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Monday, August 21 at 8 p.m.
Repeating Sunday, August 27 at 2:30 p.m.
On CBC Newsworld: Thursday August 24 at 10 p.m. ET,
Saturday August 26 at 2 p.m. ET and Sunday August 27 at 6 a.m. ET
When
Montreal cartoonist Terry Mosher dusts up the high and mighty, their bruised
egos may need emergency room attention. Make that palliative care in the
case of Brian Mulroney, who became Aislin’s favourite punching bag
during nearly nine years in power.
The Tory prime minister probably felt picked on. But he shouldn’t have. Mosher is “an equal opportunity jabber and stabber,” says Montreal Gazette colleague and friend Josh Freed. “He’ll mug anybody.”
Just
ask Joe Clark, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin or countless other Aislin
victims. “Anyone as mean as this guy,” wrote American cartoonist
Patrick Oliphant “is likely to be invited to go four rounds by the
pope himself.”
But the master satirist, who has made a career out of unmasking others, is a bit of a mystery to those around him. “I don’t know the deep inside of Terry,” says Freed. “I don’t think anybody does.”
During
his early years as an artist, Mosher wrestled with some powerful inner demons.
Now 63, the once heavy-drinking, coke-snorting, smoker and bar brawler says
he reached “the edge of oblivion” before resolving to change
his life.
Links
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