Posted on 08/21/2002 9:52:34 AM PDT by Temple Owl
2dthoughts8-21-02
The Inquirer, in another desperate move to survive, is going to beef up its coverage in the suburbs.
They getting rid of 10 part-time assistants and eliminating 23 positions in the newsroom. (My guess is there is evidence that some of these people voted for a Republican.)
The Thursday Neighbors sections in Pennsylvania will be eliminated. Heh! I remember when a forgettable Inquirer Neighbors editor addressed the Delaware County Press Club a few years ago. He promised club members that Neighbors would quickly put the weekly newspapers (including ours) out of business. Another broken Inquirer promise.
In another move, Inquirer Editor Walker Lundy--after a seven-month search--promoted Anne Gordon to the post of managing editor. Ms. Gordon had been deputy managing editor/ arts and features. Among her important credentials is the fact that she served as communications director of for the Colorado Democratic Party during William Jefferson Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
I ask you, with such leaders, how could the Inquirer possibly continue to fail? Will Ms.Gordon protect sleazy Democrats? Will Robert Rubin continue to get a pass? Will a story documenting National Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe's $100,000 investment into Global Crossing ever be told? Of course not! Let me give you the short version.
McAuliffe at the invitation of CEO Gary Winnick invested the 100Gs into Global Crossing just before it went public. A couple of years later McAuliffe sold his shares for $18 million. Global Crossing, shortly thereafter, plunged into bankruptcy. That was never mentioned by the Inquirer.
Ms Gordon's writers and editors--if they want to keep their jobs—won't make too much of Robert Rubin, the Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton, making a friendly call to Peter Fisher in his old department.
The call was made on Nov. 8, – a month before Enron’s collapse. He wanted Fisher to say nice things about Enron.
Rubin is currently chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of Citigroup. He is making big money.
I am sure Ms. Gordon feels Rubin earns it and wants you and the rest of the country to forget about his arm-twisting phone call so he can just go on and do his job.
Earth to the Inquirer: Your potential readers are far more intelligent than you are. They are looking for fair and balanced coverage. If the Inquirer went after Republican and Democrat ne'er-do-wells on an equal basis, both it and our country would fare better.
Don't expect that to happen. The Inquirer will endorse Ed Rendell for Governor. Bet the farm on that one.
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Phil Donahue, a rabid and wild-eyed left-wing liberal, came back to do a talk show on MSNBC a month ago. The show was preceded by a heavy barrage of publicity and opened with some 660,000 viewers. Alas those numbers quickly fell to 393,000 and are still falling. Donahue is being clobbered –no only by "The O'Reilly Factor" but even by CNN's "Connie Chung Tonight." He will probably not last long. But don't worry Phil, they will always make room for you at The Inquirer—Ooops! That paper is not expected to last much longer either.
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Googly-eyed Susan Sarandon has joined other left-wing, liberal Hollywood Nazis in criticizing George Bush. The over-the-hill actress is in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she said that in the days immediately following the attack, the country united in a way that showed "America at its finest." But, the aging actress told the Scotsman, that "in about the third week a cut-out of John Wayne showed up and a jingoist kind of thing started taking over, and nobody could ask questions anymore."
Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin are among the other Hollywood left-wing storm troopers who have spoken out against Bush and his policies in the last year. It would be great if they all moved to North Korea where they would be appreciated.
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Off the Internet:
Once there was a billionaire, who raised alligators in the pool in back of his Florida mansion. The billionaire had a beautiful daughter who was single. One day he threw a huge party, and announced, "My dear guests...I have a proposition to every man here. I will give a million dollars or my beautiful daughter to the man who can swim across this pool full of alligators and emerge unharmed!"
He no sooner than finished his sentence when there was the sound of a large SPLASH! There was an athletic fellow racing across the pool. The crowd cheered as he kept swimming. He finally made it to the other side untouched. The awestruck billionaire was impressed.
"My boy that was incredible! Fantastic! I didn't think it could be done." he gushed. "Well I will keep my end of the bargain...which do you want, my daughter or the one million dollars?"
The young man said, "Listen, I don't want your money! And I don't want your daughter! I just want the joker who pushed me in the pool."
No I am not surprised. "Googly-eyed Susan Sarandon!" Love it.
ROFLOL!!! How true, how true!
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