But perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on Fry, who has been well fried. She may have lied, she may be a hater who professes to hate hatred, but she's just part of the anti-racist hate pattern of these bedevilled times. The media have given oodles of space to her sin, but they would have given even more oodles to the story if it had been right. To the Sun, which is part of Pacific Press, whose chairman is David Radler, anti-Semitism real or imagined is big stuff. No need for instructions to come down from the top.
Journalists always know where the power lies, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Take cover, folks. The holocaust had to get into the story, of course. He was not scheduled to be in Port Coquitlam, but a little detail like that didn't matter if he had spoken at some other meeting in the province. The hotel where this sinister gathering was to have taken place took fright in the face of threatened demonstrations and cancelled the Freedom Fest's accommodation. Sorry about that.