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New Evidence of Double Standards, Hypocrisy and Hatemongering at the Toronto Star

Once again the Liberal propaganda rag known as the Toronto Star has been caught red handed doing the dirty work of its Liberal masters.

The latest Liberal cheerleader employed by the Star is Jim Coyle, who has this time outdone himself when it comes to prostituting his journalistic principles in order to curry favour with the Liberals whose agenda the Star constantly promotes.

When Conservative MPPs Bill Murdoch and Randy Hillier staged a Legislative sit-in to protest Dalton McGuinty’s plan to ram through the HST without any meaningful public debate, Coyle actually went so far as to accuse the protesting MPPs of being wife-beaters and child abusers.

“They were faces of raving irrationality that any woman abused by her mate would recognize. They were faces of incoherent fulminating that any child terrified by a drunken father would know. They were the faces of inane intransigence with which most beat cops are wearily familiar.”

Compare Coyle’s ranting above to his reaction when a Liberal MPP named Alvin Curling used the exact same sit-in tactic to protest a Harris Government Bill.

Instead of accusing Curling of child abuse, Coyle wrote that Curling had emerged as “the unlikely champion of a campaign of civil disobedience,” and that he “looked for all the world like a latter-day Rosa Parks -- a man refusing to give up his seat.”

Unbelievable hypocrisy! To accuse democratically elected politicians of being wife-beaters and child-abusers is a new low even for Coyle and the Liberal rag that pays his salary.

At least we now know the stakes and the Liberal bias at the Star is there for all to see. To Jim Coyle, Conservatives who stand up for their constituents are wife-beaters. Yet Liberals who do the same are heroes. This is an astounding mix of hypocrisy and slander.

The really sad part is that Coyle wrote those appalling words on the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Coyle’s drive-by smear only trivializes the real victims of violence against women. He should be ashamed to show his face at Queen’s Park and the Star should be humiliated for printing his words.

For the record; according to recent Angus Reid poll, 75% of Ontario residents agree with Hillier, Murdoch and the PC position that opposes the HST. Clearly Coyle and the Star’s views are not consistent with mainstream Ontario voters.