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Chris Selley's Full Pundit: When in doubt, blame the bloggers

Posted: December 21, 2009, 12:50 PM by Chris Selley

True lies

The Internet is the root source of all political evil. Discuss.

In a late entry for Most Hypocritical Column of 2009, Angelo Perischilli argues in The Hill Times that these newfangled “blog” thingies — and their altogether scandalous lack of “editors, producers, and responsible journalists” — have made it “hard to see the difference between truth and lies and justified and unjustified accusations.” Now, cast your mind back to two whole weeks ago, when Perischilli informed us in the Toronto Star of an impending Liberal coup, apparently planned in plain sight at the bar at the Château Laurier, without so much as explaining how he purported to have the information in question.

Jason Kenney didn’t accuse the social justice group KAIROS of being anti-Semitic, Rosie DiManno argues in the Star. He just said the Canadian government has “defunded organizations … like KAIROS, who are taking a leadership role in the boycott, divestment and sanctions against (Israel).” We think it might have be fair to note the sentence with which Mr. Kenney introduced the government’s defunding strategy: “We have articulated and implemented a zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism.” Sort of changes the mood, no?

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