Margaret Atwood and 'hair today, gone tomorrow'...

[Spazito]

"Margaret Atwood's National Post column on Harper hair disappears, then reappears

A column by Margaret Atwood that poked fun at Stephen Harper's hair disappeared for several hours from the National Post website Friday, raising the ire of the Twitterverse and prompting the award-winning author to wonder if she'd been censored.

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The column poked fun at Harper, using as an entrypoint the Conservative attack ads that take aim at Justin Trudeau with the phrase, "Nice hair, Justin."

After it was removed from the website, Atwood tweeted at the newspaper asking if she had been censored for what she called a "flighty little caper on hair," drawing hundreds of retweets and responses."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/margaret-atwood-s-national-post-column-on-harper-hair-disappears-then-reappears-1.3200321

Here's the commentary the National Post was caught removing and then putting back on their site:



"Margaret Atwood: Hair is in the election-season air, but is it crucial to the question of your vote?"

Hair is in the election-season air. I didn’t put it there – those attack ads on Mr. Trudeau introduced the subject, with “Nice hair, Justin” – but now that the hairball has been coughed up, so to speak, let’s consider it.

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Hair is a big deal. People spend a lot of time worrying about their hair and a lot of money altering it. Some sculpt it, some dye it, some shave it off. Some hide it under scarves and hats because God, in his or her many forms, has taken a serious interest in hair – telling people to grow it, conceal it, cut it, refrain from cutting it, wear a wig in place of it, not let Delilah hack it off, and so on. Some are born with hair, some achieve hair, and some have hair thrust upon them through laws and customs. Some hair goes missing, leaving either a Mr. Clean macho look or a bowling-ball one, as with Mr. Duffy. Some hair is curly, some is straight. Luck of the draw.

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Of the three national male leaders, which one travels with a personal grooming assistant – lavishly paid for in whole or in part by you, gentle taxpayer – so that none of his hairs will ever be out of place, supposing they are indeed his and not a wig, as some have supposed? (Hint: Initials are S.H.)

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/hair-is-in-the-election-season-air-but-is-it-crucial-to-your-vote

I love her commentary, it is wonderfully witty while making excellent points.

[laundry_queen]

1. Ah, she's so masterful

That was great and oh so entertaining.

I had some of the same thoughts as her a couple of weeks ago. I was discussing it with my just-turned-voting-age daughter - how it was hypocritical of SH to comment on Trudeau's hair when it clearly takes some doing (on taxpayer's dime?) to make is own helmet hair look a lot like Jim Bob Duggar's.