It seems the liberal elite have been foaming at the mouth recently because the publicly-funded broadcaster TVO was scheduled to have a guest on air that the left does not approve of.
Ezra Levant exposes the hypocrisy:
TV Ontario invited Kathy Shaidle, who blogs at Five Feet of Fury, to debate the “atheist bus” campaign. Kinsella, who was hand-picked by Ignatieff to head up the Liberal war-room, immediately went ballistic, contacting the show’s host, Steve Paikin, and demanding that Shaidle be un-invited.
A thought experiment: What would be the reaction if the head of the Conservative war room, Jason Kenney, had done the same thing? What if Kenney had written to the CBC, demanding that they no longer interview someone who had uttered bigoted remarks (oh, say, someone who had said that Chinese people eat cat meat, and serve it in Canadian restaurants)? And, if the CBC’s producers and reporters had studiously ignored him, what if Kenney would have then contacted the federal minister in charge of the CBC, and demanded that they blackball that same Liberal bigot?
Of course such a scenario would rightly be a political scandal.
Perhaps now these folks will have a better appreciation of why so many conservative Canadians get upset when they see their tax dollars spent on things like this:
