web-may-0414Margaret Wente

Globe and Mail

This wasn’t the first time her judgment has failed her. She impulsively tweeted out premature support for Jian Ghomeshi, before we knew details of the disturbing allegations against him. She blamed her error on her distress over the attack on Parliament that week. She has compared Stephen Harper’s stance on climate change to “a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis.” She thinks WiFi is hazardous to your health, and once tweeted that “it is very disturbing how quickly WiFi has moved into schools as it is children who are the most vulnerable.” Last fall she presented a petition to Parliament from a bunch of crackpots who think the U.S. government was behind 9/11.