MSNBC's Olbermann: OC Register Editors Suck Ass

• Remember, The Rag is in BK and starving for cash. Maybe all of this was a well thought out plan to get national attention and drive idiots to their website. But then again, if they were thinking that deeply they wouldn�t be in BK would they?

• If you want to comment on a Register story on the web, you gotta follow the User Agreement, which includes the statement, "People who harass others or joke about tragedies will be blocked." And that, fellow readers, is the very definition of irony.

• Olbermann!!!! you mean the guy on that cable channel who's show is watched by, what?....10 people?

• Aw, Nicky, it's been too long, hasn't it??? First, let's just all stipulate that the Whicker work is a top contender, if not the all-time champ in the Worst Sports Column Evah! contest. It's indefensible, so tra-la-la, let's move along! And let's also stipulate that there was an editorial breakdown, that somewhere along the line one of the editors who read this thing should have killed it. With me so far? Feel free to mock all of the above as relentlessly as you want, it's a freebie, fish in a barrel, etc. Here's the beef (you knew I had a beef, dintcha?): You repeat the erroneous and un-reported slanders of the Big Blowhard, Keith Olberman, whose heart may be in the right place but his mouth for some reason sometimes ends up talk from where his ass should be. Here's the deal: Olbermann looked online at the top of the sports masthead -- oohhh! reporting!! -- saw Mssrs. Bean, Harmonson and Sharon listed as the top three editors, and ASSUMED that they personally read everything that goes into the sports section, including a column filed over Labor Day weekend. And THEN he goes on national TV and names their names like he actually knew they'd handled the column, which they hadn't. Oopsies!!! Why, that's almost like if back when you were reporting on Register layoffs you'd reported that Barry Koltnow was going to be fired, and then he never was! Wait, you did do that, bad analogy. And just like back with Barry-gate, you repeat Olberman's BS without bothering to check it with a phone call to Bean, Harmonson or Sharon. Here's a tip: original reporting doesn't mean you watch TV and rewrite what some dude in NYC says. That kind of thing only works if you're a TV reporter ripping off newspaper stories. See, if you're going to name names for making " the dumbest fucking decision probably ever made by an editor anywhere on the planet," you oughta at least get the RIGHT NAMES! Still waiting for your mea culpea on printing the factually and provably wrong item on Barry the K. Add this one to that same list, won'tcha please? PS: Nit-picking, I know, but when you write that you've never done any of those sporting activities that Whicker waxed poetically, er, stupidly about, are you sure you're even right about that? Haven't I seen you in my neighborhood on Saturdays past "smack(ing) a forehand down the (Gussie's) line?" As always, your pal, Beeeeeeeeezling

• from a former insider......reading this claptrap is just incredible: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/editor-column-mark-2559902-editors-read The odds are, of course, that whoever edited, copy-edited and "quality checked"(ewwwwww!) this astonishingly inappropriate piece are somewhere in Uttar Pradesh or worse, but, even so, they must have gotten the word from on high in Santa Ana: Whicker's column is UNTOUCHABLE. DO NOT CHANGE A WORD UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH. It's in his contract......you could look it up. Do you think a head or four might fall here? Along with the circulation?

• I couldn't sleep with an person like Joe Wilson. He would somehow repluse me... I apologize for his behavior, Mr. President..... Thank God, You, Mr Barack Obama has good upbringing..... I do , too.

• I'm a hard-core feminist who takes sexual violence and child sex abuse very, very seriously. And still, I kind of agree with Rebecca above, but even more gently. I think Whicker wasn't trying to be snide. I think he sincerely was reflecting on what this kidnapped child missed, and <B>though he saw that through the filter of being a sports-crazy adult man instead of an 11-year-old girl</b>, well, he still had a point: she missed many of the joys of childhood and adolescence. By missing out on high school sports, and family outings to pro games, she DID miss out on a lot. Those are deprivations which cannot be restored. And I think, deep in the grip of his pity for her, he found "left the yard" to be a poignant, hideously apropos expression that fits the situation of someone who has achieved something wonderful. I believe the guy meant well, and I forgive him his clumsiness. I think Olbermann, whom I usually defend, was over the top on this. Whicker is not the demon here, and doesn't deserve to be kicked around like this.

• Note to OCR staff/editors: Quit trying to be hip and cool. It's not working.

• I actually didn't think Whicker was trying to be funny; I thought he was really touched by the case, and truly happy she's out. That said, his assumption that she CARED ABOUT A BUNCH OF DUMB FUCKING SPORTS STORIES over the last 18 years is just absolutely out-of-touch. If there were some reason to think she was a little jock girl whose whole world was sports before she got kidnapped, fine. I guess. But there isn't, to my knowledge. It was just pathetically lame.

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