The venerable Globe & Mail, once the greatest newspaper in Canada. That was then but this is now. Today's Globe is weak to the point of being lame. The editor is weak. The head of its editorial board is weaker, intellectually bereft. A lot of its columnists should have been put out to pasture a long time ago while they still had some remaining vestige of vision. Whatever happened to "Death Before Dishonour" anyway?
When North Korea seemingly detonated a nuclear test device, who was the Globe's "go to" commentor? Noneother than Frank Gaffney, Jr., another hack neo-con, former underling to Richard Perle and intimate with those military genii (plural of genius?) Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. He was the bozo the Globe called upon to educate its readers on this perplexing problem. We all know how well these neo-cons have served their country so far. Maybe its because they can't get the time of day in the U.S. that the Globe gives them an outlet for their nonsensical ravings. After all, they at least meet the standards of today's Globe & Mail.
If you wasted your time reading today's Globe editorials instead of doing the crossword puzzle you would have read yet another hackneyed "stay the course" missive on Iraq. This could only have been written by that 5-watt bulb and editorial board manager, Marcus Gee, who yet again demonstrates that complete idiocy is no threat to job security at his paper. Here's this clown's take on Iraq:
"The only answer is to stabilize Iraqi society, build democratic, non-sectarian institutions that can be trusted and strip the fanatics of their appeal."
Marcus, you have to stop smoking that shit. It's really messing you up, big time. Non-sectarian institutions? C'mon, that's so 2004. Democratic, non-sectarian institutions, oh please. Iraq, Marcus, has been transformed into one big shit sandwich and everybody's going to have to take a bite - Kurd, Shia, Sunni, American and Brit. Even the top dog in Britain's army is making the Globe look ridiculous.
Too bad, it used to be a good paper. Maybe it was just a paper that used to have really good people.
A brilliant take-down. I salute you, sir!
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Paul Jackson of the Calgary Sun has stated in no uncertain terms that Rob Anders 'probably'has the highest intellect of any one in parliament. And, a whole bunch of conservatives in Robs riding want him out .......
get the picture? No where to go but up for all of us.