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[shawa]

I don't know if it WAS the 'bird', but Nick Coleman's INDIGNANT blubbering is a hoot!!!
IMHO, the press does a great job of DEMEANING THEMSELVES!!!

http://www.startribune.com/stories/357/5540054.html

[LewWaters]

I wonder where Coleman's outrage was last year when sKerry was openly flipping off Veterans that did not support him?
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[I B Squidly]

Nick and his ilk think they're 'representitives of the people'. I don't know whether to laugh at that or puke.

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Just don't do both at the same time, Squidly!

I find it hilarious that this journalist pretends to be offended on OUR account!

Oh AS IF morality and common decency and human dignity aren't offended and spat on at every opportunity in our popular culture and media. Please.

The Crucifix in urine and the dung-covered Madonna got as much air time and ink as the Aruba case - the press was all for those "artists" no matter how offensive and immoral it was to many of us.

We were called neanderthals - those of us who DO have a moral code and a sense of what's right and wrong, what lifts human dignity and what besmirches it.

If Bill Clinton had flipped them off, they'd have laughed themselves silly and played it off as Bubba having fun with the press corps.

They ignored it every time he and the co-prez got into a screaming match - complete with very jarring and offensive terms and undignified lamp-throwing.

No one in the press said a word when Hillary screamed at a presidential advisor, "YOU F'ING JEW B'D!!!"

That was majorly offensive to me - not because of the "f-word," - which I use as a word-extender and all-purpose substitute - but because of the racism and bigotry in the comment!

Our press didn't seem terribly outraged about that.
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[DLI78]

It's about time George started acting like a Republican!

Our press critters could piss off the pope. The last pope. The one people are talking about making a saint.

I spent a long time as a member of the press (editor), my misguided youth as it were, but that was all tourism and economics and computers, not politics. The daily papers wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole since I have a little common sense. I went straight a while ago and haven't looked back. Now I wonder how I spent so many years playing "find the missing comma". No wonder they're all nuts. I know why they all have advanced liver disease.

If that really was the finger, and it looked like it on the Leno clip, then OK, so what? The press richly deserves it.
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[blue9t3]

Triple N., Dont be bad-mouthig those neanderthals, have you seen that latest commercial where the cave man ordered the roast duck, with the mango sause?
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[GenrXr]

The press deserves more then the finger inho. Great to see this guy making a fool of himself. Even greater is his read on fly-over country.
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[PhantomSgt]

You know deep down inside "W" would like to drive that pointy toed cowboy boot all up inside their butts. But he is reserved and just gives them the one finger salute.

The girly men from the press corps can't stand the fact that he won't make a comment to them and whine like small girls when they don't get their way. What do these idiots expect some respect? Maybe if they respected the Office of President of these United States they would get some in return.

If I were POTUS for a day I would kick all of them out on their ear, revoke their press passes and give shoot to kill orders to White House Security Forces if their heads popped up over the fence.

They are lucky Dick didn't tell them to go F*** themselves. That would have sent them directly to therapy.






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[LewWaters]

[Nutso]

Nick Coleman is a has been and is one of the laughing stocks at the Star and sycle here in Minnesota. This paper has gone so far left I can't stand it anymore, and they deserve a lot more than the finger. I cut out everything except the Sunday edition as the wife likes the coupons, but today that goes to.

[davman]

I don't see how he could possibly assert that it was like flipping the whole country off, the press certainly does not represent me! Actually, if he did flip the bird to the press, he was representing my point of view!

[becca1223]

I can't believe this loser, Nick Coleman, wrote an entire article on this. That is laughable!

It was definitely a thumb's up by Bush. Plus, the job of giving the finger belongs to Cheney!

Dick Cheney, POTUS in '08!!

[shawa]

davman wrote

[Jerald L. Parsoneault]

In his article, Nick Coleman of the Minneapolis Star Tribune accused the President of "flipping people off like a sailor." What's up with that? When sailors go ashore after being at sea for a few months, chances are they don't go to an art museum, a library, or a fancy hotel for afternoon tea. But the indication left by Coleman is that sailors are an uncouth lot.

We always used to adhere to the creed, "I may be drunk but by gawd I'll crawl back to the ship like a sailor." What could be more couth than that?

Nalt

[J. Toy]

From Powerline: http://www.powerlineblog.com/ (first post Aug. 4th. The real picture is there)


Nick Coleman's moving finger

A footnote to Nick Coleman's Minneapolis Star Tribune column discussed below. Coleman's response to a reader who wrote him was to send him a photo "for his office" of President Bush with his middle finger raised. Classy.



The photo Coleman sent the reader was a fake. It had been photoshopped, as a number of observant readers noted. Reader Eric Brandel found the original photo (click here) and writes: "Coleman's version has just been transposed and then doctored."

UPDATE: Greg Richards writes: "FWIW, it is the doctored photo - the one with Bush giving the bird - that has the correct orientation. Note that he always wears the flag on his left lapel and he combs his hair with the part on the left side."

JOHN adds: I've reoriented the above photo so that it is correct. You can see that it is the source from which Coleman's photoshopped version came. Here is what is interesting to me: Do you think Coleman knows that the photo he sent to a reader was a fake?

Many mainstream journalists really do believe that the internet is an unreliable source of information. It occurs to me that this may be, at least in part, because they are unusually unskillful and unskeptical users of the medium. Here is an analogy: we once pointed out that the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which editorialized in favor of the filibuster when it was being used by Democrats, had bitterly denounced the tactic when it was used in the early 1990s by Republicans. To prove our point, we posted PDF versions of the Strib's 1993 and 1994 anti-filibuster editorials. Deputy Editor Jim Boyd bitterly objected to our statement that his paper had flip-flopped. When we pointed out to him that we had posted the Strib's editorials on our site, he responded that the versions we posted were too small for him to read. He apparently had never heard of "click to enlarge." Likewise, maybe Coleman has never heard of Photoshop.

Of course, it's also true that the lefty sites that people like Coleman probably frequent are, indeed, highly unreliable. In any event, my own guess is that Coleman had no idea that the photo he sent his reader was a fake, and that he thought it lent additional support to his column's erroneous claim that President Bush had given the bird to the White House press corps. I would surmise that he saw the photo on a left-wing hate site and took it at face value. Maybe he'll write to let us know whether that guess is correct.

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