Tory MP right to challenge leftist media hack
Barrett shows fellow MPs how to deal with activist fake news hucksters
It was a welcome, uncharacteristically in-your-face moment from a Conservative MP accused of “spreading lies” by an apparent journalist as he left a scrum. Leeds Grenville MP Michael Barrett later posted the tense exchange on his twitter feed, asking if the individual in the scrum was really a reporter.
Barrett had finished a statement accusing Government house leader Mark Holland of being complicit in the coverup of sexual misconduct on Parliament Hill.
“What now I’d like to see is leadership from the government and Mr. Holland with respect to sexual misconduct on the Hill, when it in fact in appears that he was complicit in the coverup of that kind of thing,” Barrett said.
As he left the scrum, a female reporter with The Canadian Press can be heard asking, “why is he spreading lies?”
Barrett returned to the scrum, asked the reporter her name and who she was with.
The reporter said her employer was ‘not important.’
Barrett then asked her to repeat what she had said about him “spreading lies,” which she refused to do.
“If one of your colleagues is prepared to playback what you said and you’re comfortable uttering that again, I’d be interested to hear that.”
Barrett’s refusal to take crap from that hack reporter who didn’t have the courage to repeat the smear, should serve as a example of how to handle leftist activists masquerading as reporters.
The left wing media barely even tries to hide their biases these days.
She was obviously taken aback by his insistence on demanding to know who she was and who she was with. Most Conservatives would have probably kept walking with with that smear ringing in their ears.
Barrett showed his colleagues how it’s done and served notice to fake news hucksters they can expect to be challenged in future.
Kudos to the camera person in the scrum who shot the exchange and allowed the video to be posted.
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