In a column even too crazy for the Winnipeg Free Press (apparently), Frances Russell’s writes about how Kory Teneyke’s new media outlet will be run by Stephen Harper:
“The prime minister’s office. In a first-world democracy. Controlling a major media network. We did not make this up.”
Russell then quotes the Toronto Star’s equally nutty Linda McQuaig:
“There’s been a tendency in the Canadian media to dismiss the threat of a Fox News transplant on the grounds Canadians wouldn’t fall for that sort of nasty, right-wing extremism. But that comforting notion may be naïve. If they hear constant sound bites suggesting global warming is a hoax or public health care just doesn’t work, after a while the message starts to seem believable.”
She uses Eric Margolis’ firing as a crack-down on truth-writers that the Sun no longer wants:
“His sin was to continually point out that neither [Iraq and Afghanistan] were ever about “democracy” or liberating hapless women and girls being hacked to death daily for going to work or school, but solely about oil and oil pipelines.”
Russell unbelievably ends where she began in that somehow Sun Media will bring about martial law in Canada:
“It all makes soldiers with guns on Canada’s streets more plausible with every passing day.” (see column here)
Also: Don’t forget which MP’s partner runs rabble.ca where crap like this is common
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