We have finally arrived at the point where Rebel News' Ezra Levant's idea of breaking news coverage is to interview ... effectively, himself.
Here's Ezra, "interviewing" blathering blowhard and legal colostomy bag and Queens University nimrod Bruce Pardy:
Now let us recall Ezra whinging on and on and, JFC, tediously on about how his vanity blog is "accredited" by the utterly valueless "Independent Press Gallery" -- a meaningless entity created by (among others) Ezra Levant, so that he could create both a worthless media outlet and an equally worthless "press gallery" with which to "accredit" his worthless media outlet. And where are we going with this?
Given that the sole purpose of the aforementioned Independent Press Gallery is to fondle Ezra's joy department, it behooves us to ask who exactly is part of the IPG, whose job it is to fondle Ezra's joy department, and ... and ...
Yes, that would be the same Bruce Pardy, meaning that Ezra published, as if it was a meaningful interview with a legal authority, nothing more than the sycophantic panderings of someone who answers to him.
"Autofellatio": Look it up.
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The Independent Press Gallery is reminiscent of Ezra's "Union of Bloggers", a hasty fundraiser Ezra pulled together following the collapse of the Western Standard. An actual "union" of bloggers sounded pretty good to us at Stageleft, and we sent Ezra a note expressing interest and asking a few very basic questions, like "How will leadership be selected, decisions made, priorities set, budget agreed to", and so forth. Curiously he never responded, and after an initial round of signups from the likes of Blazing Cat Fur et al, the notion (and presumably the initial membership contributions he received) mysteriously disappeared.
Gosh, you mean the Independent Press Gallery isn't a bonafide collection of professional journalists brutally excluded by the fascist mainstream? What was the giveaway?
- The fact that their entire "Charter" and statement of journalistic "principles" is cut and pasted from the International Federation of Journalists’ Declaration of principles, and is hilariously and completely at odds with what the Rebel actually does? (e.g, " the journalist shall at all times defend the principles of freedom in the honest collection and publication of news, and of the right of fair comment and criticism. He will make sure to clearly distinguish factual information from commentary and criticism"?
- The fact that the organization appears to have no Board - just a former Rebel columnist as "President" and two Rebel associates as "advisors"?
- The fact that that the organization's charter specifically excludes any journalists working for any media outlet that receives any kind of grant, contribution, tax break, training subsidy, or other support from any level of government? In other words, every real journalist in Canada?
Those are all pretty good indicators of the IPG's actual value or relevance. My favourite proof of their pure and contemptible sleaze is their logo. They've lifted three key graphic elements of the CBC logo: the colour, the centred composition, and the red semi-circular bracketing shapes. I guess the assumption is that a "member" could quickly flash a card or letter of accreditation with that logo on and pass for a real journalist.
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