LILLEY: CBC pushes left-wing political values in effort to cancel Christian singer
But the public broadcaster's news coverage of the 'MAGA musician' has instead made Sean Feucht a much bigger celebrity in Canada
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CBC went on a religious war against a Christian singer this past week in an effort to cancel his concerts.
Instead, CBC raised the profile of Sean Feucht in Canada and showed just how politicized their news coverage has become.
It started several days ago as Canada’s public broadcaster went wall to wall with coverage of Feucht’s show in Halifax. They described him repeatedly as a “MAGA musician” and then made it clear to their readers and viewers that Feucht holds views that no Canadian should welcome.
“Sean Feucht is a religious singer from the U.S. who has expressed anti-diversity, anti-2SLGBTQ+ and anti-women’s rights views on his platforms,” read one story about his original venue in Halifax being cancelled.
Other media outlets joined in the pile on, simply describing Feucht as MAGA and therefore unacceptable. We don’t need to tell you more than that, we’ve already told you that he likes the bad Orange man in the White House – BAN HIM!
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The original venues for all six concerts cancelled on him – some reportedly keeping the fees he had already paid.
Feucht may not be a household name in Canada, but he has played and toured here many times and he quickly found new venues.
The media hype about the dangers of allowing a Christian rocker to perform here kept up and when he played Montreal on Friday night, radical protesters showed up to try and forcibly shut down the show.
CBC quoted a spokesperson for Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante saying they believe in freedom of expression but not for this guy.
“Freedom of expression is one of our fundamental values, but hateful and discriminatory speech is not accepted in Montreal and, as in other Canadian cities, the show will not be tolerated,” Catherine Cadotte told CBC.
The mayor’s office tried to shut down the show even after it moved from a municipal venue to a church – and the city is now threatening to fine that church. They claimed Feucht didn’t have a permit to play and it wouldn’t be allowed to go forward, a claim CBC dutifully put to the singer as he spoke with media ahead of the show.
“It’s because you don’t have a permit,” a CBC-Radio Canada journalist stated to Feucht on the issue of why some wanted his show shut down.
“I don’t think you need a permit to worship in a church,” Feucht responded.
Feucht, the American, has a better understanding of how our country operates than a CBC journalist, that is truly sad.
If we lived in a country fully run by CBC and Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante, then we would have to sign away freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom expression – three fundamental freedoms protected by Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
As you can see, there is a selective approach to who gets those rights and freedoms protected.
There is a lot of chatter about what kind of musical acts are acceptable these days. Concerts for British punk rap duo Bob Vylan were cancelled after they shouted “death, death to the IDF” at the Glastonbury music festival.
Irish rap group Kneecap are slated to perform four sold-out shows in Toronto and Vancouver later this year but there are calls for them to be banned from Canada for their open support of banned terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
When CBC did a story on protests against Kneecap, they spoke with the Centre for Free Expression about how problematic it is to ban musical acts. That’s something they only did in Feucht’s case after days of broadcast and online print stories whipping up the Canadian public about the MAGA invasion.
I’d never heard of Sean Feucht before this past week and CBC‘s decision to join a Holy War to shut him down.
They may have gotten the venues to deny him entry, but they also made him a much bigger celebrity in Canada than he would have been otherwise.
CBC also showed that while they claim to stand up for Canadian values, they don’t mean the ones in the Charter, they mean the left-wing political values they push every single day.
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