New media watchdog feature: Props and Flops
In the spirit of Stephen Colbert’s “Tip of the Hat/Wag of the Finger” I’ll be comparing and contrasting instances of Delaware’s crappy msm journalism with instances of Delaware’s even more crappy msm journalism. Volume 1 Number 1…here we go
Props to NJ Blogger Ryan comier for this observation:
“Oh man, I wish I could go back in time. I’d take state.” | 6/15/2007 01:38:00 PM
If Uncle Rico from “Napoleon Dynamite” cleaned himself up and ran for governor, he would look just like Lt. Gov. John Carney.
I’m just sayin’.
Flop = Frank Gerace filling in for Loudell
Wdel’s Gerace is a freaking idiot.
When driving home from work last night I heard abject moron Frank Gerace ask this question during drive time yesterday,
“Don’t you think the unpopularity of Congress is also due to the Alberto Gonzales hearings and the fact that no crime was committed, but the Democrats were playing ‘Gotcha’?”
Holy crap, I nearly drove off the road. There is so much wrong with that “question” (which is not a question) I have to pick only one item.
If the DOJ used political criteria to hire and fire, then a crime WAS committed you moron. Don’t simple take everything you hear on the Laura Ingram show at face value you idiot!!
Allan Loudell must never take time off.
“If the DOJ used political criteria to hire and fire, then a crime WAS committed you moron.”
We will keep that in mind should one of the Dems be elected president and all the GOPs in the DOJ are made MIA.
Chris, history goes against you; there were plenty of Republicans at DOJ in the Clinton administration. Prosecutors in general tend to be Republicans, so any administration has to hire some Republican attorneys.
But unlike Bush, Clinton’s attorneys were hired under normal (non-political) hiring criteria, and confirmed by the (Republican) Senate.
Unfortunately due to the efforts of the Bush administration, the R’s currently in DOJ are specially selected to be partisan wingnuts. And due to the Patriot Act, some of them are not Senate-confirmed.
Besides, no one is surprised at administration changeovers when wholesale changes occur at the political appointee level.
Hiring and firing of the career staff based upon political association is NOT kosher and this is one of the things that these people do without even trying to hide it much.
I can just picture Jason spraying out his mouthful of morning coffee all over the dashboard as his car swerves wildly in disgust. There are some media people who seem like the only news they read is what they report on air. You can tell them right away when they are tasked with short filler interviews. Their questions tend to be shallow and uninformed. You see it all day long on network tv with the 2nd and 3rd stringers who handle daytime news programming. They’ll suddenly break from constant coverage of Paris Hilton and similar entertainment garbage to do a 5 minute interview with someone like Henry Kissinger about mid east policy. They can tell you what shoes Paris wore into the clink that morning but can barely cover a serious issue beyond the 30 seconds of surface spin they caught in passing.