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By Ezra Levant

Re: Rebel Without Applause, Aug. 19th

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When I served on the National Post’s editorial board, back in the paper’s glory days, we had arguments about what our editorial positions should be. The line often used to carry the day was, “we already have a Globe and Mail”. As in, there already was a newspaper with a politically correct, liberal, vanilla point of view. Wasn’t the Post supposed to be different?

It’s a question someone at the Post should have asked before publishing the extraordinary, 10,000-word attack on me called “Rebel Without Applause”.

Six pages long, including the entire front page. Reporter Richard Warnica worked on it for months, even calling up my schoolyard friends from when I was 14 years old, looking for dirt.

I’ve never seen anything like it. It was something I’d have expected from the CBC, the Globe or The Toronto Star, and reporters at those places gleefully promoted the story. National Post subscribers had a different response, though: every letter to the editor published in reply was disappointed, even baffled.