"The column’s headline, both in print and online was: 'Rob Ford’s not popular despite being fat, he’s popular because of it.'"A reasonable person reading that might well conclude what was to follow would be a light-hearted look at how an increasingly overweight electorate viewed with sympathy a politician who had lost the battle of the bulge.
"Not exactly. What came next was a diatribe of such smug vitriol mocking Ford and his “postindustrial” supporters (don’t ask), it made Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star look like the president of the Rob Ford fan club." excerpt from Lorrie Goldstein's column in the Toronto Sun.
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