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I guess it's fair to assume that leftists like Bleeding Heart and BlackDog don't consider these protests to be newsworthy, even when considering they're a part of a much broader string of protests occurring in many parts of the world, some including violence and even murder (in Benghazi, although that was a premeditated terrorist attack). Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Also, that link was before the demonstrations, the Nation Post didn't actually cover the events, which is specifically what I've been addressing throughout the entire thread. I came across that article when I was initially searching the domain of the National Post to see whether or not they'd covered this story. Predictably, they buried it. And it's already Tuesday.

I never said all the media ignored it. Just most of it. Nice strawman.

I said in earlier posts that the majority of the Canadian media landscape buried the story. Considering the video I linked in my initial post was from Sun News, clearly not all Canadian media buried the story. More importantly, the biggest media outlets DIDN'T cover it. Again, the CBC, the National Post, and Global TV didn't cover it. And from what I've seen, CTV didn't cover it either, contrary to what you're asserting. That's a pretty systematic burial of this story across a broad swathe of Canadian media.

Ok, so you can't explain yourself. Got it. Why don't you just show us the link to your quote from your earlier post? Let's see what types of pornography and in what circumstances the Republicans are (according to you) trying to ban. Context matters.

Who cares what your post said? I wasn't replying to you.

Exactly. You are the gift that keeps on giving: you demonstrate the contempt the left has for the most basic freedoms in a civilised society.

And the CBC and the National Post didn't cover it. Neither did the Ottawa Citizen or the Globe and Mail. I don't read French news, so I can't comment on that.

A spattering of non-leftist op-eds doesn't change the fact that the National Post is a leftist newspaper. As the saying goes, even a broken clock is correct twice a day. You must be another one of those leftists who views himself as a "centrist" or "moderate". So on the odd occasion that you read the National Post (twice a year, maybe?), you agree with it, and consider it objective reporting because it reinforces your own narratives and worldview, which you view as objective.

You claimed I was responding to you. I wasn't. In fact, I didn't even read your first post in this thread.

It's not only non-constructive, it's illegal.

Actually no, you are not free to shout anyone down in all circumstances. Especially in universities, where policies dictate conduct. You cannot walk into an auditorium and start shouting while a professor is giving a lecture. If you do, you will be lawfully removed by campus security. The same protection of freedom of speech and association is not extended to speakers who the left targets, as has been been evidenced countless times. Freedom of speech also doesn't extent to protecting a non-existent right to vandalise property. You are not "free" to vandalise posters that have been paid for. I want to thank you, jacee, as our resident communist, for putting on display the obliviousness of the left when it comes to the most basic freedoms in our society. You serve your role well.

I made a post in reply to the thread, it wasn't directed to you or in response to your post. Perhaps you're not as important as you might think?

You're looking at a snapshot in time, rather than all the relevant context. An unemployed person can still have contributed, on balance, to the tax base. Again, the problem is not an easy one to address, and I've conceded that. If I understand Shady's premise, though, and I think that I do, then I am in agreement with him that either voting rights should be more restrictively applied. Or, even better, the scope of government power should be greatly restricted so that the economy is not "democratised". Again, this quote is perfect to address the crux of this issue: "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederic Bastiat Here's another one: When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn’t care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you. (P.J. O'Rourke had a more vulgar version of this in his book "Parliament of Whores") – Milton Friedman

Depends who qualifies as a citizen.

So you think freedom of speech and expression is a guarantee to steal intellectual property? Another fountain of wisdom from the left, you are! Let's see a link to this, please. Perhaps you think criminalising child pornography is a bad idea? Of course it is.

I'm not the one lacking education in political science. You're projecting your own shortcomings onto me.

Bleeding Heart and the other leftists think the National Post, which used to be slightly conservative with a pro-Israel bent is the same publication its always been. It changed ownership some years ago, and this was directly connected with its shift to the left. Back when it was owned by Izzy Asper it was different. I think Bleeding Heart and Canadien think Izzy Asper is still alive and operating media...

But they're not alternate points of view, that's the point. They're all in a consensus, and they provide the false impression of diversity of opinion. It's funny how you're now deflecting from your exposed ignorance of the very real partnerships that exists not just between the National Post and the CBC (which you pretend to be familiar with and believe represent opposing viewpoints) and alleging that it constitutes something of integrity. So do you now withdraw your original assertion that the recognition of the CBC and the National Post working with one another and sharing business interests is a fairy tale? I'll take the above post of yours as a concession of ignorance.

I read Manufacturing Consent and a couple of other ridiculous Chomsky tomes many years ago in university. I even endured the so-called documentary. It's funny how you try to present yourself as familiar with even the basics of political philosophy when in so many posts you reveal the fact that you're anything but. Why don't you go invoke Jonah Goldberg or start trying about Iran-Contra again? You're a one-trick pony.

This is the paradox of tolerating the intolerable.

The Toronto Star, Maclean's Magazine, the National Post (Andrew Coyne in particular regularly appears on CBC), the Canadian Press and many other media outlets regularly send their journalists to the CBC as contributors for television segments (almost daily). Their business interests overlap in plain sight. This is not some sort of secretive collusion, it's out in the open for all to see. I remember the National Post also did a partnership with CBC to cover the 2010 Olympics. I could go on with many other examples, but what's the point? You have committed yourself to believing that the National Post and the CBC are arch competitors who operate from different ideological points of departure, when the truth is the opposite.

Lobbying to ban pornography were more intensely supported by leftist "feminists" than by Christian social conservatives.

What claims are hard for you to accept? We are importing people into this country that do not subscribe to our basic set of values. That is a self-evident truth. It's not really a conspiracy, I used to term "co-conspirator" facetiously. That doesn't change the fact that most of the Canadian media landscape share the same ideological outlook and worldview, which is why they not only carry the same stories but report on them in same manner with the same sanitised language. The fact that these events at the American consulate in Toronto were ignored by most of the Canadian media landscape is another in a long list of examples that demonstrates what Ezra Levant has accurately labelled "the consensus media". These protests/demonstrations are inconvenient to the leftism of CBC and The National Post. Hilariously, both the CBC and The National Post have covered irrelevant events such as the "Death of Science" demonstration on Parliament Hill. It's really revealing that you're so intent of defending systemic media bias and pretending that it doesn't exist.

I guess you don't watch CBC or read the National Post. You realise they work together all the time, and in all sorts of ways, right?