With Mallick Aforethought: Melanie Phillips Apology
Update from Melanie Phillips: "The Toronto Star has agreed to pay my legal costs in full. The newspaper has also agreed to make a donation to a charity of my choice in lieu of damages."
"A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips.
Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik.”
The column made reference to Ms. Phillips’ writings in an entirely misleading and inappropriate manner.
The defamatory article has been removed from our website.
The Star and Ms. Mallick regret the errors and apologize to Ms. Phillips."
This is the offending Mallick Column, me so bad...
This was Melanie Phillips response to Mallick's column
"Soon, others joined in the hate-fest — even across the Atlantic. In the Toronto Star, columnist Heather Mallick wrote that unlike ‘almost everyone else praised by the killer’, I had not said I was horrified by the atrocity in Norway. Not only that, but whereas everyone else had wept at the murder of schoolchildren, ‘she [Phillips] spits’.
But, on the contrary, I had written on my own website in terms far stronger than many other writers that there could never be any excuse for mass murder.
And the quote from my writing on which she based her ‘spitting’ claim was actually not about the atrocity at all, but about the people using those murders to foment just this kind of hatred."
Poor Heather Malice, what a train wreck.
Indeed, this was a train wreck of a column.
And your wife still doesn't have a column....
Leftards sure know how to hate.
And since they live on lies they are beyond reason. Despicable creatures...
To be honest I rather enjoyed watching them hang themselves over Lee Harvey Norway.
She has one in Taki - http://takimag.com/article/that_new_commie_smell/page_2#axzz1V4GjWo4q
I meant one in a newspaper that you can us to wrap fish & chips in, or in the case of the Star, line the bottom of a bird cage.
And yet they keep putting this sad, deranged woman on their payrolls...
I hope what I have to say is not to much of a turn-off, but I hope the highly-regarded Toronto Star keeps this skilled wordsmith on its bloated payroll, and not fire her. Her writing is so over-the-top bad; she had jumped the shark many years ago; she has become uninteded self-parody, a running joke .
If the Toronto Star wishes to keep writing apologies and facing lawsuits, it's their call. In a way I no longer fault Ms. Mallick, and I actually feel sorry for her. Ms. Mallick is nothing less than a mentally-unhinged bigot who laces here writings with sexual imagery. I wrote on this site before, that Ms. Mallick is incapable of writing a coherent paragraph, with any sort of logical flow from one sentence to the next. If the Star is willing to embarrass itself by keeping this driveling incompetent on, that's all to the good.
It's a shame she causes so much damage; other than that it would be fun to watch her spin into madness and drag the Star down with her as she has done at so many other places.
I will give Heather credit for being on the right side of the Mosqueteria debate.
Have a look at the update.
Yeah, I fogot about Mallick's columns on that issue. I should have mentioned it.
More malice from Mallick, no surprise there, wonder how long before the Star punts her .as out
Agreed.
You'd better re-read your post on who knows how to hate....
Only the left hates softy, just like you.
"..always been vicious"
"reacting to some deeply felt psychic wound"
Mallick, who has the bizarre proclivity to inappropriately sexualize subjects she dislikes seems to have provided a description of herself rather than Phillips.
I agre with D Murrell - I like that the Star carries her too, any paper that prints her regularly undermines its editorial credibility, and Mallick helps expose just how nutty the Star's editorial board is.
We should be grateful to her....
This fact has raised my opinion of Taki - both the man and the mag.
Malice is an embarrassment. She's not even worth it for the comic relief.
Was she ever on the good side of the shark?
Yes, she's unhinged. I say this without hyperbole.
Nice how she blurs the truth, "Catholic vs muslim prayer room". As I recall it was a multifaith room that the muslim students had monopolized.
And she go's on to say that this has made him unemployable. She is saying that young man is somehow responsible. If he wasn't unemployable you'll make it so misanthropic banshee.
[ well done Melanie!]
... like the Star's other Greek tragedy, namely Antonia Zerboturbo, Heather Pusta Malaka Malick should really cut down on her meds.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1038308--mallick-texas-gov-rick-perry-s-penchant-for-prayer
I wonder how many strikes she gets before she's out?
Heh;)
She is a strange woman.
She ate the shark.
I usually forget she even writes for the Star, she andthe Zerb Salutin and Haroon are so predictably awful it has become mundane.
However crazy Mallick is, are you seriously saying you are cool with Free Speech-destroying defamation suits and that they should be the basis for firing somebody as opposed to the amount of eyeballs she generates?
I didn't suggest she be fired, and defamation suits are an unfortunate part of our common law heritage which I would prefer be done away with.
Defamation laws have not been a significant part of our Common Law heritage -- traditionally they were simply a means for the rich and powerful to silence the unwashed.
Recently, however, they have been democratized such that everybody can take away everybody else's right to express an opinion.
I disagree with 96% of what Mallick says. But I wish more columnists were like her.
Heather Mallick is a media hack and trash. I'm so ashamed that she is Canadian.
Ironic that Mallick is the most hate-filled write I know and she is asking people not to hate?
The left is always allowed to hate - it's different when they do it.
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