Sunday 22 February 2015

Rebel Media rises

That didn't take long!

Ezra has bounced back as I expected with a most entertaining and informative (and tentative/evolving)  internet presence called Rebel Media (http://www.therebel.media) and so far (Feb 22) it's YouTube Channel has over 1,800 subs.

I am hoping for many more - in fact I want to see over 10,000 subs within 21 days - and then I want all of these subscribers to pledge to pay $10/mth for the next year.  That should be a good start only 30 days after Sun News "set".





















However, I neglected to give a shout-out to all the former "camera" staff/reporters/journalists who made Sun such a great service to right-wing voters and conservative citizens - some of whom have been absence for some time.

IN (from the cold):
Ezra Levant
Brian Lilley
Michael Coren
Marissa Semkiw

OUT (in the cold, potentially anyways):
Page MacPherson
Gina Phillips
David Akin
Faith Goldy (and her blog - http://www.faithgoldy.ca/true-north-report-a-fresh-voice-for-canada/
Lisa Mrazek (even though she didn't really seem to be cut out for the job)
Anthony Furey
Jerry Agar
Ray Heard
Adrienne Batra
Tarek Fatah
Mark Bonokoski
Rebecca Thompson
Lorie Goldstein
Brigitte Pellerin
John Robson
Simon Kent
Rikki Ratliff
Jessica Murphy
David Coletto
Alex Pierson
Pat Bolland
Kris Sims

Also The Rebel.Media's twitter tag is https://twitter.com/TheRebelTV (as I have discovered there appears to be a competing IMPOSTERs in Ireland and Australia - kidding, they were early that all.)

Saturday 14 February 2015

A sad day indeed

Yesterday (Feb 13) Sun News went off the air.
(2 exit interviews with Sun News media celebrity Ezra Levant are worth watching.)

What a tragedy.

I blame the CRTC for its massive mismanagement/over-regulation of Cable TV - in an era where it is redundant (if it was ever not so) given the current state of technological change.

And in a somewhat surprising admission of respect is Johnathon Kays reaction to the closure by completely mischaracterizing (as he seems perpetually able to do) why it happened.

Most revealing was Levants criticism of Kay on learning that he "moonlighted" in ghost-writing Justin Trudeau's mandatory, pre-election vanity book.  I believe this fact was probably why Kay is no longer an Editor at the National Post.



And Ezra Levant's withering deconstruction of resident Globe & Mail resident feminist columnist - Tabitha Withey,

Sunday 1 February 2015

How Right & Left converge on Freedom of Speech issue

Since the terrible Charlie Hebdo massacre the issues of Islamic Jihad, Religious Blasphemy and Freedom of Speech have been very much front and center in the media - in particular the stubborn refusal of the MSM to understand their role (see previous post).

Columnist Mark Steyn has been a prominent advocate of protecting our freedoms since he was charged under the Canadian Human Rights Commission with a "hate crime" along with popular media commentator Ezra Levant (well documented in Levant's book "Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights").

He was speaking about this topic in Toronto at an Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) show featuring pornographic cartoonist Art Spiegelman.  The topic was Provocation and Transgression - when the counter-culture has overturned normative mainstream culture (ie "we are all rebels now?").  Steyn ends with observation that "once all the soft targets are gone, the hard targets hit back".

On a similar vein a group of Atheists has started a campaign to remove the charge of Blasphemy from the Canadian Criminal Code.

Finally, this Montreal Imam is being denied approval for a Youth Center based on his comments that say Islam and Democracy are incompatible.   I don't disagree with him and think he should be commended for speaking the truth as he sees it.

Steyn in NatPost.pdf

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