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Good looks, nobel lineage, spineless
December 16, 2008 - 3:20pm
Linda McQuaig's reputation for challenging the establishment is clearly unfounded.
Linda McQuaig proves—with articles like these—that she tries too hard to be controversial, or thought-provoking; coming across as ignorant, and spineless herself.
I don't understand your criticism. Please elaborate on what you don't like about the column.
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The column in question:
http://rabble.ca/columnists/good-looks-nobel-lineage-spineless
I don't understand the criticism either, as I thought the column was great!
Very funny and a true description of Iggy.
That's it?
That's your reason for calling her ignorant and spineless?
You might want to read THIS THREAD
This column—specifically, this article—is written by a person intent on spinning the facts, and picking portions of quotes—best suited to the stance of said article, and to the detriment of the subject.
It is poor journalism, in my opinion.
Linda McQuaig clearly needs a refresher course in the 101s.
Okay, so you like Michael Ignatieff.
What the fuck are you doing here?
It was a short, interestingly informative article on Iggy, that pretty much summed him upo in a amusing way.
Good job Linda!
___________________________________________________________ "watching the tide roll away"
Some people don't seem to understand the difference between a column and an article/story.
And while Iggy might aspire to noble, he's certainly not nobel material.
I'd say she more or less sums up Iggy's character in her last sentence: "more Jell-O than jelly". Perhaps the original poster would tell us if she agrees more with Iggy when he's not losing sleep over the mass murder of innocent people losing sleep, when he's decrying the same attack as or war crime, or back-pedaling when saying the war crime comment was inexperience. Does the poster share Iggy's attitudes about war and torture or has his pretzel logic left even her confused as to what his attitudes are?
I'm still wondering why on earth someone went and persuaded Iggy - a man with no experience as a politician - to return to Canada and to try for the Liberal leadership. The common folk will never relate to this stuffed shirt - actually, they elected Harpoon, another
stuffed shirtshithead, so maybe Iggy does have a chance of one day becoming PM.eta: I meant besides having the PM-ship handed to him in the Coalition.
Um, Boom Boom-- take a look at the long list of Canadian Prime Ministers, and tell me that the technically Canadian Iggy Thumbscrews isn't a good fit in that crowd.
That's the problem with unelecting the last Party and Prime Minister, you really don't pay too much attention to the one you're electing, so we jump from frying pan to fire and back.
Over and over.
For a brief shining moment I thought this thread was about ME given the title - but then I realized I could be called a lot of things, but not spineless. Alas I still toil away in obscurity.
Having had the pleasure of recently meeting McQuaig, I thought this was going to be about some progressive geek waxing poetic about McQuaig's appearance.
Guess I'll have to write my Crushed By McQuaig rabble feature now after all.
More like Ig Nobel material.