A Possibility and another Possibility
Item: “HIS (Grant Bristow’s) NAME WASN’T IN THE FIRST EDITION BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW HIS NAME WHEN IT CAME OUT” wkinsella email posted at Kevin Steele
Item: Grant Bristow was one of the three founders of Heritage Front.
Item: Heritage Front was founded in 1989.
Item: In May of 1993 Grant Bristow attempted to infiltrate the Jewish Students’ Network pretending to be working for Kinsella. He is identified and Kinsella files a police report.
Item: In October 1993 Kinsella finishes the interviews for the Chapter in Web of Hate on Heritage front.
Now, it is possible that Kinsella left one of the three founders of the Heritage Front in Canada out of the first edition of Web of Hate because he didn’t know Bristow’s name. And it is possible that Kinsella did not mention Bristow at all in that first edition simply because Kinsella’s research was strikingly slipshod. And it is possible that Grant Bristow was not mentioned by name in the police complaint Kinsella filed against him (I have not seen this report) five months before completing his interviews on the Heritage Front. And it’s possible that Bernie Farber forgot to mention to Kinsella the identification of Grant Bristow from an earlier photograph to Kinsella.
So, it is possible that Kinsella was telling the truth in his email to Kevin Steel.
But it is also possible that Kinsella knew exactly who Grant Bristow was and left him out of the first edition of Web of Hate so as not to expose a CSIS asset. At the moment it is impossible to know and Kinsella has made the blanket denial of even knowing who Grant Bristow was when the first edition came out.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:39 am
In that case, wouldn’t Kinsella’s lie be a creditable and worthy thing?
But yes, point taken, teller of lie = liar.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Well, Ben, if we go with the possibility where Kinsella knew Bristow was a CSIS plant then we have to ask how he could reasonably write a long chapter about the Heritage Front without mentioning Bristow given that Bristow pretty much invented the HF. And then we might have to ask how Kinsella knew and when did he know and why did he know and why is he saying, to this day, that he didn’t know.
And once you start asking those sorts of questions you also have to wonder what else Kinsella knew but left out.
Which, of course, goes to Kinsella’s credibility on things like Lucy Warman.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am
kinsella HAS no credibility. What he has is a good schtick as a talking head that makes lazy producers’ jobs easier, so he gets bookings. He’s pathetic. election coverage at top of http://www.darrellepp.com
February 5th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
the mind absolutely boggles…..why do i hear shirley bassey singing ….”WARfinger….he’s the man with the deee-eeepest throat”...then i see him whispering in the mouth of some wicked witch carrying a dead gopher as a hood ornament on her broom…and him in a barrister’s gown and wig…..he says to her…”the name is Warman…Warman Kinsella….ever been sued by an informer baby ?”
February 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
appalling….i’m appalled…totally apppalled…but surely to God hasn’t Warman Kinsella declared Bristow’s claim of ‘pretending to be working for warman kinsella’ to be false ?....or did i miss warman kinsella’s threat to sue Bristow….?....
what the hell is going on here ?..warman kinsella NOT suing ?...i’m obviously in the throes of an acid flashback from the 60’s…yer actual Warman kinsella NOT suing somebody for even rubbing against his amour propre ? i call bullshit right here and now.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:13 am
As I understand it Kinsella did not sue but rather filed a police report which, so far as I know, was not acted upon. But I could be wrong about the lack of action.