Oh no. Anyway...

This nut job gets put in cuffs every couple of years. I read Rebel has "retained lawyers" which is probably just their burned out ambulance chasing founder Ezra Lavant. They will crowd fund for Menzie's "defense". Let the grift begin.

paterson1 wrote:

The charges were dropped almost immediately.  I am sure David will be on Fox News tonight yapping about the sad state of democracy in Canada.  Hannity and the former Tucker Carlson had him on a fair bit. 

Ah yes, an inside job to raise his profile

newsguy1 wrote:

Rebel News is not news.  It is a far right wing provocateur website that is a product of the failed SUN TV news network headed by the arguably sociopathic Ezra Levant.
Menzies has a record of Anti Muslim hate.
He is known to the RCMP and other law enforcement organizations.
He is a vile individual.
The idea that Pierre Poilievre is coming to his defence as a persecuted "journalist" is further proof of the Conservative leader's own extremist leanings and malicious misinformation campaign a la Trump.
But it is also a shame that an RCMP officer appeared to set Menzies up for a brief arrest
I think that was an error in judgement that has only given fuel to the anti Muslim racist moron and his horrid organization.


 

Hear hear!

Years ago David "Menzoid" Menzies was an occasional panelist on John Oakley's morning show & proved every appearance what a Grade A A-hole he was .. just a belligerent, loud-mouthed boor.

Binson Echorec wrote:

g121 wrote:

Years ago David "Menzoid" Menzies was an occasional panelist on John Oakley's morning show & proved every appearance what a Grade A A-hole he was .. just a belligerent, loud-mouthed boor.

Somewhat inexplicably (or not depending on your stance) - Oakley had this agitator on again yesterday...and once again, I feel he proved your assessment to be accurate.

That's low even for Oakley.

Penny to a pound that Rebel News is fundraising off this incident.

Just one more thing: You know who helped to found Rebel News? Brian Lilley...now a columnist at the Toronto Sun.

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Unbelievable?  In my view this is where talk radio service is most fitting. Frank conversations and confrontations.

I agree with RA -- 1010 made a very bad mistake indulging Ezra Levant -- regarded as a sociopathic hate monger.
Whever was in charge (Robert Turner?) should have nixed Levant's segment with John Tory right away.
What's worse, Tory would not let the subject go and carried it on with the next guest, Amanda Galbraith.
Levant stages grifts for fundraising.
Here's how it goes.
They stage a stunt that gets them sued, arrested, charged with something, then they grift their subscribers for money for legal defence.
When they get to court they plead guilty or strike a plea deal and keep all the money sent to them for now, not needed legal fees.

 

Saul wrote:

It also perversely energizes their base. Like with Trump. Their Great One being persecuted...

Exactly. There are some people who are unhappy unless they're outraged. Often, they're incapable of formulating their anger in a cogent way, so they jump on the hate bandwagon and let mouthpieces like Levant and tRump scream for them.

A pox on them all and the damage they're doing to our democracies.

Ezra Levant was true to his promise that the anti Muslim hate truck would not stop.
I saw it today, and was actually driving right behind it.
Guess where.
Right outside Toronto police headquarters on College Street!
Also I discovered the hate messages do not stop at Muslims.  They include LGBTQ as well.
And the messages against Muslims definitely incite violence.
One message shows Muslims praying and the text asks, "What are you going to do?"
If that isn't incitement to violence I don't know what is.



 

So, it's okay to talk 'politics' around here, as long as you're pro-Hamas, and anti-Levant?  I have zero use for either of them, so I guess that makes me neutral?

Here is Global News reporter Stewart Bell inciting fear of muslims in a social media post earlier today.

correct me if I'm wrong but nowhere in this threat have I seen anyone defend Hamas. To me the main point is that the Rebel News bus allows hate speech against Muslims -- which it does.
As far as I have read nobody condones terrorist actions by Hamas.

 

Walter wrote:

So, it's okay to talk 'politics' around here, as long as you're pro-Hamas, and anti-Levant?  I have zero use for either of them, so I guess that makes me neutral?

I think the issue, as far as SOWNY is concerned, is political actors using the media to further their interest or cause. In fact, this happens every time an entity issues a news release, and of course that happens across the political spectrum, as well as serving other interests besides overtly political.

Also interesting to factor in is the teflon effect. Nothing entirely new, of course, but political actors have moved the bar considerably the last few years in terms of taking accusations, charges and convictions of corruption and criminal acts and using them to motivate and strengthen their base - and using the media (including online media) as one of many tools to accomplish this. One could also argue that goings-on with respect to Hunter Biden have also emboldened some of his base. So this isn't purely a discussion favouring any particular ideology. Media scholars will be studying this for some time to come, so it's certainly topical here.