The schoolyard “Fatty” “Four-Eyes” taunt that sends so many children home in tears, parades proudly in the playground of the political left.
Now that the panicked political left’s attacks on (“Redneck”) Rob Ford have failed from desecrating his campaign for Toronto Mayor, `Canada’s National Newspaper’, the Globe and Mail has jumped back into the fat.
For reasons unknown, you won’t find "Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat. He’s popular because of it" on the Globe and Mail online, but you will find it in its printed version. (See bottom of story)
This is what they call journalism in Canada: “The mounds of fat that encircle Rob Ford’s body like great deflated tires of defeat are truly unprecedented in Canadian politics,” writes Stephen Marche today.
