It’s almost always a hard decision because there’s so much to choose from. But today it was fairly easy: It’s not Drudge’s entry from the other day (at left) but it’s related. It’s the stridently excuse-making, juvenile, sexist, Obama suck-up piece by Shelley Fralic of the Vancouver Sun on Saturday July 11, followed by possibly the lamest, stupidest excuse the very next day.
It’s apparently built around that same Drudge picture that I posted back on Thursday:
Open ogling making more headlines than the work G8 leaders are trying to accomplish
The good news is that President Barack Obama is a real live red-blooded all-American man, and I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather have that kind of guy running the most powerful nation in the world than some moribund frozen-pulse old fart (can you say the Bush boys?) leading the free world. … [It gets far, far more stupid…]
Then her editor and publisher, instead of firing her out of shear embarrassment, or as serious journalists and grownups might, actually let her write this followup commentary piece, entitled: “Obama’s cheeky glance? Lighten up, folks. It was a joke.”
…which ends with this richly-stupid-even-for-a-14-year-old advise:
OMG people. Chill. Whether the POTUS inhaled that pretty young thing’s beauty or not doesn’t matter. It was a fun moment in a time when politics is anything but, and we had a bit of fun with it.
And, frankly, my money’s on Obama copping an eyeful. As I said, he ain’t dead.
Clearly Shelley Fralic isn’t a media heavyweight. Right? Well, hang on, “chill”, and “OMG”. Like, don’t get your pee-pee in a knot (I said pee-pee! Wa ha ha ha ha! LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!…But then I’m a man so whaduyaspect…), ‘cause like that would NOT be totally awesome, dude. Here’s her Sun bio. And so like the Sun goes:
Shelley Fralic
Shelley Fralic joined The Vancouver Sun as a reporter in 1979, just before graduating from the Langara College journalism program, and following a summer internship at the Quesnel Cariboo-Observer.
And they’re all like….
At The Sun, she has covered sports, business, religion, general news and features. In the mid-‘80s, she held a number of assistant editor positions and, in 1990, was appointed deputy managing editor of the paper, a position she held until 1999, when she was named Executive Editor.
Several years ago, she returned to writing and today produces columns on a variety of subjects, including social issues, pop culture, and modern-day life.
Ms. Fralic has been a sessional instructor in the Masters program at the UBC School of Journalism, and has conducted numerous journalism lectures and workshops throughout her newspaper career.
She is currently chair of the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund, and is an industry director on the B.C. Press Council.
So don’t worry, we won’t see much more of this in our news media moving forward.
RUNNERUP: The Vancouver Sun‘s, oh let’s see, Barbara (the Pig Snout Snot-Nose Barbie) Yaffe.
Barbara Yaffe, one of the most picayune columnists in North America today, headlines her hysterical, personal, anti-Sarah Palin diatribe with the words “Bullwinkle Barbie”, to oh-so-professionally and journalistically and sanely and in notably un-moose-like fashion describe Miss Palin. To that big-city Canuck gal Barbara Yaffe, Palin is a dumb cartoon-like moose-hick from “the north” to whom she looks down her nose upon with some kind of disapproving superiority. That in itself is fun. Especially considering the comparative accomplishments of the two, Palin and Yaffe.
And in her ever so ingenious piece, she quotes the hideously far-left Huffington Post to, she seems to think, lend some sort of odd credibility to it. Huffington Post is the same far-left site whose columnist recently wrote, describing Palin’s Down Syndrome child Trig, as “a retard”, in his column headlined “Palin Will Run In ‘12 On More Retardation Platform” at the Huffington Post. (Then it was pulled.) That’s credibility, folks. Good research, Pig Snout Snot-Nose Yaffe and editors. Fabulous. Or perhaps you’re in simpatico with that line of “reasoning”
But wow. “Bullwinkle Barbie”… That’s charming. What a snotty, arrogant, elitist pig.
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