Anyone else have to put up with Kathleen Parker in their newspaper?

You know, it's bad enough to have to see the likes of Cal Thomas or Michael Reagan extolling the virtues of being a right-wing wacko, but what irks me about Parker's editorials is her seeming unabashed love for Dumbya. She offers up a personal defense for the chimp in chief every single damn day. Yesterday she was bashing Keith over the fart joke story. It seems her only point in the paper is to show her love for Idiot Boy.

with the boy king. Maybe we expect women over 25 to be able to spot the overgrown frat boys out there and to react with disgust, not with hero worship.

:rofl: :blush: :rofl:

It's close to the last straw for me and I'm telling them so (if they value my subscription).

The Rocky Mtn News and the Denver Post are both conservative rags. I stopped getting home delivery about 5 yrs ago and might buy one newspaper a week, if that. I don't miss them a bit.

in the Sunday paper around here. Right now the newspaper (The News Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY) has a campaign going on in the local Kroger stores each Sunday giving away a copy of that day's paper. They always ask me if I subscribe to the paper and I always tell them that when they get Parker's hate spewing out of their paper (along with a few couple reichwing BS artists) I will consider subscribing to their paper again. They then ask me if I want a free copy and I say no, that I will not sully my home with such nonsense. We go through this every damn Sunday, almost like a well rehearsed ballet.

And don't get me started on the "local correspondents" section of the paper each Sunday. There are 5-6 women who fill column after column of nosy Rosie comments of their little communities in the county. We get to read the local gossip on who had Sunday dinner with whom, whose kids are home for the weekend, what church had a revival last week and how many souls were saved. These columns appear to be almost exclusively written by the local preachers' wives - lotsa preaching, plenty of detail about their own trials and tribulations at the doctor offices, hospital stays, etc. I swear you would think it was 1950 if it weren't for the price of the cars in ads and the Hardees coupons.

OK, where is the bitch? Show her to me. :mad:

But seriously, yes, I have read her crap. She's like the Peggy Noonan of Dumbya. You can always count on her to flutter her eyelashes with delight over anything the dumb frat boy does.

I found the article online at the Jewish World Review: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker.php3

She's whining about how YouTube, entertaining as it is, subjects politicians to too much public ridicule, to the point where, boo hoo, people might want to stop running for office. Here's the fart part:

Wednesday night I caught Keith Olbermann on MSNBC talking about President George W. Bush's reported fondness for bathroom jokes. I'm no prude when it comes to jokes, but I'm way past potty humor. Olbermann apologized to viewers who might be offended, saying that he was merely repeating what already had been reported by U.S. News and World Report.

Two thoughts: one, he didn't have to relay it; two, he didn't have to then expand the report to show Bush wearing expressions in photographs that could be suggestive of a potty joke's punch line. Olbermann and a comedic sidekick provided captions and commentary.

It's hard to describe how bad it was. There's a time and place for irreverent humor, but coming up with clever new ways to describe flatulence and relating it to the president isn't, as my mother used to say, cute or funny.

It's dumb.

I don't mean that fools shouldn't be exposed, or that corrupt politicians or racists or what have you should be protected. The vast array of media options also allows citizens greater access to useful information. That goes in the "wondrous" column. But somewhere in this increasingly unprivate world, we have to develop a personal ethics that respects the privacy of others and, above all, their humanity.

My comments:

--Maybe she's way past potty humor, but her president isn't. Why shouldn't she know?
--No, Keith didn't have to relay it; he CHOSE to because he WANTED to. Duh.
--He also expanded the report because he WANTED to.
--I didn't think it was bad, I thought it was hysterical. If you don't like jokes about your president making southbound raspberries in front of interns, too bad.
--There is indeed a time and place for irreverent humor. Keith Olbermann's show is often the time and place. Get used to it.
--Maybe you didn't think it was "cute or funny" just because it was YOUR precious president being made fun of, but not everyone agrees with you.
--It's your PRESIDENT who is "dumb."
--If you are really in favor of "fools being exposed," what was your problem with this?
--If you want to talk "personal ethics," I can tell you where to find some crap some public figures have to put up with that's 100 times worse than someone making fun of him for liking fart jokes. There's no respect for a person's privacy or humanity there. Actually, the way the Repugs treated the entire Clinton presidency would be a good example of disrespect for a person's privacy and humanity.

In short: Until YouTube starts putting on video of little Georgie in the potty, I don't think you have a case, lady.

come up with. Her writings are sheer nonsense and usually fact-free.

Who pays these people?

i read this yesterday in the palm beach post. i thought about posting it here, but figured it was some kind of advanced satire.

guess not, huh?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0608230125aug23,0,6039427.column?coll=chi-ed_opinion_columnists-utl

well, i thought it was hysterical in the "weekly world news" vein

Sorry Kathleen, but dumb is just dumb. I speak an even worse language, "Texiana English." It's a double-whammy hybrid of Texas and Louisiana English. And I don't sound like a dumbass, because I'm not a dumbass.