The Observer is only the latest media organ to express mock horror at the word. Al Doblin of the Gannett organization, fresh from presiding over the execution last week of his remaining workers, dutifully expressed his concerns. If firing someone from his or her job is the capitalist equivalent of the death penalty, then Al Doblin is Mr. Death Penalty. He destroys lives with relish. No wonder he has to reassure himself of his "virtue" by pointing fingers at someone, anyone, else.
On Friday, the Newhouse organization -- who are in a kind of competition with Gannett for workers' lives destroyed -- found just the right tool for a little virtue signaling of their own. The tool, and we do mean tool, in this case was David "the hand" D'Alessandro. Yes, they selected a career sportswriter to deliver a moral lecture to a politician. Talk about clueless.
If you want to know how media coverage came to resemble the inside of a truck-stop shithouse, look no further than Dave D'Alessandro. It was the nation's sportswriters who simultaneously dumbed-down and dirtied-up news coverage in America. They brought in the foul language, the school yard humor, and the scatological references. When it could have gone either way, they grabbed the America of the 1980's and headed straight down the toilet. And now one of these dirtbags has the feral balls to complain about a word they sold to us and our children -- a word that they first normalized and then popularized?
Why not? Like in any good noir novel, this is the last thing you see circling the bowl before it's all finally flushed to hell.
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As a public service, your fellow sinners at Jersey Conservative would like to provide you with some facts that the Observer's Chris Hetrick purposefully suppressed. That's right, Chris Hetrick was provided with these facts, but either followed orders or took it upon himself to suppress these facts.
FACT #1: Unlike the Democrat State Senator who called Governor Christie a "prick" or the female Democrat State Senator who said she wanted to see President Trump assassinated, or the female United States Senator who dropped the f-bomb, what happened here was not public. It was a private conversation between three people after a non-political event. Private. Get it?
FACT #2: A dirtbag snuck up and taped that private conversation. He handed the tape over to the political campaign of Kate Matteson & Gina Trish, who reached out to a Trenton media figure and LGBTQRSTXYZ activist to circulate it. So now that the media has rewarded dirtbag behavior, you can expect more of it.
FACT #3: Chris Hetrick suppressed the following statement made by Jacqueline Stapel, the Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Sussex County:
"As an individual and a Sussex County resident, I am deeply offended that a private conversation amongst myself, Jennifer Hamilton, and Parker Space was secretly recorded and leaked to the media for cheap political gain. As an American, I denounce its secret leakage and use by the media and political campaigns because it is undermining everyone’s privacy rights.
With underhanded tactics like this, it is no wonder why Democrats and Republicans have a more difficult time working together for the common good.
Parker Space is my friend. I may not agree with him on issues, but that does not lead me to hate him. Unfortunately some people can’t see the difference between disagreement and hate and it is denigrating our political discourse."
Get that Chris Hetrick? You are not on the side of the angels, you are on the side of the dirtbags. But hey, you write in Wally's tradition. Just keeping in real?
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