{"id":48266,"date":"2019-05-08T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48266"},"modified":"2019-05-07T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T02:23:16","slug":"andrew-the-milk-dud-scheer-has-problems-but-bigotry-racism-and-xenophobia-arent-among-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/08\/andrew-the-milk-dud-scheer-has-problems-but-bigotry-racism-and-xenophobia-arent-among-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew &#8220;The Milk Dud&#8221; Scheer has problems, but bigotry, racism and xenophobia aren&#8217;t among them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m far from a fan of The Milk Dud, but the Canadian media&#8217;s attempts to paint him as a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepostmillennial.com\/why-does-the-mainstream-media-want-andrew-scheer-to-be-a-racist\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alt-right echo of Trump<\/a> are worse than pathetic:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45441\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrew-Scheer-with-Theresa-May-2018-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45441\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrew-Scheer-with-Theresa-May-2018-Wikimedia-Commons-480x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrew-Scheer-with-Theresa-May-2018-Wikimedia-Commons-480x397.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrew-Scheer-with-Theresa-May-2018-Wikimedia-Commons-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Andrew-Scheer-with-Theresa-May-2018-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Scheer meets British Prime Minister Theresa May<br \/>Photo via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>As election 2019 approaches, one thing has become obvious: it did not matter who the Conservative Party of Canada would have elected to lead their party. The mainstream media would have still implemented the same smear tactics against them<\/p>\n<p>The smears include calling them bigots, racist, xenophobic, making lazy connections to extremists, and claiming that they are \u201calt-right adjacent.\u201d This type of name-calling is the new norm from the Canadian left, and it sadly seems to only be getting worse<\/p>\n<p>Why does the MSM want Andrew Scheer to be racist so bad!? Andrew Scheer, the father of five from Saskatchewan and quite possibly the most boring politician in today\u2019s ecosystem of larger-than-life cult of personality type leaders, is not a racist. I beg, and I plead every night that these baseless criticisms will peter out, but they continue to pop up. Why?<\/p>\n<p>What statement, in what interview, in what conversation, did Andrew Scheer say anything remotely racist? There is not a single instance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m far from a fan of The Milk Dud, but the Canadian media&#8217;s attempts to paint him as a kind of alt-right echo of Trump are worse than pathetic: As election 2019 approaches, one thing has become obvious: it did not matter who the Conservative Party of Canada would have elected to lead their party. 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