Rebel Media meltdown: Faith Goldy fired as politicians, contributors distance themselves
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[quote]Rebel Media, the far-right news organization that Ezra Levant built from the remnants of the Sun News Network, appeared in near total meltdown on Thursday, losing more high-profile contributors, facing accusations of financial mismanagement and being shunned by leading conservative politicians as the shock of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi protests reverberated through Canada.
Despite an effort this week by Levant to distance The Rebel from the “alt-right” white nationalist movement that violently marched on the Virginia college town on the weekend, The Rebel’s sympathetic coverage of the movement’s racist provocateurs and their conspiracy theories [B]led many of its best-known contributors to quit this week, including co-founder Brian Lilley and National Post contributors Barbara Kay and John Robson. On Thursday, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes also reportedly departed.[/B] In an email to the media news site Canadaland, Levant said The Rebel had “tried to keep (McInnes), but he was lured away by a major competitor that we just couldn’t outbid.” McInnes did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.
Also on Thursday, [B]Levant fired Faith Goldy, the contributor who had covered the weekend’s protests in Charlottesville. [/B]Goldy did not respond to the Post’s requests for comment, but confirmed her dismissal in a tweet Thursday night.
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Meanwhile, the anonymous online activist group Sleeping Giants reported its long-running efforts to organize an advertising boycott of The Rebel has now resulted in [B]a total of 237 advertisers, including major automotive firms, airlines, retailers and governments, dropping The Rebel from their campaigns.[/B]
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But none of these setbacks seemed as much of a threat to destabilize The Rebel as accusations made by another recently departed employee, British contributor Caolan Robertson.
In an explosive video posted to YouTube on Thursday, featuring secretly recorded audio of Levant, Robertson claimed The Rebel has dishonestly solicited donations in excess of the costs of creating its content, concealed its use of the money, and oriented its news agenda around stories that can be turned into activist campaigns, generating a vast database of email addresses of sympathetic viewers and readers who can be mobilized for fundraising.
Robertson claims Levant flew to England to offer him thousands of dollars in what Levant described in the recording as “hush money,” and threatened legal action if Robertson or his partner and producer, George Llewelyn-John, were to try to sell their story to a British tabloid. Robertson also claimed Levant spiked a story about the UK Independence Party allegedly committing electoral fraud, and that Levant was actively trying to recruit its former leader, Nigel Farage.
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Andrew Scheer, the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, who has appeared on The Rebel several times, [URL="http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/scheer-says-platforms-given-to-obnoxious-groups-worth-condemnation/wcm/c39dd46b-e0e4-4952-ad62-9dab1d5f3c7d"]released a statement[/URL] Thursday saying he is boycotting the outlet because of its “editorial directions,” and because it gives a platform to “hate groups.” Scheer had previously scheduled an interview with the Post for Thursday, to discuss The Rebel and the question of free speech on university campuses — which he had made a key part of his leadership platform — but the interview was abruptly postponed.
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The discord reflects the unease that has grown between The Rebel, some of whose contributors have enthusiastically adopted the language and ideas of the far right’s anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, nationalist fringe, and more centrist Canadian conservative politicians, who are struggling to mount an effective and popular opposition to the governing Liberal Party.
It is hard to resolve, for example,[B] Levant’s rejection of racism with [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRkclAmj3I&feature=youtu.be&t=3723"]Goldy’s appearance on the Krypto Report[/URL], a podcast produced by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi outlet that advocates genocide. [/B]
In it, she said she “salutes” the white supremacists for showing up to Charlottesville “in hordes,” then she clarified with a laugh: “Not a Roman salute, guys,” a reference to the stiff armed Nazi salute.
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Fuck Gav, but I'll at least give him props for leaving immediately.
[QUOTE=GayIlluminati;52587828]Fuck Gav, but I'll at least give him props for leaving immediately.[/QUOTE]
He left because someone else offered him more money. Or did you really believe for a second that he actually had a single strand of moral fiber?
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