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Sunday, 31 October 2010
Having dispensed with the only real left wing writer (Rick Salutin), the Globe & Mail is struggling to decipher patterns in the Tea Party phenomenon in the US through the prism of its centre to centre-right columnists.
Witness the conflict in yesterday's edition, between the views of Margaret Wente (article headed The masses are revolting, with good reason), and Jeffrey Simpson (article: Hard realtiies, voodoo solutions, GOP gains).
Wente writes that her best friends are shocked by the Toronto election:
The way they see it, the Visigoths have battered down the gates of Rome, and the Vestal Virgins had better scramble for cover. In the aftermath of Toronto’s election rout, their only consolation is that Rob Ford is probably too stupid and incompetent to completely sack the place. If only they lie low for the next four years, sanity will surely return to city politics.
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Labels: framing, political policies
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