Oh, dear. It seems the rats have once again come home to roost for Warren Kinsella.
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Maxime Bernier‘s threatened lawsuit against the Printh of Darkneth has indeed come to pass, landing with an ominous thunk at the Ottawa courthouse Monday. *See update below.
- The latest tweets from @warrenkinsella.
- The latest tweets from @warrenkinsella.
- As the argument that a party to a libel action may have defamed somebody else somehow somewhere sometime is both irrelevant and inadmissible, his kids no doubt are hoping he’ll provide for them by hiring himself out as a sex therapist or lifestyle coach instead.
Frank followers will recall the Pipples’ Party supremo sent a notice of libel to the punk poseur in December, demanding the deletion of defamatory blog posts and tweets portraying him as (pas possible!!) a racist, homophobe, white supremacist, etc. Some of these were posted during “Project Cactus,” Kinsella’s paid campaign to shiv Bernier on behalf of the Conservatives.
But instead of bending the knee, Warren offered a middle finger, calling Max’s bluff — which wasn’t.
Bernier is now demanding $250,000 in general damages and $75,000 in punitive/aggravated damages, a court order to take down the offending material and another permanently restraining Kinsella from talking anymore shit.
Warren Kinsella (born August 1960) is a Canadian lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, and commentator.Kinsella has written commentary in most of Canada's major newspapers and several magazines, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, the National Post, The Walrus, Postmedia newspapers and currently with Loonie Politics.
He’s also seeking to stick Wornout with his costs on an all-you-can-eat substantial indemnity basis, and the meter is already running at a clip, thanks to legalist André Marin (Lister Beaupre), the former Ontario ombudsmidget and longtime Kinsella antagonist. Also on the file are the firm’s managing partner, Andrew Lister, and third kazoo Michael Babe.
Kinsella’s corporate alter egos, Daisy Consulting Group Inc., and Daisy Strategy Group Ltd., have been named as defendants, sharply reducing his options for wriggling off the hook:
“Coincidentally or not, the [CPC] Retainer to smear Maxime seems to have aligned with Kinsella’s own partisan leanings. At the material times, therefore, Kinsella was performing paid partisan attacks as the agent, principal, directing mind, office and/or director of the Daisy Group entities.”
(Frank Question: Does Warren’s recent ex-, Lisa Kirbie still have an ownership stake in the Daisy chain?)
The Conservative Party of Canada has not been added as a defendant, although the details of their contract with Warren/Daisy will doubtless be thoroughly chewed over in discovery and at trial. The sick burns Bernier complains of leave very much open the question of how much value the Tories got for their ratfucking buck. A sampling:
“a. On or about February 23, 2019, 2019 [sic] Kinsella posted a blog entitled ‘Is MaximeBernier a racist?’ to the War Room, in which Kinsella stated that ‘Max Bernier — because of the words he chooses, and those with whom he chooses to associate himself — is now indisputably piloting the same dark waters charted by the likes of Donald Trump and David Duke’;
Kinsella further stated that Bernier ‘is a telegenic bigot who panders to the worst in people’ and that ‘[b]y his words, and by his deeds, we all know who Maxime Bernier is’;
“c. On or about May 10, 2019, Kinsella posted a reply on Twitter to a post by Maxime. In his reply, Kinsella stated, referring to Maxime: ‘You’re a bigot.’;
“d. On or about June 4, 2019, Kinsella posted a blog entitled ‘Actually, Maxime, there is only one federal party leader who sounds like a white supremacist who hates women’:
“f. On or about July 29, 2019, Kinsella posted a blog article entitled ‘Bernier and his infamous neo-Nazi friend’ to the War Room, in which Kinsella misleadingly and deliberately posted a photograph showing Maxime at an election campaign event. The campaign event in question took place in a hotel lobby, where Maxime greeted and posed for pictures with dozens or hundreds of attendees. The other individual in the photograph is apparently Paul Fromm, a white supremacist. Maxime had never met this individual before, and did not know his identity when the picture was taken.
“Kinsella deliberately and misleadingly stated in the blog post that Maxime was friends with a neo-Nazi. As a person steeped in political campaigns, Kinsella is well aware of the true context of the photograph, and chose instead to deliberately misstate what the photograph depicts.
“In the same blog post, Kinsella stated that Maxime is ‘the leader of the alt-right White People’s Party’,and ‘fully crossed the Rubicon…Consorting with the undisputed leader of Canada’s white supremacist movement…In his words and in his deeds, Maxime Bernier has shown us who he is. We need to start believing him.’;
“k. On or about September 9, 2019, Kinsella replied to a Twitter post by Maxime. In his reply, Kinsella stated the following: ‘Piss off, you racist jackass. #elxn43 #cdnpoli;’
“l. On or about October 7, 2019, Kinsella posted the following message on Twitter: ‘Everyone, be sure to check out Bernier’s post-debate cross-burning party!’;
“n. On or about October 25, 2019, in a podcast episode entitled ‘Kinsellacast 85’ posted to the War Room, Kinsella stated that ‘research conducted by B’nai Brith of Canada, the Canada Anti-Hate Network, and others shows beyond a doubt that Bernier is the de-facto leader of Canada’s Alt-Right movement. He’s David Duke North.’
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After all these years of making an ass of himself you’d think Warren Kinsella would cut his losses and find refuge in an unmarked grave.
But if past history is any guide, the egomaniacal poseur actually enjoys his many moments of public humiliation.
Take, for example, the time he blogged about a visit to Ottawa in 2009:
“Back in the Big Owe for a couple weeks, so what better way to kick things off than with some BBQ cat and rice at the Yang Sheng, hangout of our youth? Yay!”
BBQ cat?! From the guy who had Doc Martened Mark Steyn for referring in his column to the Chinese as “chinks” and “gooks?”
So when the Toronto Chapter of the Chinese Canadian National Council demanded an apology, Kinsella immediately caved, posting an abject YouTube grovel: “To any Chinese Canadian offended by what I said, again, I sincerely apologize.”
Then there was the time the self-appointed Printh of Darkneth, having successfully sucked his way onto Olivia Chow’s mayoral campaign, shot his mouth off about John Tory’s SmartTrack transit plan as being “segregationist.”
Exit Kinsella, in a cloud of hen shit and pecker dust.
And who can forget the time the Great Feminist™ hyucked in a photo caption that Tory MPP Lisa MacLeod should be home “baking cookies” instead of attending a political event.
Cue the humiliation and ensuing apologies.
Last week, Kinsella launched his latest exercise in self-abasement: #LookAtMeToo came replete with breathless predictions of dire consequences for the “creeps and criminals slithering through Canadian corridors of power…[who] will soon be going down.”
“One of these men is very, very powerful. The stories have been known about him for three years. His name will shock you.”
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Mark Bonokoski, Kinsella’s brother-in-arms at the Toronto Sun, joined in the wink-wink-say-no-more, hinting that Kinsella was referring to Justin Trudeau, who might well be outed “within hours.” When CTV gumshoe Mercedes Stephenson asked the PM if there might be anything in his own past he’d like to maybe get ahead of, he doubled down, declaring his always-careful respect for the headspace of peoplekind, or something similar.
Then came, er, nada.
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Well, pre-doomed PMO sluggo Claude-Eric Gagne, placed on pig leave back in December, made his resignation official. But his name came as more of a who dat? than a shock. And “very, very powerful?” Pfft.
In the runup to this letdown, Kinsella had, of course, been only too happy to exploit long-forgotten rumours that Trudeau once had a consensual legover with Another Woman and, well, that’s it!
This tattle may have been as stale as yesterday’s cheese balls, but Kinsella managed to double his self-pleasure with his moment in the spotlight: He made life briefly miserable for his old nemesis, Gerry Butts, plus, he got to prance about on his #MeToo high horse.
But even that blew up in his pasty face when anonymous Liberals launched a Twitter account and released some of the juicier bits from Kinsella’s divorce from Suzanne Amos. Among the classics:
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“Saturday night, June 19, 2010, was the first evening Warren had all four of his children together since late March 2010. He left them home alone that evening while he went to an Iggy Pop concert.”
“When Suzanne was at the cottage this summer, she found that Warren had installed a padlock on the cottage, and he used a wood burning instrument to engrave his initials into every piece of furniture there…”
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Even as a public pantsing, this was fourth-rate. That well-read court file has circulated around Ottawa for years, and Frank apologizes for repeating such dated dish about such tiresome twats (stalwart allies of the sisterhood, shurely?!–ed.)