A tale of two stories

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Jan 21 

This is a tale of two stories and the disparate editorializing in the way in which they were covered.

First we have the Bloc Quebecois questioning Trudeau’s new Minister of Crashing Airplanes about his former association with the Muslim Brotherhood.  This is a moral outrage, apparently.  Omar Alghabra is a poor, defenseless immigrant who just happens to be a Minister of the Crown.  After some ruminations, the editors concluded, however, that this foul treatment of a Muslim is just cynical electioneering, a preparation for the expected election in the spring.

Then we have the umpteenth story of Erin O’Toole denouncing the so-called “far-right,”  and saying it has no place in the Conservative party.  Since the media considers Antifa “left-leaning,” we have no idea what “far-right” even means.  Turns out, the origin of the story was a fund-raising letter by the Liberal party that accuses O’Toole’s Conservatives of harboring un-Liberal views.  But rather than dismiss the story as a foul, cynical, cheap-shot intended for the expected election in the spring, the story airs the lurid details of the accusation as if they had plausibility.  Plausible – as in O’Toole was the next Trump. (if only!)  It story is treated as straight-up news.

There was a singular lack of condemnation in the story, quite the opposite of coming to the rescue of a hapless Trudeau minister.

But the Spectator being a rump paper of the Toronto Star, this sort of editorial bias is to be expected.

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