When Dr. Jen Gunter joined others in the medical community to heap scorn on the story as alarmist and scientifically unsound, Mallick wrote her off as a “rural doctor whose slogan is ‘wielding the lasso of truth.’”
That triggered a rain of shit on Mallick from social media lynch mobs, led by the likes of Andrew “Batshit” Mitrovica, the noted guru of journalistic ethics and sanctimonious fraud.
But it all sounds like great fun to us, so without further ado, Frank hereby climbs on the anti-Mallick bandwagon with yet another republishing of the Frank Prank Classic: “Heather Mallick’s Bonfire of the Vanities.”
Return with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear, circa 2005, when Heather typed a weekly column for the Globe and Minion.
A Globe hack suggested that Frank readers might find amusing the email auto reply message Heather was sending out.
Curious, we shot an email off to HMallick@globeandmail.ca from a made-up account: daphnemerkin@yahoo.com.(Background: Daphne Merkin is a much-respected New York-based literary critic, essayist and novelist who, it turned out, Mallick worshipped.)
Read on…
In the conclusion to her Globe column of Nov. 5, 2005, Mallick wrote:
“I have a word for Judge Alito. It’s Backpfeifengesicht, German for “a face that cries out for a fist in it.”
Thanks for the slow saunter down memory lane. There’s one born every minute.
Now Frank! That was sort of cruel. You knew she’d fall for it. Of course the Star is now crowing mea culpe (again) for “failing the public” (Green Arrow take note!)over the thinly veiled anti-vax headline. Carol Goar had previously penned a sackcloth and ashes column a few days prior about the fallacious full page “Bees Matter” ad taken out by the pesticide industry and farmers whose crops are pollinated by, er, wind.
“Daphne Merkin’s” email to Heather should be included as a real life example under “Schmuck Bait” at tvtropes.org.