Archive for March 1st, 2012
Consensus confusion
I’ve told you before that you cannot trust the consensus media. Let me say it again: you cannot trust the consensus media.
For the last week, we’ve been following two big stories, robocalls and the Jessie Sansone story.
If the allegations made are true in both stories, then they both involve people having their rights trampled on. In the robocall story, that would involve someone trying to stop people from exercising their franchise, stopping them from voting. In the Sansone story, it would be the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
We have covered both stories here on Byline and across Sun News Network.
What about the other guys?
Well, really they’ve only covered one story. Robocall.
They don’t care about the other story, they don’t see the outrage.
Maybe it’s because of the whole gun issue, I mean the kid, the four year-old kid, did draw a gun and we know the consensus media hates guns. They’re scared of them.
Prior to The Toronto Sun asking Premier Dad, Dalton McGuinty, about the case and the idea that teachers and school officials are “co-parents” no one at the Canadian Press wire service had written about this story.
They’ve written one now about Premier Dad standing up for the co-parents at the school board but that’s it.
Post Media wrote one story and the good guys over at National Post have opined a little on this.
CBC and CTV, nope and they have all news channels as well, this is a great story.
The Waterloo Region Record, a Red Star newspaper, has covered this, in fact they broke it. Their coverage has included columns such as Luisa Damato’s opining that “If we err, let’s err on the side of our kids’ safety.”
Sure, rights were violated but it’s for the children.
The Globe and Mail?
Well as of this afternoon, they’ve have 46 stories on robocalls posted to their website since last Thursday but a single word on Sansone even though the two stories broke the very same day.
I’ve seen the press pack make a national story out of a lone woman with a Jewish last name, in a Jewish neighbourhood who was upset that she had received greetings for the Jewish holidays. She felt her privacy was violated and the consensus media made a huge story out of it.
A man told to strip down and bend over while police look for a gun all because of his daughter’s drawing, that’s nothing to worry about. Unreasonable search and seizure, seizing of children, that’s nothing.
Media outside of Canada are picking up on this story. I’ve seen it in Russian, Chinese, Spanish. The British Press have reported on it, the American media has picked up on it, even in San Francisco.
Last night, Glenn Beck even talked about it on his TV show.
In Canada, don’t expect too much.
This is a gun story. This is a bad story. This doesn’t make Conservatives look bad. If Jessie had a different name, was from a favoured group, he would be covered in great depth by the other guys.
But he’s just some guy, he’s probably a hoser born in Canada – who cares. He’s not a member of a sympathetic victim group, he’s not a minority so who cares.
Well we care and while we continue to talk about both Sansone and robocalls make note of the fact that the other guys just cover one of these stories.
Their silence tells you more than their words.
And that’s the Byline.
COLUMN: Worthington – Economic conditions favour Romney over Obama
Economy works in Romney’s favour
by Peter Worthington
The impressive thing about Mitt Romney’s three-point (41% to 39%) win over Rick Santorum in the Michigan primary is that a couple of weeks ago polls showed Romney some 15 points behind Santorum.
Exit polls showed that 10% of those who voted were Democrats, 50% of whom voted for Santorum in hopes that he’ll be the Republican candidate for president and be chopped liver for Barack Obama to chew up.
It turns out that Santorum spent the last few days of the Michigan campaign financing robocalls to Democrats to come out and vote, since Michigan is one of those states where any registered voter can participate.
It didn’t work, but it was close. Read more…
COLUMN: Duhaime – Everyone in Quebec hates Canada, except the people
Quebec politicians don’t speak for majorit
by Eric Duhaime
Over the past few months, the Liberal government in Quebec City has orchestrated a big campaign against Stephen Harper’s agenda of law and order. The provincial justice minister, Jean-Marc Fournier, even went to Ottawa twice to beg the Conservatives in private to soften their new crime bill C-10 while bashing them in public.
Our political elites in La Belle Province have even started to create another narrative in the mythology about the different “values” of Quebecers to express their disdain for the proposed legislation — sounds like a bad Bloc Québécois slogan, doesn’t it? They pretend that we, Quebecers, are less like the violent — read barbaric — Americans who have created super-max prisons to deal with violent crimes. Read more…
RIP: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)
I can’t say that I knew Andrew Breitbart well, in fact I only met him in person a little over a month ago at CPAC in Washington. I had followed his career for years, read his websites and his bestseller Righteous Indignation which is a wonderful manifesto for conservative activists.
Yet meeting him showed me a side that did not always show up in his public persona.
Andrew was warm, generous and of course passionate. The news of his death, posted at Breitbart.com by his best friend and business partner Larry Solov is a shock. Andrew was just 43 years old.
In his short time on this planet he was a son, husband and father of four. It is his wife and children that we should all be thinking about now. Regardless of our politics we are all human, we all have families and in times like these we all suffer.
What is incredible about Andrew’s story is what he was able accomplish in his far too short life. He worked with matt Drudge on the Drudge Report in its early days, he helped Adrianna Huffington launch the Huffington Post and then ventured out, with Larry, to lauch his Breitbart series of websites.
Andrew truly was a new media pioneer.
He was also a warrior as you can see in this clip, H/T fivefeetoffury.com
Here is the first part of our chat in Washington.
Here is our chat on how the right can fight back.
I’m looking forward to his movie more than ever now, Hating Breitbart, his answer to the critics.
