Sun’s Kinsella leads attack against Rob Ford over photo with neo-Nazi

I absolutely detest giving Warren Kinsella publicity of any kind as generally, it only plays into his hands and the brainiacs at Sun News who hired this clown.

As I said before, he’s only there to get us conservative enraged and by reacting, we give him exactly what they want but this time he has crossed the line:

Liberal insider Warren Kinsella called Ford out Thursday on the photo, going as far to post it on his own website and asking “Why is Toronto’s mayor palsy with a former neo-Nazi icon?”

Kinsella – who is a regular contributor to the Sun News Network and writes columns in the Toronto Sun – went on to point out Jon Latvis is a former member of the neo-Nazi band Rahowa (Racial Holy War). (see here)

This is sickening politics to try to attach Ford with this racist and Kinsella should be fired for doing so.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam rips PEI Guardian for headline “Defence Minister’s wife”

Only July 13th I noticed this unbelievably sexist headline run by every one of the news organizations that uses the Canadian Press wire service:

“Peter MacKay’s wife says TD account closures harmed innocent Iranian Canadians” (see here)

Referencing Nazanin Afshin-Jam’s marriage to Peter MacKay is obviously news worthy but to totally disregard her as his “wife” even though she is a world-renowned human rights activist and author was extremely disrespectful and telling. Nor was this a one-of ‘mistake’ by the media as this other CBC headline shows:

“Defence minister’s wife opposed to Canadian troops in Iran” (see here)

After a few Twitter battles hi-lited with one female journo defending these types of headlines, I heard from Afshin-Jam after the National Post changed one of their headlines. (Twitter is currently down but I will include her Tweet in an update when it is working again)

All this came to head last night when Afshin-Jam blasted the PEI Guardian’s Jim Day on her Facebook page for an interview July 25th:

“I have a name you know” (see here)

Not only does she rip the Guardian for the headline “Time to bring Khadr home: defence minister’s wife” (see here) , she also takes Day apart for ignoring asking about her new book and trying to lead her into criticising the Conservative government over Omar Khadr. The National Post does a good run-down on it here with Day defending himself.

Tell me all these media outlets would do the same if it was a wife of a Liberal or NDP MP.

Update: The Globe and Mail have made it very clear now that they are intentionally trying to demean Afshin-Jam by running this headline “MacKay’s wife slams newspaper for ‘distorted’ Khadr comments” (see here)