Many people assume journalists and columnists are smart, after all they have the important job of explaining the news to the masses.
While many are smart, a great many can also be dense which is why they keep saying they don’t understand why the niqab story is an issue.
Here I explain it to them. A taste….
To the NDP, and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, this is about multiculturalism and individual rights.
To the rest of Canada, this is about changing centuries of tradition in favour of a foreign practice that treats women as second-class citizens.
Let’s deal with the false individual rights claim first.
No, most journalists are not “smart” except maybe in some book/seminar room way for good marks on their courses.
We have more evidence of the non-thinking mediocracy. Maybe the great unwashed don’t share their progressive views, the niqab being strong evidence of their out of touch thinking, when it’s mostly Trudeau’s childish and Mulcair’s greasy performances in debates:
“Stephen Harper is clearly a 51er. An Ekos survey in mid-July asked Canadians which emotions best describe how the leaders make them feel. Sixty per cent said Harper makes them “angry” and “discouraged.”
You mean they think on partisan lines which reflects their opinion? Wow!!
“No big deal to Harper. He’s running the classic 51er campaign. Even he has now admitted he’s “not perfect.” It’s all about targeted tax cuts and policies designed to reach his magic number. Protect the base. Create divisions through controversial moves such as the appeal of the niqab decision, or Bill C-51, the anti-terror bill. Always stay on message: tax and terror, the sword issues of the Harper 51er.”
Trudeau began by running a classic 99er campaign, but is shifting to a more 51er style as the race tightens. That same Ekos survey found 50 per cent of Canadians say Trudeau makes them feel “happy” and “hopeful.” He hasn’t broken through as the agent of change yet, because the Conservatives’ “Just Not Ready” ad has been devastating. Even Liberals admit it. But his campaign was first built on the 99ers’ group hug.”
Is that 51er maybe referring to the majority opinion, far removed from the vacuous virtue of the mediocracy? Hint, Harper is a 40er, which is the pop vote % he needs for a majority. The progressives, who can’t get their act together, can only read, weep and feel “discouraged.” Well, good.
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/99ers-and-51ers-two-numbers-that-could-decide-an-election/
The niqab issue is a losing one for Mulcair *and* the media. I wonder how many Canadians who haven’t traditionally had a lot of animosity to the media find themselves getting well and truly PO’d listening to “our moral and intellectual superiors” telling us that it’s really not an issue worth discussing. It’s the very definition of a fundamental issue, for all the reasons Brian suggests.
Wrt “The NDP has dropped several points…over their support of wearing the nib to citizenship ceremonies,” here are Mulcair’s Abacus Data polling numbers in Quebec —
September 11: 47%
Today: 30%
That’s a startling drop in support. There’s no way of knowing how much of that decline in Quebec is due to the NDP’s platform wrt immigration and the niqab, but they sure seemed to be cruising along nicely until the issue raised its…covered head.
The Niqab and Burka were first introduced to protect
The women from sand storms.
`The Niqab and Burka were first introduced to protect
The women from sand storms.` So, I see there is method to the madness. Now that we have all that climate change giving us more desert sand, we will need to look to the future and get Canadian women clad in this protective gear.
Quebec has a real culture that the rest of Canada seems to be lacking – and they aren’t about to give it up to anybody. Although I don’t always agree with them, I respect them for their dedication. Just wish that the rest of Canada was as aware of the threats to their communities.
I do not quite get how the Libs are not also suffering because of their stance on this. They also support the Niqab at citizenship ceremonies — worse . . . they support protecting the Canadian Citizenship of terrorists. That is just beyond the pale in my view. Where is the media on this . . . just as dumb, I guess.
Don’t explain it until after they lose the election.
Linda, I don’t think we’ve had quite enough time yet to see the events of last weekend reflected in the polls, particularly in Quebec. Three days ago the government revoked the citizenship of a dual-citizen (Jordanian, I think) who was the mastermind behind a plot to detonate a bomb in downtown Toronto, and the next day — two days ago — Trudeau responded with —
We’ll see how that plays out, particularly in Quebec.
Btw, Plainzfyre just posted this in the previous Reader Tips thread (the Quebec-only polling graphic is the second one down). I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next couple of polls the Liberals start losing support like the NDP, whose decline in Quebec is rather startling.
I think the Conservatives are going surprise a lot of people on election night when it comes to Quebec, where they were almost a write-off not very long ago.
I don’t think they are generally dense (although there are many exceptions on the TO Star) as much as they filter the news (or omit it) on a narrow bias.
This only expands the pool of Low Info Voters and this pleases the political interests who have hidden agendas.
Most journalists are leftists propegandists hiding the crimes of Obama and his fellow scoundrels many of these journalists are demacraic voters and supporters why else are they always urging us to all vote for the demac-RATS in every election