The G&M's M.O: 'Ad Hominen' is Okay When the 'Hom' in Question is a Fat Conservative We Don't Like

For some reason the "new" Globe and Mail no longer offers a link to its Letters to the Editor. As a public service, I am therefore posting the three letters that were printed today about Stephen Marche's egregiously mean-spirited mediation on Ford's "fatness" and what it betokens. (There were no letters praising it--the column, not the fatness, I mean.) The letters appear under the headline "Fatheads 'R' Us." The first appears to be from a, um, husky dude who's not impressed by Marche's "fat" shtick:

If I lived in Toronto, I don't think I'd vote for Rob Ford as mayor. But my opinions about him have nothing to do with his weight or height or his hair colour.

Stephen Marche's churlish column (Rob Ford's Not Popular Despite Being Fat...- Focus,  Oct. 16) is a cruel attack based on dated assumptions about obesity and image. Mr. Marche should cultivate a little compassion and see Mr. Ford and others like him for what we are: human beings.
- Trevor Lynn, Ottawa

Stephen Marche voices all that is shallow and hateful among the bottom-feeders who give my beloved city of Toronto a bad name.
- Brian Henry, Toronto

You have reached a new low in ad hominen attacks. How does this article enlighten this voters? Shame on you for printing such rubbish.
- E. Lefler, Toronto

Only one thing for Ford to do--complain to Head Commissar Barbara Hall's provincial "human rights" outfit that he's been the victim of "hate speech" re his corpulence.

Just kidding. Aside from the fact that the OHRC is a Marxist-inspired blight on individual freedom, everyone knows that the kind of societal change Babs and her racket are working toward does not include a chubby conservative taking the reigns of Hogtown (nor would they ever entertain the complaint of someone who was not on the OHRC's short list of approved victims groups). In fact, you might call it their worst nightmare.