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Old 03-13-2011, 11:34 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
That's what the author of this article is missing: he's equating everyone's opinions to his own, and declaring that everyone who disagrees with him either isn't as smart as he is, or is being deliberately wrong. And that's what some of the responses are missing, too: they're doing the exact same thing as the author of the article. They're both wrong.
You make many good, if lengthy, points but the real point, as SlowRain mentioned above, is that this is The National Post.

For the non-Canadians in the audience, it's pretty much the equivalent of, well, not The Torygraph Telegraph exactly, since they've generally fairly decent reporting so their nearest equivalent is probably The Globe & Mail, but rather the Murdoch-owned Times with perhaps a little touch of The Daily Fail Mail when it comes to the people who leave comments on the articles.

Basically, the entire paper exists to be a kind of reactionary stick-in-the-mud I'm-right-and-you're-wrong why-can't-we-go-back-to-the-good-old-days opinion-feeding mouthpiece for the Asper brothers, or whoever owns it now that Conrad Black is in jail.
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