Canadian Politician Gives Media THIS Massive Middle Finger… Should Trump Follow Suit?
Should the media pay a price for malfeasance? Is THIS the price they should pay?
The Conservative Canadian hoping to sent Trudeau into retirement has made American headlines before… is it time he did so again?
Remember that time a journo tried to play the ‘gotcha’ game with Pierre Poilievre and he cut him to pieces between bites of an apple?
We’re talking about the same Canadian politician. This time, with Trudeau’s liberals on the ropes and likely to hemorrhage seats the next time an election gets called, Pierre is at war with the media again.
This time, it’s personal.
What the fight’s about:
It began with a statement by Poilievre. Besides leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, he is also Canada’s equivalent of the House Minority Leader, called ‘Opposition Leader’ in the report below:
When you cut and splice parts of separate sentences to fabricate an entirely made-up one, that’s not taking it out of context.
That’s deliberately broadcasting something that never happened. @CTVNews lied to Canadians. https://t.co/1GfolHtKdT
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) September 23, 2024
CTV is a private news caster, but like many Canadian news organizations, they have been increasingly entangled both with the Government-subsidized media giant CBC either at the personnel level or the government policy level. Ordinary hostility to right-of-center politics only gets bigger when paired with promises to slash government subsidies to media giants.
In the tweet above, they deliberately lied (not for the first time) about what Poilievre’s policies are. They not only took a quote out of context, they twisted it to mean something entirely alien to its original meaning.
Here’s a televised Mea Culpa:
CTV News apologizes after getting caught manipulating clips of Pierre Poilievre. pic.twitter.com/E9ArZcsgvg
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) September 24, 2024
Poilievre’s Response
Here he is fish-slapping the corporate owners of CTV in the national record while Parliament was in session.
Video : Pierre Poilievre calls out Bell Media / CTV for editing two video clips of Pierre speaking together, to make a false narrative for their news story. pic.twitter.com/UdukXxsRO7
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) September 24, 2024
If it sounds a little like Trump punching down at CNN or the ‘failing New York Times’… that’s because there’s a very close parallel.
Poilievre’s Counter-Punch
Instead of just issuing a strongly-worded letter to CTV, he and his party are telling CTV they can go to hell.
If they’re not going to BEHAVE as an impartial news source, he’s not going to GIVE them the respect owed to an impartial news source.
#BREAKING: Pierre Poilievre BANS Conservative MPs from taking interviews with CTV or holding any meetings with executives, lobbyists, or any other representatives of Bell Media after CTV apologized for deceptively editing clips of the Conservative leader. pic.twitter.com/KsFRzv8oDK
— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) September 24, 202
He’s playing hardball.
Notice it’s not just TV appearances… it’s lobbyists for the corporation, too.
All of them can figure out how to do their jobs with ZERO communication with the party that is poised to be the next elected ruling party.
That’s going to be awkward for a news network trying to report on news of the day… don’t you think?
The question is — after the loathesome treatment Trump had on ABC… should the GOP make a similar example out of them?
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