It's really a toss-up as to what was the dumbest, most offensive sentence in this morning's Montreal Gazette.
Reading the opinion section, I was certain this was going to be the winner:
"The modern [Quebec] independence movement was born in Montreal's bilingual francophone intellectual community, inspired by hearing Martin Luther King and Gandhi speak about freedom, justice and liberty" - Georges Boulanger, "Pauline Marois and her problem with English," B7
Because, you know: MLK, Gandhi, Levesque.
But then I read this bizarre statement in the book review section, and was no longer so sure:
"I'd like to think of this as high praise and not offence: I don't think it's a book a woman could have written." - Kirk LaPointe, in a review of Charles Brock's Beautiful Children, I9.
What on earth is that supposed to mean??? In the reviewer's defense, he also praises Don DeLillo, the single worst author in human history, so he can't really be taken all that seriously, he probably doesn't even know how to read and is just one of those illiterate guys artfully bluffing their way through life. Come to think of it, that could make a pretty good story - the illiterate book reviewer. Not all that implausible, either.
Faced with no choice but to open this rag every morning, I sometimes wish I couldn't read!
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