TONY DODERO WANTS YOU TO KNOW THE DAILY PILOT IS NOT CONSPIRACY RIDDLED & IS NOT PRO-ILLEGAL ALIENAll is swell down at the Return to Reason El Daily Pilot newsroom, according to Anaheim resident, Senor Tony Dodero whose title at the rag is director of news and online.
The newsroom, according to Tony, is full of professionals sitting around doing, ah, professional newspaper types of things and not conspiring with one another or pushing a pro-illegal alien company line.
The pros at the Pilot, says Tony, are more concerned with what they'll eat for lunch each day and are thus too busy to be engaging in conspiracies. Illegal alien bias at the Pilot? Pshaw. Not according to Tony. They're all thinking about those tofu tacos.
Oh, before we go on, Tony might want to have one of his professionals take a minute out from thinking about lunch and proof read what he wrote. You see, he had this line in his column: "That it was towing the Bush administration line...." Ah, Tony, that should be "toeing [the line]."
Well, Tony, we do think there is a conspiracy at the Pilot. It is a conspiracy of opinion and we think it starts with your boss, Newport Beach resident Thomas H. Johnson, known to us here at the CM PRESS as Waving Johnson.
You see, Tony, it appears that Johnson surrounds himself with sycophants who share his pro- illegal alien world view. They want to keep their jobs in the shrinking dead tree press world so they, er, toe the line. Do what the boss wants. Kiss up. Bend over. Ask how high when he says jump. Brown nose. Polish the apple. Become fellow travelers. Get our drift, Tony? There's no future in writing things the boss doesn't like.
Here's some clues about Johnson:
According to a Wikipedia article on Johnson, that has since mysteriously disappeared from Wikipedia, but which the CM PRESS downloaded before its disappearance, Johnson was "a founding member of the Latino Business Council in Costa Mesa in 1994."
Now, why did Johnson become a founding member of a group with a racial/ethnic name in its title?
With a name like Johnson, wouldn't you think it would be more logical for him to be a founding member of something that might be called the European-American Business Council? Oh, but that would be racist, right? Maybe, he just prefers Latinos over European-Americans? If so, isn't that a bias based on race/ethnicity?
Or, how about the time that Johnson wrote a piece in the Pilot supporting keeping the goofy job center open? You'd have to be PC stupid to not know that the job center served many suspected illegal aliens.
You may recall that Johnson sat at the job center for about an hour and then gushed in a column about how wonderful the place was. Oh, the humanity of it! As we've written before, that's when we added "Waving" to Johnson's name.
In our fictionalized version of Johnson's slumming, we suggested that Johnson, appearing somewhat wan, looked like a combination of Where's Waldo and Alfred E. Neuman as he waved and yelled "Yoo hooo" to prospective employers while seeking day work as a publisher.
As we wrote it, Johnson lost out on a job to an illegal alien who had more publishing experience than Johnson--in making false I.D. cards for other illegal aliens--and who in addition to doing the day job of publisher also promised to mow his employer's lawn. Johnson, being a white guy, doesn't know how to mow lawns, you see.
How about Johnson using his paper to try to defeat Chris Steel, Alan Mansoor, Eric Bever and Wendy Leece and elect individuals who share his pro-illegal world view and who support the status quo in Costa Mesa? Any indication of a conspiracy of opinion in that?
How about the paper being largely silent about pollution from the Westside Bluffs? Could that have something to do with the fact that Johnson was, according to Wikipedia, the past president of the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce? In addition to supporting the businesses on the Bluffs, the Chamber was also against closing the job center. See how these things all link up?
How about the story about the European-American girl who was told by a local non-profit that she was the wrong color and that they only wanted to serve Latinas? Johnson's Daily Pilot didn't write a word about this even though the Feds caught the non-profit and forced it to sign a consent decree promising to stop such racial discrimination.
Or, how about all the smears that Johnson lets in the paper about U-know-who at the CM PRESS? The Pilot even put U-know-who in its silly 103 most influential whatevers this past year and had smears in the verbiage about this.
Johnson wrote this about U-know-who: "There's primarily one man behind the quest to get rid of 'soccer players' in Paularino Park which leads me to believe it's race related."
Now, dear reader, you know that when Johnson puts "soccer players" in quotation marks that what he really means is "Latinos." You get the ham handed attempt at a smear by innuendo, right?
Johnson also got his facts wrong. It is not primarily one man behind...etc. The Mesa North community, composed of people living in more than 700 homes, was behind it. The City even held a community meeting and the consensus was to make the changes to Paularino Park that are now being made. Residents of Mesa North said they want a safe park and they don't want to be fearful that they and their toddlers will be injured by inappropriate activities in this tiny little park that has no sports fields.
But, isn't it ironic that it is Johnson who seems to have race/ethnicity so much on his mind?
How about the Pilot having a special column to cover the "vibrant Latino community, in Costa Mesa"? Isn't that race/ethnicity related?
Where is the special column to cover the "vibrant (white, black, Asian, whatever) community"? It doesn't exist. At least not in the Daily Pilot.
We think the bias at the paper even colors the way the paper reports news. Are we mistaken or does it seem that the Pilot almost never reports the race/ethnicity of outstanding criminal suspects when they are Latino, even when this might lead to their capture and make our city safer?
Do you see a pattern with Johnson and the Pilot? Maybe even a conspiracy of opinion? Birds of a feather all singing the same song? And, who hires all those birds of a feather and who dictates their song? Right. And doesn't that song seem to have a Salsa beat?
Here's how it looks to us: Johnson has pro-illegal alien views. He also wants to keep the Westside Bluffs full of industrial businesses (that hire many suspected illegal aliens). He also favors the charities that put out a welcome mat for illegal aliens in Costa Mesa. He uses the Pilot to push his views. He hires people who share his views. To us, that looks like a pro-illegal conspiracy of opinion.
It also appears to us that Johnson may have a touch of that almost congenital liberal mind set that causes him to believe people who oppose illegal immigration or who want a nicer Costa Mesa want to harm people based on race/ethnicity and that this causes him to see racial motives in everything. If U-know-who orders a hamburger, there must be a racial motive. If U-know-who tries to stop cars from endangering kids at a grade school, there must be a racial motive.
In this, he reminds us of a character that Woody Allen played in a movie who thought he was surrounded by anti-Semites because when people would say "Did you have lunch," Woody's character would hear "Did Jew have lunch?" [Note for trivia buffs: U-know-who appeared in a Woody Allen movie].
Because of his world view, as evidenced by what he has done and said, it appears to us that Johnson opposes the Improvers who want to make Costa Mesa nicer and more like our surrounding coastal cities. It also appears to us that he uses the Pilot to push his agenda in this regard.
Johnson can afford to take such a cavalier attitude since he doesn't live in Costa Mesa and is not directly affected by bad things that happen in our city.
He hasn't seen dead bodies in his neighborhood--caused by drive-by gang shootings--as has the CM PRESS. He doesn't have kids in schools that are trending more like schools in Santa Ana. He doesn't have multiple families of illegal aliens living in homes in his neighborhood. He doesn't have gangs putting graffiti all over his neighborhood (He probably hasn't seen the gang graffiti on trees in Paularino Park, either). He doesn't have abandoned shopping carts up and down his street in Newport Beach.
But, dear reader, these are just our opinions. Maybe we have it wrong. What do you think? Does it sound as though there is a conspiracy of opinion at the Daily Pilot?
Do you think that the Daily Pilot is an illegal alien friendly paper?
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
