Troothers, Anti-Semitism and MSM
I was listening to the CBC 6:00 news tonight and Ms. Hughes was at the top of the news. Apparently, and the Globe and Mail chimes in, Ms. Hughes is anti-Semitic and “not sorry enough” for the Canadian Jewish Congress (apparently appointed by the Grits as the anti-Semite hall monitors) which lead to what Kathy so wonderfully describes as her “under-bus-ing”.
This means that the CBC and the Globe and Mail have bought into the idea that the Troothers are anti-Semitic. Which exposes their actions to the scrutiny of the CJC ‘cause M. Dion has the CJC on his speed dial.
No mention of BlackRod, or Dr. Dawg or even me. Her “under-bus-ing” was the product of the professionals at the CJC.
Well, bullshit. While there is certainly a strain of anti-Semitism in one fork of the Troother line, the reality is that the entire meme is batshit crazy (and thank you Blazing).
So what happened? Bottom line is that the CBC and the Globe and Mail and the Liberal Party could not acknowledge that a Liberal candidate had been taken down by a weird coalition of lefty (Dawg), neutral, (Black Rod) and apparently righty (me, Kate, Kathy, Free Dominion and the rest of you scoundrels) bloggers. So they had to invent the idea that the CJC was driving the action. Kids, the CJC found out about Ms. Hughes because the Lying Jackal smelt death in the air. Left to their own devices those fearless Nazi hunters would not have found Hughes. Ever. The Jackal earned his keep.
The CBC and the Globe and Mail hate being killed on a story. They were killed here even though a Globe and Mail reporter had called the Hughes HQ before I did. Making the best of a bad situation they have thrown the credit to the CJC….tough nuggies Dawg and Black Rod. At least you made it into the Post.
What the Hughes story is actually about is laziness. A lazy Liberal Party which cannot be bothered to vet its candidates and a lazy national media which cannot do the most basic invesitgation.
My posts took a total of half an hour. From work. MSM - Google is your friend. Use it.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Kudos, Jay, for pointing out that not all Troofers are anti-Semites—just irritatingly credulous. I happened to be at a dinner-party last night, and ran into a couple of folks who were emitting a few wisps of this nonsense. At about the time the “melting-point of steel” came up, I poured some more wine and changed the subject.
But the Globe, in any case, seems to be trying to ignore the blogosphere almost entirely. Kirk Makin, for example, and the Globe editors, have had the matter of “Dr.” Charles McVety’s phony degree brought to their attention repeatedly by a number of bloggers, notably Bene Diction who researched the matter to a fare-thee-well. But they still call him “Dr.,” whether out of sheer laziness or duplicity.
I don’t buy into the notion that the blogosphere is going to replace what you folks call the “MSM”—that’s where we get the lion’s share of our material, after all—but the mainstream media are simply going to have to move over, because they’ve got company. Good on the National Post (that ice-sheet in Hades is thickening) for actually recognizing this.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I guess it is appropriate for candidates running for public office to be thrown under the bus whenever they “offend” the sensibilities of the party brass. But still, I find it troubling.
The strength of the constituency system in Canada is that it is possible for people in a riding to run a candidate for public office at a reasonable cost, given that the riding is often not more than 100,000 people. When the party brass choose to approve each candidate, and often, ex poste facto, choose to fire them, I think a little bit of democracy is lost.
What is the harm if a few colourful candidates have disrobed in public, smoked pot, engaged in fanciful conspiracy theories, observed crosses burning on the lawns in Canada, or in the case of political parties, feel called upon to predict “soldiers on the streets in Canada”.
Why not let the voters decide? If I have to choose between candidates that have nothing to say on some of the most interesting issues of our day, and those who are colourful, outrageous or just plain weird, I think I might choose a bit of comic relief. As these people mature in public office, they may make interesting contributions to our political life.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Could you please tell us exactly how you know that the “lying jackal” informed the CJC about Hughes. Could you please prove to your readers that the CJC didn’t discover this through their own research. That said, I agree that she is totally batshit but the CJC happens to be quite right about the anti-Semitism in these 9/11 conspiracy theories.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Al, I cannot guarantee that the Lying Jackal informed the CJC but he was witting on Thursday and is bright enough to see the implications. As to the CJC itself “doing the research” I refer you to fourhorse’s post at Free Dominion delightfully titled “Curried Hughes”. It covers the background of the CJC’s inaction on this file.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:51 am
A lazy Liberal Party which cannot be bothered to vet its candidates
What is there to suggest that Ms Hughes views were not known and tolerated within the Party, considered some not-so-serious eccentricity – at least until they became the subject of negative commentary? I think she would fit in quite easily with the “pssst, Arlene Rae is Jewish” wing of the party, don’t you?
September 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Ok I read it and it tells me nothing.
The CJC must have a research staff and you can bet your boots they are blog-savy. They would be ignorant techno-dinos if they weren’t monitoring blogs from the right to the left. Its my guess one of their researchers picked up on the Hughes blog and took it from there. Maybe they even picked iut up from you or Dawg. Either way the only thing it would really deal with (and i can understand it) is the anti-Semitism in the blog. The CJC was just doing their job this time around and it didn’t seem to matter that Hughes was a Liberal either.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
“Its my guess one of their researchers picked up on the Hughes blog and took it from there.”
It’s my guess that you are joining this party a bit late and foolishly relying on the Globe and Mail for your information…Here’s a hint. Ms. Hughes – so far as I can tell (and I did do my research) does not, pace the G&M’s feckless “reporting”, have a blog.
Before you bother commenting again, Al, I would read my posts and the post of others as to how Hughes was nailed.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I see you have met the CJC Jay;)
September 27th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Jay I read it and I would urge you to read your own blog. I wrote as follows:
“Its my guess one of their researchers picked up on the Hughes blog and took it from there. Maybe they even picked iut up from you or Dawg.”
So in other words perhaps the CJC did originally see it here on the blogosphere but so what if they found her article that way? It only shows they are doing their job. Wake up Jay I know its Saturday but surely asking you to read your own blog is not asking a lot. :-)
September 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
See, Dawg, I would have poured that wine all over their pants.
However, I cleverly avoid being forced to make such gestures and decisions by simply avoiding the company of other people unless absolutely necessary. Everybody wins.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Fact #1 to collapse a steel frame building, you do not need to “melt” the steel the fire only has to be hot enough to take the “surface tension “out of the steel the weight of the structure will do the rest. In the case of the twin towers, the floor collapsed which chain reaction on down, gravity always wins.Especially with 30 or 40 floors above it
September 27th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Funny stuff Jay…and this is the 4th estate most Canadians use to “educate” themselves with.
Look, what type of deep investigation does it take to discover that :
A) Hezbollah is “Antisemitic”
B) Troofers are common moonbats
How these mutually exclusive orthodoxies got to be symmetric in hate industry NGO and MSM nattering is more a matter of intellectual lethargy than malice.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:14 am
True, the CBC and G&M hate getting beat on a story, but there’s another thing. I’d bet anybody working on the story is seeing it purely through the identity-politics prism: in their world, Troofing is not batshit crazy, it’s another way of knowing, and the only thing wrong with it is that it’s offensive to an identity group—Jews in this case, who speak with a monolithic voice through the … (pause to flip Rolodex) ... ah! Here it is! The CJC.
September 28th, 2008 at 5:49 am
And by the way, troothers:
If fire doesn’t melt steel, then thousands of men in my hometown of Hamilton were getting paid big time union wages for generations, to do the impossible I suppose…
Maybe those “steel plants” they worked in were just CIA holograms.
September 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I agree with Kathy. Pour the wine on their pants. They deserve it.
I’ve had to leave the conversation a few times with regards to melting steel discussions. When it becomes obvious that a person-with-an-arts-degree isn’t hearing what the guy-who’s-job-depends-on-making-sure-steel-piping-doesn’t-break-at-high-temperatures is saying, I need to leave the room.
After all, when somebody who probably couldn’t pass Grade 10 chemistry tries to tell an engineer who specializes in metallurgy that all the yield-stress-at-temperature data I’ve been using for design for my entire career is simply me “getting brainwashed by the media” you know what is coming next.
They are about to say something brilliant that involves the words “George Bush”. And I’m going to have to thoroughly ridicule them. Usually to the point where person-with-an-arts-degree leaves in a huff or ends up crying.
On a positive side, many of my wife’s lefty friends don’t invite me over anymore. That’s fine with me. I’d rather spend my time drinking beer with the truck driver a few doors down from me. He has a much more realistic view of the world.
That’s about the only thing that pisses me off more than a sociology major quoting Suzuki as a climate change expert.
September 28th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
mecheng…no fair actually, well, knowing what you are talking about. Haven’t you heard, “there are different ways of knowing”.
Reducing these dimwits to tears is satisfying but, ultimately, futile as they will cling to their beliefs as martyrs to the “Trooth”. The AGW folk are exactly the same. Nothing, even a decade long decrease in temperature will convince them that, perhaps, before we embark on billions of dollars worth of carbon reduction, we might want to actually, in the engineering sense of the word, “understand” the real effects of human generated CO2 in the atmosphere.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Everyone is ignoring the fact that workers at an Isr-eli company in the WTC actually were warned two hours before the event. This is not ‘antisemitism’, but appeared in Ha’aretz.