Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell finds something to do with his free time
January 21st, 2005 at 9:11 am by Preston Taylor HolmesMetro Nashville city employee harshly scolded for forwarding “insensitive, anti-muslim” e-mail after being ratted out by toothless West Virginia half-man Jim Castleman.
You’ve all seen the e-mail for about two years. It’s a multiple-choice quiz that asks who is responsible for a litany of specific terrorist attacks over the past few decades. It was briefly funny the first time I read it – the 44th time I got it, it was just irritating.
Now Mayor Purcell and his finance director David Manning have something to do with all that free time – that is when they’re not finding new and unique ways to hike Davidson County property taxes and redistribute wealth in their little Metro utopia.
That’s what happened to a Metro employee who could face disciplinary action for forwarding an e-mail that makes derogatory comments about young Muslim men and their alleged ties to crimes and terrorist activities over the past thirty-plus years.
That is so vintage Tennessean. Their alleged crimes… hilarious! That rag isn’t good enough to wipe your ass with. The journalists at the Tennessean are so bathed in socialism and politically correct bullshit that they’re just little clones of NY Times writers – they just don’t know as many “big words” as the Times propagandists. That’s why I cancelled my subscription when I lived in the Big Nasty.
In each case, there are throwaway answers blaming figures such as Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny, with a letter D answer blaming Muslims.
Yeah, how dare we blame islamofascists for the crimes against humanity they commit in the name of allah?!? How insensitive of us to point out facts! I suppose we should whitewash it and celebrate the religion of beheadings as President Junior so frequently does.
By Monday, the e-mail had been passed on to a West Virginia man, who sent it to Mayor Bill Purcell’s office and some Nashville news media.
The man was outraged by the contents, and Purcell asked for a review by Metro Finance Director David Manning, who sent an apology to the man, whose e-mail was signed Jim Castleman.
What kind of feminized half-man is sitting around getting “outraged” by chain e-mails that somehow make their way into his inbox, squeezed no doubt between his membership renewals for trannysurprise and bbw websites? What an incredible loser.
”Unfortunately, it’s not that unusual because people make bad judgments sometimes about the way in which they use e-mail,” Manning said yesterday. ”It happens everywhere, unfortunately. That’s life. The issue is what you learn from it and how you react from it.”
Manning has called in the Metro Human Resources Department and the Metro Law Department about disciplinary options. Manning has not made a decision about what action to take.
Are beheadings an option? You would think that with Davidson County being ruled by islamic law, that this would be a suitable punishment for electronic heresy.
Luckily, the e-mail culprit knows the right things to say to keep her job.
”It has never been my nature to stereotype groups,” her letter said. ”I have always and will always relate to others as another human being without regard to age, color, economic status or nationality.”
She closed the letter by saying: ”Please know I love my job with Metro and I love the diversity of Nashville and I am truly sorry for putting all of you in the position you are now in with the media.”
See! I celebrate diversity! Look, look! I’m wearing african colors, shaking a tamborine and a brandishing a copy of the koran! Look, I’m dancing! It’s a world music style modern dance! See! I’m celebrating diversity! Listen, I’m talking Mexican! Hola buenos noches burritos! Look! I use chopsticks at the August Moon! Look! I’m watching BET! I love the diversity of Nashville – especially at the car wash! Lookie! Go, diversity, go! I love diversity for diversity’s sake! Yaaaay!
Well, I for one, celebrate Lori’s committment to forwarding the truth about islamofascism – even if she is forwarding a 2-year-old e-mail to a bunch of people who have probably gotten it a minimum of 18 times each.
UPDATE:
Bill Hobbs is on this story as well.
January 21st, 2005 at 3:40 pm
I tried to celebrate my diversity by wearing cornrows but people threw things at me and called me cracker.
January 21st, 2005 at 3:50 pm
As well they should, WSK.
January 21st, 2005 at 4:07 pm
But I SAW Scooby Doo flying that plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
January 21st, 2005 at 7:32 pm
Look, this is the relgion of peace. We need to be tolerant of all relgions-reverant, it’s the 12 law of the Boyscouts. But you can trash the naive christians and jews all you want-and whitees too. If you’re a white a jew or christian, you might as well be interned. Hey wait, that’s a good idea for the moslims. wait-nevermind
January 21st, 2005 at 11:07 pm
You have been doin’ some serious drinkin’ homely.
January 22nd, 2005 at 11:56 am
Not all West Virginians are toothless. Just sayin’. Actually, I celebrate my diversity around here by HAVING teeth, as well as shoes. Which is why I got called “preppie” throughout high school.
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Kim, that was just the first appalachian-West-Virginia-type of insult that came to mind when I was taking a cheap shot at the e-mail complaintant. I do realize that quite a few people in West Virginia have teeth. You may be surprised to find that many people in Tennessee wear shoes, contrary to popular mythology.
Incidentally, if everyone in West Virginia looked like you, a lot of people would be planning to relocate to the coal state.:eek: