The conservative commentator Fred Litwin discusses his new book, Conservative Confidential: Inside the Fabulous Blue Tent (NorthernBlues Books, 2015), politics, and more, with Joseph Planta.

Conservative Confidential: Inside the Fabulous Blue Tent by Fred Litwin (NorthernBlues Books, 2015). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Conservative Confidential

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

Fred Litwin joins me now. He’s just written a book called Conservative Confidential: Inside the Fabulous Blue Tent. I just finished the book, and it’s an engaging read about Mr. Litwin’s own person political coming out as a conservative. He grew up in Montreal, steeped in socialist thought, reading Chomsky and the sort. After September 11, 2001 however, he began seeing the world differently. He moved to the right, and he chronicles the evolution of his political thinking. He looks candidly at politics in Canada, and it’ll be interesting to get his thoughts on the current election campaign. He also looks critically in the book at the how the CBC and the media operates, as well as the gay establishment. He’s got a lot to say about the selective attention that mainstream gay leadership in Canada, especially with regards to the treatment of homosexuals in the Middle East and Islamic countries. You might have known Mr. Litwin from his work founding the Free Thinking Film Society, which screens films and documentaries in Ottawa. In 2011, a screening of an anti-Khomeinist film was cancelled at Library and Archives Canada, when it caved to pressure from the Iranian Embassy. He tells that story in this book. Fred Litwin is a marketing and sales professional who worked for Intel. He founded NorthernBlues Music, a blues record label. The website for more is at www.ConservativeConfidential.com. The book is published by NorthernBlues Books. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, in Ottawa today, Fred Litwin; Mr. Litwin, good morning.

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