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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      13. Some early National Post history: Conrad Black and Ken Whyte wanted paper that pushed Canada to the right.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      14. Ken Whyte also had the view that J-school education hampers lively journalistic writing (I was beneficiary of this view).

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      15. So in the early days of Post, you had many guys who wanted to make right wing splash and had no understanding of libel laws (Levant)

      1 reply 2 retweets 1 like
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      16. I've forgotten all the libel suits and apologies the National Post got entoiled in but there were many.

      2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      17. More broadly, Levant is part of a larger movement with institutional support - SUN news, attempt at Canadian Fox.

      3 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      18. Levant's habitual slipperiness with the truth & disdain for fact not that far from Fox News' pioneering "truthiness"

      3 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      19. Instead of thinking of Levant as an outlier and anomaly (as Kay does) better to see him as enmeshed in larger political movement.

      3 replies 16 retweets 6 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      20. The liars & bullshitters are 2 sides of a triangle. Crucial 3rd side is fools: the gulls or marks who believes the liars & bullshitters

      7 replies 21 retweets 12 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      21. To dismiss Levant as just a loon ignores fact he has many followers who actually believe what he says and give him money.

      3 replies 9 retweets 5 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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      22. Aside from the gulls and marks who send him money, Levant has throughout career received institutional support from rich & powerful.

      2 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014

      23. In terms of normalizing libel in Canadian journalism, Ken Whyte has had a much bigger impact than Ezra Levant.

      7:56 AM - 30 Nov 2014 from Regina, Saskatchewan
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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          24. Rule of thumb in media criticism: never go after enlisted men or junior officers when real target should be the generals.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Nov 2014
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          25. Ken Whyte is a general, Ezra Levant a junior officer. Levant learned all his bad behavior at boot camp run by Whyte. Clear?

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