Toronto Star Columnist 'Wishes' Conservative Michelle Malkin Were Shot

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By Jeff Poor (Bio | Archive)
April 29, 2009 - 08:35 ET

Want to see left-wing social activism gone wild?

Take a look at some of the views coming from Antonia Zerbisias, columnist for the Toronto Star's Living section. Zerbisias, posted on her Twitter site she wished renown conservative Michelle Malkin were shot.

"Forget the Marxists. I wish the marksmen would take @MichelleMalkin. I'm thinking Dick Cheney. He's such a great shot," Zerbisias wrote on the social-networking site Twitter.

Zerbisias has trumpeted her left-wing stance on women's issues over the past year, taking hard line positions on abortion.

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Aside from questioning former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin's decision to choose not to have an abortion for political reasons, Zerbisias once criticized abstinence as a form of birth control.

"Abstinence kills babies," Zerbisias wrote June 6, 2008. "Every time an egg leaves the ovary, travels down the fallopian highway and is not fertilized, a potential baby goes down the toilet. Of course, I am kidding - yet technically correct."

Zerbisias has even accused the Catholic Church of contributing to the death of thousands of women for its stance on the sanctity of life.

"Every year, 500,000 women die in childbirth, mostly because they have no choice, no contraception, and no access to reproductive medicine," Zerbisias wrote in her March 11 column. "Thanks to the dictates of the Vatican, many of these women are Catholic."

These types of sensational statements are par for the course for Zerbisias. Her Twitter bio describes her as "Toronto Star Columnist, blogger, girl reporter, professional feminista." According to her online Toronto Star bio, she makes a living off of this.

"Antonia Zerbisias, columnist for the Toronto Star's Living section, has been telling people what she thinks ever since she could open her mouth," the bio said. "Her opinionating career dates back to Grade 9 when a cartoon commentary on a teacher resulted in her suspension from high school. The principal sent her home with a note calling her ‘rude, obstreperous and bold.' Her parents were neither amused, nor surprised. Once she was punished for being that way. Now she makes it pay."

Read Malkin's response here.


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Insert George Carlin impersonation here

April 29, 2009 - 08:41 ET by Iowa Boy

Did you ever notice the people who talk about how we must be tolerant of others are the least tolerant people you'll ever want to eat (or is that meet)?

"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Official Motto of the State of Iowa

Within the liberal

April 29, 2009 - 09:29 ET by Paul Atreides

beats the heart of a bloodthirsty fascist.

Left-wing statists are the

April 29, 2009 - 14:59 ET by mattm

Left-wing statists are the most hateful, intolerant, tyrannical, evil scumbags on the planet. Hitler, Goebbles, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Mugabe, Amin, were all statists and they all dealt with their political opponents in the same way, first they demonized them, then they villianized them, then they murdered them.

Tyrants hate free people.

Isn't this the same country

April 29, 2009 - 09:06 ET by KC Mulville

Isn't this the same country where a Hate Crimes Commission went after Mark Steyn for saying something unflattering about Islam?

Now we read of a Canadian journalist who muses about killing a conservative, and we're supposed to admire her spunk?

I agree with Mr. Grant.

Off the top of your head

April 29, 2009 - 09:40 ET by Paul Atreides

name how many times in this country you have read a front page article on a major magazine about how Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. are on the decline, outdated, oppressive, in need of modernization, whatever; now, name how many times the same articles have been written about Christianity.

Agreed

April 29, 2009 - 09:45 ET by KC Mulville

It's all in how you choose not to look at it honestly.

 "Every year, 500,000

April 29, 2009 - 09:35 ET by motherbelt

 "Every year, 500,000 women die in childbirth, mostly because they have
no choice, no contraception, and no access to reproductive medicine,"

Uh, Ms. Zerbisias, care during labor and delivery IS 'reproductive medicine.'   Abortion is not. 

I am sick to death of these feminazis getting away with calling abortion a reproductive health issue!  How in the name of Sam Hill does an abortion relate to reporductive HEALTH????

And Zerbisias'  500,000 annual childbirth deaths is B as in B, S as in S.

The number, as noted here, is actually fewer than 600!

And experts think that obesity and an increased rate of C-sections may play a role.

So much for lack of access to "reproductive medicine."

Another "million women dying from anorexia"  POS statistic from a lying feminist.

They might say "Wow, that sucks!"  But at least they'll say "Wow!"  -Duff Goldman, the Ace of Cakes

Dying in childbirth

April 29, 2009 - 09:42 ET by KC Mulville
  • A woman dies in childbirth, and the supposed remedy is  ... to stop having children?
  • They want to build an abortion clinic, but not a safe delivery room? Which do you want more of, abortions or healthy babies?
  • Women have plenty of choice - if you don't want to have the baby, don't have the sex. There's a choice. (Unless you want to claim that women have no choice, and must have sex. In that case, where were these women when I needed them?)
  • Oh but wait, this is for women who die in childbirth, after they've carried the baby for nine months. Do they want to have their "choice" available at the last minute?

John Edwards legacy

April 29, 2009 - 10:24 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls

an increased rate of C-sections may play a role.

We can thank John Edwards for that.

D

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If all the pro-aborts had

April 29, 2009 - 15:02 ET by mattm

If all the pro-aborts had been aborted, there wouldn't be any pro-aborts.  Irony is so ironic!

Exhibit A

April 29, 2009 - 09:27 ET by Paul Atreides

Why we need to fight liberalism tooth and nail.  This slime and Pez Hilton would put into concentration camps anyone who dares to challenge them.

Ho Hum...another moronic comment by...

April 29, 2009 - 09:56 ET by yobobbyb

another liberal, vile, despicable excuse for a human being. Notice that they hate guns so much that someone else has to pull the trigger when they daydream of an opponent getting shot.

If only Texas could secede. The libs are so afraid to defend their own country that Texas would probably overrun what's left of the US in a very short time.

Readership decline

April 29, 2009 - 09:57 ET by OuttaMyWay

Well at least now they are openly saying they want us dead, not just implying it. 

That is actually a refreshing change.  I would rather know that they want to kill me for not thinking like they do, then saying that they love me and won't insult me again.  It is good to hear them being honest. 

I wish i knew why she wanted to murder Michelle.  Oh wait, she is implying it would be a political assination at worse.  You know, something they would oppose against someone trying to attack us.

So proper response, the high road of love, but wear flak jackets of love when in toronto

Neil

Beware of those who call evil good, and good evil!

Hate speech.

April 29, 2009 - 10:33 ET by seven

Even with the new hate crimes bill, it will protect the left and punish the religious except muslims.

Re Malkin

April 29, 2009 - 10:52 ET by slickwillie2001

Good point from KC on facilities. A nominally equipped delivery facility is likely easier to equip than a nominally equipped abortion facility. Deaths in childbirth would also be easiest to remedy though prenatal care, I think.

Michelle should make a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, or the Ontario version. One of Alinsky's rules is something like 'learn your opponent's rule book and beat them over the head with it'.

Wouldn't Michelle Malkin have...

April 29, 2009 - 11:34 ET by PrairieSky

some legal grounds to pursue some type of charge against this idiot, Zerbisias? Some type of inciting a hate crime charge, or maybe just something as simple as considering this a threat of physical harm? I'm not a lawyer, but this type of garbage shouldn't always be ignored...These unhinged losers should be challenged and charged (if possible). Maybe then some of them would think twice before they open their mouths or write something reprehensible, if they thought they might end up facing charges.

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

The Toronto Star is in so

April 29, 2009 - 11:11 ET by RMR

The Toronto Star is in so much trouble they will do anything to get attention. Even their attempt at giving away free papers was  met with few takers.

Pity them fellas. Pity them.

I've contacted the Toronto

April 29, 2009 - 12:04 ET by gopcongress

I've contacted the Toronto Star and talked to the City Desk. They have indicated to me that management is making a very serious inquiry into this issue, including involving the local authorities. Hopefully, this will become more public as time goes by. 

If you want to contact the Star, just google them and look under Contact Us, and navigate to any appropriate department you deem necessary. I feel that the more calls the Star gets, the more serious they will take this charge. 

NOTHING short of a full retraction and a very public suspension, if not outright firing, should be a considered. Violence, even in jest, should not be condoned by professional organizations.

Suffice to say that if a conservative were talking about shooting a democrat, the Drive By's would be reporting this near the top of their broadcast.

____________________
Moderate... Democrat... Liberal... Progressive... Socialist... Communist—The progression is clear as day.

Isn't it interesting that waterboarding a jihadist

April 29, 2009 - 13:07 ET by yobobbyb

hell bent on destroying us is bad, but shooting an innocent American citizen is good. And there is a question that liberalism is a mental disorder?

How about this

April 29, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Tom in NC

I say we should perform a retroactive abortion on this cow!

OH CANADA...

April 29, 2009 - 16:17 ET by danybhoy

When are the Canucks going to haul this Antonia Zerbisias clown in front of the same Human Rights Tribunal that Mark Steyne had to go through for exposing radical islam for what it is? This woman is advocating the murder of someone she disagrees with, what a nice tollerent facsist.

Actually, she should'nt be hauled in front of the Human Rights Tribunal Steyne faced, she should be investigated by the RCMP & FBI. Anything happens to Michelle Malkin, this woman is on the hook as far as I'm concerned.

 

"The Fairness Doctrine = Jim Crow laws for Conservatives".  Jim Quinn from "Quinn & Rose"

I suppose for Zerbisias it

April 29, 2009 - 19:42 ET by Riiight

I suppose for Zerbisias it isn't too far a stretch to go from killing babies to killing babes.