Ezra Levant – The great Obama cover-up’ (Sunday Sun, Sept. 4, 2011)

It is interesting to read that Ezra Levant is not above employing immigrant, religion and race-related fear-mongering when discussing President Obama this week.  He even manages to squeeze in the suggestion the President is a Commie ... or at least influenced by Commies.   Anyone who has followed the saga concerning the President’s birth certificate will know that there has not exactly been a lack of scrutiny.  And what exactly does Mr. Levant mean by ‘exotic’?  Levant also notes that “Barack Obama is going down as the worst president in American history.”    I wonder if our fearless journalist is referring to the fact that democracy is breaking out all over the world.  If Levant is making reference to the dismal state of the economy, anyone with an ounce of honesty knows that these issues both pre-date the current President and are linked to the current Congress.  

I have nothing against scrutinizing the President – particularly when it comes to policy and actions – but it seems clear there are shadowy motives at work in Levant’s column.     Incidentally, I don’t know or care how many children the Prime Minister of Canada has ... or anything about his personal life.  I don’t know anything about his family background or even his religion.  Why is that Mr. Levant?  Frankly the Prime Minister’s deeds are my sole concern. 

The attacks on the President (and media) remind me of the constant swipes directed toward the CBC in the Sun pages.  There is an assumption in the Sun editorials that there is one truly Canadian identity and perspective – a conservative one.  All others are kooky, or worse, traitorous.   The type of populist dissention the Sun writers routinely cough up is patriotic and noble, but other forms of critique or protest are down-right un-Canadian.   This is a neat, if partisan, twist.  

The constant assumption that there is a left-wing media conspiracy – which our intrepid reporter calls the ‘Media Party’ – is also pretty laughable.  Perhaps Mr. Levant doesn’t realize that he and his cohorts are the mainstream media … not the rabble-rousing under-dogs they make themselves out to be.  Sun editorialists are the elites of today no matter how hard they might try to pin this tag on others.  Even with a television network, the Sun columnists persist in playing the ‘we-are-an-oppressed-minority’ card.  Well, which is it: oppressed minority or wildly successful media chain?   I’m not sure that you can have it both ways.  Besides, this ‘valiant little guy’ claim is getting old and boring.   I implore Sun editorialists find some fresh material!