BRADY RHOADES TAKES US TO TASK FOR TAKING HIM TO TASK (Once again, this is not a photo of Brady Rhoades. It's a photo of Pee Wee Herman. Really.)
We must have struck a nerve over at the almost daily Daily Pilot, because Brady Rhoades devoted his latest blog entry to the CM PRESS.
Of course, as you might expect, Mr. Rhoades starts getting things wrong right away in his own, ah, Looney Tunes way.
Here's what Mr. Rhoades wrote:
[WE COMMENT: "Wile E.Coyote," is the correct name of the character. Geez, Mr. Rhoades, he's a Looney Tunes character so you should know that. Sigh.
Mr. Millard took me to task in his blog CM PRESS (# 543) for saying the Costa Mesa City Council should — at some point anyway — appoint Katrina Foley as mayor.
[WE COMMENT: Yup. We did that. If Rhoades actually lived in Costa Mesa and had his family here, he might understand why we took him to task.]
First off, I laugh every time he posts a picture of Pee Wee Herman when referencing me.
[WE COMMENT: Separated at birth, no doubt.]
When I think of Millard, it is usually accompanied by a visual of Wily Coyote.
[WE COMMENT: That should be Wile E. Coyote, Mr. Rhoades.]
Only Millard isn’t chasing the roadrunner; he’s chasing those dastardly immigrants who are responsible for all the ills of society. Imagine thousands of roadrunners. And most of the time, his efforts blow up in his face. Cue the dumbfounded look.
[WE COMMENT: "Immigrants?" That should be "illegal aliens," Mr. Rhoades. And not all the ills of society, but a major factor in Costa Mesa's high violent crime rate.]
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At any rate, Millard says the Daily Pilot “would rather write about Katrina Foley taking a plate of lasagna to the family of a man killed in a drive by shooting or about her planting flowers in front of a gang infested slum” than write about the success of the city’s efforts to clamp down on illegal immigrants.
[WE COMMENT: That's right. That's what the almost daily Pilot would rather write about as indicated by the many things we've seen in the paper. And, again, they're not "illegal immigrants," they're "illegal aliens."]
[WE COMMENT: That's right. That's what the almost daily Pilot would rather write about as indicated by the many things we've seen in the paper. And, again, they're not "illegal immigrants," they're "illegal aliens."]
“You see,” he goes on, ”that’s how liberals think. What’s important to them is not stopping the killings before they happen, but the compassion you show after a killing–even if the conditions that led to the killing were allowed to continue by the liberal in the first place.”
[WE COMMENT: That's right. That's what we wrote.]
[WE COMMENT: That's right. That's what we wrote.]
Thus, according to Millard, we at the Daily Pilot are all liberals and as liberals we, by extension, all think alike.
[WE COMMENT: Nope. We didn't say you're all liberals, but the paper does have a lefty and liberal bent. This is shown by the choices you make in what you publish. For example, the almost daily Daily Pilot doesn't publish the ICE stats. And, the paper never did report on the charity that was discriminating against non-Latinos and which had the Feds descend on them.]
Of course, he’s wrong on both counts, but that never stops those overly-simplistic types who paint the world in broad brush blacks and whites, ignoring the gray in between, not to mention the gray matter between their ears.
[WE COMMENT: That's funny. The CM PRESS often writes about how some writers at the almost daily Daily Pilot aren't capable of nuanced thinking and seem unable to distinguish between different things, but instead take a ham handed approach to what they write about.]
Further, he could pick up the phone and call me. I’d be happy to talk to him about my political leanings (I’m a registered Independent).
[WE COMMENT: Being a registered Independent doesn't mean you're not liberal and your political leanings show in the paper. Katrina Foley as mayor? Good grief! There's a political leaning right there.]
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Be sure to read Pee,er, Brady's full blog LINK.
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