88 Replies to “George Soros’ New Hat”

  2. Ah jeez…did you actually have to put her picture up for us all to see? Where’s the Dramamine?

  3. Does anyone off-campus actually give a tinker’s fart about what Margaret Atwood thinks?

  4. If you’re Liberal, you’re from Ontario, you like Trudeau and you write about nothing, you have it made. Just as long as you don’t mind walking around TO with a brown smudge on your chin!

  5. It seems almost a natural law that those who self-anoint themselves as enlightened intellectuals free of bias are, in fact, some of the most ill-informed and bigoted people extant.
    Very well said Gord Tulk

  7. Both in presentation & knowledge. She reminds me of Macbeth’s witches.Brewed together in one pot. Double ,double , Toil & trouble!
    Just add the CBC for the sulfur flavor.
    JMO

  8. Whatever talent she had was destroyed by her early and unwarranted recognition as a “great Canadian novelist”. She has a reasonable amount of talent, but she’s a prisoner of her own narrow minded, parochial world view. A lot of creative types analyze and doubt their work to the point of self-indulgence and drunken angst, but i suspect she’s never had the slightest doubt about her trite and outmoded philosophy.

  9. odd you should mention hats because she IS as mad as a hatter….even looks doolally don’t she…
    and she canNOT write in the sense we expect a fine writer to write….she canNOT make you suspend your disbelief for a moment….it’s all plod and struggle and slog along…

  10. People only know who Atwood is because it was stuffed in their faces in high school.
    Atwood was read in high school because of CanCon rules.
    Her whole career exists because people were dumb enough to accept that just because something slipped into the curriculum it must be good.

  11. She got famous in Canada because her novels — early ones, at least — were so damned self-consciously CANADIAN.
    Was it “The Edible Woman” in which she places her character at the corner of Bloor Street and Avenue Road, across from the ROM? Oh, for GAWD’S sake! Who cares what the street names are? Like everybody else here, I just want a believable, maybe even lovable or spiritually mature, main character, not a cipher for an embittered feminist’s CANADIAN psyche.

  12. I posted a link to Francis Russell’s piece in the Winnepeg Free Press a few days ago in reader’s tips. In the comments on her article was a link to the Soro’s funded group Avaaz. I wonder if the bag lady read Francis’ article and then went to the Avaaz link to sign the petition? Birds of a feather I guess.

  13. Who is this “Margaret Atwood” person? Does she have a reason to be known for something, outside of Canada?

  14. Isn’t Surfacing the book in which the protagonist – Atwood, really – sees people in a canoe and mistakenly concludes that they’re damn Americans because of some Stars and Stripes-looking decal on the bow, which after closer inspection turns out to be something else altogether. Atwood’s character declares that it doesn’t matter, they’re still damn Americans.
    The real life Atwood is the same twit who supported T.O. may or David Millerin his thankfully only run for top job in the big smoke. Her head is going to completely explode when Rob Ford wins this time around.

  15. And now these true believers are signing people like Coyne and Kory Teneycke with their real email addresses up for the petition…………..

  16. Posted by: TheRestOfTheWorld at September 2, 2010 7:58 PM
    She doesn’t even have a reason for being known IN Canada.

  17. WAIT ONE BLOODY MINUTE!!
    Am I seeing things or is that IFFY in drag!!
    Not that theirs anything wrong with that. He is from Tonto afterall.

  19. For those who have been forced to read Margaret Atwood at the point of a bayonet in high school ( Black Mamba et al..) just remember that her idea of speaking truth to power is being inspired to write ‘A Handmaid’s Tale” by the suppression of women under Islam.
    ..at which point, she writes a novel (partially funded on the taxpayer’s dime) that changes the villains to fascistic, right wing evangelical Christian bigots.
    For a woman who writes stories of empowering oppressed people to find their voice, she is extremely hypocritical in denying that freedom to others if their politics differ from hers.
    Who is the fascist now, Ms.Atwood?

  20. I have a T shirt that says
    “you can’t be ugly and stupid, you have to pick one”
    but Atwood is special, and rules don’t apply to her:-))))

  21. BATB..Atwood’s placing of the protagonist at Avenue rd. and Bloor is quintessentially Canadian..in that it betrays the emptiness and coldness of her mind and writing as that is what you will experience on that spot if you stand there after 9:30 p.m any night…more so in winter..

  26. From its web site: “The aim of Avaaz.org is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions.”
    Translation: to impose the views and values of Avaaz.org on global decisions.
    Re: “‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is I suppose her most significant work, concerning the subjugation of formerly free women in a misogynist theorcracy”
    Would that be a theocracy in which the airwaves are not free? How ironic.
    I agree that people who don’t want to watch CanFox should not have to pay for it through cable fees. But then again, people who don’t want to watch the CBC shouldn’t have to pay for it, either.

  27. CRTC
    Completely Redundent Totally Clueless
    Abolish, now.
    Its a digital world, only pay for what you want, stream it via the web
    I’ll subsrcibe three times to FoxN
    Goodbye libtard lifer leeches in cable fee media land, and take your halloween hag with you

  28. Batb has it right. The CRTC needs to hear from ‘real people’ – those who believe in not only free speech, but freedom to choose.
    I’ve sent my support for Sun Media and a complaint about interference by MoveOn.org to the CRTC.
    I know many of you will do the same.

  29. Truth, as well as light, forces cockroaches to scurry into deeper hiding places..
    After claiming the lighted spots, it behooves us to delve into the darkened corners to eradicate what is left of the vermin, who will only breed anew if left undisturbed.
    Sun TV is that big ‘ole can of Raid, lefties..

  30. Atwood obviously got her fame because of the fact it was a time that the publishers wanted to show how progressive they where by promoting a female writer. This is obvious to anyone that has tried to read one of her books.

  31. Generally in the US system of arts and entertainment the cream rises to the top, and for the most part that works, shitty writers/musicians etc don’t last long down there. In Turdopepia we have this dope Atwood and Rita Mcneil, the likes of Paul Wells,Larence,Jeffery and every other shitty writer vying for the grants along with George Fox, Nellie Furtado The Wilkinsons etc vying for factor grants in music. That is why this garbage is even noticed in Canada, the fact that taxpayer money was wasted to sway a fool to buy a book or a Cd of some last rated loser with the time to chase the paperwork for a grant. Lets grow up Canada, and lose the lieberal operating procedure of making something out of garbage and the Attwoods and all the other meat dresses etc will die, isnt it funny that the very ones that totally believe in evolution/liberals, never evolve themselves.

  32. gimbol…Margaret Laurence was a contempory , Canadian female. Her stories were about real people, and readable.
    She was not part of Trawnna elite, tho, so she was bypassed.

  34. Clinical tests have proven that Atwood’s writing is useful in the treatment of insomnia. However, long-term exposure to her drivel has a nasty side effect: chronic diarrhoea.

  35. Re bluetech’s remarks about Margaret Laurence: Her writing is emotionally and intellectually compelling.
    Perhaps that’s because she spent 20 years (1949 – 1969) in England and Africa, where she received a much broader perspective on the world. That international exposure spared her novels from cloying “Canadian content” becoming one of the main characters.

  37. On the very popular “Althouse” blog was a discussion about reading & authors. From there came these comments about Atwood:
    #1 – Remember “Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood? Written in 1985, it argued that we were headed toward a Christian theocracy where women would be chattel.
    Stupid beyond belief, right? Couldn’t be more wrong. Oddly, Atwood’s reputation hasn’t suffered a bit for writing such a profoundly idiotic book.
    She was wrong about everything. Feminism controls the courts and administrative offices. The diktats of feminism have been imposed on us by administrative fiat.
    And the threat of a theocracy comes from Islam, not the west.
    And, yet, it seemed to convincing to feminists and liberals at the time. It was total bullshit, ginned up so that white women could get more stuff.
    #2 – I’ve never seen the movie of The Handmaid’s Tale.
    I read the book.
    The book indicted western culture and Christianity.
    It was an idiot thesis by a spoiled brat white woman.
    It should have destroyed Atwood’s career.

  38. Handmaid’s Tale, the movie, isn’t bad. Or rather, it’s bad enough to be fun. I’ve always thought it would make an ideal double bill with Red Dawn, as they were obviously intended to be poles apart and yet they have a great deal in common, such as shit for brains.
    I read the book completely cold, having paid no attention to Atwood except for some of her early poetry, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was side-splittingly funny, and as savage a takedown of feminism as anything I’d ever read. I was a bit taken aback to learn that Atwood hadn’t actually intended it that way.

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