Antonia
Over at the Toronto Star, Antonia Zerbisias finds herself in a media spotlight emanating from the National Post.
Robert Fulford takes Zerbisias to task for vile, allegedly libelous comments. Over to you Bob:
"For this statement of truth, [Christie] Blatchford was compared to a Nazi. Her Globe column was "a Christie-nacht screed against a single community, tantamount to hate speech," Zerbisias wrote. The phrase "Christie-nacht" presumably struck the author as a brilliant bon mot.
"But in fact, the punned reference to the Nov. 9, 1938, Kristallnacht pogrom against Germany's Jews represents both a libel against Blatchford and a snide insult to the memory of those Jews who perished at Nazi hands. If anyone can claim fealty to the Nazis' habits of mind, it is the Islamofascists, not their enemies."
Warren Kinsella:
"On her Toronto Star-sponsored web blog - which has lately become a gathering place for all manner of anti-Israel bigots, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites (some of whom she relies upon as researchers, presumably unpaid) Zerbisias mocked award-winning Globe and Mail writer Christie Blatchford. And then she accused Blatchford of using hate speech, and went on to make a joke about Kristallnacht."
If you're not familiar with the blog Kinsella speaks of, here's a refresher. Lean politically to the right? Some of the 'journalistic' name calling headed your way includes: Blogging Whories, wingnuts, right-wing angrysphere, right-whingers, right-wingdingosphere, right wingdings, right-whingosphere, excreTories, Con-o-sphere, Cons…on it goes.
Last month alone, Zerbisias wrote approvingly of pen pal Robert McClelland three times. Problem is; McClelland is known in these parts for statements such as: "Fuck the Jews." And: "It's sad when Jews act like Nazis."
If you're starting to see a trend, I am too.
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Updated Friday, June 09 at 10:45 a.m.
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