19. Instead of thinking of Levant as an outlier and anomaly (as Kay does) better to see him as enmeshed in larger political movement.
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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
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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.
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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.
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23. In terms of normalizing libel in Canadian journalism, Ken Whyte has had a much bigger impact than Ezra Levant.
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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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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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26. More broadly, Levant's characteristic pose (clown to larger public, martyr to the true-believing gulls) very similar to others on right
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27. If you press Levant/Limbaugh/Steyn on their racism or lies, they'll say, this is just entertainment & hyperbole.
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28. Yet business strategy of Levant/Limbaugh/Steyn based on core audience that treats their racism and lies as gospel truth.
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29. Levant's legal defense on libel is no one takes him “at face value” because they're “well aware of Levant’s outlandish comments.”
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30. The dual face of reactionary buffoonery (clown to big public, truth-teller to core) is a very deliberately crafted persona.
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31. This strategy of reactionary buffoonery has increasingly been creeping into real world politics: Gingrich, Palin, Rob and Doug Ford.
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