Toronto Star: "It Was Iggy's Fault"

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The Toronto Star is bailing on Michael Ignatieff. He's the proverbial scapegoat. The Liberals' collapse had nothing, noth-ing, to do with the Liberal Party, its policies, its candidates, or its policies. The Star has analyzed the collapse and here's their conclusion: it was the Liberal leader's fault.

Extensive Star interviews with campaign insiders and politicians show a large slice of the loss must be attributed to the arrogance of the Liberal leader. In the end, a central Conservative criticism against Ignatieff — that he was arrogant — turned out to be true. 

Pigs fly and hell freezes over -- the Star uses Conservative rhetoric to advance their argument!

The Star's analysis strikes me as simplistic. The Liberal leader surely didn't decide on his own to force this election. It was the Liberals as a pack, lusting as they do for power.

 Toronto Star "Exclusive": What really sunk Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals.

A much better read is the Macleans serialization by Paul Wells. I blogged on it earlier.

And that's the way the Ball bounces.

Why I Don't Read The Toronto Star

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This is what passes for reporting at the Toronto Star:

"Voting for Ford is like sleeping with someone to get revenge on your spouse.... It is Oct. 26, the day after the election, and you wake in a hard, unfamiliar bed. Your eyeballs are congealed chip fat and your contact lenses have gone crispy. Your liver is en route somewhere. You appear to be missing a tooth. And there's something in bed next to you. It is the sweaty, beer-smelling oik from the bar last night." -- Heather Mallick

For what it's worth, the reporter seems to be writing from first-hand knowledge.

As reported in The National Post.

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