Left wing Journo, Stephen Wicary, for Globe & Mail moves to Cuba

John Kay, of the National Post, made some observations on Ezra Levant's monologues on Stephen Wicary who left his post as the online editor of the Globe & Mail recently to take up residence in communist Cuba. These observations are a result of both Ezra's remarks and a Twitter war that broke out on the 5/7/12 and lasted into the morning of the 6/7/12.

Jonathan Kay: Much ado about Stephen Wicary’s Cuban adventure

"Every once in a while, Sun TV infotainer Ezra Levant reminds us why Canada needs his unique brand of say-anything Glenn Beckesque “journalism.” And every once in a while, he assaults decency in a way that leaves us all with dropped jaws (bananas, anyone?). Sometimes, he even manages to do both within the same five-minute monologue segment.

So it was on Friday, with this tirade against the Canadian mainstream media, and a certain outgoing Globe & Mail editor — in which he leads off with a worthy 2-minute skewering of the general Twitter-mediated sameness and leftism that pervades most of this country’s opinion-makers. More specifically, he points out that the pundit class has seemed bored by the underplayed scandal of Liberal leadership candidates who’ve violated campaign-finance rules by failing to repay loans; even while frenzying itself over the robo-calls issue (which was a fine scoop — not “fake,” as Ezra claims — but also one that never came close to justifying the now-fizzled outrage of NDP and Liberal question-period MPs, who cast it as a sort of Canadian Watergate).


Unfortunately, Ezra then spends the next three minutes going off on an ad hominem attack on Globe & Mail online editor Stephen Wicary, who is setting sail for a new non-Globe-affiliated life in communist Cuba. And here’s where Ezra shows his dark side."

My observations left on the NP blog.


Ezra's main point is the PPG and other left wing Journos, who have raised the  specter of losing democracy in Canada, are now defending one of their own who has bitterly complained about the loss of Democracy in Canada. Is the irony not lost on people he will now move to a commie regime, albeit with pretty good weather. (research shows democracy is no different than when Trudeau centralized power in the PMO). That is truly a changed state of mind. Those with any sense of observation already knew Wicary was a bleeding heart socialist from his own activities.

Let Wicary now try and complain about the Castro regime on his Twitter feed and he will truly know the difference. Most of those journos saying the sky is falling with respect to democracy have much in common. They think and run like a pack. Here is a list of some of the media party pack that showed up to last night in defence of the penultimate lefty journo Wicary. Jon Kay, Dan Gardner, Emmett MacFarlane, a lefty Political Science University teacher, always in denial over his political leanings, who likes to run with the pack, Paul Wells, Kady O'Malley - one of the pack leaders who tries so hard to appear impartial but fails, that dipper who loves robo call faux scandals, Glen McGregor, of "Frank" Magazine, Mulroney daughter deflowering fame, and Andrew Coyne the leader of the Democracy Deficit revolution in the pack. There were a few more minor pack followers whose names are irrelevant as are their scribbles
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They clearly have not lived in an undemocratic country. They proved Ezra's point about their "pack" mentality by all joining in to defend Wicary.


One of the more humorous exchanges came from McGregor, who took umbrage at a comment Kay made about the perceived lack of "balls" on robo call obsessive's, and proffered he would no longer file his stories with the NP. McGregor thinks he actually has the power to do that! It appears delusion is something not confined to those locked up in the hospital. Note these same journos completely ignore the former Liberal leadership candidates with large outstanding loans from 2006, in defiance of election laws, which Elections Canada is also ignoring.


If you ever want to get an idea of what is wrong in journalism in Canada we saw it last night in the Twitter battle, lasting into the wee hours of the AM. They had quite the media party encounter proving the assertion they are indeed a monocultural, drone, core of not overly inspiring scribblers who think alike and are left of centre in many of their views. Their defensiveness was pretty clear and also ironically they proved Ezras point.


If anyone wonders who is one of the most influential TV personalities in Canada, don't miss tonight's "The Source"? Guess who will all be watching!


PS - Mr. Kay: Are any of those former colleagues in the ME, female?

Murray Aubin shows his polarized view of the leftist world he occupies

Murray Aubin, a long term far left pundit has indicated his dislike of the Conservative Party of Canada in a Vancouver Sun Blog Post.  

He hasn't posted my retort and may not as it was not favourable to his thoughts on the socialists, and extreme left wing members, in the NDP.  For non Canadian readers the NDP is a far left wing socialist party comprised of some reformed communists, Marxists, anarchists, disgruntled left wing Liberals, radical feminists, radical unionists, and terrorist supporters.  A portion of these members are 911 truthers, rabidly anti-American and pro-Hamas.  Aubin tries to infuse a degree of respectability on their recent increase in Parliament 41 seats. The increase is largely due to a transfer of voters from the socialist, separatist party, the Bloc Québécois (BQ) a party similar in social outlook. The BQ, however, are overt separatists. The NDP are playing to the same sentiments of Quebec nationalism but, like the BQ, will not be able to deliver anything they promised to  the fickle electorate. 

  

Aubin Sates:

"The prospect for a merger between the Liberals and the NDP is virtually zero. Neither party will ever put the country ahead of their own narrow interests. This is simply the perverse nature of party politics. Their entire reason for being is to get as many seats as possible: full stop. They are constitutionally and culturally incapable of any other goal. Efforts before the 2008 election to get the Greens and the NDP to co-operate by strategically withdrawing from some ridings to help defeat Conservatives got absolutely nowhere. Layton’s triumphalism, on election night – speaking to a country (not only his own party) facing the most destructive government in its history – just reinforced the point."

Daubin uses the ill termed overused "centre-left" to describe the NDP. Sorry Mr. Daubin, radical left is the appropriate term.  If you doubt me check their constitution, not found on their website for good reason. It would scare mainstream Canadians. A portion follows below.

You describe the CPC as the most destructive in Canadian History. To whom? Yes to the Liberals and Yes to the BQ but that was by design.

The left wing radicals, like Rebick, Davies, Klein and many others who call the NDP home are a clear danger to Canada, our values, our way of life and our standard of living.

Here is a portion of the NDP constitution, which they hide from an unsuspecting, electorate.

 

• That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to the making of profit;

• To modify and control the operations of the monopolistic productive and distributive organizations through economic and social planning.
  
• Towards these ends and where necessary the extension of the principle of social ownership;
  
• The New Democratic Party holds firm to the belief that the dignity and freedom of the individual is a basic right that must be maintained and extended;

The rise of the NDP is largely a phenomenon of fickle Quebec voters shopping for the most recent lobby group and panderer for their entitlements.  It will not last and fractures will be evident over the next 4 years culminating in House Of Commons floor crossings. The fact people would vote for candidates they never knew, never met, didn't know they spoke little French in Francophone ridings, and who  have never seen the riding,  is not a compliment to democracy.  It is nothing more than personality politics. They bought the promise of a used car salesman who, history will show, sold a product with no warranty, no way to deliver, but it does have an expiry date.