tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post4022743256843457658..comments2023-09-22T09:03:09.417-04:00Comments on Townie Bastard: Under pressuretowniebastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03129158923604362272noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-28340472941222041792007-03-17T14:44:00.000-04:002007-03-17T14:44:00.000-04:00Anonymous, if you've been reading my stuff as long...Anonymous, if you've been reading my stuff as long as you suggest, then you'd know two things:<BR/><BR/>1. it isn't partisan; and,<BR/><BR/>2. there is a heckuva a lot more there than the stuff you mentioned.Edward Holletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152397042408814142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-18696437523518984902007-03-17T10:10:00.000-04:002007-03-17T10:10:00.000-04:00Ed, yourself and Craig hit the nail on the head. ...Ed, yourself and Craig hit the nail on the head. Ed, I think that is the best thing you have written in the 2 years I have your read your blog. Do us readers all a favour and write a little more often about something more than "Danny-Land" partisanship everyday. Your blog would be be more fun and I would be less de-sensitized to the political rants. Unfortunately, I forgot how good a writer you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-68876799923401753962007-03-17T10:06:00.000-04:002007-03-17T10:06:00.000-04:00Christopher, I was disappointed the Muse sex colum...Christopher, I was disappointed the Muse sex columnist didn't return as well, but I don't know if that was the Muse editor dumping her or the columnist choosing not to return. It takes a person with a particularly thick skin to write a sex column on MUN campus and not only sign your name to it, but put a picture to it as well. I imagine she dealt with her share of crap and perhaps simply grew tired of it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words, Ed, although it was late when I finished that and I was tired. There were certainly points I would have liked to have emphasized more. Like Cleary's "Mercer missed the point." No, my friend, if he had hit the point any harder and with more accuracy it would have achieved orbital velocity.<BR/><BR/>I'm also trying to be somewhat sympathetic to the abusive phone calls and letter. No one should have to deal with harassing crap, but on the other hand if you're a columnist you need a thick skin on this. Few people with a newspaper attract more scorn and personal hatred than a good columnist.<BR/><BR/>I never got it ofter, but when I did I don't think I shied away from it too much. When the staff and students of Booth Memorial wanted to kill me I thrived on most of the abuse, but I'm sure that was a minor level of hatred compared to what Golfman received in the past few months. But again, you need that hatred sometimes if you want to play at the higher levels.<BR/><BR/>Put it this way, I imagine Mercer has received more than his share of hatred over the years and he probably loved every minute of it. Golfman crumpled the first time it got serious.towniebastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129158923604362272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-6423857091475326692007-03-17T08:08:00.000-04:002007-03-17T08:08:00.000-04:00Boy you are a real bastard.I had held off commenti...Boy you are a real bastard.<BR/><BR/>I had held off commenting on Golfman and had one this weekend ready to go.<BR/><BR/>Now I have to go back and re-write it to play up some aspects you didn't address. You covered the important bases and did it well.<BR/><BR/>You also stole two words that were kicking around my brain: vapid and shallow. <BR/><BR/>on top of that you reminded Cleary that Mercer didn't miss the point, so much as hit square in the centre and drive it - and Golfman's argument - through a wall.<BR/><BR/>To take issue with only one of your points, Stephanie, Golfman did not go out on a limb to criticise Mercer. She did so deliberately to take a swipe at a very successful local comedian who has gotten to where he is, like so many others, without remaining in this province and staring at Confederation Building until it hands out cash.<BR/><BR/>If she wanted to go out on a limb - i.e take a genuinely principled and brave position - she'd criticise many in the local arts community who while they ought to be critical of any government instead get weepy and teary-eyed and tug their forelocks in gratitude for crumbs from the Crown. <BR/><BR/>Of course, that wouldn't get Noreen invited back to too many of the fetes run by the circle she moves in. Taking the odd nasty phone call or e-mail from a nutjob is par for the course for anybody with a public profile - media people included. Most don't swoon, even figuratively, about the supposed price they pay for their "bravery" in the face of calls from idiots. Bravery would be nailing the genuine sacred cow in this piece. <BR/><BR/>Instead of that, Golfman smacked at someone else. Little did she know that what she would get back was a sharply worded eloquent rejoinder to her pretentious tripe. <BR/><BR/>Turns out Rick knows how to skewer without pomposity and it didn't take a doctoral degree to do the job. Now <I>that</I> must have really stung her.Edward Holletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152397042408814142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-19584747099855938072007-03-17T07:21:00.000-04:002007-03-17T07:21:00.000-04:00"Honestly, the best way to get rid of a columnist ..."Honestly, the best way to get rid of a columnist you don't like is to not pay attention to them. If editors think that's happening, the columnist will be dumped for someone who generates debate."<BR/><BR/>My feeling exactly. Somebody should tell that to Submissions @ the Muse, who dumped their controversial sex columnist in favor of a boring one who stirs up no debate whatsoever. Getting people riled up is what oped is about!Christopher Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05351521117813830713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-71505493272071909352007-03-17T04:22:00.000-04:002007-03-17T04:22:00.000-04:00Golfman is a hypocrite. A mainlander who went too ...Golfman is a hypocrite. A mainlander who went too far in her criticism. <BR/><BR/>I respect her for going out on a limb in criticizing Mr. Mercer, however the old chestnut, "Can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen b.s. rings true here.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996886192981642599noreply@blogger.com