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Perhaps my journalistic sensibilities are too delicate…
Posted By katie allison granju
…but this is not a headline I would have written, or published.
I understand that Coach Fulmer said that, and that he needs to be quoted accurately within the body of the story, but I wouldn’t have put that word - which many folks find offensive - in the headline. In fact, I was pretty shocked to see it.
Your thoughts?
Jul 25th, 2008
If you’re willing to use it in the body of the article, then I wouldn’t see any problem with its use in the headline.
As far as offending sensibilites, we passed that standard a long time ago when the president of the United States forced parents across the country to explain to young readers why there were white stains on the lady’s blue dress…
Jim,
Your Clinton reference to an unrelated topic is both curious and thought-provoking. While we are on the subject, would you please grant oral gratification to Bush so that we can impeach HIM?
Jesus bless.
alec -
It wasn’t actually unrelated. Perhaps you didn’t read papers during that time, but almost identical questions were being asked in letters to the editor around the country on a daily basis surrounding the media’s coverage of this particular one of Clinton’s many scandals.
Parents who expressed concerns about the indelicate way in which the matter was being discussed in the media were told pretty much to shut up and get over it since it was news, and they should be teaching their children about semen and oral sex - no matter how young their children happened to be. It was the journalists who were positively gleeful about describing every titillating detail of his dalliances while being completely scornful of anyone who thought that maybe, just maybe, a little bit of discretion might be called for in a paper which was supposed to be read to or a broadcast which should be watched by the entire family. The more graphic it was, the more papers it sold and the higher the ratings went, and that was all that mattered to “journalists.” Delicate sensibilities? As if.
So when Katie asks a question about “delicate journalistic sensibilities,” I had to laugh out loud at the concept. I’m sorry that you’re so far in debt to your political affiliations and your personal sexual fantasies about our current president (which I’d appreciate you not projecting onto me) that you’re unable to separate your own issues from the topic at hand.
Jim Jim Jim,
I know what you’re going through. Your wife is a nice Christian gal but she’s a good 40 pounds too heavy. It was easy enough to fool her in the beginning but it gets harder as time goes on. Thank Christ, Jim, you have a secret that keeps you going.
It’s the vision of a hearty robust William Jefferson Clinton displaying the kind of manhood that has revved your engine since 7th grade gym class. The husky southern accent! We know how much you will deny it, Jim. Real men don’t have those kinds of thoughts. But you do. We know this because you have a little something called “mentionisits.” You just can’t help but bring up Clinton’s name at the slightest provocation. Does it feel good to say his name, Jim? Is it good to be free? Unbridled lust disguised as righteous indignation. Tsk tsk.
The truth is that Jim hates Bill for inspiring those thoughts in him! Those fantasies don’t belong to JIM, reader of Knoxville Talks and red-blooded American man. No siree Bob! That stuff is for queers and communists.
So, Jim. Here’s the deal. We all know. but the good news is that we are praying. For you. And there is the Log Cabin Republicans.
You’d kill to be Monica Lewinsky, wouldn’t you Jim?
alec -
This sort of invective is beneath this blog and beneath its readers.
Insulting my wife? The anonymity afforded by the internet certainly brings out the faux-bravery in even the likes of you…My wife is a beautiful and intelligent woman with whom I share a relationship that a person so evidently filled with self-loathing and envy such as yourself will never enjoy. For that I pity you.
Certainly no man worthy of the designation would stoop to insulting another man’s family simply because he lacked the capacity to prevail based on the strength of actual argument and reason. Don’t worry, after your childish tirade no one will again make the error of mistaking you for one.
You were way off-base in your presumptions about my original post, so you resorted to invective instead - the last refuge of the incompetent, and now - rather than respond to the actual content of my comment - you persist projecting your homo-erotic fantasies onto other people.
Since you seem to regard insinuating that I am a homosexual as a gross insult, you have succeeded only in revealing both your intellectual deficiences as well as your uncontrolled homophobia. Perhaps in your social circles blind intolerance and petty insult are sufficient substitutes for inclusiveness and reasoned thought, but such things would never be welcome in any group to which I would care to belong. For that I am thankful.
You are worthy of no more than my contempt and that of every other reasonable reader of this blog.
put one cup suger, one cup flower, one cup milk, bowl full of blackberrys in square pan in oven at 350 for 1 hr…. mmmm good how about that for off topic
Spanky
Sounds delicious…save a slice for me
Jim,
Just because somebody mentions that your wife is a heavy gal does not mean that they are implying she is not beautiful. That is just the kind of leap in logic that a closeted, penis-coveting Clinton basher like you would make! For my money, I hope they toss you out of the Promise Keepers on your ear. Mercy, I don’t want to get harsh but somebody needs to set you on the right path.
We are enlightened people here at Knoxville Talks. Nobody but you thinks it’s wrong that you like the fellows. The proverbial closet is a prison of your own making!
Jim, I don’t want to impugn a good man like you. But why in the name of Jehovah do you have to make every post about YOU? Ms. Granju was writing about Coach Fulmer and you us it as a vehicle to talk about your feelings for President Clinton. Now, Jim, that post was full to the brim with desire and natural feeling. Nothing wrong with that. I’m just saying that your tendency towards homosexual love-making and that big gal you got at home don’t have anything to do with the original post.
Prayerfully Yours,
Alec
alec -
Since you obviously have no interest in discussing “journalistic sensibilities” in any way, shape or form, one can only come to the conclusion that you are so desperate for my attention that - like a craven child - you are determined to obtain it, even if it is negative attention.
I will not be baited to engage you at the 4th grade manner in which you choose to conduct yourself. I have enough faith in our fellow readers to decide for themselves which of us has conducted himself with dignity and maturity, so I am more than happy to let your churlish comments speak for themselves.
As is only appropriate when dealing with petulant children, the only appropriate method is to deny you any further attention until such time as you learn how to obtain it appropriately.
One day perhaps you will gain enough self-awareness and maturity to be embarassed at the manner in which you are conducting yourself presently. Until then I will leave you, in all your intellectual impotency, to tilt at your imaginary windmills until you have completely exhausted your homophobic rage.
Jim has no sense of humor and I kinda like Alec’s “intellectual impotency” but my comment is Friday’s News Sentinel. It had a big picture of Coach Fulmer but we all know what he looks like. Why wasn’t the “Lawyer had child porn” with a picture on the front page? I think it’s important that people realize that child molesters look just like regular folks and a picture would have provided useful information. We already know about Fulmer and Clinton–let’s keep an eye out for local lawyers who set up “safe havens for sexually abused children” and see them for exactly what they are.
Front page -
You make an excellent point about the choice of front page photographs, and I completely agree with you.
Regarding my sense of humor: if you want to take me on, that’s one thing, and I’m as willing as the next guy to have a good laugh at my own foibles (e.g., my tendency towards long posts, just ask Steve K.). However, when what passes for your “sense of humor” involves insulting my wife, then you’ve passed the line of good taste and that’s no laughing matter.
Maybe it would be funny to you if someone mocked your wife, but if I have to find that amusing in order to have a “sense of humor” according to you, then I’m just as happy to be found lacking.