Teabagging Chris Ferrell
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:01 am by BrianDo note the highly selective application of standards by The City Paper / Nashville Post / Nashville Scene’s CEO in the wake of Klanheider’s most recent pooch-screwing:
We trust our writers to post content that is appropriate. Most of the time they do that, but in this case Kleinheider did not. If this had been a news story for the Post or the Citypaper or the Scene it would have been edited and that headline never would have been made public.
Really? Really? I notice you make the distinction to “headline” as opposed to content.
Was it appropriate when he started deploying the derogatory homosexual epithet “teabagger” as the go-to insult for townhall protesters who wanted nothing more than the oppressive gonads of the government removed from the squinting face of the nation?
Kneeling At The Altar of Teabag
A Million Screaming Teabaggers Are Nothing
Driving the Teabaggers Into the Arms of the GOP
Thank You Teabaggers May I Have Another
Beware of Being Blindsided By The Bag
You’re going to honestly pretend like you didn’t notice all of those? There’s more. Many of the post titles are sexual double entendres themselves. In short, we see why Klanny is the liberal editor’s favorite “conservative”. His scrotal fascination is surpassed only by Jeff Woods.
Here’s one even joking about getting away with it:
Hurtting My Sense of Propriety.
After all, who knew that your head political writer writing on your own site was calling the majority of the people in Tennessee faggots for the last 7 months? It certainly wasn’t lost on the comments sections. This is really too rich for the people who supported the recently passed anti-discrimination ordinance in Nashville.
I’ll hold off on breaking out my hazmat suit to wade, balls-deep as it is, through The Scene’s recent archives (or worse at your Pith site) since “teabagger” is one of the nicer terms they frequently employ to describe anyone to the right of Bruce Barry’s wife.
Maybe we should have changed the headline when it came to our attention. I didn’t actually see the post until it had been up for almost four hours. By that time, it seemed to me that the readers had pretty quickly corrected Kleinheider and that a serious discussion about race was beginning to happen. I think discussion is a good thing. Kleinheider went about creating it in an inappropriate way, but race is obviously still an important topic for us to discuss in this community. SouthComm will continue write about race in this city because it is too important an issue to be swept under the rug. I regret that this incident will likely bias how some of you view our future more serious reporting on the topic. I assure you that as we approach the subject in the future we will do it in a more respectful manner.
Oh, yes. We’ve seen how “respectful” and “serious” your *cough* unbiased *cough* reporting has been in the past (YSNI contest winner: “Your local GOP makes the KKK look like the ACLU.”). If Ferrell wants to start complaining about poor judgment, perhaps he can start by removing the scales bags from his own eyes.
Ferrell steeped in a “respectful” discussion on limited government.
From teabags to d-bags. Thanks for the inspiration.
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am
Kleinfelcher has been, is, and will always be a major league asshole. Unfortunately, that will not be enough to get him Adam Clymer’s job at the NYT.
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Even Betsy’s only giving him tepid support over at The Scene by claiming he just recently took back over. The meat of this post is about the Nashville Post which Southcomm already owned prior to taking an interest in the Scene.
In Ferrell’s apologia, he makes all sorts of claims about the benefits of white privilege and institutional racism. And that Cracker-Americans succeed only as a direct result of this yet he somehow doesn’t see the institutional bias of his own papers in promoting an acrid atmosphere for discourse which existed before him (not so coincidentally by the same people who now run The City Paper and work for him), through Garrigan (former Scene editor who now also writes for The City Paper and works for him), the short-lived Pete Kotz error where even the paper declined from it’s already low standards, and now he’s taken back over.
Is there some other white male I’m supposed to blame here? Preferably the (ahem) rightwing Republicans who run The Tennessean? All the people who have made this rag what it is are sitting at the table today.
We won’t bring up Matt Pulle and his unique choice of character witness to champion that Puryear nomination last year.These people love to criticize everybody outside Bolshevik Triangle of Germantown, Five Points and Hillsboro Village as backwater hicks with every breath they take but if there was ever any evidence of incest its the relationship they have with each other on the media and the message in this city.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Just to keep things in perspective, I’ll mention that I can go an entire week (and more) talking to people in my county and in adjacent counties (outside the “collar” of Nashville) and never meet anyone who has even heard of anything in SouthComm Set or of any Tennessee political blog. I think of the Nashville Scene as Yankees-Talking-To-Yankees for the most part, though I’m happy to see any help from them on issues of gay equality, which, you know, I’m very much for.
I love newspapers, or did, and have always found the Nashville Scene a disappointment and waste of time. For one thing, they don’t practice actual journalism there, though a couple of the reporters make a stab at it now and then. Atlanta, where I lived for a good while, has much better and more interesting alternative papers.
I don’t live in the Nashville area and, except for the Post Politics blog, I don’t read anything in that “set” on a regular basis, though I tried to keep up with The City Paper when Clint Brewer was there, simply because, though he took one or more City editorial stands opposite my own positions, Clint was fair in publishing my viewpoint when he as at the Lebanon paper. He behaved like an actual journalist, so I think he was/is one. That goes a long way in any sense of loyalty I feel for any publication: the sense that all viewpoints are sought, considered, fairly represented, respected. The Tennessean has earned only antipathy from me in that regard.
I do appreciate y’all’s putting up with me here. You’ve been fair to me though we disagree on some things.
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
True on Brewer. The Thompson Family era of the City Paper was the closest thing we’ve had to fair since the Banner.
The Scene’s just Metromix with a thesaurus and a couple of opinionators yelling “teabagger” and “racists” every other sentence. Somewhere in the middle a sales department squeezes in some phone porn and tugjobs, er *ahem* I mean Licensed Massage Therapists.
We’re fair to everybody Donna despite what one-sided things people tend to selectively hear.
October 6th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Good Gawd,, I could have went a life time without that image in my head!
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-