Margaret Wente

{{pundits}}{{cquote|Shorter Margaret Wente: I'm sorry, but if you would all stop pointing out my ethical lapses this would never have happened so piss off.|||Emmett Macfarlane<ref>[https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/250420183708078080]</ref>}}
{{cquote|I keep telling people: she must have some very comprimising pictures of ''Globe'' publishers to stay in print. She has dirt.|||Russell Bart}}
'''Margaret Wente''' is a [[Canadian]] 
award-winning columnist for ''The Globe and Mail''
 serial [[global warming denialist]],<ref>[http://matthewhoffmann.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/response-to-margaret-wente-opinion-on-climate-change/ Response to Margaret Wente's Opinions on Climate Change], Matthew Hoffman</ref><ref>[[Ross McKitrick]] is a [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/suppression-of-climate-debate-is-a-disaster-for-science/article4179820/ legitimate source to her], apparently.</ref><ref>She's also on the board of directors for "{{wpl|Energy Probe|Energy Probe}}," a weird hybrid of [[anti-nuclear movement|anti-nuclear activism]] and [[ethical oil]] defenders.</ref> [[torture]] advocate,<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/can-you-ever-argue-about-torture/article8024417/ "Can you ever argue about torture?"]</ref> [[MRA]] apologist,<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/agony-on-the-slopes-should-women-jump/article16629972/#dashboard/follows/ A woman gets injured in her sport?  Women shouldn't be athletes!]</ref><ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/women-in-combat-lets-get-real/article7879189/ Only now are women allowed to go into combat?] [[Blame the victim|It's their fault]]! (Comments were closed the minute it was posted.)</ref> [[xenophobe]],<ref>[http://j-source.ca/article/another-wente-controversy Another Wente controversy], J-Source</ref> and if you didn't notice already, all-round 
crank
 [[proll]].<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/philip-seymour-hoffman-had-a-habit-not-a-disease/article16847458/#dashboard/follows/ "Drug addiction isn't a disease, it's a habit!"]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/stephen_tapp/status/462631339951280129 "I'm not qualified to analyze Mr. Piketty’s work"] And every economist on the planet laughs.</ref><ref>"Take John, for example, who’s pursuing a degree in [[environmental]] law.  He was infuriated by your column criticizing [[organic food]] and posted it on his [[Facebook]] wall with a snide quote for all of his friends to see.  Is John a real person?  Did we just make him up to make a convenient point?  Was John at the [[OWS|Occupy]] protests?  These are just some of the questions our Editorial Board will never bother you with." [http://ultravires.ca/2012/09/uv-seeks-vacuous-contrarian-columnist/]</ref> All while holding, in a [[Amity Shlaes|completely original manner]], just an [[English]] degree.<ref>She also spends her time [http://maisonneuve.org/blog/2012/05/2/margaret-wente-hates-herself/ bashing the usefulness of English degrees.]</ref>

If combating the horrors of [[liberalism]] is her goal, Sun Tzu's ''The Art of War'' wasn't on her reading list.<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/what-liberals-can-learn-from-conservatives/article4101563/ In this piece], she denounces liberals as "almost exclusively concerned with harm and fairness." A few lines later she [[Cognitive dissonance|backtracks]] with "they see society as composed of autonomous individuals who should be free to satisfy their wants and needs as they see fit." ([https://twitter.com/roseneath_rd/status/384034491939188736 Does this] [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/intolerance-is-now-a-vice-of-the-left/article17967924/ all] [https://twitter.com/keithjs/status/432149241683648512 the time.])</ref>  While her views would be perfectly suitable for, say, the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', and she has often been compared to [[Ann Coulter]], Wente's attempts to [[Style over substance|sound intellectual]] separates herself from the more blunt, [[Poe]]-like outrageousness of the latter. "Canada's [[Melanie Phillips]]" could be more appropriate.

==Plagiarism is good==
In September 2012, Peggy was found to be [[Plagiarism|stealing other writers' work]] for years, creating an internal crisis at ''The Globe and Mail'' on whether to fire her or not as she launched ''[[ad hominem]]'' attacks on bloggers for making her "[[Persecution complex|a target for people who don’t like what I write]]."<ref>[http://torontoist.com/2012/09/still-getting-the-story-wrong/ Still Getting the Story Wrong], ''Torontoist''</ref><ref>[http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/189472/7-key-questions-and-answers-about-the-margaret-wente-plagiarism-scandal/ 8 key questions and answers about the Margaret Wente plagiarism scandal], Poynter</ref>

The [[CBC]] immediately sacked Wente from her position as a radio panelist,<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2012/09/25/statement-on-margaret-wente-and-qs-media-panel/ Statement on Margaret Wente and ''Q'''s media panel]</ref> but ''The Globe'' took the time to enact unknown "[[Zero|disciplinary action]]."  Decency be gone, she's still writing like the event never happened, and it makes you wonder why Canuckistan's "newspaper of record" is making a mockery of itself instead of easily hiring a more level-headed [[conservative]] columnist.<ref>The ''[[National Post]]'' would have certainly picked her up anyway.</ref>

==Short breaches of sanity==
As even more proof that [[stopped clock]] is an epidemic, Wente is an opponent of [[vaccine denialism]].<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/letters/july-27-this-weeks-talking-point-canadas-falling-immunization-rates-and-other-letters-to-the-editor/article13465797/ "Measles is back. It had help."]</ref>  But do note the [[irony]] of her criticizing people for scouring the [[Internet]] for a "bottomless cornucopia of [[junk science]] and scare stories."

==See also==
*[[Julie Burchill]]
*[[Megan McArdle]]
*[[Phyllis Schlafly]]:  Wente is another in a list of [[nuclear family]] activists that [[Irony meter|live the life feminists were fighting for]].

==External links==
*[https://twitter.com/MargaretWente Peggy's obligatory parody Twitter account]
*[http://riotwire.com/column/how-to-write-your-very-own-margaret-wente-column/ How to write your very own Margaret Wente column]
*[http://www.thebeaverton.com/opinion/editorial/item/980-stop-blaming-society-its-your-own-damn-fault-you-choose-to-read-my-articles Stop blaming society, it’s your own damn fault you choose to read my articles], The Beaverton

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