"I'm leaning to think (an independant) might be able to do a better job", as they are not subject to "party discipline or explaining party behavior", citing "a groundsweel of public support" for her to carry on if elected.
Technically, she cannot legally campaign under Elections Canada rules after her Liberal endorsement was pulled, but can participate "as an individual" in candidates forums if invited, and her name remains on the ballot. "We're in Monty Python territory as far as I can tell", she mused.
Hughes again refused to apologize for the "Get the Truth" (about 9-11) column of 2002 that sunk her campaign, claiming she had apologized "to anyone who has suffered as a result of what I write - and I include myself", but rejected being "required" to withdraw her column.
Hughes scrambled to distance herself from the anti-Semites in the 9-11 Truther movement she promotes, insisting that she personally rejects claims that Israel was part of a conspiracy to attack US targets as pretect to start a war.
But, she said it was her "duty to challenge in a responsible way" the official explanation for the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001, and defended her column and framed the demise of her Liberal Party support as "a warning signal to any journalist".
Hughes told the media her column was really about the US war in Afghanistan, and the part about Israel was based on published reports in the London Telegraph, The Jerusalem Post and Fox News that "(Israeli spy agency) the Mossad had said they warned the CIA" in advance about the 9-11 plot.
The longtime CBC commentator and host pointedly noted that her column was not from 'a blog' as has been carelessly reported by many MSM outlets.
"It was a column I wrote for Transcontinental Media (print publications), not a blog."
"A blog," she pronounced, "is not accountable, but my column is."
"I traced the sources as far back as I could ... I believed the sources, but who has the time (to verify)? If you do you'll see how credible the reports were."
As in her letter to the Winnipeg Free Press published yesterday, Hughes once again avoided mentioning that her column repeated without question, the rumour that an Israeli company had broken their lease and evacuated the World Trade Centre based on the Mossad warning of an impending terrorist attack.
Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber described that conspiracy theory as "evoking a horrible dual canard that Israelis (Jews) are both somehow secretly conspiring to affect or control world events and that Israelis (Jews) are so callous that they left 3000 fellow human beings to be mercilessly slaughtered."
Liberal leader Stephane Dion refered the issue to the CJC and when Hughes did not apologize for supporting what Farber called a "modern-age twist on the age-old anti-Semitic calumnies", Dion concluded she was not a suitable candidate for his party.
In response to her ouster, Hughes stated:
"Some Jewish organizations are under so much sustained stress they're having trouble telling their friends from their enemies".
She added "I'm told I have a very strong case for slander and defamation."
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