03.18.2013 06:14 PM

An apology from Sun News…

…and from someone who works there.

Well worth a read.

22 Comments

  1. Balconies says:

    I do hope that all 500 people who watch Ezra’s show accept his apology and are able to move on…

  2. que sera sera says:

    “But it’s wrong to brand an entire community with a broad brush – I wouldn’t like it as a Jew, and the whole point of my crusade against the Indian Act is to free ordinary Indians from the corrupt chiefs who rule them.”

    Ezra says with a perfectly straight face apparently oblivious to fact that in representing all aboriginal Chiefs as being “corrupt”, he once again “attacked a particular group, and painted them all with the same brush”.

    Ezra Irrelevant.

    • que sera sera says:

      And in the banal spirit of dim-witted colonialism at its sunniest and most irrelevant, one cannot help but puzzle over the fate of the extraordinary Indian and the great white okemaw tasked with freeing “them”. Good grief………………………

  3. Louis Archivios says:

    Re article: quoting Ayn Rand = F ail.

    Just because someone calls herself a philosopher, doesn’t mean that they really are one, let alone a good one – basically very watered down ripoff of Nietzsche:

    “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute” (Rand).

    Therein we have the great mess of romaniticism vs rationalism, and gross productionism debasing virtue – a mess of contradictions – it’s like the law of non-contradiction never existed for Rand. The historical fact that Allen Greenspan was part of the Rand “collective” (yet another contradiction for the supreme individual) pretty much says it all – the cult of laissez-faireism.

    There used to be time when the wise understood that the love of money was the root of all evil and the population at least resisted sacrific to moloch.

    Fuck Levant. His whole schtick is stereotypes anyway. Who does he think he’s fooling.

    • Louis Archivios says:

      ps the core subtext of JT:

      Rand asserted that “the essence of femininity is hero worship – the desire to look up to man” and that “an ideal woman is a man-worshipper, and an ideal man is the highest symbol of mankind.”[7] In other words, Rand felt that it was part of human nature for a psychologically healthy woman to want to be ruled in sexual matters by a man worthy of ruling her. In an authorized article in The Objectivist, psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s extramarital lover and onetime “intellectual heir,” explains Rand’s view as the idea that “man experiences the essence of his masculinity in the act of romantic dominance; woman experiences the essence of her femininity in the act of romantic surrender.”

  4. James Smith says:

    Did really read the words …”the philosopher Ayn Rand”?
    Should it not read:
    “The drug addict welfare bum Ayn Rand”?

  5. Reality.Bites says:

    The funniest part is when he calls himself a journalist.

    Sure you are, Ezra.

    And Warren’s an astronaut.

  6. Ted H says:

    Well, Mr. Levant sounds a bit more self deprecating and reasonable than I usually give him credit for. However, as commentors above have stated, elevating Ayn Rand to the status of philosopher is evidence of a distorted world view.

  7. KP says:

    SUN TV lawyers (again) must have told Ezra the non-practicing lawyer (again) he’s overstepped his bounds (again) and they don’t want to e responsible for paying out another successful libel lawsuit (again). Go back to shilling for tobacco, Ezra. You were actually less objectionable then.

    • Outsider says:

      Yep, that was the first thing I was wondering – what triggered this sudden gorging of humble pie? But he still can’t help but be a self-aggrandizing nit, can he …. “the most controversial” show in Canada seems a bit of a boast, in that almost no one watches it. When I do force myself to watch occasionally – and yesterday, coincidentally enough, was one of those times – it just seems to me that he acts the fulminating rightwing court jester largely to get some eyes on the screen and help save what would probably be his last well-paying gig in the Canadian media landscape.

  8. Brad Young says:

    It’s all about shock value, ratings and sub zero broadcasting standards.

  9. Cynical says:

    Thanks, Warren.
    My only knowledge of Levant and his activities is through what others write about him. I intend to keep it that way.
    But he only says what large numbers of conservative followers think. Sad.

  10. Dan says:

    4 months overdue. I don’t accept it being sincere

  11. doubter says:

    I desperately want to believe that Levant’s apology has nothing to do with SUN’s license hearings before the CRTC. Desperately, I tell you, desperately!

  12. Jim Hayes says:

    I understood that there was an ongoing police investigation into whether Ezra should be charged for hatemongering. I certainly don’t believe in coincidences. If this had to do with the license renewal the “apology” would have come much sooner. I think tis had more to do with Ezra’s lawyers telling him a charge could very well happen if he didn’t apologize.

  13. deb s says:

    it sounds forced…I picture someone in the background with a contract and a lighter:P I bet the CRTC will happily accept his change of heart when the SuN news hearings play out:P

  14. Murray Embleton says:

    By accident I tuned into the Levant show at 8pm on 9-11-14. This pathetic windbag has a real hate for Obama. Rather than all criticism,maybe just once Ezra could offer some positive ideas on what he would do.His rantings are a cheap form of reporting .I am not one of his 500 followers.What a poor excuse for he is for a reporter.

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