Windbags Do Promote

When I was a kid in then West Germany, the television listings magazine, the name of which I've forgotten, was a glorious four-colour affair. Not only did it list programming for German networks ZDF and ARD, and French television, at the back of the magazine were two paintings; each subtly different from the other. The reader's job was to spot those differences. I loved those puzzles.

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This Toronto Sun reader loves not only that rag's inept journalistic standards but its mindless and transparent editorials and columns. One of my favourite writers on that front is ____________.

The print and modified online version of a certain column (from March 30th) by ____________ contain the following paragraphs....

"I’m referring in particular to Shelley Carroll, Gord Perks, Joe Cressy, Mike Layton, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Paula Fletcher, Josh Matlow and Jim Karygiannis.

"I’m convinced the raison d’etre for these windbags is to promote their pro-union, anti-car, free-spending, addict-enabling, transit-obstructing, anti-white virtue signallers wherever else they can."


Here's the original second paragraph....

"I’m convinced the raison d’etre for these windbags is to promote their pro-union, anti-car, free-spending, addict-enabling, transit-obstructing, anti-white supremacy oppression agendas wherever else they can."

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The above first appeared on May 1, 2019, as "The Toronto Sun's Not Like the Other".