Ezra Levant: Love him or hate him, he keeps winning

by Jonathon Gatehouse
Maclean's (Canada)
January 14, 2013

https://www.legal-project.org/3780/ezra-levant-love-him-or-hate-him-he-keeps-winning

Excerpt:

Ezra Levant is retelling his favourite story: the one where he's the hero. However, the hour-long monologue about the plucky kid from Alberta who dares to speak truth to power is really more of a dramatic performance. Pacing the stage of a community theatre north of Toronto, the 40-year-old broadcaster, author and columnist darts and cringes, waving his arms and pulling faces as he unspools a tale of fascist clerics, zombie bureaucrats and holy free-speech warriors. Levant's version of his battle with the Alberta Human Rights Commission over his 2006 decision to publish controversial drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in his now-defunct Western Standard magazine is epic stuff, filled with references to his "ordeal," "interrogation" and "900-day trial." And more than enough broadsides to satisfy an audience of 200 who have paid $25 per grey head to hear the closest thing that Canada has to Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh lecture on "Political correctness and the rise of Islamism."

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