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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Mallick strikes back

Award-winning Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick hit back against the Conservative Party's angry criticism of her recent column in a fundraising pitch to supporters.

In an email with the subject line, "Just disgusting", Conservative Party political operations director Fred DeLorey wrote to supporters earlier today:
This morning, I picked up a paper to read with my morning coffee.

You won’t believe what I found inside. 

I discovered a 740-word column by the Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick, full of disgusting personal attacks on the Prime Minister.

I won’t go into detail, but it included the word “sociopathic.”  Not even trying to hide her bias, Mallick ends her column hoping that when it comes to Conservative majority, "next year it will be over."

This was too far… even for the Liberal cheerleading Toronto Star.
Mallick defended the Star's inclusiveness, as well as her choice of wording in her August 24 column, "Why voters like Justin Trudeau". In the piece, she praised the Liberal Party leader while sharply condemning some of the prime minister's actions, such as refusing an inquiry into missing and murdered women and "demonizing" scientists.

"I say Mr. Harper lacks a sense of moral responsibility: to women, to Canadians who'll be hit by climate change, to aboriginal people, to refugee claimants who need a doctor, to many immigrants and non-whites, to colleagues who may disagree with him," she told The Vancouver Observer. "He lacks a moral conscience when he comes to people he dislikes or distrusts. And that's the definition of a sociopath."

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/toronto-stars-heather-mallick-blasts-conservatives-paranoid-comments-about-her-column#comment-261727

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