Egregious Eric Margolis has been demobbed, as it were:
Eric Margolis explains his departure from Sun Media in an online antiwar.com interview, saying his contract runs for another three weeks and then it’s back to New York City.
“My contract has been ended, and I’m too heretical even for this chain that has carried me for 27 years” says Margolis.
After explaining Sun Media’s proposed pro-Harper Fox North platform, he says:
“Heretics like me who question war in Afghanistan…are being shown the door (by Sun Media.)”..
Though Mr Margolis ain’t exactly been very mobilized for a very long time:
The mythical nine-year Afghan war–and the mythical US invasion
Mark
Ottawa
Good riddance is right!
Eric was as close to a conspiracy theorist as you could find in Canadian media and for that I applauded him. But he was also left leaning and amazingly enough the Sun usually had no problems with that, I doubt any media in Canada would be as forgiving on a hardcore right-winger though. The war like all wars is really about money and that is certain.
This guy was such a rabid lefty , that his columns were often funny and made the paper more interesting! Oh well!
I bet you a million dollars Eric was on Al-Qaeda, and the Talibans payroll, no other way to explain his pro terrorist and anti Western garbage that he propogated
I’m just glad he lost his job. !*SCORE*!
I just love it when these useless dicks lose their jobs.
I also love it when they bitch about it and whine about how the fact that THEY lost their jobs is somehow a earth shattering threat to freedom of speech.
They sit around doing nothing more useful than writing snotty little smears about people but somehow we are supposed to feel some great loss when one of them gets the punt.
No doubt he’ll be picked up by some lefty publication. But really the earnings and circulation won’t be as great.
He’ll sit on his fat ass playing to his lefty audience for a while until somebody fresh kicks him farther down the obscure doofus ladder.
Actually, Margolis is so far to the right, he’s left!
http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2008/01/free-speech-for-taliban.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Margolis
Basically, he’s a paleoconservative anti-Israel Islamophile.
“Eric Margolis explains his departure from Sun Media…..”
I didn’t even bother to read it. WHO CARES why you’re gone Margolis? The great thing is that YOU ARE!
As I stated above I expect whatever small time specialty publisher picks you up won’t want to pay top dollar for a washed up, has been, especially in the internet age and in THIS economy.
So, have fun making far less than you were and let’s hope with the housing crises your mortgage is 35% higher than your current assessed value. (In other words I hope you enjoy the drop in living standard).
Well i guess i wasnt alone in not listening to his rhetoric.Sorry there Eric but we are just tired of feeling sorry for TERRORISTS who blow themselves up for political gain.Kinda weary also of hearing how “bad” we are and how “good” Islamists are.The real world evidence says otherwise.
// The mythical nine-year Afghan war–and the mythical US invasion //
bombing of Afghanistan started on Oct 7, 2001 — an estimated 3600 civilians had been killed by Dec 10.
Or wasn’t the bombing of Pearl Harbour the start of a war.
One of Margolis’ best features is that he explains ethnic & cultural aspects of the societies he is writing about. He was talking about Pakistan [the Pashtuns] while the usual press were still linking everything to Al-Quaeda.
He will continue to write, I just won’t have to pick up some ketchup-stained Sun to read his Sunday column on Sunday.
How about an example —
Note that this article is a warning — meanwhile the reality-creators were gearing up for Iraq & conjuring up WMDs.
ERIC MARGOLIS December 22, 2002
On the frigid night of Dec. 24, 1979, Soviet airborne forces seized Kabul airport [...]
It took Soviet forces only a few days to occupy Afghanistan. [...]
Two years later, Afghans had risen against their Soviet “liberators” and were waging a low-intensity guerrilla war. [...]
Fast forward to December, 2002, and a disturbing sense of deja vu. [...]
America’s invasion of Afghanistan in October, 2001, was billed as an epic military victory and the model of future imperial expeditions to pacify Third World malefactors. Since then, news about this war-ravaged land has grown scarce. America’s limited attention has turned elsewhere. [...]
The rest of the article is titled “Afghanistan in chaos”
Article–
Details of U.S. victory are a little premature
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34911574/Afghanistan-Margolis2002