How Bush Derangement Syndrome Turns Good Writers into Bad Journalists
CBC News Viewpoint features an attack piece written by the Canadian columnist, Heather Mallick, in which she more or less complains about, then attacks certain older men in positions of power having turned bad. Early in the piece she takes a swipe at the usual liberal media targets: Dick Cheney, George Bush and Tony Blair. Older men like Dick Cheney, she implores, was born vile and honed that quality for a lifetime.
However, the focus of her article is John McCain, and his fall from being a real man to an utter child in which, of course, George Bush et al are to blame. Ms. Mallick also takes a childish swipe at Tony Blair. In fact, just about every mention of one of her subjects is childish in nature. Which is completely ironic because she criticizes them for the same behaviour.
Ms. Mallick displays a classic case of Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). Which nearly always turns an otherwise reasonable columnist into a terribly bad, childish writer.