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Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

On a complaint against an Islamaphobic article in a Canadian magazine 2008

Rex Murphy

There are ways to get worse publicity than Tom Wappel, the MP who wrote an 81–year–old, a veteran, legally blind and partially deaf, and told him, sneeringly, in effect to get lost– because the old man had not voted Liberal. [...] Here are some: You could nail a five–day–old kitten to the floor and use it as a doorstop. You could cut off the heat to an orphanage in winter, and insist the little ones dance for stale biscuits, and then not give them any. Or you could take a chainsaw to the last redwood that was also the home of the last eagle and have it fall on the last panda. Outside of these cringing options, however Mr. Tom Wappel has more or less cornered the market in the Olympics of obnoxious behavior.

Rex Murphy

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Rex Murphy

Rex Murphy

Rex Murphy

Born: March, 1947

Died: May 9, 2024 (aged 77)

Bio: Rex Murphy was a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters. He was the regular host of CBC Radio One's Cross Country Checkup, a nationwide call-in show, for 21 years before stepping down in September 2015.

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