The Most Irritating Man in Canada

It should be Justin Trudeau but for the Great and Good it's Ezra:

In August, online readers of the Globe and Mail voted for me as the “biggest name in broadcasting," beating out even Peter Mansbridge. 

Then in December, an Ottawa newspaper called the Hill Times surveyed parliamentary staff – the assistants to MPs and senators – asking them to name the “talking head you’d most like to silence." I won that poll too, with more than triple the votes of the second-place contender, Rex Murphy.

And just before Christmas, the Globe’s TV critic, John Doyle, chose me as the “most irritating” personality on TV.

Ezra, as he himself has admitted, isn't a journalist. He's a commentator and a personality. What he does isn't journalism, it's noticing the obvious that others carefully ignore. He's not always accurate, he's not always fair and at times he does become genuinely irritating. But he is the necessary man of the hour. If journalists fail to do their jobs then it falls to an outsider to do it for them. When a lawyer cum political activist cum gadfly outwits the Canadian Establishment at every turn perhaps it's time for the country to get a new elite. 

Comments

[John Chittick]

Ezra is everything you say he is but the Spawn is not only a smug, entitled idiot capable of mere imitation of progressive narrative speaking points but could actually become the Prime Minister. Ezra can be avoided by changing the channel while the Spawn, as PM, would be the face of Canada for all the world to see as a reflection of the national collective political "wisdom", Canada's intellectually vacuous equivalent to Obama.

[Cytotoxic]

When has Ezra ever outwitted anyone? Seriously, what has he achieved in recent years aside from ruining Sun News?

[Scott]

Say what you like, Ezra Levant fights for your right to do so. You, John, on the hand simply change the channel, wow!