MSM story https://archive.ph/z7khQ
Of course there's tons of examples of hypocrisy on this...
https://twitter.com/NormalGuy223/status/1564234137707618305
There's been 1000X more outrage from media and establishment over Chrystia Freeland being yelled at than there was when a peaceful pro-freedom elderly woman was trampled by a police horse. Ignore all the sanctimonious "outrage."
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1564259019920900096
They even found a way to justify @MaximeBernier getting physically assaulted. @eliasmakos of @cjad referred it to the assailant as a “gentleman”, and minimized the attack because Maxime Bernier didn’t “fear for his life”. https://youtu.be/UYR7B0FaApc Canadian Pravda.
When Trudeau's gov't "comedian" says this proves how free Trudeau's Canada is: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1563691586533429248
Our reporters have tasted Trudeau’s press freedom first-hand, Mark. [video of Trudeau's bodyguards beating up a Rebel reporter]
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1563996027857866753
Trudeau’s media relations officer, a former journalist himself, has presided over three assaults on Rebel News reporters, with the full support of @cafreeland
Trudeau: "The pattern of harassment of journalists is incredibly alarming and completely unacceptable. This type of behaviour has no place in our society. No journalist should ever be threatened for doing their job."
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1562644248851525637
This is video of your personal bodyguards beating up our reporter David Menzies. http://StandWithDavid.com
https://twitter.com/canmericanized/status/1563363170802028544
While I don’t condone rushing toward Chrystia Freeland using excessive profanity, laughing arrogantly as she announced freezing Canadians’ bank accounts is repugnant.
https://twitter.com/canmericanized/status/1563664041544933376
Chrystia Freeland’s confronter, Elliot McDavid in a video scrubbed from TikTok appears to have also went after & not a fan of Pierre Poilievre who’s clearly less than enthused. Corroborated by @Jenni_Byrne. MP @chriswarkentin apparently had to intervene. https://twitter.com/Cate2pilates/status/1563559728784912384/video/1
https://twitter.com/canmericanized/status/1563880950307688450
Interesting the Liberal poster (user: Cate2pilates) deleted the video. Doesn’t fuel the selective outrage. Don’t worry folks, Rowan’s got you covered!
That liberal poster whining about mean words said to a powerful politician has the quote “Fuck off fuckwads!” in her bio, a reference to a mayor responding to a protest being held by people she didn't like: https://twitter.com/colossusPhD/status/1563885879722139648
Footnote conservative leader Erin The Tool spoke out, when he's been silent about a lot of other things: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1563876692229296129
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1563872602958995456
The white knight has arrived — we were all waiting to hear from him! But for some reason he was silent when our reporters were physically beaten and even shot at:
Alberta Jason Kenney, known for jailing more pastors than the CCP, also felt the need to virtue signal: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1563873340288286723
Jason Kenney believes shouting at an authoritarian politician is reprehensible. Sending a SWAT team against a peaceful pastor, though, is just good government.
https://twitter.com/MNavarroGenie/status/1563897857517953024
Rogue dude calls a Liberal minister a "b*tch" and torrents gush from Lib MPs. But when a contractor hired by Liberal ministers insults French Canadians and calls all Jews "bags of human feces," we hear nothing from them. Is @cafreeland's dignity worth more than Jews & Québécois?
https://twitter.com/MNavarroGenie/status/1563870092450230272
I am old enough to remember how every Liberal politician in Canada lauded civility and deplored "verbal assault" when @JustinTrudeau called Peter Kent a "piece of sh*t" on the Floor of the House of Commons.
https://twitter.com/alanfryermedia/status/1563674880817922049
Look, if the yob who hurled obscenities at Chrystia Freeland crossed some sort of line he should be identified, charged and prosecuted. Otherwise he's just another idiot yelling profanities at a politician which, quite frankly, has happened for as long as I can remember.
https://twitter.com/VivianBercovici/status/1563682880047517701
Bullseye thread. Libs using the Chrystia incident. Way over torquing it. Thinking it’ll distract from their knowing retainer of a super Jew hater to run “anti racism” workshops. The Marouf fiasco. And JT and Chrystia and the gang have nothing to say about that. Leadership.
There are more examples of the hypocrisy but this post is already pretty long...
Disappointing but not surprising
Why is shouting expletives at a politician not the best strategy? It achieves nothing… And it allows the actual victimizers to now claim to be the victims.
I've shat on Viva a lot on here.
He's done a lot for the cause. He's a principled man and seemingly a good father.
But his need to appear neutral and polite above all limits how far he is willing to go.
His YouTube success is also a double-edged sword. The new revenue streams means he is beholden not to colour outside the lines drawn by his masters.
They'll claim to be the victims no matter what anyone else does. Viva puts far too much stock into the optics trap.
He streams multiple times per week with Robert Barnes. He really isn't that worried about 'optics.'
And to be clear: I like Robert Barnes. The man says what he thinks and he generally has the knowledge to back it up.