The Cons and the Postmedia Conspiracy

Ever since Paul Godfrey ordered his major Postmedia papers to run an ad on their front pages attacking the Liberals, there has been no doubt whatsoever which side that media conglomerate is on.

And although the move was widely denounced, it seems that Godfrey no intention of backing down, and is even more determined to destroy Justin Trudeau.

For the anti-Trudeau chorus from his hapless minions is becoming almost deafening.

As Michelle Rempel reminded me yesterday.




When she referred her followers to two Postmedia articles to try to bolster her dubious case that Justin Trudeau isn't doing enough to fight ISIS.

One by the Con fluffer John Ivison claiming that Trudeau is fooling Canadians. And one by Andrew Coyne dripping with sarcasm.

I would first like to thank the brave and talented members of the Royal Canadian Air Force whose mission I am abruptly cancelling. In suggesting that what they have been doing the past 15 months is not “what Canada is all about,” I do not mean to imply there is anything unworthy or unCanadian about whipping out our CF-18s. Rather, I am suggesting, without quite saying, that it was a futile waste of time.

And claiming that Trudeau is letting down our allies.

Still, in any mission, you need to make choices, even false ones. We can’t do everything. Rather, in the fight against ISIL we have chosen to do everything except the one thing our allies have asked us to do: fight ISIL.

As only that snooty Bilderberger could..



Even though we are actually expanding our mission, and providing military assistance on the ground where the war will be won. 

Even though our allies have been heaping praise on our new mission. Calling it an example for others to follow.

And as Gerald Butts, Trudeau's principal secretary pointed out in reply to Rempel's tweets. The only ugly sounds are coming from Postmedia...



And Butts couldn't be more right, for when I checked some of the Postmedia papers yesterday, I found one columnist after the other singing from the same songbook.

By removing our fighter jets from the anti-ISIS coalition, Canada has sent the wrong message not just to the people who want to kill us, but to our allies.

The symbolism of withdrawing our jets alone proves that contrary to the Sunny Ways doctrine, Canada isn't back when it comes to fighting this rising menace. If anything, Canada's backing away.

In one paper after the other and all across the country.

And when you consider that even the Cons at the Globe editorial board found something good to say about our new military mission.

Canada’s decision to refocus its efforts by sending personnel to “various Global Coalition headquarters” to help train soldiers, plan missions and do intelligence work makes sense. The skies over Syria and Northern Iraq are lousy with the jets of countries pursuing their own agendas. Canada will be on the ground, trying to help the people fighting what is now a proxy war. And we will be arming and training the Iraqi security forces who will take on IS in the ground battle that follows the air campaign.

Canada will ultimately be more involved in the Syrian crisis than before, but no longer according to the dictates of the defeated Conservative government or of a coalition of countries whose alliances become more complicated and suspect all the time.

It's only too obvious that Postmedia is now more of a Con conspiracy than a real news service...



And just a blatant propaganda organ of the Harper Party.

Where due to its precarious financial situation its terrified employees will do ANYTHING to please their boss...



And although the sight of those hapless stooges singing or scribbling for their supper might seem merely pathetic.

We do need to do something about Postmedia, because it's a growing cancer on our journalism.

There is a cancer on Canadian journalism. The malignancy is Postmedia Network Canada Corp., a foreign-controlled, debt-burdened contrivance flirting with insolvency that nonetheless is relied upon by about 21 million Canadian readers.

The good news is that the Postmedia abomination, which has never turned a profit, is in such wretched condition that it’s not long for this world. The bad news is that as long as the biggest newspaper publisher in the country clings to life, it is a blight on all the communities it underserves.

And a growing threat to our democracy.

We need to push for some kind of inquiry into its business operations. And expose what media concentration is doing to our country.

We need to go after them on social media...



We need to denounce them, we need to boycott them.

We need to do whatever we can to hasten the day when Postmedia goes down in flames like the Harper Party...

Because a media party harnessed to a massive media chain, and vice versa, is a real abomination.

And if they can't change,  nobody will miss them when they're gone...

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