She states only our community would find what she wrote as offensive. My question is does anyone outside of us believe it was uncalled for?
You signed up today to post lol catspeak?
~sniff~
She probably thought she was being funny.
Welcome to FR.
That is absolutely outrageous.
It’s on page 10 of the PDF and, were I this Marine’s mom, I’d be punching out some editor.
My son is enlisting in the Marines, though he signed yet, and is still hanging with his Sheriff Department mentors. It could go either way.
But this “alternative” notice deserves an apology
This publication bills itself as an “alternative community newspaper.”
The publisher is free to publish whatever she wishes, short of libel.
Her neighbors are free to read it or not, as they wish. Her advertisers are free to do business with her, or not.
This is all covered by the blessed First Amendment. Let it be.
I would call it inappropriate and unprofessional.
People get the small town newspaper for the ads and to see their kid’s name in the paper. This was childish. The advertisers will correct this.
Another flaming liberal permanently stuck in adolescence.
Obviously, my Aunt Becky has moved back to her home state of Missouri and resumed being a theatrically over-sensitive liberal horse’s ass editor of this small town paper.
Well, not really, but I do know that even little American as apple pie provincial burgs in mid-USA have their share of liberal horse’s asses who appear much more prominent a voice in the community than they really are when they get their hooks sunken into becoming a staff writer for a podunk small town newspaper. Good thing these little small town papers are only used to line rabbit cages and wrap up catfish fillets for the freezer.
I bet this liberal moonbat cries herself to sleep every night that she’s got to drive 98 miles into St. Louis to shop for overpriced organic arugala and raspberry ginseng tea at Whole Foods Market. Gosh, they’re just never going to build a Whole Foods in Cricket Chirp MO, are they?!
I don’t care.
She’s a childish prat who thought she was being witty.
Her stupidity is it’s own punishment.
There are so many publications that would sneer at a young man who through perseverance, hard work and dedication has achieved a position of honor in society, something an “ink stained wretch” of a writer will never, ever do.
In the 1940s, some people went to the home of their new neighbors, the Schiefelbeins. They had a little boy and a little girl. The little girl had just begun a dance class, had a fun time, and had learned how to do a short dance, so her parents asked her to demonstrate her dance to the guests.
This made her older brother, little Billy Schiefelbein, intensely envious of the attention she was getting, so he went on a tantrum. Using all sorts of bad language, he smashed dishes, knocked over a lamp, and generally made a mess. When his father tried to restrain him, he went under the dining room table and bitterly cursed his sister, “Stop that, DAMN YOU!”
Even many years later, the people who had visited the Schiefelbeins remembered little Billy Schiefelbein, and remarked that they had never before or since seen such a perfect example of a Democrat.
I’m going to assume that you posted this in all seriousness and good faith. So you want to do something about the disrespectful attitude of the writer (who seems to be responsible for a large part of the content at this “paper?”)
Well, the paper is a free ad rag, so you can’t unsubscribe.
But here’s what you can do. You get together with all your like-minded neighbors and friends. The bunch of you write letters - not form letters, mind you - to all the folks who paid to advertise in the ad rag.
Tell them that as long as they support the kind of disrespectful “journalism” this poor excuse for a writer is putting out, that you’ll have no use for anything they are selling.
And then you stick to your guns and only do business with the folks who care enough about your community to not put up with this crap.
Get back to us in a month and let us know how it worked out for you.
francesmadeson@gmail.com You can send her your own thoughts. I did. Now I’ll probably get a knock on the door soon from some neat hair cuts carrying brief cases and side arms. -WB
And the crier on FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Madison-County-Crier/327733313971980
People are trying to educate this poor liberal (see the first link) but she really does not get it. I don't see her staying in this town too much longer. I'm going to try and remember to follow up on this in the future and see how she's doing.
Bump to see what happens to the noob.
If you’re planning to be more than a one hit wonder, get thee to the course, “How to post threads on FR.”
Drum circles? Jeez!
Pray for this Marine! He’s going to meet my brother and his buddies at SOI! Lord have mercy on his soul! LOL! semper Fi!
Thanks for the chance to insult a pretentious leftist. I read all the comments on the FB page, and was royally entertained, especially by the email posted in which she called a group of women “niggerish”, thus revealing the racist streak possessed by all leftists. :)
I think it serves a useful purpose. First, the writer conveyed the news of a young, patriotic American's graduation from boot camp. His family, friends, community, and now many thousands of Americans are aware of his decision to volunteer in service of our nation and defense of our Constitution. Perhaps his story will encourage others. May Private Killian return safely to his loved ones at the conclusion of his service to our nation.
The second half of the story also serves a useful purpose. It shows the kind of unrealistic, naive, utopian nonsense that flows around the minds of some liberals. Yes, there really are people that think we can all sit around in a drum circle chanting Kumbaya and waiting for the unicorn to arrive before massage time and our vegan granola snack time.
Private Killian is no doubt smart enough to know that too, and realizes that like children, he must protect them too, for they are too immature and foolish to do so themselves. The rest of the readers of the Madison County Crier also now know just how ignorant and foolish one of the authors at that publication is.