-your-own dated AM talk radio bullshit stereotypes.

And then there’s what K$H actually did: Cut off all of his agency’s contact with the national law enforcement agency of the neighbor with which the United States has had brotherly relations with for the better part of two centuries because of a complaint with how their national broadcaster conducts their news coverage. Read that again and then realize that he was more concerned with how the CBC defines terrorism than he was that the RCMP could warn the FBI that, say, they intercepted a phone call in which a Quebec resident suspected of links to ISIS ordered an unknown individual in Vermont to drive to Boston and blow himself up on a crowded public bus.

The CBC reversed the policy late last month and K$H reversed his FBI/RCMP unfriending. Luckily there were no ISIS or Al-Qaeda attacks for him to be offended over the CBC’s coverage of it.