It’s not completely uncommon for the National Post and the Toronto Star to trade barbs because they compete in the same city, although the Star is a local rag more than anything while the Post has a national and more prestigious audience of folks with greater brainpower. So yesterday’s bitch-slap isn’t a shocking thing, but in a tiny editorial yesterday in the National Post, they properly put the ridiculous Toronto Star in its place.
National Post
Published: Friday, April 07, 2006For the past few weeks, the Toronto Star—apparently bereft of new ideas for how to stir up rage among the city’s black community—has been engaged in a lachrymose campaign on behalf of a group of Portuguese migrants, rightly turfed out of this country last month after it was discovered they had come to Canada illegally and had lived here in knowing violation of our country’s immigration laws.
So eager is the Star to illuminate the plight of these poor folks, shipped off to the impoverished, war-ravaged wasteland of, er, Portugal, that they assigned a reporter and photographer to document their complaints. And so there, on the front page of yesterday’s Star, was Alicia Ferreira—formerly (and illegally) of Toronto—dutifully assuming a mask of sorrow for the benefit of the newspaper’s readers.
And yet, one could not help but note the background in the photo: a beautiful vista of neatly planted vineyards and rural homes. As we regarded the Star on newsstands, it was hard to avoid asking the question: “How do we get deported?”
I think the National Post editors are rather clever. They quietly bring up an idea I’ve brought up several times and long harbored, which is that the liberal-left constantly seek to stir up trouble where none might otherwise exist, so as to give cause for more leftist government programs and aid and spending and social programs and such. They seek to build a socialist nation through perceived need. And this method works on dummies.
Read the sentence again: ”…the Toronto Star—apparently bereft of new ideas for how to stir up rage among the city’s black community…”
(And watch the Star for a return volley).
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