In an eye-popping opinion column, Univision’s chief newsroom editor displays his contempt for the Canadian trucker protest and further clarifies the deep-seated institutional biases at the nation’s largest Spanish-language media outlet.
Daniel Morcate’s blast at the truckers, titled “Canada’s convoy of death,” reads like a conservative parody of what an apologist for totalitarianism might write about the trucker protest in Ottawa. Morcate’s role at the network makes the column all the more troubling. Per Univision insiders, Morcate has the final editorial say over the scripts read on Univision’s national newscasts. Morcate has held this role for over two decades, with the exception of a brief tenure as News Director at Univision’s Miami affiliate WLTV-23 during the Lee-Coronell Reign of Terror which, per insiders, ended in his ouster and return to the national news desk subsequent to a newsroom revolt.
We have most frequently looked at Jorge Ramos’ opinion columns, which is appropriate given his position at Univision and stature within the rest of corporate media. But Morcate’s role merits examination of his columns as well. This, after all, is the thinking of the man who oversees the scripts that are read to millions of viewers on a daily basis- published with Univision’s approval.
We archived the column to prevent Univision from trying to destroy it as they tried to do with Maria Elena Salinas’ insane rant about Jorge Ramos being thrown out at Donald Trump’s Iowa press conference 2015.
Because it is impossible to pick and choose which portions of this wildly incendiary opinion column to highlight, again- published with Univision’s consent, we have translated it from the original Spanish and posted it below in its entirety, as published on February 14th, 2022 (emphases ours).
Canada’s Convoy for Death
By: Daniel Morcate
It is believed that the international truckers protest which paralysed Canada’s borders to the United States has now become an international strategy. This has already affected France, Australia and New Zealand, and it appears to be spreading to other parts of the country such as New York. It has also been warned by the Department of Homeland Security. It is important to understand the warning. Although it is called “Freedom Convoy”, the fact that it has the name suggests it was a nihilistic death rattle for uncouth right-wing radicals such as those who have waged war against all health precautions ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Protestants from Canada include mainly People who are willing to get infected by covid and infect others, even their family members.Some truck drivers, such as some of these truck drivers refuse to have their vaccinations in a country with more than 80 percent of its citizens, nine of which are truck drivers. Und In their fanatical quest to deny vaccination and observe pandemic restrictions, they lost every legal and political battle.Well-meaning people have, naturally, joined the campaign “Monkey see, Monkey Do” to show how tired they are from their endless battle against the coronavirus.
You will find Confederate flags representing the racist South of America as well as neo Nazi symbols in the footage of this protest. According to Canadian media, 60% of protestors’ funds come from Canada. These funds were collected online. The funds were also collected online to large degrees far-right American media and politicians – like Fox News and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky – are energizing the movement,It is not worth the estimated $300,000,000 per day that trade costs between these two neighbouring countries. This has led to increased consumer product shortages in America and Canada and has jeopardized thousands more jobs.
Rebel truckers were radical in their radicalism Not only are they opposed to being vaccinated according to a mandate from Canada announced mid-January, They demand that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau be immediately resigned and all restrictions on covid be lifted.
To satisfy their demands they went against the law, and the regulations and rules of one of most stable and effective democracies in the world. They call the government’s decisions “arbitrary”, which they are able to challenge in the media and at the poll box.It is not true that the obstructed roads have been in place for many weeks. This has harmed trade between Canada and two countries whose governments were elected from popular support. The protest they are expressing is an obscurantist fury comparable to that we suffered at the beginning of the pandemic.
These protestors claim freedom only if they can infect other people with covid. It is up for debate whether they have the right to the latter.However, they have no rights to it. They are reminiscent of Spanish fascists in their recklessnessThe slogan, “long live the death”, was the mantra of Civil War soldiers. This insane proposition is why we need to present the opposing idea that lives, and those of others, have intrinsic value worth protecting. We must place our trust in the health of others and adhere to the common-sense health advice.
Canadian authorities began to arrest and ultimatum the protestors. The Biden administration supports them in this endeavor.However, Ottawa continues to be under siege. We don’t know how well extremists might be at spreading their poisonous obscurantist ideology.It cannot be ignored while it lasts. We do know that extremists have a dangerous, nihilistic morbidity. This has infected only a very small minority of Canadians.
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