The title is a phrase I encountered while reading Mark Thompson’s excellent book on political rhetoric, Enough Said: What’s Wrong With the Language of Politics? Thompson’s book is both about the current and historic use of political rhetoric (from Aristotle forward), but also about the role of journalists in covering
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The Disaffected Lib: Wherein John Ibbitson Explores the Darkness that Lurks Within Stephen Harper
Let’s be blunt. John Ibbitson is probably the most prominent journalist in Canada totally in the bag for Stephen Harper. Note that I used the word “journalist,” a noun that eliminates most of the hydrophobic scribes at PostMedia. When it comes to Harper you can trust Ibbitson never to put
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