Posted on 05/18/2003 9:23:19 AM PDT by summer
Times Bomb
Newsweek
.... As the Times meeting was unfolding, Jayson Blair was holed up in an apartment in Manhattan, talking with his lawyer and his literary agent. The week before, friends say, Blair had checked himself out of Silver Hill, a tony inpatient hospital in New Canaan, Conn., where he had been receiving treatment for a history of alcoholism, cocaine abuse and manic depression, NEWSWEEK has learned. ....
...In a conversation with NEWSWEEK, Blair spoke of his feelings since his career went up in flames: "I can't say anything other than the fact that I feel a range of emotions including guilt, shame, sadness, betrayal, freedom and appreciation for those who have stood by me, been tough on me, and have taken the time to understand that there is a deeper story and not to believe everything they read in the newspapers."...
...But Blair's performance, already spotty, seemed to be getting worse. His personal life also seemed to be spinning out of control. His apartment in Brooklyn was littered with broken furniture and rotting food, his landlord said; there was fungus, and mold. When he moved out in the fall of 2002, the place was in such sordid condition his landlord considered taking him to small-claims court to recoup damages. "It was real filth," the landlord told NEWSWEEK. "Imagine using a bathroom for two-and-a-half years and never cleaning it."
....Within months, Blair was circulating drafts of a book proposal on the sniper story in which he discussed his own anger and frustration as an African-American. "[A friend] encouraged me to look for answers about the history of violence in my own family and that of Lee Malvo [the other sniper suspect], suggesting the search would not be in vain, if it at least ended my restless angst," Blair wrote. Later, he told friends that he identified with Malvo....
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Therefore, those who buy the NYTimes and Boston Globe support terrorism.
The wrong-doing is never personal. But the ability to overcome the devastating emotions are a laudable, personal achievement. That is the pattern that will play out in this story. Watch for this guy on the lecture circuit.
I was just thinking the same thing! I saw several people here suggest that (unfortunately, I can't remember their screen names), and they were right on the money.
Excuse me, but if Blair is a liberal and he is smoking a cigarette, doesn't that mean that liberals don't really "hate" tobacco as much as their reputation suggests they do???
My goodness. If you want to paint tobacco as some sort of sanctified conservative cause I guess you can twist anything to "prove" it!
Just the opposite. I see that picture as a liberal attempt to make a fool look worse than his employer. The NYT suck and conservatives know it, this picture IMHO, is designed to whip up the nico-nazi's that consider the NYT the bible of daily record. Make Blair as unlikeable as possible to spare the ones higher up the food chain.
I live in the PNW, I've seen how these liberals think, (excuse me, FEEL), up close and personal. That picture meant something.
I just stole the above......THANKS.
My moralistic, Bible Belt, and decidedly non-libertarian view of tobacco and smoking (to both of which I am adamantly opposed and which I hope to see eventually outlawed as moral vices and not for health reasons) are well known on this forum, as is my lonely fight against making a pro-tobacco position an "essential" of conservative ideology (I even reject the prevalent belief that pro-smoking sentiment is the "politically correct" conservative position). My enemies on this issue know my position just as I know theirs and I have no intention of being dragged into another fracas over tobacco (in which my fellow-anti-smoking conservatives, in the Bible Belt and elsewhere, have decided to leave me unsupported). I will insist again that you pro-smokers have no right to run the conservative movement or to make pro-smoking a plank of the conservative platform. That is my position and I am not going to repeat endlessly to a series of personal attacks.
And to you extremely nasty tempered pro-smokers out there who will now doubtless be posting personal attacks on me for the rest of the night, I have a preemptive response: go to freaking h*ll. Please let that suffice and allow me to get back to other issues.
The Newsweek article revealed that Blair is a diagnosed manic depressive (bipolar disorder). IOW, he's legally insane. Is it likely a NYC jury would find him responsible for, say, the NYT's losses?
It cost them a LOT more than just Minnesota. Despite the desperate attempts by the "mainstream" media to cover it up (the gave the funerally a little play the same day, and then dropped the subject altogether), it was just about the only thing the country was talking about from the moment it happened until Election Day itself. And where were we talking about it? On cable news, on the Net, on talk radio. The "mainstream" media was completely circumvented and rendered totally irrelevant. And millions of swing voters went GOP as a result.
Something similar will happen next fall. God only knows what stupidity the RATS will end up performing, but when they do, they'll pay the price.
Close up on a sign saying `Harley Street'. Stirring music. Mix through to interior of a smart, plush, ever so expensive Harley Street consultieg room. The music smells and fades. Knocking at door, a short pause, then T. F. Gumby enters, backwards.
T. F. Gumby (Michael.) - Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! (he goes up to the antique desk and bangs the bell violently; he smashes the intercom and generally breaks the desk up) Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! DOCTOR! Doctor! Doctor! Where is the Doctor?
A pause. Then another door opens and another Gumby appears.
Gumby Specialist - (John) Hello!
T. F. Gumby - Are you the brain specialist?
Specialist - Hello!
T. F. Gumby - Are you the brain specialist?
Specialist - No, no, I am not the brain specialist. No, no, I am not...Yes. Yes I am.
T. F. Gumby - My brain hurts!
Specialist - Well let's take a look at it, Mr Gumby. Gumby specialist starts to pull up Gumby's sweater.
T. F. Gumby - No, no, no, my brain in my head. (specialist thumps him on the head)
Specialist - It will have to come out.
T. F. Gumby - Out? Of my head?
Specialist - Yes! All the bits of it. Nurse! Nurse! (a nurse enters) Nurse, take Mr Gumby to a brain surgeon.
Nurse - Yes doctor...
She leads Gumby out. In the background the specialist is grunting and shouting.
Specialist - Where's the `Lancet'?
Nurse (to T. F. Gumby) - He's brilliant you know.
Specialist - Where's the bloody `Lancet'? My brain hurts too.
Ambulance racing. `Dr Kildare' theme. Cut to operating theatre. The surgeon is not a Gumby.
Surgeon - (Graham) - (putting on Gumby props) Gloves... glasses...
moustache... handkerchief... (Gumby voice) I'm going to
We now see he is surrounded by Gumbys. T. F. Gumby is on operating table.
All -Let's operate.
They begin to use woodworking implements on T. F. Gumby.
T. F. Gumby - Hello!
Surgeon Gumby - Ooh! We forgot the anaesthetic!
Operating Gumbys - The anaesthetic! The anaesthetic!!
At that moment a Gumby anaesthetist comes crashing through the mall mith two gas cylinders.
Gumby Anaesthetist - I've come to anaesthetize you!!
He raises a gas cylinder and strikes Gumby hard over the head mith it. Bong. Blackness. Into the oblivion of animation.
Manic depression doesn't even come close to fitting the definition of legal insanity. He might as well claim a groin injury.
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