Miller's false factoids |
I hope this doesn't date me, but at council yesterday Mayor David Miller was spinning his socialist tales faster than a 78 RPM record.
There's no doubt in my mind the spin was an effort to save face for reversing his punitive decision to close the city's community centres every Monday until year's end -- a move that would save a measly $700,000.
His motion to re-open the city's community centres -- effective Oct. 15 -- passed unanimously, as one would expect. That was no surprise. No, what really made yesterday's council exercise stick out in my mind were the number of "factoids" His Blondness used to justify his flip-flop.
For the record, factoids are defined as "spurious facts" used to "manipulate public opinion." Here is but a sampling:
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