You want to see pure hatred for America? Al Jazeera’s version of Kieth Olbermann? Watch this interview.
You may remember Avi Lewis getting the smackdown from Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an interview about Islam and in a sense made him the laughing stock of the worldwide media. In that interview, Avi Lewis again attacked the “extreme arch-radical right wing think tank” that Hirsi was a member of as well as blatantly putting on display his pure hatred of America, Bush and anything associated with the administration, Iraq
It was a defining moment for the liberal elite and exposed what stupidity really lies beneath the facade of liberal “intellectualism”. If you missed it, watch it again…
Now that Avi Lewis has jumped ship from the CBC and now enjoys even great dhimimtude at Al-JAzeera. I laugh so hard watching this guy speak, and this interview isn’t as good as the Hirsi Ali interview, it’s still well worth watching.
Bolton naturally keeps his cool and deals with this liberal parasite one question at a time.
Part 1
Part 2
More on Avi Lewis:
In many ways, Lewis is a perfect archetype for Canada’s intellectual elite. A third generation product of Canadian political royalty, he boasts a star-studded genealogy that has inspired not one, but two TV specials: Lewis is the son of Stephen Lewis, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations and former head of Ontario’s socialist New Democratic Party. His mother, Michelle Landsberg, is a longtime columnist with Canada’s largest liberal daily, the Toronto Star. His grandfather, Stephen Lewis, once led the NDP party on the national level. From his education at the elite private school, Upper Canada College (the “Eton” of the 49th parallel), to his marriage to radical author Naomi Klein, Lewis confirms the critics’ mockery that he is more of a “human resume” than a real person. And while the idea of a Jewish broadcaster joining the world’s biggest Muslim and hate-America/Israel media outlet may seem shocking, it is in fact natural for a post-modern, “progressive” leftist like Lewis.
Lewis had cultivated a brass persona at the CBC. Armed with a smug, self-satisfied smirk that undermined his attempts to discuss serious issues, Lewis used the forum to propagate his far-Left politics. It is a revealing commentary on his political views that Lewis once criticized Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. The reason? Chavez was not socialist enough for his tastes.
“For what it’s worth,” commented Jonathan Kay at the National Post, “I think the jump to Al-Jazeera is a great career move for Lewis. Once he escapes the CBC, he will be able to bash the Americans without even the minimal ideological safeguards the Ceeb imposes. He will also no longer face the embarrassing sniggers of CBC colleagues who see him (fairly or unfairly) as a c-rater riding the coattails of relatives. If he becomes a star at Al-Jazeera, he will be preaching to an audience that’s potentially many times the size of the CBC’s — and he’ll get some revenge against [his former bosses.]”
Lewis’ main claim to fame (or, rather, infamy) was an interview he conducted with former Dutch parliamentarian and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali in June 2007. The segment quickly made Lewis, and by extension the CBC, a worldwide laughingstock. But instead of ending his broadcasting career, that interview may have served as Avi Lewis’s inadvertent “audition” for Al-Jazeera.
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After the interview was uploaded to HotAir.com, then flew around the blogosphere, even HotAir editor “AllahPundit” was “surprised initially at how much reaction [it] got, but having watched it again now, it is pretty amazing, isn’t it? After the years we’ve spent digesting Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, the Kossacks, how strident does your anti-Americanism have to be to make righty bloggers sit up and notice at this late date? Congrats, Avi Lewis. You’re a living cartoon.“
Fortunately, Canadian taxpayers are no longer subsidizing Avi Lewis’s hate-America performances. Al-Jazeera English is picking up the tab for that, giving Lewis his own show called “Frontline USA,” covering subjects like America’s “failure to protect its poorest citizens” during Hurricane Katrina.
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