Matt Wolf: Imbecile.

 

I'm glad we had this little chat.

JUXTAPOSE!

Canadian conservatives currently pissing blood in outrage over Liberals' apparent acceptance of a Taliban regime known for its ruthless oppression and regular killings of women and children simultaneously celebrate Israel's relentless, decades-long military bombardment of Palestinians which regularly kills women and children because, you know, that's different.

Disbarment: Getting ahead of the game.

Via Rachel Maddow, we learn that a federal judge is referring numerous Trump lawyers (including Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and a host of other unethical, unprincipled hacks):

to their respective states for possible suspension or disbarment.

Of course, one could always pull an Ezra Levant and pre-emptively resign from the profession to avoid the possible sanctions barreling down the tracks.

I'm just throwing that out there.

P.S.  Read the entire ruling. Seriously, it's delicious.

Your defense lawyer's worst nightmare.

And this is the point where your defamation lawyer looks at you in stunned horror, and gasps, "I'm sorry ... you admitted what!?!?"

 

Yeah, I'd say Fox News hack and colonial apologist Candace Owens is pretty much screwed.

Challenge accepted.

Ooohhhhh, myyyyyyy ...

 

JUXTAPOSE!

Having relentlessly, for month after month after month, denigrated pandemic lockdown regulations, mocked masks, encouraged large groups of people to gather unmasked without social distancing, promoted Canadians to claim utterly bogus "mask exemptions," questioned the efficacy of vaccines, and promising to support anyone getting a lockdown-related ticket or fine -- essentially, doing everything they could to encourage irresponsible and gullible plague rats to promote the spread of COVID-19 and its more recent and lethal variants -- Rebel News is shocked to discover that we can't seem to get this pandemic under control:

 

That is some awesomely burning stupid right there, amirite?

Rebel News: Dumbfuck stupid or rancidly dishonest? You make the call.

Just last month, this was Rebel News' Alberta Bureau Chief and crushing embarrassment to her children Sheila Gunn Reid, touting the paradise that is Florida:

So, Sheila, how's that GOP fellatio working out for you? Well, shit ...

But here's the fun part. Der Rebel actually reported on this ...

leading to some of the stupidest and most gullible morons on the planet being utterly suckered by the obvious rage bait:

except that it was not an actual walkout, as, God help us all, even Fox News (along with many, many, many other media outlets) made it clear that it was a "symbolic walkout" that deprived absolutely none of all those abysmally stupid unvaccinated patients of medical care:

And that's why you don't read Rebel News.

I'm glad we had this little chat.

Because Christian family rallies always involve destruction of property, amirite?

Here's Rebel News' in-house dumbass idiot Adam Soos, going on and on about the tragedy of Antifa attacking a "prayer rally" (actually, a violent gathering of the Proud Boys):

And what would a "prayer rally" be without those same Proud Boys overturning a medical assistance van?

Rebel News: Fighting for the rights of violent fascists and white nationalists everywhere.

BONUS TRACK: By the way, if you're wondering why no law enforcement seemed to give a fuck about what the Proud Boys were up to, that's because, two days earlier, the city openly announced that it would not intervene:

That would be the people who run Portland, publicly inviting the Proud Boys and their associates to have their way with the city.

Well played, Portland. Well played.

"I report from a land down under ..."

Hilariously, Rebel News is currently so unable to generate any relevant Canadian content (because no one sane cares to talk to them) that the main web page might as well be named "Advance Australia Fair":

"Sure," says Kyle from Red Deer, "I lost my job in the oil patch, and my wife left me and took the kids because of my drinking, and I can't get any decent medical care 'cuz that fucking Jason Kenney drove all the doctors and nurses out of the province, and I just filed for bankruptcy, but I need to know what they're up to in Australia because, mainly, I'm a moron."

JUXTAPOSE!

Sure, let's talk about "false accusations" ...

On the other hand ...

Are we done here? Yeah, I think we're done here.

Doubling down on the stupid.

Having destroyed his life via malicious defamation, Lloydminster's village idiot figures -- what the hell -- might as well maliciously defame someone else:

After all, once you're an undischarged bankrupt owing more than $100,000, why bother trying to act like a grown-up?

JUXTAPOSE!

Canadian conservatives, who celebrate the relentless, perpetual slaughter of Palestinians by Israel year after year, are suddenly all verklempt over the plight of the citizens of Afghanistan because, you know, Trudeau.

Let the collection proceedings begin.

    

P.S. The above are the only relevant paragraphs in a fairly short ruling; everything else is simply a recap of the history of the case.

P.P.S. There is a 30-day appeal period, wherein Patrick can decide if he wants to lose again and be whacked with another few to several thousand dollars in enhanced costs. It's his choice.

The clown show that is the "Independent Press Gallery."

There is so much more to mock regarding Rebel News and its ideological French-kissing cousins True North Centre and The Post Millennial, but let's recall, from a few posts ago, Rebel News' spectacularly untalented Tamara Ugolini, telling Liberal gatekeeper Ben Smith that, by gosh, she was an accredited journalist through something called the "Independent Press Gallery."

Pause for a moment to appreciate that the IPG is not an actual press gallery -- it is, in fact, a creation of (wait for it ... wait for it ...) Ezra Levant and friends, whose sole purpose is to lend them some gravitas as being accredited by ... a press gallery.

Let me make sure you understand what is happening here: Having invented their own "media outlets" so they could claim to be "media," these same valueless hacks proceeded to invent their own press gallery, which then turned around and awarded them accreditation as being officially recognized by a press gallery ... that they themselves created.

Is that not just adorable?

We'll have more on the utter shit show that is the IPG at some point down the road but, for now, revel in the IPG's mission statement, and ask yourself just how well Rebel News is upholding the standards.

You're welcome.

BONUS TRACK: Here's Ezra from July of 2020, seriously suggesting that he should be recognized based on accreditation from the very bogus press gallery he helped found.

Just in case you thought I was kidding.

With her corkscrew on the pulse of modern Canadian society ...

... CPC MP and wine box lady Michelle Rempel knows that the biggest danger to women in Canada is ... affordable childcare:

 

Now go open another box of Mateus.

Man, am I psychic or what?

Only a day after I published some scintillating analysis about how to keep the shrieking yobs and loons from various right-wing fake news outlets out of the political process with an election coming up, here comes Rebel News' Ezra Levant, shrieking about ... well, here you go ...

Really? They did that? Well, sort of but not really, although anything for rage bait and a vengeful fundraiser, amirite? In any event, let's see what really just happened.

Here are the accreditation standards, which seem fairly reasonable. As you can read, there are three categories under which one can apply. The first two are clearly restricted to actual, legitimate, professional media, and not mentally unhinged whackjobs that hide in bushes to ambush politicians (Hi, Tamara!):

So deranged stalkers like Rebel News and True North Centre are restricted to applying under Option 3 and, for brevity, let's jump ahead to the detailed media accreditation requirements that so have Ezra's panties in a bunch, where it's pretty obvious what all the bitching and moaning is about:

Yeah, I'd say that, based on that accreditation criteria, Rebel News is pretty much boned up the backside, but there are two reasons why Ezra has no right to whine about this.

First, these guidelines come, for the most part, from the Canadian Association of Journalists and they are, for the most part, quite reasonable. Given the number of people who will be applying for accreditation, it only makes sense to weed out the obvious frauds and posers as quickly as possible. There are enough legitimate journos out there that there's little value in even looking at the kinds of hacks that fall under the above description. But that's not all.

What's entertaining is how Ezra, given how he runs his fake media outlet and white nationalist bar and laundromat, is quite open that the above is exactly what he does. One need only peruse the "Careers" page at Der Rebel to read:

At this point, one can safely say that Ezra has been hoist by his own pasty petard -- having yammered on for years about how his crappy news blog gets right out there and participates in the news, he has little basis to now kvetch how that makes him utterly ineligible for media accreditation along with the actual grownups.

Ezra may not like it, but this is a situation of his own making, and now he has to live with it.

That's a shame.

JUXTAPOSE!

If you're currently sobbing inconsolably and excoriating PM Trudeau regarding people being left behind in Afghanistan that we have a moral obligation to help, but were totally fine with letting 15-YO child soldier Omar Khadr rot in Guantanamo for 10 years, you really need to fucking sit this one out.

On the lighter side ...

... anonymous wag sends me secret recent fight footage involving undischarged bankrupt and Lloydminster homebody Lord Baron Twatrick von Loadenhosen.

Enjoy.

Liar.

This is a flat-out, bald-faced, despicable lie:

I know this because I wrote about it.

You're welcome.

P.S. Lying is nothing new for Ezra.

Holy crap, I'm good. Or at least influential.

It was early yesterday morning that I posted this missive about how political parties should deal with the talentless hacks from Canada's lunatic media showing up at their events unannounced and uninvited, and rule number one was -- simply say no. Go on, read what I wrote ... that's what I wrote. So it's delicious to see the Liberal Party doing exactly as I advised, as you can see from the first 30 seconds of this video, where Rebel News' useless mouthpiece and David Menzies-wannabe Tamara Ugolini is told, "You're not invited."

And tell me I didn't call it precisely when I claimed that the Rebel News hack would try to engage the gatekeeper in demanding an explanation or arguing about rationale or what have you, and that said gatekeeper should stick to his guns and just keep saying no, which is precisely what Ben Smith did, to his credit.

In fairness, I watched only the first half-minute or so to revel in my advice being implemented so deliciously, so if things changed later on, well, whatever. But from the snippet I saw, it would appear that my strategy is the perfect way to deal with these dingbats.

You're welcome.

P.S. OK, I sucked it up and watched a little more of that video, and it's just creepy how closely it plays out compared to my earlier piece. Good God, Ugolini admits to showing up without getting a confirmation of accreditation (which I expressly warned about), and even describes Ben Smith as a "gatekeeper" (the very adjective I used). And I explicitly cautioned said gatekeeper about engaging said hack about reasons for rejection and, for the most part, Smith pulled it off.

Man, I'm good at this.

P.P.S. OK, I sacrificed minutes of my life to watch almost all of that video and, other than that it was the depressingly-untalented Tamara Ugolini rather than David Menzies, tell me that this paragraph I wrote early yesterday morning doesn't describe perfectly how all that played out:

I am available as a political consultant for reasonable rates. Oh, and check back later when I explain the concept of trespassing.

FURTHER MUSINGS ... I just realized another protective strategy that absolutely should be used to deal with nonsense like this. During Ugolini's plaintive whining, she admits that, while she sent e-mail asking about details for the event, she received no reply, so she decided to go. This was a (minor?) mistake on the organizer's part.

Yes, we all agree, when one receives an application for event accreditation from any of the worthless yobs at Der Rebel, it's tempting to just point it at the Trash bucket and move on with life.

Don't do that.

By ignoring the application, you are simply opening the door for said fake journo to show up and bitch and whine about never getting a reply. Rather, the proper response is to reply, but keep it short and courteous:

Dear <Whatever>: Thank you for your application for media accreditation for this event. Unfortunately, your application has not been approved.

Thank you.

That's it; brevity is the key, and under no circumstances get personal, such as, "And by the way, your media outlet blows dead bears." Simply reject the application politely, and make sure the gatekeeper is aware that this was done, so that when Menzies or Ugolini -- or some other worthless hack -- shows up, you say quite sweetly, "Yes, we know you applied, and I know your application was refused, so what are you doing here?"

Doing this just ups the humiliation factor even higher, and that's what we're all about here.

You're welcome.

OFFS ... just when you thought Ugolini couldn't be even more of a reprehensible prevaricator, here she is, blaming it all on sexism:

She really is a piece of work. And by work, I mean "crap."