87 Replies to “G&M: On Second Thought…”

  1. Sure, BTJ, it’s possible that you are the exception to the rule. But with your past posts on progressive politics and support of AGW, I doubt it.
    Here’s a few questions BTJ. Do you support bans on trans-fats, excessive salt, McD’s happy meal toys, Christian or anti-abortion displays, traditional light bulbs and smoking but not drugs or prostitution? I only ask because most “liberals” are afflicted by Selective Liberty Disease. They think that they are tolerant and freedom-loving but, in reality, they only tolerate those that conform to their progressive thought.
    Similarly, I’d bet the author of the Fat Ford article would never dream of insulting other identifiable groups like gays or Muslims and the editor would never clear those article for print.

  2. I only had a technical question for the media elite at the GLOBEalist. Do you use ink or a journalists brain fat cells for printing your paper?

  3. “Do you support bans on trans-fats, excessive salt, McD’s happy meal toys, Christian or anti-abortion displays, traditional light bulbs and smoking but not drugs or prostitution?”
    I support a ban on UNLABELED trans-fat. I support regulations to ensure happy meal toys are not full of heavy metals. The rest, no. I do support regulations on smoking in certain areas (public)…cigarettes are disgusting and I prefer not to inhale their chemical cocktail. I think that smoking in your car with your kids in it is the same as any other form of endangering your children (for example, children in homes connected to drug production).

  4. I bet in the QueensPark cafeteria McScrawny has legislated all the homo-foods..justsayin

  5. Smitherman has man boobs too….that said, I am sure his “husband” likes that sort of thing. A fun reach around I guess?

  6. The article is a disgrace, of course. It would have taken more class than the Globe has to post a retraction/apology instead of the 404 page.
    But really – doesn’t anyone remember a few days ago John Doyle’s whining about Sun Media? He’s the person who should be receiving the deluge of e-mails about bias, vindictiveness, and the double standards of the MSM. I’m sending one:
    jdoyle@globeandmail.com

  9. Ford’s weight is being used as a weapon – ineptly – but to the media, it also gets under their skin, because they consider his weight another expression of his disregard for their conventional wisdom.
    He’s wealthy, and therefore, at the end of the day, not dependent on a political career. And his platform and personal habits are an affront to political correctness.
    No wonder the media loathe him – he not only rejects their ideology, he laughs at it.

  10. The ongoing makeover of “Rich Career Gal’s R’ Us”, formerly “The Grope and Flail”, does not seem to be proceeding very smoothly.
    Perhaps “the Editors” e-mail listings belong under a new heading, something like “the Pussyficators”.

  11. Globe and Mail’s big make-over changed everything about the paper except what was wrong with it.
    May their bankruptcy be sudden, painful and soon.
    As for Rob Ford, were I still trapped in Hogtown I’d be voting for him based on this one article alone. Slagging a guy for being FAT?!!! In PC tolerant Toronto? Are you kidding me?
    The Toronto ruling class is freakin’ terrified of this guy. I really, REALLY like that.

  13. Or they should fire everyone on staff who is overweight, IanB.
    And please, the name of the newspaper is the Glib and Pale and not any of the other usages I’ve seen here today.

  14. andycanuck:
    The first person I recall making fun of the Globe’s name was Richard Needham in his annual Christmas column. He’d march into the office of putative editor Dietrich Doppelganger (that alone had my mom in hysterics) decrying the state of the union at, variously:
    The Grope and Flail
    The Groan and Wail
    The Mop and Pail
    The Guess and Fail
    and I’m sure a few others. There is no single authoratative usage. (BTW, each new usage, when it appeared would crack both my parents up.)

  16. The Globe may have vaporized it, but the article still exists here:
    http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/globes-marche-uses-fat-17-times-in-rob-ford-column/
    Is anyone surprised that such crass and inept political commentary came from Marche? After all, he’s just a hack for Esquire. His level of knowledge is confined to what side of the plate the soup spoon is placed.
    For me, the personal insults are a very good sign. The dilettantes in the media are getting seriously desperate. Fact is, you could bulldoze the entire newsrooms of the Globe and the Star, and the world would be a much better place.

  18. 404: File not found

    Oops! We’re not
    accountable for
    what we publish.

    1. You arrived here via a website or search engine, but we’ve hidden the evidence.

    2. We published a appalling example of our journalism, and were unlucky enough to have you click on it.

    3. Don’t worry, you did not mistype the address; see # 1 and #2.

  19. Ford should sue. Mike Duffy, who cuts a similar figure to Ford, was continually referred to as the “Puffster” and “Mike Puffy” by the old Frank magazine, and eventually sued them – successfully – for defamation. At the time, Duffy’s career was going full guns, but he contended under oath that Frank’s caricature cost him the Order of Canada. Should Ford go on to lose the election, he could make an excellent case that the Globe’s article, so close to the election, helped swing undecided voters away from him.

  21. For months Liberal Media has been scolding the court of public opinion for our lack of public decorum, and of course Liberal urnalists are allowed to make fun of someone based on their BMI why because they’re forking hypocrites that’s why. Their motto is “Do as I say not as I do”.

  22. What happened to Google cache? Each search entry used to have a cache version…….or did it disappear like the American dollar?

  23. I recall that during one of Jon Cretin’s last election campaigns the MSM were shocked and horrified when a Reformer or Conservative (don’t recall who) made mention of Cretin’s crooked mouth and how he talks out of both sides of it. I personally thought the comment to be humorous but MSM used that remark to vilify and persecute all conservatives until the end of the campaign which Cretin won by a significant margin.

  24. Conservative fat is far worse than Liberal/Leftard fat, it’s the kind the media love to talk about.
    Recall how they went after our great Prime Minister, Stephen Harper when they got personal about his waistline. Anyone recall them mentioning that about any Liberal PM?
    The fat can be hanging off the likes of Gore, Moore and Tubby Libby Dee, even if they’re getting close buying two airplane seats to get it all in, but we won’t talk about that.

  25. The black hole removal, lack of apology, or option to mount a “fair comment defense” suggests that the legal wheels are slowly starting to turn. The Grope and Flail is really in a box once the election is over.
    Mr David Thomson, the Thomson-Reuters, Thomson, and also the Grope and Flail Thomson, must be somewhat perturbed by where this is going.
    Notice Bourque has the item in question on display.

  26. KevinB @3:52 – you can get sued for calling a fat guy fat? Oh good Lord.
    Anyway, the “reporter” is Robert Fulford’s son-in-law, the little nepot.

  27. Black Mamba:
    Don’t know if you had a chance to read the offending article or not, but Marche didn’t just call Ford “fat”; he repeated it over and over, talking about “rolls of fat” and “angry fat”.
    Yes, it’s one thing to note that someone is or isn’t overweight (and many have noted Ford’s weight in other articles), and that would be fair comment. But the Duffy case I cited earlier used Frank’s repeated caricatures as evidence that they were not used as a comment on him, but as a source of ridicule and defamation. And Duffy won, which helped push Frank into oblivion (I miss it, for one). Marche didn’t just note that Ford was obese; he attributed many unsavoury character flaws to Ford’s weight. That goes beyond comment, which is why I suggested Ford sue.

  28. BTJ: better overweight than trying to function with half a brain like you. Thanks for pointing out what everyone’s life priorities should be, but no thanks.
    “Running scared? You have no clue.” What’s that supposed to be, a threat? You and your pimply dole-scum buddies stockpiling arms? Bring it on, monkeybrains.

  29. “Thanks for pointing out what everyone’s life priorities should be, but no thanks.”
    Should be? They ARE air, water, food, sleep…in that order…please, prove me otherwise…you could start with air…stop breathing for 10 minutes and report back.
    “What’s that supposed to be, a threat?”
    How in god’s name did you construe that conclusion?

  30. Fat Guys don’t run. Ever,We saunter or at best; amble with intent. But to run? improbable and possibly dangerous.

  31. BTJ, little troll, at long last I hear from you directly. I didn’t construe any conclusions, I just read what you wrote and wondered whether that was what you meant when you wrote something that appears as if it’s meant to be threatening. Let’s read it again: “Running scared? You have no clue.”
    You don’t have to respond with another question, you can just tell me what you meant. It’s easy and fun! BTW there are people in this world who can stop breathing for longer than 10 minutes with no ill effects, but I wouldn’t expect a one-trick pony like you to know that.

  32. Incidentally, you never mentioned those priorities earlier. You mentioned “not eating crap food”. Sigh…it’s like trying to carry on a conversation with a lemur.

  33. “I just read what you wrote and wondered whether that was what you meant when you wrote something that appears as if it’s meant to be threatening.”
    In other words you construed a meaning. How you came up with that I don’t know. Read it as many times as you want, then please explain how me dismissing the accusation that I’m ‘running scared’ is somehow making a threat.
    “there are people in this world who can stop breathing for longer than 10 minutes with no ill effects”
    Can you?..that was the point…I didn’t say ‘go tell a deep sea free diver to hold his breathe for 10 minutes’…I told you to.
    “Incidentally, you never mentioned those priorities earlier. You mentioned “not eating crap food”.”
    Wow, we have a dull one on our hands…eating was number 3 on the list…like I said, eating is one of the most basic and fundamental aspects of life. Let’s compare this to air..eating crap food is like breathing crap air…a lot like smoking, or perhaps sitting in a car, parked in the garage, with the engine running…would you like to try that experiment out for us?

  34. “KFC’s Double Down hits Canada; nutritionists worried
    CTV.ca”
    …-
    Big Fat Momma State “worried”.
    Eat your heart out, Big Fat Momma State.

  35. Oh, you told me to. Okay BTJ, here’s an experiment I want you can try: stick your head up your own ass.
    Oops, too late. Go hang with your lemur friends now, I have chores to do.

  36. How low the grope and wail has fallen.
    I remember a time when the G&M was the conservative establishment’s broadsheet of choice.
    Now it belongs to the lunatic left.
    But then Thorsell(sp?) also went on to wreck to ROM, too.

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