There exists in our society a certain class of progressive that uses the word “cowboy” as an insult.
Unless, of course, they’re in the company of cowboys.
So, when they use terms like “red neck” to ridicule and marginalize the values and lifestyles of rural Canada, it isn’t really news.
And when these enlightened urban liberals choose descriptors like “mouth-breather” and “knuckle-dragger” to dehumanize that other class of Canadians who haul their goods, grow their food, build their homes, drill their oil – it isn’t news either.
However, when an individual who maintains a public media profile, who advises and lobbies politicians at the highest levels, who rubs elbows with the rich and wanna-be powerful, hurls cultural slurs towards a farm advocate and political candidate under the pretense of political criticism, it is.
“the Ontario Conservative Party’s red-necked, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing candidate in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox” – Warren Kinsella.
That there are those who would provide space on their pages and time on the airwaves to any individual who so casually displays such intellectual laziness and cultural bigotry in a public forum is a Canadian media disgrace.
Update – Quite coincidentally, Mr Kinsella today has dusted off an old SDA incident for readers of the National Post – a reader’s comment that was deleted and for which he recieved a private apology from the writer.
So, let it be known that this is the same Warren Kinsella who then recommended to his readers a notoriously hateful Canadian blog site in which the (anonymous) writer had recently advised that I “hated Muslims”, linked to my contact information and advised that I was “not hard to find”.
But back to the National Post. It seems our serial traffic inflater has responded to being publicly suckered by a variation of Nigerian scam spam by penning a column that peels back a layer of ignorance that is simply jaw-dropping – by suggesting spammers could be controlled through legislation in Canadian parliament.
Does the NP not verify that their writers are qualified to write on topics that touch on the technical before they pay them to do so? I mean, this is a man whose internet street creds include a history of confusing “hits” with unique visits to falsely claim he draws more traffic than our national newspapers have subscribers. It’s the journalistic equivalent of a hiring a 15 year old with a learner’s licence to test drive Detroit’s 2008 new car lineup.
Postscript – some advice for this new media expert who recounts receiving “one particular bit of spam … Addressed to a rarely used corporate e-mail account, and received by no one else at the same firm…”
If Google can find it, then so can the spammer’s email harvesting robots. Someone – get this man some moron protection software before he hurts himself.
Canada’s best PM warren implies… isn’t that Chretien guy he’s standing with also Canada’s most corrupt PM also?
Or am I just naive?
To be a “progressive” means that there are right and wrong forms of racism, bigotry, and anti-religious hatred.
For instance, on any given “progressive blog” you will find the term “Jesus freak” being bantied about, while in the same breath they’ll utter cries of Islamophobia at the notion that Islamic terrorists exist.
While wagging their fingers at suggestions that there is endemic poverty on reserves as somehow being racist, in the next breath they’ll call you a “knuckle dragger”
etc,
etc,
etc.
Because its the “correct” form of racism, they act with self-proclaimed moral impugnity.
They are correct after all.
It’s the same type of double standard that always one to wave around a purple dinosaur at Stockwell Day. It’s okay to make fun of Christians (but not RC’s) but you’re a bigot if you make fun of the religion of peace.
other than my riding, the libranos are in very poor shape in eastern Ontario….WK is just doing what corrupt morons do best, hurl as many insults and derogatory comments as possible, and hope a few stick….he can call us knuckledraggers all he likes, but it will not gain that corrupt crew one more vote outside of my riding….after chimpy mcliar broke his word, and hit us with his health care TAX, any support they picked up in the last election is vanishing fast…..like SR and his beer and popcorn analogy, WK is only re-inforcing what eastern Ontarions hate most about that slimy crew….and as for the ad in the Whig, it is not a sign of desperation, but one of showing the populist nature of the party, reaching out to the local community for the best person possible….
What that’s saying about glass houses and throwing stones?
ny house is made of plexi-glass, and I am throwing rubber balls…
seriously, when in a gun fight, do not pull out a knife….sad to say, but the libranos have been hurling those kind of insults ever since the early days of Reform…..I have been called bigot, racist, fascist, nazi, mysoginist, and the list goes on….I think the slime ball crew can handle a few insults back their way…..get a backbone Jose
… And now, a few words from Randy Hillier …
Why are rural landowners under attack?
And ready to demand a return to democracy & justice?
Why do we need property rights entrenched in our Constitution? Here is the government’s plan and strategy to attack rural landowners and their economy. TAKING our land-For their use. […]
Join the rural landowners, farmers and small business – to fight for democracy’s return and a Canadian Bill of Rights – not Government Wrongs. All these intolerable acts are the result of our lost property rights. The Landowners are resolved to make Parliament restore “Our right to own, use, enjoy and earn a living on our private property” – free from the unnecessary and intrusive urban regulations that have closed our sawmills, slaughtered our abattoirs, broken the back of our family farms, threatened our maple syrup producers and clear-cut personal freedom and liberty from our woodlots and lands.
In conjuction with:
* Lanark Landowners’ Association (LLA)
* The Renfrew County Private Landowners Association (RCPLA)
* Ontario Property & Environmental Rights Alliance (OPERA)
* Hastings County Property Rights coalition
* Glengarry Landowners association
* Leeds & Grenville landowners association
* Prescott/Russell landowners association
* Dundas & Stormont Landowners association
* York& Durham landowners Association
* Simcoe County Landowners association (more)
http://www.ruralrevolution.com/website/
Warren is just doing what he is paid to do. He is trying to change the channel to divert attention away the Ontario Liberals’ slush fund, which some are calling Adscam II.
It is hard to say whether Warren actually believes this crap. But he does know who is is appealing to. Now we have a name for it: the urban bigot. Your description nails it. Thanks Kate.
Careful Kate, maybe WK was about to put you in his blogroll…
Well, MK did mention SDA in the NP today.
In his biography on his blog he still lists “Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov” (Lenin) as one of his “heroes”. Say no more…
What is it about guys with receding hairlines, sagging chins and pencil necks and the faux tough guy talk?
Sounds like a midlife testosterone shortfall to me.
Cue the hissy fit.
Pedantically:
What gets me is they’re not even using the right word. When they say “cowboy” they tend to mean “gunslinger” — two very different jobs in the Wild West.
Always s/b allows
“… dehumanize that other class of Canadians who haul their goods, grow their food, build their homes, drill their oil – it isn’t news either.”
Well said. But, of course, they really never stop to think where their goods come from, how the goods got to where they are, nor how those homes just pop up like mushrooms. The electricity flows from the wall socket, the gasoline flows from the filler hose, and the milk shows up on the shelf in a plastic bottle. It’s all magic… really. Until it stops. Instantly, of course, it’s somebody else’s fault.
So, I gues I am also one of those rural, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, under-educated, ill-informed, overly-armed, redneck, pickup truck cowboys, amongst more of the same ilk in fly-over country. But who will these urban bigots (excellent description)turn to if or when the SHTF big time? Any guesses?
with all due rspect, there are plenty of red-necked, knuckle-dragging, mouthbreathing types lving among us enlightened urban dwellers also.
in toronto, we call them stockbrokers.
Whoops! Somehow I forgot to add “inbred”.
Kinsella knows that if you sling enough mud, some of it will stick. For all of their complaints about “negative advertising”, the Liberals don’t really know any other type of campaigning.
Jeff, I guess working for a living in the private sector would seem prehistoric for you enlightened types.
maz2: “slaughtered our abattoirs”
Quite possibly the funniest three words I’ve ever read at SDA.
Urban Bigot…I like that.
I’m so tired of urban bigots.
Good, keep it up Liberals, you’re just p!ssing off the farmer and rurals even more which helps Conservatives.
A lot of the Landowners were ready to abandon John Tory but if the Libs keep attacking Randy like this then it might rally their support.
Smitherman + McGuinty = Ad$cam II.
Ontario Librano$.
…-
New demands for ‘slush fund’ probe
[Ontario Liberal]Smitherman gave posts to four directors of Iranian Canadian group that got grants (TO Star)…-
More from Smitherman: The Urban Bigot.
National Post
Mr. Smitherman claimed Hillier is a “hurt machine. Every time he opens his mouth, it’s to divide up Ontario and demonstrate some way in which he is distinct …-
Ok, so a poll…
I am a:
(check one)
___ Proud, rural, inbred, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, under-educated, ill-informed, overly-armed, redneck, pickup truck cowboy.
___ Conflicted, urban, latte-sipping, strap-hanging, overly-educated, well-informed, well-groomed, trendedly-dressed, MSM-addicted, politically-motivated, conspiracy-driven, BDS-suffering warren-dweller.
___ None of the above, because Im two stewpid so Im stuk in Wawa.
Being Kinsella means never having to apologise for being a smug toxically elitist sectarian….the man personifies the Fed-Lib insider psyche:
urban-centric
self absorbed
sactimonious
urbane vulgarity
deeply amoral
intensely craven
morbidly underhanded
Virtually polar opposite of the grass roots populism that thrives in rural Canadian culture.
I don’t know why Kinsella’s incivility and philistine vulgarity comes as a shock. We’ve seen displays of it for decades….the only good thing about Kinsella’s latest puerile name calling is that this is a sign of a desparation…..a plea for the limelight… he realizes he’s a spent force politically and the only way to get noticed these days is make outrageous and overtly uncouth public statements.
“Hey lookit me media guys…it’s Warren over here..’member me?…wanna hear some more potty mouth while I pull my pee pee”…awww cummon…take a picture ..come back come back…I’ll throw some of my own poo poo at Randy like a sick little monkey…how’s that? will it get me front page G&M??”
Pathetic…Warren the rapidly fading scat ranger for hire, out of the big leagues and reduced to suckling a hind teat on McGuinty’s dying carcus.
If I was Randy, I’d confront him in public over his insults and challenge him to back his words like a man just to watch him cower…..he’s the ultimate coward and I have seen him run for cover threatening law suits to anyone who has offered to install speed bumbs in his insulting yap.
Good, keep it up Liberals, you’re just p!ssing off the farmer and rurals even more which helps Conservatives.
A lot of the Landowners were ready to abandon John Tory but if the Libs keep attacking Randy like this then it might rally their support.
Ontario, 2001
total rural pop- 1,747,499
total urban pop- 9,622,547
hillier’s a nutjob and just another problem for john tory.
I wouldnt read anything more into WK other than he is following his script, attack when attacked and exagerate (he would say put a spotlight) on the grain of truth flaw.
BTW I am not justifying. Just saying this is what you will see. Standard Operating Procedure. Sometimees it works sometimes it doesnt.
Well it is obvious where all this stuff comes from.
http://www.shitfromhell.com/band.htm
When you go out of your way to extol the ‘virtues’ of a band which names itself:
“Shit From Hell”
This pretty much describes the malfeasance, insult and abuse Canadians have experienced over the course of the LIEberal ‘run with the money gang’.
Maybe Warren Kinsella needs to take the Sheryl Crow ‘One Square Challenge’.
I think he will find the experience woefully inadequate.
Let me only suggest that a thorough ‘soul-laundering experience’ might be helpful.
Contact your confessor today!
Kate
I was wondering when you’de get around to WK’s latest NP opus. Hmmmm….rebarbative eh…. so by comparison could Musings be called retarded?
Can we expect the Oracle of all things Online to be making an appearance on Adler? More importantly, will you be handing him his ass again?
And finally, Warren states that one commentor at SDA was recently laughing at him. I thought the mockery was pretty much unanimous.
This pompous, preening, pissant deserves all the ridicule he can garner. I suppose his next piece will be about the bully in grade six who stole his lunch money…well that or Shelia Copps’ genitals.
Oh…the humanity!!!
Syncro
Jeff: I would’nt call Hillier a nut job just yet…he’s a regular guy who has bee radicalized by personal attacks and oppression by the provincial government…the areas where the landowners associations thrive are all productive agrarian and forestry areas…all have been POed for a long time at Toronto’s urban-centric regulating lor non urban land use…under McGuinty the regulatory agencys have become abusive and disrespectful of land owners….it’s a festering issue that will resonate even with urban conservatives and small town Ontario.
Kinsella and his type will never amount to being any more than the Canadian equivalent of a Mob lawyer. That’s what he and his type do. He may not be corrupt himself, but he made his living by acting as a spokesman for people who were. If he didn’t know the Libs were corrupt, he was either stupid or just wilfully ignorant. By acting as a Liberal spokesman, he thus gave his stamp of approval to the corruption. From there, we judge accordingly.
Well it is obvious where all this stuff comes from.
http://www.sh*tfromhell.com/band.htm
When you go out of your way to extol the ‘virtues’ of a band which names itself:
“Sh*t From Hell”
This pretty much describes the malfeasance, insult and abuse Canadians have experienced over the course of the LIEberal ‘run with the money gang’.
Maybe Warren Kinsella needs to take the Sheryl Crow ‘One Square Challenge’.
I think he will find the experience woefully inadequate.
Let me only suggest that a thorough ‘soul-laundering experience’ might be helpful.
Contact your confessor today!
Dumb question… Whats Warren puckering up for?
“Maybe Warren Kinsella needs to take the Sheryl Crow ‘One Square Challenge’.”
Hans, there’s no way you could cover a butt hole that big with one square.
It’s a puzzle why Kinsella plays at being the sophisticate. After all, he was the proud adviser to the most corrupt and thuggish government this country has seen in 60 years.
In light of his naivete regarding the spam incident, I use the word “adviser” very loosely.
It’s the journalistic equivalent of a hiring a 15 year old…
As a parent of teenagers i think that comparison is extremely unfair – to teenagers.
WK’s punk-rocker-style contempt for conservativism, seems to be blended with a boomer’s sense of entitlement and self-satisfaction. What is amazing (and actually a bit of an accomplishment) is how he is making a living selling his own bath water.
A Western Redneck anyday over an eastern slimeneck.
Urban bigot or just plain old urban blight?
Punk rock is what loser garage bands play at to pretend they are musicians.
Kinsella is great pretender. In many ways.
A child in a large child’s body.
It appears he is frightened of real men and calls them names.
It is interesting that his grand ami, Jean Cretin, came close to a mouth-breathing knuckle dragging thug than anyone I have ever met in the West.
I happened to take a peek at Warren’s site yesterday and got that post!
Seems that Punky Kinsella is continuing his function as a LIbrano flack! Only thing is that I doubt the publisher is paying him to do that.
Contact the NP and let them know what’s real!
NP contact
The more the world sees of Kinsella the smaller he gets so let’s help him find the doorway out and he can go back to connecting his bicycle pump to his ear as a means of inflating his cranium!
I remember Ralpha Benmergui when he had a television show on the CBC. He would regularly refer to Albertans as rednecks, and from the way he said it, it was clearly not a complement. He meant closed-minded bigots.
That such regional bigotry was allowed to thrive on the CBC is not something I will soon forget.
I did, however, notice the following note on Ralph on Wikipedia:
… his television series have generally received poor ratings and critical reviews; Canadian media pundits chastized the CBC for its repeated attempts to create news or information television shows with him as host.
“- by suggesting spammers could be controlled through legislation in Canadian parliament.”
Typical liberal philosophy through and through: The answer to all problems is more government.
Kinsella is still a liberal’s liberal.
CBCpravda would regularly call Albertans rednecks. I might have been offended if the origin of the word didnt stem from hardworking.
They would never have been caught or even considered calling Quebecers pepsi’s or frogs- we would have had a national inquiry run by Bob Rae. who incidently they wouldnt have called a pinko.
The ignorance of people like WK is truly astounding.
Surely, they must take classes to specialize in and hone their arrogance and stupidity?
He’s running out of suckers. No one in Ottawa will hire him. After the Ontario election in October, he’ll be finished.
(BTW, I hear he writes the National Post column for free).
Warren Kinsella has a reputation as a scrapper. But he is surely the only fighter extant whose ring record has been built up by virtue of the fact that he retains, at ringside, a lawyer whose job it is to sue the first opponent who lays a glove on his client.
A few months ago a blogger provided links to various bloggers who had been threatened with legal action by Kinsella over what appeared in each case to be merely missed jabs. I was surprised by two things: the trivial nature of the apparently actionable slights, and the way the threatened bloggers backed down, always on the basis that they didn’t have the funds to respond.
It’s instructive to note that when Kathy Shaidle squirted her water-bottle at WK’s lawyers and started punching, his only response was to viciously insult her appearance.
The man is a bully. When you use your money — power — to push other people around, there’s no other word for it.
Kinsella calling SDA “rebarbative” is like Paris Hilton calling June Callwood an “airheaded party-girl.”
Warden Chinchilla makes me chuckle. He slams the Tories for advertising for a candidate in a Liberal stronghold of Kingston, & meanwhile the Libs are desperately seeking a “warm body” to run in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock. I guess they figure notorious “red neck” Laurie Scott, will capture all the “knuckle dragger” votes in this rural riding. What a fool!
During the last federal election, I did read Warren’s blog regularly, even though I was voting Conservative. Warren’s posts offered a interesting take on what the Libs were doing wrong and I found his words illuminating.
But Warren, you are way beyond your depth here. Using your bully pulpit to rail against that which you have superficial knowledge of actually WEAKENS the efforts of those of us who do know what we are up against in combatting spam. I’d know – I combat the crap as part of my $dayjob.
With over 20 e-mail addresses in use personally, I actually get maybe two or three spams a week. That’s it. No, I’m not using any super-fancy technology on these e-mail accounts. I just choose my mail providers wisely. My ISP has pretty good filters. Google’s G-Mail has outstanding filters. And the hosts I use for my various domains have awesome anti-spam tools automatically deployed.
If you are getting a massive amount of spam in todays mail, you need to threaten to switch providers. The technology is there to block the crap. Spammers don’t give a rats ass about anyone’s legislation. And Warren, if you knew anything about reading e-mail headers you might realize than a spammer bouncing their crap through an open server in Russia is laughing at your article right now.
Stick to what you know Warren – political commentary. Leave the technical wizbang to us propellerheads. Thank you very much.
I just can’t escape the urban bigots. Having left the prairies after 25 years, I move to quiet rural Lanark County in Ontario. Last Saturday, I joined a like minded democratic group of card carrying Ont. P.C.s to nominate a candidate to represent our new riding. Its a huge riding, like you’d see out West, about the population of P.E.I.
It has the same boundaries as the Federal riding. Except it only has 1 M.P. Anyway a large number crowded in the Perth community centre – aka the Hockey arena and on the first ballot Mr. Hillier won over the other 2 candidates. And now because he may be blunt and honest – not Politically correct or bow and scape to his bettors in the city he is vilified by the Liberal party. Smitherman calls him names as does Kinsella.
here is a seried of headlines from CTV(tass)- this is the stuff the looney left preach.- this under the entertainment section.
Michael Moore faces probe over trip to Cuba
Akon apologizes for dirty dance with 14-year-old
Instrument Bank’s gift of music is priceless
Fight breaks out in audience of Boston Pops concert
‘American Idol’ down to the final three
Jay Manuel to host ‘Canada’s Next Top Model’
HBO chief ousted after arrest for alleged assault
Paris Hilton: ‘Ready to face the consequences’
‘Extreme Makeover’ star charged with DUI
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