Wednesday, February 08, 2006

The Toronto Star: Kicking ass and ... OK, not really.


It's amusing to see the differences in reaction from the major newspapers to Stephen Harper's eye-rolling hypocrisy. From the right:

Don Martin, columnist for the pro-Conservative National Post, attacked the appointment as "flagrant capitulation to political expediency." He added: "A clean government is launched by dirty politics."

Also from the right:

"Despite all his lofty election promises to do government differently, Harper has constructed a cabinet more with an eye to political porking that principle," wrote columnist Greg Weston in the right-wing Sun chain of newspapers.

And from the left, where you'd expect a really savage beatdown?

Canada's largest circulation newspaper, the left-leaning Toronto Star, said giving major posts to Fortier and Emerson was hard to justify.

"Yesterday's appointments leave a whiff of cynicism, even hypocrisy, in the air," it said in its lead editorial.

Way to go, Star. Don't mince words or anything.

2 comments:

Ferdzy said...

The Star is a left-leaning paper?

Oh.

Anonymous said...

By tradition, anyway.