NO! NO! NO...

...are people that niave that they don't think there weren't discussions between Layton and the NDP organization about making some political points from a sad but inevitable event.

Was Christie Blatchford unfair to skewer the Layton ‘canonization’?

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De mortuis nil nisi bonum. This Latin phrase, meaning “Say nothing but good about the dead,” broadly sums up scores of letters that came in this week. Specifically, these notes critiqued Christie Blatchford’s Tuesday column about Jack Layton, titled, “It’s fitting his death is a public spectacle.”

Unlike other columnists, Ms. Blatchford didn’t allow the emotional impact of the NDP leader’s death to cloud her image of the letter he was credited as writing on his deathbed. In her words, “it’s remarkable because it shows what a canny, relentless, thoroughly ambitious fellow Mr. Layton was … the letter is full of sophistry … [it] is vainglorious too.”

This assessment brought in hundreds of angry notes, either as comments on fullcomment.com (the blog of the National Post comment pages) or to the Letters mailbox. Many of these notes evidently were written from the heart.

“I know Christie Blatchford’s job is to criticize and create controversy,” wrote Sharon Griffin. “But couldn’t she have taken at least one day off, out of respect? Read More »

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