If you've read the hate mongering Rebel recently, you might have noticed that it spends most of its time writing about Britain rather than Canada.With its lizard leader Ezra Levant championing the cause of the notorious British bigot Tommy Robinson.But now it seems all that cheerleading for Robinson may have landed Levant
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Montreal Simon: The Con Media, Andrew Scheer, and the Rebel Connection
For months I have been hoping that our shabby media would notice how Andrew Scheer's Cons and Ezra Levant's hate mongering Rebel were beginning to resemble each other.With Levant seeming or screaming to tell Scheer what to do.And yesterday they finally did, sort of.It began when the Con propaganda machine began
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Did Ezra Levant’s Ghastly Rebel Trigger a Terrorist Act in Britain?
I like to mock Ezra Levant and his ratty rag The Rebel.As I did yesterday.But of course the man is not a joke, or at least not funny, and I have always worried that his relentless hate mongering might lead to tragedy.By inspiring one of his sick followers to hurt
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Fatal Rebel Connection
As we now know, Hamish Marshall, the Con's new campaign manager who used to work at The Rebel, has been desperately trying to change Andrew Scheer's image.From Dr Schmear and Mr Schmeagol, depending on the phase of the moon, to Mr Nice Guy, or Mr Average Canadian.But it's not easy, and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and The Rebel Ties That Bind
As we all know, Andrew Scheer has vowed not to grant more interviews to Ezra Levant's hate mongering Rebel until it changes its "editorial direction."Whatever that means.But after having spent so much time with the Rebel, and after having one of Levant's flunkies run his Con leadership campaign, severing the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Humiliation of the Bigot Ezra Levant
For days even as his ratty Rebel started to take on water, and half his crew abandoned ship, Ezra Levant insisted that everything was under control.But now that ghastly bigot has finally been forced to confront reality.Now he's finally admitting that The Rebel is in deep trouble.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Cowardly Non Condemnation of Ezra Levant
Earlier today I wrote a post demanding to know why Andrew Scheer was hesitating to condemn the white supremacist views of Ezra Levant's bigot Rebel.After spending so much time riding on that stinking and sinking boat. Well now it turns out he did say something about it in B.C. last night.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Ezra Levant’s Bigot Rebel Falling Apart?
For years Ezra Levant has been peddling bigotry for fun and profit. And ever since the rise of Donald Trump, his ratty racist rag The Rebel has become more and more extreme. Not just reaching out to the freaks, nasty nerds and neo-nazis of Trump's so-called Alt-Right army. But actually jumping into bed with them.And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How You Can Help Put The Squeeze On The Rebel
As you know, Ezra Levant likes to call himself a "Rebel Commander" and portray himself and The Rebel as a champions of free speech.Even though The Rebel is just a tacky hate mongering rag, which should have been closed down long ago by the vice squad.And Levant is only in it for
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and The Rebel Connection
I'm pretty sure that most Canadians know very little about Andrew Scheer, the new leader of the Cons, who likes to call himself "Harper with a smile."They just see a friendly looking man who always has a smile on his face, even when he's talking about the recent death of
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The French Hacking Attack and the Rebel Connection
With only 24 hours to go before the French presidential election, and Emmanuel Macron leading Marine Le Pen in the polls, this was hardly surprising. The campaign of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was hit on Friday by a large dump of leaked emails and other documents on a file-sharing
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Ezra Levant’s Horrible and Expensive Year’s End
As we all know Ezra Levant spends a lot of his time begging for money. And I mean a lot of time.There isn't a day that goes by that he can't be seen rattling his tin cup, or bellowing through his bullhorn.So I'm sorry to report that his begging is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Kellie Leitch, Donald Trump, and the Racist Rebel
I don't know from what diseased mind or minds those hateful posters came from. I don't know whether those racists were inspired by their Lord Emperor Donald Trump.Or boosted by Kellie Leitch's emulation of him, and her politics of division.But I must say I find this deeply disturbing.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Ezra Levant’s Pathetic Plea To Justin Trudeau
No media personality in this country has attacked Justin Trudeau as viciously as has Ezra Levant.He has called him a terrorist, he has attacked his family in the lowest possible way.During Trudeau's fight with Patrick Brazeau he got so carried away, he practically came in his pants wondering whether Justin
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ghastly Misogyny of Ezra Levant’s Rebel Rag
As you probably know, the hate mongering internet rag The Rebel is as revolting as it's self-styled "Rebel Commander" Ezra Levant.It's a swollen sewer, a raging torrent of bigotry aimed at all kinds of people, especially Muslims.It …
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: On The Rebel’s Lauren Southern getting PO’d
To all progressive, feminist, anti-fascist and otherwise generally sane people who, for some reason, like to feed the trolls:
Stop feeding the trolls. Seriously.
First off, really? What possibly compels you to do such a thing? No winning argument ends with a bottle of urine dumped on someone’s head. Grow up.
Second, and more importantly, all you accomplished aside from making Southern smell a bit off for a few days is help Ezra Levant pay his lackeys. The Rebel is going to fundraise off of this so hard, and you’ve guaranteed they’ll send Southern out to do more confrontations like this in the hopes of more bodily fluids being thrown.
That’s how they operate, they want to be seen as victims of the “regressive left” or whatever. The entire raison-d’étre of The Rebel is to propel forward the victimhood narrative for whites, men, the rich, and any other privileged group in the country – and throwing urine on one of its reporters is only helping them do so.
Listen, it’s hard not to react to some one like Southern, who is aggressive and offensive but also well-versed in the subject matter. Everyone has that person who gets under your skin and you just want to lash out at – but, you know, we don’t because we know it just helps their cause.
But you know how to get back at them? Just ignore them, seriously. Ignore Levant. Ignore Southern. Ignore the whole pack of Rebel trolls. Let them stew in their hate-filled world, it’s of no concern if they wish to. They are so far outside of mainstream opinion and cater to such a niche and irrelevant audience that in a few years we’ll wonder what happened to the site and these, uh, “wonderful” personalities.
Unless, of course, you propel them into the national media by pouring a bottle of piss over a reporter’s head.
Leave the trolls under the bridge and be done. Or at least refuse to pay their toll, if you can’t avoid confrontation altogether. There is no need to further pack The Rebel’s coffers with stupid stunts.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: On The Rebel’s Lauren Southern getting PO’d
To all progressive, feminist, anti-fascist and otherwise generally sane people who, for some reason, like to feed the trolls: Stop feeding the trolls. Seriously. First off, really? What possibly compels you to do such a thing? No winning argument ends with a bottle of urine dumped on someone’s head. Grow
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: On The Rebel’s Lauren Southern getting PO’d
To all progressive, feminist, anti-fascist and otherwise generally sane people who, for some reason, like to feed the trolls:Stop feeding the trolls. Seriously.First off, really? What possibly compels you to do such a thing? No winning argument ends wi…
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 7: Horse racing put down; The Rebel yells
Edmonton Northlands, the so-called ‘agricultural society’ that has been a force in Edmonton since Edmonton was in diapers, announced a sweeping plan to rebuilt the soon-to-be-vacant arena and the area surrounding it. It’s partly a great idea, and partly nutty. The great idea, if they can find $85 million between the government’s couch cushions, is […]
The Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Ezra’s Dustup This Week And Ethics In Journalism
Okay, Ezra won a battle this week with Alberta’s NDP government. They tried to toss him from press events held by the government, and he made enough of a stink about it to get the government to back down. In the last few days, we’ve seen all sorts of media personalities start blathering on about how the government was being heavy handed, and that Ezra’s team has a right to be there just as they do. After all, how do you define “journalist”?, they argue.
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Let me be abundantly clear here: I don’t like Ezra Levant. I never have. He conducts himself as a public spectacle, and has been abundantly clear that he has no respect for anyone who dares to disagree with him. That’s his choice, I don’t have to like it.
However, in reading Andrew Coyne’s diatribe on the matter (which is really just a thinly veiled attack on the CBC), it occurred to me that all of the arguments made supporting Ezra Levant fail to acknowledge the moral and ethical issues that the field of journalism in Canada has largely ignored for most of my adult life.