Yes, Virginia, there is a Media Party

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This is aardvarking unbelievable.
The online webpage of Toronto newspaper the Star is running a free 4-minute promo-piece/campaign ad for Justin Trudeau that auto-plays when you click on the link to what appears to be a newspaper article.
The blatant campaign ad – because that’s what it is – is titled “Justin Trudeau’s intimate conversation with Susan Delacourt”. It’s a curious title, because Delacourt is not seen or heard once in the entire four minute promo piece, which has on-screen chapter headings, brief moments showing Trudeau reading from his own memoir, and a video-scrapbook of lovingly presented images, processed with the Ken Burns effect, set to Trudeau’s practiced, pandering voiceover.
This raises some serious questions.

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The “W” Word

The "W" Word 9 Comments

Kathy Shaidle;

Back in 2010, OkCupid selected around 500,000 profiles created by self-described “white” people, then “isolated the words and phrases” that made them “distinct” from those of other races. The most commonly Caucasian-used words were displayed in tag-cloud style infographics that had the uncanny appeal of found poetry.
That’s why I’m starting to wonder about my genetic makeup, because according to OkCupid, white women are very, very interested in … the Boston Red Sox. Then in someone named “Jodi Picoult.”

Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

Chief Big Screen TV Great Moments In Socialism Moonbats We Are All Treaty People 35 Comments

National Post;

Justice Gethin Edward of the Ontario Court of Justice suggested physicians essentially want to “impose our world view on First Nation culture.” The idea of a cancer treatment being judged on the basis of statistics that quantify patients’ five-year survival rate is “completely foreign” to aboriginal ways, he said.
“Even if we say there is not one child who has been cured of acute lymphoblastic leukemia by traditional methods, is that a reason to invoke child protection?” asked Justice Edward, noting that the girl’s mother believes she is doing what is best for her daughter.
“Are we to second guess her and say ‘You know what, we don’t care?’ … Maybe First Nations culture doesn’t require every child to be treated with chemotherapy and to survive for that culture to have value.”

More from Jonathan Kay.
h/t Kevin B

It’s Probably Nothing

Forward! It's Probably Nothing Political Animal 16 Comments

TRUST THE EXPERTS: “Obama’s new Ebola czar is a long-time Democratic operative and lobbyist with zero agency administrative experience.”
Ebola czar?

What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor–and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.

“If this Ebola thing’s nothing to worry bout, why are they putting cars in body bags?“

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