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June 04, 2007

Hyperlinked

I stand accused of providing links to blogs of which Warren Kinsella disapproves. If that really is the extent of his grievance, then I'd have thought fairness would demand that he also level it at the six members of his own blogroll who link to at least one of the sites in question. Oh, and the editorial board of the newspaper that prints his broadly defined version of media analysis. And at least two of his fellow columnists there.

If Kinsella is trying to imply that I'm an actual bigot, not just someone who links to blogs that have contained things he deems bigoted, then I think that's really rather remarkable. I'm not one, for starters. And never having met me, the only evidence he would have at his disposal to mount his inquisition would be on this here blog or at Maclean's. Kinsella's a dab hand at selective quotation, but I think even he'd have a hard time turning me into a drooling fascist.

(I say that now. By this time tomorrow my great grandfather may well have been outed as Pinochet's loyal gardener.)

I've said before that I have nothing personal against Kinsella, though he's making a compelling case for a change in policy. But if nothing else, I'm slightly fascinated to see how much time the high priest of high-stakes Canadian gutter politics really has to devote to assassinating my character.

Posted by Chris Selley at June 4, 2007 10:34 PM

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