...He pointed out the indisputable fact that as university students who had almost no experience working an eight hour day on the floor of a factory, every single person listening to his talk — regardless of gender, race or sexuality — was a member of a very privileged, exclusive and elite group. This caused many to shift uncomfortably in their seats and others to angrily confront Levant’s own self-proclaimed status as a “rich, white conservative pundit.”
While the rest of Levant’s speech wasn’t a huge difference from what the pundit usually talks about on his TV show The Source, the University of Alberta alumnus seemed to derive pleasure from the numerous, random outbursts vilifying him throughout his speech. The loud comments from the crowd included implications that he was homophobic, racist and misogynistic even after he explicitly stated that he thought women, African-Americans and gay people were equal to men, white people and heterosexuals, and referenced women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement and the fight for LGBTQ rights as reasons for the necessity of “offensive speech.”
While the shouting came from an extremely vocal minority, that small number of outraged delegates only served to undermine the professionalism that, up until that point, had been maintained and was extremely well displayed throughout the conference. If anything, it’s their opposition to Levant that looks ridiculous.
In perhaps a sign more people in the Arab and Muslim world are seeing
the world’s double standards when it comes to Israel, Al Jazeera TV
host, Dr. Faisal Al-Qassem, posted this pro-Israel meme on his Facebook page yesterday...
The latest outburst from the dementedrapporteur representing the ironically-named United Nations Human Rights Council has brought about another call for his dismissal from Canada's Foreign Minister, John Baird:
December 17, 2013 - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement:
“Canada completely rejects and condemns the appalling remarks made by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, in which he accused Israel of ‘genocidal’ intentions.
“Canada has previously called for Falk to be fired for his numerous outrageous and anti-Semitic statements, and these comments underscore once more the complete and total absurdity of his service as a UN Special Rapporteur.
“I call on the United Nations Human Rights Council—once again—to remove Falk from his position immediately.
“Not only do these comments undermine the fundamental values of the United Nations, they also belittle the terrible genocides that have tragically taken place throughout history and around the world.”
The best thing I can think of to say about the United Church of Canada is that, since the average UCC churchgoer is 68 years old and a full 82% of its membership is over the age of 50, it isn't likely to be around for very much longer.
There are still a few decent members of the United Church who, with a combination of tradition and good intent, have clung to the organization. But those are the few.
Once described as "the NDP at prayer," as the NDP membership turned almost uniformly secular, the prayer became redundant. For the UCC, it means that what was once a vibrant church which played an integral part in the lives of many Canadians, is now mainly reduced to a collection of pathetic, geriatric leftists less interested in practicing the principles of Christianity than in being perceived as "social justice" activists.
As if to demonstrate their irrelevance and the idiotic need to be viewed to take a "progressive stand" on an issue in which they only have a dilettante's comprehension, the Moderator of the UCC has called for economic action against Israeli companies. The new directive comes from Rev. Gary Paterson, whom at 63 is a youngster in the United Church and whom they proudly describe as "the first openly gay leader of a major Christian denomination." Paterson has called for conflicting "economic action focused on settlement goods; and support for trust-building programs between Palestinians and Israelis."
I was at a meeting a couple of years ago with the then-Moderator of the United Church, Mardi Tindal and Reverend Bruce Gregersen, who headed its Israel/Palestine file. The meeting was between the top people of the UCC and a Jewish organization for which I consulted and was looking to do more interfaith outreach. But the meeting quickly became a discussion about the pending anti-Israel stance that the Church was about to make official. While the discussion achieved nothing, the meeting was extremely informative about the mindset within the UCC.
Gergerson did virtually all the talking for the United Church side. Their stance was based on the call for action of the so-called Kairos-Palestine document, which was written by a handful of Palestinian Christian anti-Israel activists.
What was glossed over, or perhaps not fully understood by Gergerson and the UCC Moderator, is that the document in which they invested their intellectual allegiance, such as it is, is filled with explicit support for violence, terrorism, and is inherently anti-Semitic.
The document talks about Israeli Jews in terms of "the evil that is in them." As to the complex and myriad reasons for the ongoing occupation of the West Bank, where the Palestinian leadership still proclaims that it will not recognize a Jewish state and celebrates terrorists and mass-murderers of children, the Kairos document places all of the blame on Israel with support for violence against it and with hyperbolic Jew-hatred: "The aggression against the Palestinian people which is the Israeli occupation, is an evil that must be resisted. It is an evil and a sin that must be resisted and removed."
To make it clear that when Palestinians blow up Jewish children on public buses, it's the Jews' own fault, the document in which the United Church places so much stock proclaims the "roots of "terrorism" are in the human injustice committed and in the evil of the occupation."
As happens so often among the not-very-bright activists who think they have mastered an issue that has eluded the best efforts of brilliant political leaders and diplomats like George Mitchell, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton for over six decades, the UCC leaders removed all context from their mental framework of the Israel/Arab/Palestinian issue. They seem to do this so it can be framed in simplistic terms that fit their very limited comprehension of the quagmire. But those limitations become obvious when they are challenged.
One of the "issues" the UCC leaders have with Israel is that it purports to be a western democracy, but still engages in "oppressive" behavior.
But that argument makes no sense to anyone who understands history or has any knowledge of the context and actions involved. Israel is not neighbors with Luxembourg or Canada. I asked Gergerson to name a country, democratic or otherwise, in the entire history of the world, that faced with contiguous enemies who launch attacks against it, have declared their intent to destroy it, and while remaining in a formal state of hostilities with those enemies, has behaved as benevolently as Israel has with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Holding a single, index finger in the air to emphasize the point, I asked him to "just name one."
His response was nothing more than a vacant look, and then he continued to speak as if the question had never been asked.
Whether he was embarrassed to admit the answer was that there are none, or that he didn't know enough of the history of the conflict or of global conflict in general to be able to answer amounts to the same thing. In either case, it points to an intellectual dearth at the top of the United Church of Canada. These are people who evidently are more interested in image than in integrity.
Which is the very sort of thing that Jesus spoke against. But then again, the way the United Church of Canada is going these days, Jesus' teachings are something they may not know much about either.
CBC radio's Q had a panel with three of Toronto's media personalities, including Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank gloating about the Rob Ford video.
More interesting is the obsessive hate and sanctimony that has him in in a ridiculous denial of the obvious vendetta his paper has had against Ford for the last 3 years.
My buddy Jon Kay makes some good points on the panel, but I would add to an important observation he made. Jon says, in essence, that there is a crisis in conservative thought reflected in the election of Rob Ford and his like in a single-minded focus on low taxes and reducing government spending.
There is a lot more to it than just that.
Ford is also a reaction to the paternalistic, sanctimonious social engineering foisted by incompetent politicians on a public outraged by a lack of their ability to simply provide competent management.
We have an incompetent provincial government that has wasted, and for all intents and purposes stolen billions in public funds, while imposing radical nanny-state social policies.
Ford has not wasted any public funds and is someone who is genuinely concerned with the wishes of his constituents, in contrast to wanting to impose a "vision" on them.
Yet The Star is, as it has been, primarily concerned with the superficiality of image. Which is why as a media source, they still have little credibility and as Kay astutely notes, Ford may indeed get reelected.
"The Trial of David Suzuki" is a theatrical exercise in anti-fossil-fuel activism.
But David Suzuki's hypocrisy, proliferation of falsehood and ignorance of fact about matters on which he pontificates has only been challenged in the media by Sun News.
The role of a journalist is not just to report, but to ask tough questions.
After two weeks of a fruit juice diet they dubbed as a "hunger strike," John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have decided to resume eating solid food while remaining detained in a Cairo prison. It must have finally dawned on the pair of narcissistic activists that the Egyptian authorities don't really care if they were to starve themselves to death.
If anything, were Greyson and Loubani to die in prison, it could serve the Egyptians' purposes by providing an example to other activist dilettantes intending to come to their country to interfere in a volatile domestic political crisis. But of course it would never have come to that. Greyson and Loubani are the type to make self-promoting, but not suicidal gestures.
To understand the antipathy Egyptians have towards Greyson, Loubani and foreigners like them, it helps to know a little about Egypt in the months leading up to their arrest. The Muslim Brotherhood is a totalitarian, misogynistic, homophobic, jihadist group that, during its brief time controlling Egypt under the government of Mohammed Morsi, attempted to snatch dictatorial powers for themselves.
The "anti-democratic" coup by the army denounced by western supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and their useful idiot accomplices was in fact a response to enormous demonstrations of millions of Egyptians calling for Morsi's removal. These protests were far larger than even those that instigated the end of Hosni Mubarak's presidency, with almost half of Egypt's voting population calling for new elections.
Thought Mosri`s removal had widespread support from Egyptians, after a taste of power, the Muslim Brotherhood is committed to seizing it back, by any means, including violence, though public opinion in Egypt remains strongly opposed to them.
During this time, the Gaza strip, controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood sub-group, Hamas, has been a staging point for terror attacks against Egypt in the Sinai. Egypt has come to consider Gaza an enemy and has almost completely cut off links between them and that Palestinian territory.
It was amid all this that John Greyson and Tarek Loubani decided to enter the fray by ignoring a Canadian travel advisory about travelling to Egypt in order to ignore another Canadian travel advisory about travelling to Gaza.
Greyson and Loubani are hardcore anti-Israel zealots whose activism has lent tacit support to Hamas. The duo, individually, have cost the Canadian taxpayers large sums through their staged histrionics that required diplomatic service intervention.
But this time, instead of dealing with Israel, a liberal democracy which respects rule of law and due process, they provoked the authorities in a country where such protections are barely in place.
Unable to make their way to Gaza, Greyson and Loubani were stuck in Cairo for a few days. These two were by no means innocents abroad. Greyson is a leader of the fanatical, anti-capitalist nitwits Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and Loubani has worked with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that has voluntarily acted as human shields for terrorists and approves of "armed resistance." On the day of their arrest, they had joined a Muslim Brotherhood `Day of Rage`demonstration, following which they were arrested and detained.
There are conflicting reports from the pair and their supporters, many of which strain credulity, but so far no cogent explanation of what would have possessed two Canadians waiting to engage in alleged "humanitarian work" to get involved with an Islamist protest that had been declared illegal by Egypt's government.
Remarkably, in advocating for their comrades Greyson and Loubani, the Canadian radical left that professes "anti-colonialist" and "anti-imperialist" politics have engaged in condescending behavior that mirrors that of any contemporary so-called imperialist and colonialist.
Stephen Harper has declared that “in the absence of charges, Dr. Loubani and Mr. Greyson should be released immediately" which, coming from the Canadian Prime Minister, is a forceful statement. But hypocrites on the radical left who routinely decry Canada's "imperialist" interference abroad want what would be considered their white-supremacist, hegemonic will in the `critical race theory` of which they are so fond, to trump Egypt's legal process.
Greyson's and Loubani's supporters in Canada, including perennial activists like Judy Rebick and the fatuous polemicist Naomi Klein, are demanding Egypt release their friends regardless of the circumstances.
On the far-left media outlet Democracy Now, Klein said, "in Stephen Harper’s statements, he’s left himself this very unsettling loophole, where he keeps saying, "In the absence of charges, these men should be freed." ...we haven’t heard our government say, "These men are innocent. They were doing their jobs. They must be released right now." And that’s what we’re waiting for. "
Foreigners are not at all popular in Egypt right now, thanks in part to Barack Obama's foreign policy blunders in dealing with the government, but also for their perceived interference in the internal affairs of a very proud nation. Another factor is that even a cursory survey of Egyptian news sources readily reveals that the Muslim Brotherhood, which Greyson and Loubani are accused of assisting, are widely considered by Egypt`s media and public to be a terrorist group. Compound that with the fact that the pair were en route to offer help to Gaza, controlled by another group the Egyptians consider terrorists and upon whom they are reportedly about to launch a large scale military strike.
Imagine how Canada's pompous declarations must sound to Egyptians. It would be as if two Jihadi terrorists planning an attack in Canada were arrested here and the government of Sudan demanded we ignore our own legal process and release them immediately.
Only a fool would expect Egypt to act any differently to such demands than we would under those circumstances.
Klein goes further, declaring that Canada should essentially declare a trade war and embargo on Egypt unless they accede to her demands to release Loubani and Greyson.
Greyson and Loubani are a pair of radicals who got in way over their heads, but did so of their own volition and against their own government's advice.
Two western fanatics decided to go to the Middle East to interfere in the internal affairs of other people in another country where they were not wanted . When Naomi Klein's friends do it, she calls them "humanitarians." But if it were anyone else, one can safely assume the radical left would be denouncing them as "imperialists" and "colonialists" who got what they deserved.
So filmmaker John Greyson's friends use the platform of TIFF to clamour for his release from an Egyptian jail. Academics, actors, writers and other filmmakers of international repute. That's what friends do for friends, right?
But hold on for a minute. Let's review some of that equation.
Let's first talk about the sheer hypocrisy of using TIFF as a platform, and then we'll focus on working in the field and getting arrested in the first place.
This is the same John Greyson who, in 2009, used the same TIFF platform to make a very vocal protest against the Festival's "City to City" spotlight on Tel Aviv.
And in protest he withdrew his short film, Covered.
Greyson criticized "the opportunism of TIFF, which seems increasingly eager to court dubious partnerships, such as the Israeli consulate's 'Brand Israel Campaign,'" and asked about "the extent of Israeli sponsorship."
People weren’t as shocked by the news of Michael Moore’s pending divorce as they were at the thought of some poor woman marrying him in the first place.
The filmmaker-provocateur is almost a decade past his best-before date; his award-winning Fahrenheit 9/11 came out in 2004 and earned Moore millions of bucks and brand-name fame, not to mention the honor of sharing Jimmy Carter’s VIP box at the DNC.
Former US President Jimmy Carter equates female genital mutilation and sex slavery with Catholic Church's refusal to ordain women:
ATLANTA — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says religious leaders, including those in Christianity and Islam, share the blame for mistreatment of women across the world.
The human rights activist said Friday religious authorities perpetuate misguided doctrines of male superiority, from the Catholic Church forbidding women from becoming priests to some African cultures mutilating the genitals of young girls.
Richard Falk, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is upset. Falk is demanding a full investigation of UN Watch. He wants the group stripped of its U.N. accreditation. Without that accreditation, which allows the organization to more freely attend and speak at U.N. meetings, UN Watch would find it much more difficult to fulfill its purpose.
The term "pinkwashing" as applied to Israel by the radical, anti-capitalist activists of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid presupposes that Gay influence and power is so momentous that a democratic nation would alter its legal and social dynamic just to mollify it.
For a Gay person to maintain that idea, they would have to be narcissistic to the point of being delusional.
One may as well claim that Canadian laws which recognize Gay marriage and prevent discrimination against Gay people is part of a grand design to deflect charges that Canada is an "apartheid country" that practices genocide against its native population.
That suggestion is so absurd it sounds like an attempt at parody.
But that delusional narcissism informs the lie that the vapid hatemongers of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid are trying to sell.
And what makes the lie all the more hypocritical and shameful is that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid tries to maintain a pretence of being a human rights group when they are nothing more than vicious hatemongers. Of course that is nothing new. The neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel also claims to be a `human rights activist,`` so in that vein, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid are in the same league.
While professing to care about Palestinian rights, they ignore abuses of Palestinian rights all throughout the middle east and focus solely on Israel. Not coincidentally Israel is the only country the Palestinian leadership has threatened and launched attacks against. The only national movement for self determination in the world Queers Against Israeli Apartheid condemns is Jewish self-determination, making the implication of their overt anti-Semitism obvious.
This would be laughable except for the fact this hate group has the support of Toronto City Councillors like Kristyn Wong-Tam, Gord Perks, Sarah Doucette , Janet Davis, Mike Layton and Maria Augimeri.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is a Gay group that has turned up at rallies that showed support for the Iranian regime that tortures and murders Gay people for the mere "crime" of being Gay.
The event was created by the Holocaust-denying regime in Iran for the purpose rousing support for the destruction of Israel and the imposition of Iranian-style Sharia Law in Israel. The same laws by which Iranian Gays are imprisoned and killed.
The pride Bangash speaks of would result in the participants of Toronto`s Pride parade being hung by the neck from lamp posts.
Showing support for Zafar Bangash's 2012 Al Quds Day rally
across the street from the US Consulate in Toronto
The woman on the left (w/helmet) is a "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid"
spokesperson
In order to manifest their pathological hate of Israel, an ideology that would murder their own kind is what Queers Against Israeli Apartheid have bound themselves with. So too have a faction of despicable municipal politicians.
This Tuesday, Toronto`s City Council votes on whether they will amend the the city`s Anti-Discrimination Policy to preclude funding for an event that includes participation by the lying bigots of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
UPDATE: The link to The Toronto Star article at the bottom of this post came up on my Google news feed today, but is actually about 7 months old.
Fortunately a helpful lunatic on twitter let me know of the error:
@eyecrazy "from Today's Star" clicked on link: "Published on Wed Nov 07 2012" right. Lying like an authentic Rob Ford supporter. #topoli
— :: ultranol :: (@ultranol) June 8, 2013
However there is an article in today's Toronto Star that is not explicitly hostile to Ford and even presents him in a positive light. Though The Star being The Star, they can't resist opinionated digs, but the article does show how Ford goes out and serves the constituents of the city. That is something very rare for The Star, so indeed the tide may be turning after all.
Original post below:
Perhaps it's because they were sensitive to the many criticisms of their bias and their pursuing a vendetta against Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford.
Perhaps it's because of their many efforts to bring him down, the last one, involving am alleged video of Ford smoking cocaine has backfired.
The Toronto Star violated all standards of journalistic decency and ethics in a desperate shot at scooping a US-based gossip website.and unseating Ford. The video, from unnamed and highly disreputable sources, not only failed to materialize but also did not affect Ford's support. Worse than that for The Star, their histrionic reaction discredited them to the extent that half of Toronto believes the newspaper has no credibility.
And perhaps they finally realized that Rob Ford is going to be mayor of Toronto for some time, whether The Toronto Star likes it or not.
Whatever the reason, they have suddenly and startlingly taken to publishing articles that actually treat Ford fairly, presenting him in the positive light he has worked hard to earn.
"Pierre Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, for better or worse, depending on how you feel, smoked hashish, and his son has smoked with me four or five times, so it really pisses me off when I see Justin Trudeau, who took big gaggers with me, is in parliament, actually voting for Bill C-15."
In the Stanley Kramer movie Inherit the Wind, the great dancer Gene Kelly, in a rare, strictly dramatic role, played a character named E.K. Hornbeck, based on the famous journalist H.L. Mencken. His character delivers a line in the movie that paraphrases another famous Chicago newspaperman named Finley Peter Dunne, whose work, like Mencken's, also straddled the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
The line is, "the job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable."
In Toronto, Canada in 2013, the newspapers have taken on the exact opposite role. Rather than serving the interests of the public, they have become a bludgeon being wielded by a snobbish elite to crush the democratic will of a city's citizens.
The Star wasn't alone in its glaring contempt for Ford. Though generally more restrained than The Star, some writers at The Globe and Mail and some at the National Post put their dismay at the prospect of a Ford victory into print.
Despite all that, Ford handily won the election, and that stuck hard in the "progressive" media's craw for a pair of reasons. One is that media players like to think how influential they are, and the election was a fierce blast of cold water that woke them up to the falsehood of that presumption. More painful was the bitter shock that their sophisticated, urbane. "world class" city was going to be headed by a sweaty populist who actually was more interested in the opinions of the man-on-the-street than those of the sanctimonious editorialists at One Yonge Street.
Suddenly, the special interests of the arts community, the unions, and the social engineers were no more important than that of John Q. Public. As far as the media nabobs were concerned, that could not stand and no rules or standards would keep them from undoing it.
Rob Ford was stalked, harassed, bullied, libeled, defamed, and subjected to standards and scrutiny that no politician in the western hemisphere has ever faced before.
But none of that was intended to serve the public interest. It was only to feed the vanity and conceits of a hypocritical, self-obsessed media class and their cronies.
As a number of people have noted, The Toronto Star violated basic ethics and journalistic standards to spread a story about Rob Ford that is based on hearsay from thoroughly disreputable sources. Today The Globe and Mail did the same, dredging 30 years into the past of Ford's brother, Etobicoke Councilor Doug Ford.
And for whom?
The same media for years buried a report of Jack Layton's being caught by police during his visit to a hand-job parlour that occurred while he was married and a City Councilor. But he was a media darling, so they colluded to keep it quiet until the Toronto Sun finally published the story. And then journalists from The Star and others tried to discredit it or say it was not relevant.
There are worse stories then that about Jack Layton floating around regarding some of his activities in the 1980's and 1990's. But he has a family and it would not be in the public interest to publish them. What matters most about a public servant is how they serve the public. Like Ford, Layton had his personal failings, but like Ford, as far as his public service was concerned, he behaved honorably. But where the media turned a blind eye to Layton's foibles, Ford's are magnified into firestorms.
Much of Toronto's media is behaving like reprehensible hypocrites. What tales might emerge if one was to dig 30 years into the past of left-wing councillors like Adam Vaughan and Kristyn Wong-Tam, one wonders? We know what one finds when looking into the past of The Toronto Star's last anointed selection for mayor, George Smitherman, and it's worse than anything of which Rob Ford was ever accused. But Smitherman got a free pass from The Star because he represented their values, where Ford faces an onslaught because he is an affront to them.
Toronto's public elected Rob Ford to do a job, and Toronto's media has shown there is no depth to which they will not sink in order to undermine him and prevent him from doing it. But make no mistake about it, the interests The Toronto Star serves are not those of the average Toronto citizen.
Doug Ford says he and Mayor Rob Ford would be willing to step down and go to an election tomorrow. “Let the people be the judge and jury."
— CP24 (@CP24) May 25, 2013
...In an essay, “The Professor of Parody,” renowned philosopher Martha Nussbaum raised the issue of Butler’s style, calling it “ponderous and obscure” and “dense with allusions to other theorists, drawn from a wide range of different theoretical traditions…It bullies the reader into granting that, since one cannot figure out what is going on, there must be something significant going on, some complexity of thought, where in reality there are often familiar or even shopworn notions, addressed too simply and too casually to add any new dimension of understanding.”
Most famously, in 1998, philosophy professor Denis Dutton’s journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Butler first prize in its “Bad Writing Competition,” which claims to “celebrate bad writing from the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles.” Butler received the award for this 94-word sentence that was published in the journal Diacritics:
“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”
Earlier conflicting reports first had Hawking boycotting an academic conference in Israel, then his spokesman claimed he was not boycotting but withdrew for health concerns, and now a new statement is reiterating the first one.
Hawking, 71, has suffered from motor neurone disease for the past 50 years, and relies on a computer-based system to communicate.
According to Shurat HaDin, an Israel law centre which represents victims of terrorism, the equipment has been provided by an Israeli hi-tech firm,Intel, since 1997.
"Hawking's decision to join the boycott of Israel is quite hypocritical for an individual who prides himself on his whole intellectual accomplishment. His whole computer-based communications system runs on a chip designed by Israel's Intel team. I suggest if he truly wants to pull out of Israel he should also pull out his Intel Core i7 from his tablet," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Shurat HaDin.
I know something about drinking problems. I have struggled with one for my entire adult life. I continue to struggle with it today.
My extended family includes enough drunks to populate an AA chapter. I’ve had close friends and roommates who drag broken relationships, lost jobs, destroyed bodies, and jail terms in the long train of empty bottles that follows them everywhere they go. I’m familiar with alcohol abuse, and how, when you have a problem with it, it can infect everything.
Frankly, I couldn't care less what this guy has to say about anything, but it is noteworthy that al Starzeera would sink to publishing this tripe.
It goes on to present more of the hypocritical and sanctimonious pretense of 'concern' for Rob Ford they published regarding unproven, dishonest allegations of his drinking interfering with his mayoral duties. This yellow journalism is indicative of the histrionic pathology dominating the Toronto Star's editorial board.
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