I could probably mine this Globe and Mail editorial for three or four posts but there's one item that almost had me spitting coffee on my keyboard. While explaining why the editorial board believes that the Harper government's foreign policy hasn't been all that bad, they give us this on one of the defining issues of the century:
It may hedge on an issue like climate change
Hedge? Hedge!?
If, by hedging, you mean pretending it isn't actually happening while encouraging policies that make it worse, preventing the gathering and release of information that would inform the electorate about it and actively sabotaging the efforts of other countries to collaborate on strategies to deal with it, well, okay, hedge it is.
Your redesigned Globe and Mail, ladies and gentlemen. Collectively Wanker of the Day. About every second day.
While the Grope & Fail and their new shiny design definitely are in the running for wankerhood, they are beat for today's wanker. Today's winner is...Sun Media's Lorrie Goldstein...I saw it earlier. He thinks the snub is good, so now it gives Harper a great excuse to go back to his old true ways of Kyoto being a "socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth producting nations..." He says Harper should "make lemonade" and basically f off the climate talks coming up in Cancun...to be the dirty old petrol state & not even bother trying to hide it. I would link, but unfortunately, I'm at work right now, and get this, Lorrie Goldstein's column as well as many Sun's columns are blocked sites by the department of health and social services where I work! Go figure!
Since when does G&M have Lorne Grunter writing its editorials? Contrast this pap with Ibbitson's take on Harper's UN humiliation and ask yourself if this paper isn't schizophrenic.
There is much to scoff at in this editorial,in fact the entire thing is inane, however the following is what induced me to exhale my coffee through my nose
"but has enunciated an unambiguous message in terms of human rights, and democratic principles. It has aligned itself squarely with countries, such as Israel, which respect such principles."
With reference to this excerpt from the editorial, Stephen Lewis had this to say on CBC's "The Current".
And he had quite a bit more to say. If you missed it, you can listen to the full podcast here.