By Zamboni
Okay, we admit it — we'd never heard of "Rebel News." And there are good reasons. First, it's a far-right, Muslim-hating Canadian website. (Think Breitbart, only north of the 49th parallel.) For the other reasons, and details on the rest of Rebel's unsavory background, click here.
It appears that like ONN and Newsmax in the US, Rebel constantly strives for recognition as a serious news organization, which (also like ONN and Newsmax) it's not. Rebel has a habit of appealing to the courts when they can't convince people they should be accredited as real journalists. The most recent legal dust-up happened yesterday: Thanks to a late-breaking decision by a federal judge, Rebel was allowed to cover last night's federal election French-language debate.
At the post-debate press avail, Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau was asked by a Rebel "reporter" if he would continue to support excluding them. Here is his gone-viral answer. (P.S. Justin wasn't alone. New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh simply said, "I don't take questions from Rebel News.")
Bravo! Isn't it great when these alt-right assholes get their heads handed to them like this? Or when — as he did in his COVID speech today — Joe Biden makes it clear that he's done with anti-vaxx idiots in the US? More of this, please. We cats love it, and we PURR.
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