Posted: December 11, 2008, 8:12 AM by Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay
All the details on Ezra Levant's must-read blog here.
...under certain circumstances, linking to defamatory material is also defamatory.
Now, google-cache results take about a day to appear, so we won't know for awhile if Jonathon Kay found a stinking fish on Full Comment this morning and disappeared it in a panic, or whether he is simply trying to keep Ezra at least a few links distant.
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That Johnathan Kay characterises Ezra's blog as must read is just one more manifestation of editorial retardation that afflicts that rag.
I couldn't bear to click the LeRant link. The lies will start from the very first word.
Ah poor Ezra is being sued for saying things?
Boo hoo!
Maybe he can ask Merle Terlesky if he knows a good lawyer.
Friggin hypocrite. I hope WK cleans him out.
Ezra looked wan and dishevelled yesterday when he was on CTV (and called the NDP 'prostitutes').
Seriously, Ez...get a real job.
Let's be clear about this: free speech, even if the language employed is harsh and makes certain bleeding-heart Liberals faint, is a crucial right in a democracy. Assault, however, isn't – whether it be of the physical or verbal kind. Libel is all about character assassination, or "verbal assault", but not "freedom of speech". Warren Kinsella is, therefore, perfectly within his rights to sue his attacker.
So, don't send Ezra your money (you all need it more than he does). He is the architect of his own downfall. Let him pay for his own legal defence.
According to Levant, suing for defamation is "censorship" or tantamount to "silencing". Yet, when it comes to his own reputation, he doesn't see anything wrong with bringing such legal action himself (against a former Western Standard employee no less). Clearly, a double standard: other people should not have the right to defend their reputation against libellous and gratuitous attacks; only he should have such "divine" right.
Sorry, but as much as I defend the right to free speech, including the most politically incorrect kind, this just offends my sense of fair play and justice.
And his "prostitute" comment was beyond the pale. Any halfway decent Conservative (small-c or big-C) would be embarrassed to be associated with that dweeb.
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