U.S. AND CANADIAN RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS MARCH IN LOCKSTEP AS THEY DISMISS FACTS AS CONSPIRACY, DISAGREEMENT AS CRIMINALITY
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative as conspiracy and policy disagreement criminality.
If you doubt this, consider recent Tweets by the likes of Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, who accused the Trudeau Government and the media of being in a conspiracy to use facts to challenge conservative orthodoxy.
The Canadian Press “Baloney Meter” a regular fact-checking feature by the national news agency, the Calgary-Nose Hill Conservative MP complained in a now notorious Twitter rant, is scheming with the Prime Minister’s Office to spin the news to the Liberal Government’s advantage.
“Their baloney meter is a spin tool for the Trudeau PMO,” she Tweeted last week. “Just look at Trudeau’s top henchman’s twitter feed useage of it. It’s that sort of editorialization disguised as journalism that degrades journalism writ large. Sad.”
What was the Conservative immigration critic objecting to, asked The Sprawl, an online Calgary news and opinion site? The CP reporter “cited migration data, put the recent migration numbers in context and called three experts for insight.” Joan Bryden, one of Ottawa’s most experienced reporters, then dismissed Conservative claims there’s a “border crisis” as “completely inaccurate.”
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