The Rebel Commander Seems To Be Thick

[Danbones]

just wondering:
did mckinnes mention things like netanyahoo's lie about the grand mufti of Palistein telling Hitler to burn the jews?
...or is it Ok to just lie like that when you are the leader of a country that just invaded another country, and need to justify it with such BS?

Anger at Netanyahu claim Palestinian grand mufti inspired Holocaust
Israeli PM accused of trivialising the Holocaust for saying grand mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler idea of exterminating Europe’s Jews
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-for-palestinian-grand-mufti-holocaust-claim

Lawsuit Filed over Illegal US Aid to Israel
The billions of dollars of “aid” which the U.S. provides to Israel is illegal in terms of a 1976 law which forbids aid to any nuclear-armed state which has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
http://newobserveronline.com/lawsuit-filed-illegal-us-aid-israel/

Israel
The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal
Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US, turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions if the Israelis won't come clean?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-secret-nuclear-arsenal

all that seems to be Ok with the muzzie haters, but really, that is quite the double standard

 

[Curious Cdn]

I notice McInnes didn't do an about face as Ezra did and give her a 'good luck in your new adventure' after removing that nasty comment on his Twitter even if he wouldn't have been sincere. Maybe he's afraid of the competition. That's uh, quite the picture he uses on his twitter........

https://twitter.com/gavin_mcinnes

Maybe he's a descendant of this guy........

My Week at Sea with Canada’s Alt-Right - An undercover leftie cruises the Caribbean with Ezra Levant and his army

https://thewalrus.ca/my-week-at-sea-with-canadas-alt-right/

It's a cult, man ... like the Moonies.

 

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Ezra Levant Shows How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

Campus Israel group withdrew from event in which Levant claimed critics were "self-hating Jews"

When, on the eve of a campus talk by Ezra Levant, one of the groups sponsoring the event suddenly withdrew, it originally stated that there were a variety of causes, including “security threats.” But in an interview with CANADALAND, the president of Ryerson University’s Students Supporting Israel (SSI) reveals that the move was in large part due to its members’ discomfort with the speaker.

“Our group is democratic,” Rebecca Katzman says. “Many group members started to oppose bringing [Levant] in.”

“Some of our executives felt threatened . . . many of our members didn’t feel comfortable with bringing him in. Additionally [a] majority of the threats and backlash came from Jewish students, many of whom support Israel, just not Mr. Levant . . . [it was] our fellow Jewish students who were not comfortable with the event. Not the people protesting. Not one of our members has expressed concern in us pulling out. In fact, many have expressed their thanks for pulling out of the event.”

Rebel Media founder Levant has come under fire for comments made last month by commentator Gavin McInnes during the outlet’s trip to Israel.

McInnes was shown drinking and talking with other Rebel hosts when he said that “Jews are ruining the world with their lies and their money and their hooked-nose, bagel-eating faces.”

The first video earned the praise of former KKK leader David Duke and white nationalist Richard Spencer.

During the Ryerson event, Levant only mentioned the McInnes affair once.

“That comment [‘self-hating Jew’] is extremely anti-Semitic, so it reaffirms why backing out of the event was the right decision,” says Katzman. “Many people from the Jewish community do not support Ezra Levant. It does not make anyone self-loathing. If I agreed with that statement, it would go against SSI’s core belief of free speech. People are allowed to protest when they do not agree, as people are allowed to sit and hear what he has to say if they do agree. The Jewish community should not be labelled.”

At other points in his talk at Ryerson, Levant called Ruiter “vestigially Jewish” and “a piece of shit.” He also referred to the editor of this piece, Jonathan Goldsbie, as a “self-loathing Jew” and said that CANADALAND publisher Jesse Brown “is about as Jewish as a ham sandwich.”

http://www.canadalandshow.com/ezra-levant-shows-how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people/

 

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Quebec radios host: The Rebel, is an "aquarium for the insane"

Paul Arcand had a lot to say Friday morning about the false news site [The Rebel], on his show "Since I must get up", on 98.5 FM Montreal.

The radio host initially commented on the integrity of the false news site The Rebel , which propagated false documents about Emmanuel Macron. "On these sites, you have people who do not hide their kinship with neo-Nazi inspired groups. There are more and more of these extreme right-wing sites that broadcast a lot of scrap and false news", he said.

Mr. Arcand went on to say that Eric Duhaime was the French-speaking voice of The Rebel. "I do not say that Duhaime leaked the documents [on Emmanuel Macron's campaign], but his site served as a platform to circulate them," said Paul Arcand.

"My friend Duhaime looks comfortable in this aquarium for the insane" he said on 98.5 microphone.

The radio host also commented on Éric Duhaime's most recent trip to France. "He asked for funding to help him cover the French elections by saying that he would do some very different media reports [than that] of the traditional media, because we know that the traditional media, including the station you are listening to, We are part of the establishment, and we are not interested in the facts and we are in the propaganda business" he said sarcastically.

Paul Arcand added, "What is surprising is that Duhaime works also at Cogeco, a traditional media ... and at the same time he says he will do a reports that are quite different from the traditional media. Everyone lives with his own contradictions. "

The radio host ended this segment by advising Éric Duhaime to "watch who he surrounds himself with".

Paul Arcand: «Mon ami Duhaime a l

 

[Dixie Cup]

The Rebel offers a differing viewpoint from the MSM. As far as I know, this is still a free country and free speech is still allowed. However, to SJW's and those in our current government seem to think if you don't tow their line of thinking your a racist etc., etc. - the same old same old. So nothing's new here.


If you don't agree with what the Rebel says, don't freakin' watch it!


I am so sick and tired of all the bellyaching the leftists, the SJW's, the politicians, elitists, educators etc., etc., bitching and complaining because there are those of us who disagree with their ideology and/or their way of thinking. I can't even watch the news anymore - right or left because its simply so disgusting and so biased either way that there's nothing worth even listening to. All I hear now-a-days are literally babies, complaining because the need "safe spaces" because there feelings are hurt or because they're offended. GROW UP! The real world will not provide you with a "safe" space nor will the care that you're offended - they'll just show you the door!! GROW UP!!


Honestly. This has become so childish and so insane - it's ridiculous. I'm glad I'm not going to be around when all this BS comes to bite all these so-called SJW's et al in the ass!! Seriously - it will bite them in the ass and those of us who warned them won't be around to pick up the pieces!!


JMHO

 

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Canada’s Rebel is joining the global class of paranoid, far-right media

The company’s White House correspondent typifies its push to feed the world-wide appetite for wild-eyed rhetoric. And he’s a keen fan of fantasy

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/canadas-rebel-is-joining-the-global-class-of-paranoid-far-right-media/

 

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Established last year, the Proud Boys was meant to be something between an adult frat and a fan club for Gavin McInnes’ media projects on Compound and Rebel Media. The political aspect of the group was meant to mirror Gavin’s; support of the Trump agenda, male chauvinism, and hatred of Islam, trans people, and leftists. McInnes himself flirts with fascist ideas, writing a column for Taki’s Magazine (a job Richard Spencer helped him land) justifying the political genocide of the Pinochet regime, and often giving a supportive platform to open fascists and neo-Nazis like Emily Youcis, Nathan Damigo, and Sam Hyde on his show.

Despite his affiliations, McInnes has been adamant about keeping Proud Boys an arm’s length from America’s growing neo-Nazi movement, something he recently reiterated in a video for Rebel Media. He claims, first of all, that Nazis don’t exist—most people claiming to be Nazis are just trolling and any reported hate crimes are hoaxes perpetrated by liberals, and secondly, the few Nazis who do exist should not be Proud Boys because he wants the group to appeal to “Jews” and “Blacks.”

Judging by recent conflicts between antifascists and the Alt Right in Berkeley and New York, where Proud Boys were prominent in their black and gold polo shirts, and black, latino, and Jewish Trump supporters fought alongside various species of white identitarians, one might think he was on to something. The Proud Boys are predominantly white, but feature several people of color, including Sal Cipolla of Oceanside New York, a regional leader of the Proud Boys who is part Colombian. McInnes says he hopes to have a conservative movement to which people of color can defect, and does not worry about inviting them to join in a popular front that starts with his own brand “civil nationalism,” and ends with the white nationalists and raging anti-Semites in their coalition.

But Gavin must know how wrong he is that there are no Nazis. Several prominent Proud Boys run in their circles, even Cipolla, who is oddly accepted under the grounds that they will “send him back last.” Together, the allegedly “Alt-Lite” Proud Boys and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Daily Stormer blog and The Right Stuff podcast network have formed an Alt Right popular front with an agenda of injecting White Nationalism, including it’s most radical calls for ethnic cleansing, genocide, and “White Sharia” into “normy” Trumpism, and intimidating and attacking leftists, queers, and people of color. While they will defend themselves on the grounds of free speech, their incitement to violence has a recent history of success.

Since their inception, the Proud Boys have been rooted in a fetish for political violence. Writing for Bedford and Bowery, Nicole Disser covered the Proud Boy’s first public meet-up: “’It’s funny, there was a big fist fight,’ McInnes told B+B… ‘One of them was covered in blood at the end.’”

Their first public event was as a security force at a Trump-themed art show set up by Lucian Wintrich, a founder of “Twinks4Trump” who now has White House Press credentials as a writer for the Gateway Pundit and attended an Alt Right protest called by Richard Spencer and the coordinator of the neo-Nazi “The Right Stuff” podcast network, Mike “Enoch” Peinovich, in April. Milo Yiannopolous made an appearance at the show, splattering pigs blood on images of terror victims in an Islamophobic gesture against refugees. A lone protester was ejected, his phone dropping out of his pocket in the process. McInnes stomped on it to cheers of his Proud Boys.

Shortly after the election, NYC Antifa published a list of known Proud Boys including their places of employment, noting their proximity to far right groups and an election night part that featured former British Nationalist Party Jack Buckby, Anthony Cumia formerly of the Opie and Anthony Show, and Alt-Right comedian Sam Hyde. The article went viral, with several of those listed losing work as a result.

Among them was Martina Markota, a conservative performance artist who goes by the name “Lady Alchemy,” often the lone woman at Proud Boys events. After fellow performers shared the article, she was blacklisted from several prominent venues. She says that antifa’s criticism of her group amounts to terrorism, and joined Gavin on his show to mock fellow burlesque performers that made an issue out of her far right politics by mocking their body size, sexuality, and ethnicity. McInnes took the opportunity to refer Markota’s non-binary critics as “gender niggers.”

Alex Caprio of Jersey City also lost his job when his bosses discovered his affiliation. Seeking revenge, Caprio misidentified the author of the NYC Antifa post as a member of the band Pink Mass

Read the rest of this post on the original site at ..........

Gavin McInnes’ ‘Alt-Right’ Fan Club Drifts Towards Neo-Nazi Violence – Idavox

 

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The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a request to hear an appeal of a lower-court libel ruling against right-wing commentator and self-described provocateur Ezra Levant.

The plaintiff in the case was Khurrum Awan, a lawyer based in Saskatchewan who successfully sued Levant for defamatory comments. Levant, founder of Rebel Media, was ordered to pay $80,000 in damages and remove the libelous material about Awan from his personal website – a decision the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld in January this year.

Thursday, Awan’s lawyer said Awan was “finally and fully vindicated” when the Supreme Court announced.

In the original ruling, Judge Wendy Matheson said the blog posts were "motivated by malice."

"I find that the defendant's dominant motive in these blog posts was ill will, and that his repeated failure to take even basic steps to check his facts showed a reckless disregard for the truth," Matheson wrote in her decision.

Ezra Levant's libel appeal denied by Supreme Court - Calgary - CBC News

 

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Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant has barred CANADALAND from covering the outlet’s “Rebel Live” conference at the Canadian Christian College this Saturday.

When CANADALAND news editor Jonathan Goldsbie reached out to Levant earlier this week to ask whether there would be press access for the event, Levant responded in an email: “Not for Canadaland.” He appended a screencap of a four-month-old tweet by this reporter that took him to task for the basis on which he raised funds at a February rally at the same venue.

CANADALAND then purchased two tickets to attend the event, but upon completing the online transaction, Levant immediately wrote to assert that that would also not be an option.

“Canadaland is not welcome at our event this weekend,” he wrote. “It is private property and if you attend you will be trespassing.” He offered to reconsider if this reporter issued a public apology for the February tweet. That’s not going to happen, for reasons outlined further down.

The Rebel refunded our money.

Here at CANADALAND, we go to Rebel events and watch things like Gavin McInnes’s anti-Semitic rants so that you don’t have to.

But this Saturday, instead of receiving cut-eye from members of the Jewish Defence League, Proud Boys, and/or various anti-Islam activists, we’ll be enjoying our weekend while Rebel personalities and guests decide what snacks they’re going to pack for the Crusade.

Rebel Live will be an eight-hour-long event featuring speakers like Jordan Peterson, Gavin McInnes, Doug Ford, and, to lend an air of credibility, former finance minister Joe Oliver. They’re going to cover topics such as “political correctness” and “the culture war.” It’s billed as “the most provocative, most interesting, and most conservative” conference in the country.

In February 2016, after the Alberta government told The Rebel its representatives were not entitled to media access, the company launched a campaign to “help stop Rachel Notley’s blacklist of journalists.” Following an outcry from the national
media establishment — including a Globe editorial calling the decision “beyond deplorable” — the government reversed its position.

In October, when the United Nations denied accreditation for a climate conference in Morocco, The Rebel asked supporters to “tell the UN to stop blacklisting our journalists.” The UN ultimately relented after the Liberal government, PEN Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression intervened on The Rebel’s behalf.

In his email to CANADALAND, Levant wrote that “if Evan wishes to make a public apology for falsely accusing me of fraud, we can reconsider.”

At the Rebel’s anti-M103 rally in February, Levant asked for money to help defray security costs after claiming that he moved the event when the original venue backed off due to threats. The original venue, however, told CANADALAND that that was false.

The Canadian Association of Journalists has issued a statement on Twitter encouraging The Rebel to “practice what they preach”:

http://www.canadalandshow.com/barred-from-rebel-media-conference/

 

[MHz]

"It's not the first time the Rebel Commander has been found to be reckless with facts. He seems to have made a career of it.

Levant has raised the Nazi card before too. In 2010, he wrote a column for Sun Media accusing international financier George Soros of a childhood collaboration with the Nazis. Soros threatened to sue and Sun Media had to issue a retraction and apology."

So a Jewish supporter lies his face off to get what he wants but the other side is the one in the wrong? Not for the first time either and he is still seems as a respected person. Gee that would seem to make him a protected person, just like all his fellow believers.Perhaps they all need to be identified and then fired so they can take up religious studies.

 

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Two right-wing activists interrupted the Friday evening performance of a controversial production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in New York’s Central Park, causing a stir on social media — where numerous videos of the protest proliferated — and resulting in one woman’s arrest.

In the videos, a woman identified as Laura Loomer, an employee of the far-right website Rebel Media, can be seen storming the stage during the scene of the title character’s assassination, shouting “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right! This is unacceptable!”

Some audience members yelled at Loomer to “get off the stage!” Soon, several security guards escorted her out of the theater amid shouts and boos from the audience.

Within the commotion, a second pro-Trump protester, Jack Posobiec, can be seen standing and yelling in the audience, “You are all Goebbels!” and “The blood of Steve Scalise is on your hands!”

Shortly afterward, Posobiec, too, was escorted out of the theater.

Posobiec, a Washington-based Trump supporter who formerly also worked for Rebel Media, told The Washington Post on Saturday that, contrary to some media reports, he and Loomer did not coordinate their protests. Rather, he had attended the performance at the encouragement of alt-right personality Mike Cernovich, who posted a “challenge” on Periscope last week offering a $1,000 prize for anyone who could get tickets to the play and interrupt the show.

Though Shakespeare in the Park tickets are notoriously hard to obtain, with prospective audience members usually lining up for hours the morning of each performance, Posobiec said he was able to gain entrance to the play by showing up five minutes before it started.

He added that, unlike Loomer, he hadn’t planned to rush the stage but was just going to stand up and make a statement protesting the play’s violence.

Posobiec said he was not arrested. Loomer was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing, according to a New York police spokesman.

Loomer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday morning. Shortly after midnight, she tweeted that she had been released from jail but was not sorry for the stunt. Later Saturday morning, she posted on her social-media accounts that she was “NEVER going to stop demanding people to condemn the normalization of political violence against the right” and had obtained a lawyer.

Posobiec and Loomer are both outspoken supporters of Trump who have a history of making a splash on social media with disruptive protests and pranks, including against former first daughter Chelsea Clinton.

Posobiec, who described himself as a member of the “new right,” once promulgated the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory by live-streaming a visit to the Washington restaurant Comet Ping Pong. He also was one of the organizers of the “DeploraBall” that celebrated Trump’s inauguration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-1230pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.f9d45cab8c12

 

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After 'friendly competition', Ezra Levant's Rebel Media blocks The Beaverton on Twitter



Tensions escalated between Ezra Levant's Rebel Media and The Beaverton this week, resulting in Levant's controversial alt-right website blocking the satirical Canadian news website on Twitter.

Levant, an alleged champion of free speech, has previously likened using Twitter's block function to something a "moral weakling" or "thin-skinned princess" would do

In a statement posted to The Beaverton's Facebook page Wednesday, the satirical news site stated it was "shocked" and "saddened" to learn their Twitter account had been "blocked by Rebel Media" following what they describe as a "friendly Facebook Page Like competition."

What triggered Rebel Media's reaction?

The Beaverton's statement noted it had been "closing the gap" in their ongoing "competition" to overtake Rebel Media as "Canada's preferred source of misinformation."

Beaverton Editor Alex Huntley told Press Progress "Rebel Media has not indicated why it blocked us on Twitter" but speculated "they may take us too seriously."


After learning that his Calgary Herald blocked him on Twitter last year, Levant complained that it was "weird" and "sort of pitiful" for a "competitor" to block him on Twitter.

Despite their "tongue-in-cheek" competition, Huntley says he sees other similarities between Rebel Media and his comedy site:

"There are some similarities between Rebel Media and the Beaverton; we use exaggeration, hyperbole and we don't check the facts in our stories."
​

But there are key differences too – unlike Rebel Media, Huntley says The Beaverton openly acknowledges that "all of our stories are fictitious."

https://www.pressprogress.ca/after_...t_rebel_media_blocks_the_beaverton_on_twitter

 

[mentalfloss]

Rebel media still exists? :lol:

 

[Just the Facts]

Beaverton Editor Alex Huntley told Press Progress "Rebel Media has not indicated why it blocked us on Twitter" but speculated "they may take us too seriously."

Now THAT is good satire lol.

 

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The sewers are allowed to breathe — but that doesn’t mean we have to inhale

But the Charlottesville horror crystallized the dangers of the alt-right, throwing into sharp focus not only the fascists and their friends but also their fellow travellers. Which is where Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media comes into play.

While Levant has now distanced himself from the extremists who caused so much pain in Virginia, one of the media platform’s founders, journalist and broadcaster Brian Lilley, has resigned from Rebel over what he called its “harsh tone”. He also questioned what one of the outlet’s reporters was doing at a “unite the right” rally that was, he says, an “anti-Semitic white power rally.”

https://www.therebel.media/alberta_leftists_attack_the_rebel_after_Charlottesville


And that’s one of the questions being asked of Lilley now. Good for you for quitting, Brian — but why now? Levant, Faith Goldy, Gavin McInnes and the rest of that bunch have been spewing out their hysteria for a long time, and Lilley made no public criticism. Many alt-right types felt enabled and empowered by Rebel pundits while Lilley remained on board.

But as someone who has changed his opinions in the past, I’m inclined to forgive — or at least to understand.

more

http://ipolitics.ca/2017/08/15/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-rebel-media/

 

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Perhaps this marks the end of The Rebel as we know it.


Norwegian Cruise Line has bowed to pressure and cancelled a booking for a “neo-nazi” conference which was set to take place on one of its ships.

Rebel Media, a far-right group based in Canada, had planned to hold a week-long meeting on-board a NCL Caribbean Cruise. The trip was scheduled to leave in November from Miami and would take in Honduras, Belize, and Mexico.

Norwegian Cruise Line bows to pressure and cancels 'neo-Nazi' conference booking | The Independent


But this time it feels different for Ezra Levant and his Rebel Media because the appalling scene that unfolded in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, threatens to wash away the house of sand his alternative media site is built upon.

Levant this week disavowed the alt-right movement following the Charlottesville invasion by neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists, resulting in the death of a young woman and two state troopers.

This after his “reporter” on the scene, Faith Goldy, seemed to be cheering on the white supremacists in the moments before a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

The alt-right used to be fun, when he first heard of it a year ago, Levant wrote in a memo posted on The Rebel website Monday. He thought it was a home for “unashamed right-wingedness, with a sense of humour.”

That sounds a little like an arsonist who used to burn down houses for fun, but now, a year later, has come to realize that matches cause fire.

Levant is nothing if not resilient. His following is devoted. He has not been slowed by lawsuits, forced apologies or social media attacks. Such controversy is his oxygen; his crack cocaine.

He was feeding off it again Tuesday: “Being controversial is part of our style — we’re Tabasco and the other guys are vanilla. Not everyone likes Tabasco, but those who like it, like it a lot.”

He says he is not losing any advertising revenue and, asked if he can survive, he says, “You must acknowledge the irony of being asked that by a legacy newspaper. We have more subscribers than the Star.”

But if The Rebel is becoming toxic, and there are signs it is, he will not come back this time.

He lost his co-founder, Brian Lilley, an Ottawa radio host who wrote Monday that if The Rebel’s “lack of editorial and behavioural judgment” is left unchecked it will destroy the site and all those around it.

“People didn’t just cross the line there,” he told me, “they jumped over the line.”

On Tuesday, Rebel freelancer Barbara Kay tweeted she too had resigned.

Conservative politicians, notably Michael Chong and even Chris Alexander of “lock her up” fame in Alberta, have vowed to shun The Rebel.

Doug Schweitzer, a candidate for the United Conservative Party in Alberta, called for a Rebel boycott and told his two better-known opponents, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, to stop playing “footsie” with Levant’s website and condemn its coverage of Charlottesville.

Schweitzer could be playing wedge politics himself — both Jean and Kenney took to social media to condemn the violence and hate on the weekend — but his message garnered a lot of attention.

The city of Edmonton, Porter Airlines, the ski resort Whistler Blackcomb and Ottawa Tourism have pulled their ads from the site and others have changed their profiles so their automated systems will not follow potential customers there

This was all building before Goldy’s live stream from the protest Saturday in which she mocks counter-protesters as she walks with them.

The supremacists had the permit for the demonstration, but it only takes chants of “Black Lives Matter” to be left alone by police, she says.

Police were trying to shut down the alt-right while counter-protesters were illegally on the street, she reports.

“There is freedom of assembly for one group and not the other,” she said. “If you’re the alt-right, you’re not allowed to talk about ideas.”

Then a woman was murdered.

Defending herself, Goldy wrote: “I do not bathe in tears of white guilt. That does not make me a white supremacist.

“I oppose state multiculturalism and affirmative action. That does not make me a racist.

“I reject cultural relativism. That does not make me a fascist.”

Gavin McInnes, best known in Canada for his Proud Boys who disrupted an Indigenous protest in Halifax on Canada Day, also disavowed the alt-right on the site.

He laid blame for the Charlottesville killing on the man behind the wheel of the car, but he had a list of blame and at No. 5 he had . . . feminists.

“One thing I can’t help but notice,” he tells his viewers, “is how empowered these women feel. Why are women at riots?” he asked.
This column would be the last place to look for a suggestion that free speech should be stifled.

But sometimes you forfeit the right to that speech and if the oxygen that keeps this hate and racism alive is extinguished, those who snuff it out should be applauded.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...e-end-for-canadas-rebel-media-tim-harper.html

 

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Perhaps this marks the end of The Rebel as we know it.


Norwegian Cruise Line has bowed to pressure and cancelled a booking for a “neo-nazi” conference which was set to take place on one of its ships.

Rebel Media, a far-right group based in Canada, had planned to hold a week-long meeting on-board a NCL Caribbean Cruise. The trip was scheduled to leave in November from Miami and would take in Honduras, Belize, and Mexico.

Norwegian Cruise Line bows to pressure and cancels 'neo-Nazi' conference booking | The Independent


But this time it feels different for Ezra Levant and his Rebel Media because the appalling scene that unfolded in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, threatens to wash away the house of sand his alternative media site is built upon.

Levant this week disavowed the alt-right movement following the Charlottesville invasion by neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists, resulting in the death of a young woman and two state troopers.

This after his “reporter” on the scene, Faith Goldy, seemed to be cheering on the white supremacists in the moments before a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

The alt-right used to be fun, when he first heard of it a year ago, Levant wrote in a memo posted on The Rebel website Monday. He thought it was a home for “unashamed right-wingedness, with a sense of humour.”

That sounds a little like an arsonist who used to burn down houses for fun, but now, a year later, has come to realize that matches cause fire.

Levant is nothing if not resilient. His following is devoted. He has not been slowed by lawsuits, forced apologies or social media attacks. Such controversy is his oxygen; his crack cocaine.

He was feeding off it again Tuesday: “Being controversial is part of our style — we’re Tabasco and the other guys are vanilla. Not everyone likes Tabasco, but those who like it, like it a lot.”

He says he is not losing any advertising revenue and, asked if he can survive, he says, “You must acknowledge the irony of being asked that by a legacy newspaper. We have more subscribers than the Star.”

But if The Rebel is becoming toxic, and there are signs it is, he will not come back this time.

He lost his co-founder, Brian Lilley, an Ottawa radio host who wrote Monday that if The Rebel’s “lack of editorial and behavioural judgment” is left unchecked it will destroy the site and all those around it.

“People didn’t just cross the line there,” he told me, “they jumped over the line.”

On Tuesday, Rebel freelancer Barbara Kay tweeted she too had resigned.

Conservative politicians, notably Michael Chong and even Chris Alexander of “lock her up” fame in Alberta, have vowed to shun The Rebel.

Doug Schweitzer, a candidate for the United Conservative Party in Alberta, called for a Rebel boycott and told his two better-known opponents, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, to stop playing “footsie” with Levant’s website and condemn its coverage of Charlottesville.

Schweitzer could be playing wedge politics himself — both Jean and Kenney took to social media to condemn the violence and hate on the weekend — but his message garnered a lot of attention.

The city of Edmonton, Porter Airlines, the ski resort Whistler Blackcomb and Ottawa Tourism have pulled their ads from the site and others have changed their profiles so their automated systems will not follow potential customers there

This was all building before Goldy’s live stream from the protest Saturday in which she mocks counter-protesters as she walks with them.

The supremacists had the permit for the demonstration, but it only takes chants of “Black Lives Matter” to be left alone by police, she says.

Police were trying to shut down the alt-right while counter-protesters were illegally on the street, she reports.

“There is freedom of assembly for one group and not the other,” she said. “If you’re the alt-right, you’re not allowed to talk about ideas.”

Then a woman was murdered.

Defending herself, Goldy wrote: “I do not bathe in tears of white guilt. That does not make me a white supremacist.

“I oppose state multiculturalism and affirmative action. That does not make me a racist.

“I reject cultural relativism. That does not make me a fascist.”

Gavin McInnes, best known in Canada for his Proud Boys who disrupted an Indigenous protest in Halifax on Canada Day, also disavowed the alt-right on the site.

He laid blame for the Charlottesville killing on the man behind the wheel of the car, but he had a list of blame and at No. 5 he had . . . feminists.

“One thing I can’t help but notice,” he tells his viewers, “is how empowered these women feel. Why are women at riots?” he asked.
This column would be the last place to look for a suggestion that free speech should be stifled.

But sometimes you forfeit the right to that speech and if the oxygen that keeps this hate and racism alive is extinguished, those who snuff it out should be applauded.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...e-end-for-canadas-rebel-media-tim-harper.html

Political correctness run amuck . These entities will eventually start losing market share and hit themselves in the pocket book . Remember Chick-e-Filla , yup who eats at KFC anymore .