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Kevin O’Brien… Isn’t the Tea Party Your Cup? Why Are You Still Here?
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media on March 29, 2010
March 29, 2010… Why does The Plain Dealer print Kevin O’Brien? That was the headline atop Sunday’s letters page in the morning newspaper.
So why does the newspaper put up with his nonsense?
There were eight letters all taking O’Brien, a PD editorial page editor and columnist, to task for – even for him – an unusually strident, stupid and ignorant column on the recently passed health care measure.
The column cited screamed out for such a response.
Kevin is upset.
But he is upset in a mean-spirited and dishonest way.
O’Brien’s most onerous paragraph, cited by the first letter writer Philip Pellett, tells it all.
“The Democrats in Congress and the White House have forced upon the United States of America (music please) a federal health care plan designed for people who are too stupid, incompetent and weak to managed their own affairs.”
Anyone who has lived even a little should take offense to that.
Anyone who has lived even a little knows that there are bumps, if not crashes, in almost everyone’s life. You don’t have to be stupid, incompetent or weak to know this. You just have to live.
I think Editor Susan Goldberg and Editorial Page Editor Elizabeth Sullivan should give this some thought.
They need to ask themselves, “Why do we print Kevin O’Brien?”
Lots of people really want to know. Why?
Alternative Scene Deals Honestly with Drew Carey PR Stunt
Posted by Roldo Bartimole in Media, People on March 18, 2010
March 18, 2010… You have to hand it to The Plain Dealer for incisive, penetrating attention to finding solutions to the city’s grave problems. I mean by giving special attention to someone who has the answers to those dire problems. Drew Carey.
Of course, I’m kidding.
Sometimes newspapers like to be “taken” by certain interests. That’s the only reason I can see for the PD paying any – any – attention to the self-promotion of a comic.
Thankfully, the alternative Cleveland Scene sees through the self-promotional nature of Carey.
C’mon, this a public relations trip that the PD has tagged along with for reasons that have nothing – nothing – to do with solving the city’s problems.
Shame on the Pee Dee.
The Scene, with an appropriate cartoon of Carey on its cover says, “Hey, Drew. Screw you.” Just the right tone. The piece by Editor Frank Lewis deals with the comedian’s pr and political nonsense in deservedly derisive attention.
This week’s Scene can be picked up in various locales and here on line:
http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/Home
There’s other good stuff in the Scene this week also.