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Blog of Adam Daifallah -- author, journalist, law student. Lover of politics, writing, golf, curling, fitness, fashion, bacon and maple products -- not necessarily (but probably) in that order. Partisan of the Anglosphere. Contact me via email at adam@daifallah.com. This summer I am joined by Keir Wilmut and Omar Soliman.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Bad week for for Team McGuinty
Racism? Check. Sexism? Check.
Kinsella has issued a semi-apology. He ends with all the right words...
When you preach equality, as I do, you need to practice it. Therefore, I owe my saintly wife – and my mother, and the amazing women I know and work with, in politics and business – a lot better than some puerile and sophomoric attempt at humour. In particular, I owe my daughter better, too.
... but only after some weasly stuff about how he could justify or explain his comment. Not that he is trying to explain it away, you understand, but if he wanted to, he could point out how the real story is the knuckle-dragging conservatives and their supporters:
I could equivocate, I suppose. I could be a spin doctor, and query whether the media organizations which have assigned reporters to the story (the Globe, the Star and the Sun) did so because of my ongoing freelance column gig (media critic at the National Post). Or I could suggest that Cheri di Novo’s outrage relates to the fact that I loudly opposed the political candidacy of a person who had actually smuggled drugs in Bibles (which I did, and still do). Or I could wonder why Lisa MacLeod is upset about what I said, but not at all about her fellow Conservative candidate, Randy Hillier, who opposes support for “Quebec, Native, Arts, Homosexual, Urban and Multi cultures” (that’s what he said). Or I could point out that I have columnized against violent pornography, and anti-women movies, and the terrible prostitution ads found at the back of a certain Toronto media organization’s entertainment weekly (they know who they are). Or I could quote one of my editors at the Post, who emailed this to me an hour ago, when I gave him a head’s-up that I would be a media football tomorrow in the competition: “Kinsella a sexist? Honestly Warren it is beyond absurd. I don't think anyone who knows you would ever believe such tripe.”
Or, you know, I could give some other excuse. But I won’t.
That's a lot of talking for someone who isn't making excuses.
# posted by Keir Wilmut : 10:28 AM
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