The Globe and Mail is the second most circulated newspaper in Canada. If you thought that such a paper would bother to research a hit piece before publishing it you’d be wrong. In an article entitled “The Canadians who embrace Ann Coulter” Gerald Caplan, a card carrying member of Canada’s communist party (NDP),  takes aim at the organizers of the Coulter in Canada tour, including your humble correspondent. It would serve Mr. Caplan well to remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinions (although I’m not sure Caplan believes that), but they are not entitled to their own set of facts. Caplan’s article has all the hallmarks of the liberal media. He misquotes people, takes quotes out of context and invents “facts” from whole cloth, all woven together in the smuggest of fashions. While I assume the other people Caplan smeared in this piece were also wronged, I will focus on what I know for sure – the lies about me.

This paragraph literally offers a mistake a sentence:

Last week Mr. Fine called the daily Limbaugh radio show, and Mr. Limbaugh put him on to hear first-hand from someone who wasn’t there about the Coulter fiasco at University of Ottawa. Mr. Fine, who does not know Ms. Coulter personally, told the booming radio host she is “one of the most generally decent human beings you’ll ever meet.” Mr. Limbaugh could not agree more, then asked Mr. Fine how the health system in Canada was working. “Rush,” Mr. Fine told his old chum, “it’s just an unmitigated disaster.”

You got all of that? Now lets go through his claims:

Last week Mr. Fine called the daily Limbaugh radio show, and Mr. Limbaugh put him on to hear first-hand from someone who wasn’t there about the Coulter fiasco at University of Ottawa.

An interesting point, only, I was in Ottawa. I went to the reception before the event at the Rideau Club and sat in the front row, directly in front of the podium, of the auditorium where Ann Coulter was supposed to speak. In fact, I was one of the last people to leave.

Next there’s this gem:

Mr. Fine, who does not know Ms. Coulter personally, told the booming radio host she is “one of the most generally decent human beings you’ll ever meet.” Mr. Limbaugh could not agree more

The laziness in Caplan’s reporting boggles the mind. If Caplan so much as bothered to check this website he could have seen that Andrew and I have interviewed Ann Coulter 3 times. In addition, I had the privilege of spending time with Ms. Coulter when she came to Canada. You see Gerald, you look like a first-class ass when you make a factual error in a snide comment.

These are just the errors Caplan made in a three-sentence span. I imagine everyone else mentioned in this article has had a similar experience. While Gerald Caplan is in the business of writing fiction, what does this say about the journalistic integrity of the Globe and Mail? Is it standard practice there to invent “facts”? If they’ll publish a story with so many obvious lies about little ol’ me, what else do they let pass? To quote Sarah Palin’s remark to the media “how about you stop making things up?”

P.S. In case you don’t get the headline.