Update:  A big welcome to readers from Small Dead Animals , Five Feet Of Fury , SteynOnline and Barrel Strength .  Make yourselves at home. 

I captured Dennis Miller interviewing Steve Paikin this morning.  The audio is 8.5 minutes long and it's a good listen if you've been following the HRC complaint against Steyn and Macleans. 

Steve Paikin is a journalist with TVO who made our radar when he moderated an impromptu debate/discussion between Mark Steyn and the "sock puppet three" on TVO's "The Agenda".  You can watch that adventure, in all it's seven parts, in our video gallery .

In other Steyn news, Warren Kinsella is whining that Steyn won't debate him at an event that doesn't exist .  Warren doesn't seem too bright.

...which is something one could say infrequerntly about Mark Steyn, but here goes.

The pompous windbag and country-club bigot has an amusing letter in the new Harper's in response to the 'Islamopocalypse' thing a couple issues back. I'd link to it, but I was only sent some PDFs by a reader; linkage would be welcome.

You can read it yourself. I, meanwhile, continue my hunger strike to push for a debate with the great man.

Maybe Warren didn't get the memo

I just received an email from the Public Policy Forum that the June 3 conference examining the future of human rights commissions has been postponed. No date has been set, but the email said,
it will be rescheduled "likely next spring."

I had a feeling it would be canceled, since as late as last week, there was no word on who would participate on the panel discussion and go head to head with Warren Kinsella that afternoon. It also looked like it was shaping up to be a snore-fest, at least from this former television producer's point of view.

Most interesting.

poor Warren 

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written by WL Mackenzie Redux, May 22, 2008

Miller is always a great listen...if at least for the hockey trivia

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written by sjt, May 22, 2008

Good interview.

One thought - and I suppose it's not actually an original point. Why is Mark Steyn being sued?

I mean, I've listened to the Socks - but they aren't the actual complainants; Elmasry is. However, they seem to be the spokespeople for Elmasry the Puppetmaster (or the "dummies" for Elmasry the Ventroliquist, or the "monkeys" for Elmasry the Organ Grinder - pick your own analogy).

Anyway, they claim that the HRC complaint is not about censorship; that they aren't trying to prevent anyone from speaking - they say they only want the "right to a response" - specifically in Macleans magazine.

Ok, so again I ask (the obvious) - why are they (and/or their Puppetmaster) suing Mark Steyn? How can he give them the "remedy" they're seeking. I don't think he owns a newspaper or magazine - he's simply a freelance writer.

Guess it is about censorship. The Socks doth protest too much, methinks.

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written by bubba brown, May 22, 2008

Well I guess I am old enough to remember "laugh In" A lady with an english accent Judy Carne ? used to rattle "sock it to me sock it to me" on cue at least she was funny ,the first few times anyway. I hear the three musketeers,are having a little trouble drumming up jobs,seems law firms are looking at them with a "jaundiced eye" karma is a bittch ain't it
cheers Bubba

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written by Jim R, May 22, 2008

Thanks for capturing this excellent interview.

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written by Richard Evans, May 24, 2008

WLMR; I try to catch him for at least an hour every morning...

sjt; Steyn is in hot water for accurately quoting various Imams

bubba; sucks to be them... heh

Jim; Cheers!

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written by Shane, August 27, 2008

The original TVO 7 parter no longer functions in your video gallery. Just thought I would let you know.

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