Rex Murphy

Rex Murphy (March 1947 – 9 May 2024) was a well known CBC commentator and author of the 'Japes of Wrath' column in the Globe & Mail's Saturday edition. His style can be described as tell-it-like-it-is, deadpan sarcastic, poignant, truthful Newfoundlander synopsis of current events without the brogue. Murphy's commentaries are steadily conservative despite previously running unsuccessfully for provincial office for the Progressive-Conservative and Liberal Party candidacies. He graduated from Memo

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"Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem."

- Rex Murphy

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"Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind."

- Rex Murphy

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"There are ways to get worse publicity than Tom Wappel, the MP who wrote an 81–year–old, a veteran, legally blind and partially deaf, and told him, sneeringly, in effect to get lost– because the old man had not voted Liberal. [...] Here are some:"